He is described as drunk and dirty with battered knuckles; “With a palm caked hard by dirt” (14), “Was battered on one knuckle” (10). The speaker uses playful words to help us understand that the boy has fun dancing with his father. He also uses the mother to help paint the picture of a father and son who “romped until the pans/Slid from the kitchen shelf” (5-6). This playfulness makes the mother frown but she does not cry or yell which indicates that the father isn’t doing any real harm. The father, although he is drunk, is not angry or mean, he is just trying to be playful.
The same bedroom door that he had slammed shut 25 years ago. At this point, Robbie’s father is starting to look at things a different way. He remembers when he tried to help his grandmother when he was a child and he remembers messing up. But most of all, he remembers being forgiven. While Robbie prepares to “run away” his father is busy recalling memories of how his grandmother had not been angry with him when he messes and how she taught him that “from a child is beautiful, anything.” Remembering this, the fathers attitude towards his son is now happy and grateful, a big change from mad and frustrated.
The Outsiders- Sodapop Curtis In the novel, The Outsiders, Sodapop Curtis is a member of the Curtis family which consists of his older brother, Darry and his younger brother, Ponyboy; unfortunately, his parents are deceased and the boys must fend for themselves. He belongs to a gang on the East Side of Tulsa, Oklahoma and is associated with boys who are also without parents and they protect each other. As a result, Sodapop copes with his situation by dropping out of school and works in a garage in order to help support his siblings. His willingness to work shows his loyalty and compassionate nature, as well as his strong devotion to his family. Sodapop is a charming boy.
The Grinch’s Personality The movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a holiday favorite everywhere. It showcases the true meaning of Christmas, being happy and being together. The main character, the Grinch was originally from Whoville but has secluded himself up on the mountain because when he was a child he was mistreated by his peers. He was an angry spiteful who. He now has come into town and to try and ruin Christmas but when little Cindy Lou Who tries to welcome him back in, he goes through a personality change and his heart that was two sizes to small expands to two sizes too big.
Character Analysis-A Christmas Carol In Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol, Scrooge “…changed from an arrogant, obstinate, and insensitive miser to a generous, warmhearted, and caring human being.” He makes this tremendous change after he is helped by The Three Spirits who showed him images from the past, present and future Christmases. He heard what others spoke of him and wanted to change their opinion. Scrooge was a very unpleasant person in the past. He was arrogant, “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge,” they had better do it and decrease the surplus population. Besides¬¬-excuse me- I don’t know that.”(6) and did not care about anyone besides himself and money.
The melodious music makes the atmosphere romantic. Raimond, a good-son, loves his father and his mother with the sincere
The ghost of Christmas yet to come was a quiet, scary cloaked figure and just pointed. The author gives different descriptions for the ghost to make it interesting for the reader and to show the different sides to Scrooge’s personality. Dickens wrote this book for the rich people to know that it is not good not to share with poor people. Scrooge was a selfish man; stingy, greedy and mean. Nobody likes Scrooge and poor people were scared to go near Scrooge.
He was shown to have high family values as he treasures the times he has with his family. We are shown his loving side throughout the text when he bought gifts for his children and joked with his family. He had bought Marie a new pair of glasses and a gondola for Michele. Through these little gestures of affection, Pino does not seem like he is an evil man, but this was later proven when he ignored Michele’s explanation as to why he was late. He would not listen to Michele and told him to “get out”.
Theodore Roethke RHYME, ALLITERATION, METER As I reading and listening the poem, I do not see but a child memories of what it seems a regular routine with his father of dancing and then, taken to bed. I do not sense abuse like others might feel about it. Even the title tells me that the child loves his father (My Papa’s Waltz) To me the term “papa” is a representation of tender love not hate toward his dad. When I continue reading the poem in the second stanza we see that his dad did not just lifted him and put him back down quickly, he danced until he probably felt too dizzy that started to hit the kitchen shelves and pans were knockdown making the child mother frown because she did not liked that or maybe she was worry for the child (not sure). Roethke is describing a hardworking man that he lost at the age of 15.
We may not had the best of everything, but what we did have we appreciated. Holiday where the best for me growing up I can remember all my Aunts and uncles and cousins coming over to our house and we had a ball the kids ran around and played while the grownups BBQ and drank and played cards I looked forward to holidays because you know it was going to be fun I always hated to see it end and could not Waite until the next big holiday came