Lindsey only tells her closest friend about the disease and even though Lindsey is the one who is dying she only cares about her friend and how sad she must be. Lindsey Boxer’s personality might surprise and impress a reader. She is very brave, determined and caring. She is brave because she will put herself in danger to solve the crime. Lindsey is determined because she will do anything anywhere to solve this crime.
Certainly no one wants to go to Hell. So, the Puritans tried to better their lives, and go by rules or "resolutions." They believed if they followed these resolutions, even though God predetermined their fate, they could live a life of good and maybe prove they are meant to go to Heaven. One of the many detailed resolutions they had to follow was "To think much, on all occasions, of my own dying and of the common circumstances which attend death." I certainly would be frightened to think
Katrina discusses the lack of control that we have in life and that death is simply another part of life that we must accept. Enter Without So Much As Knocking talks about how we take life for granted and we waste the time we have. All of the poems hold aspects of Futility, Life, Pain, Purpose, Anger and Disapproval these are the most likely things to make people rethink their position and how they behave towards others. The use of imagery both visual and aural is a powerful tool used masterfully by Dawe to get his messages across. Normally someone’s homecoming is cause for a celebration, but in Dawe’s poem, Homecoming Dawe uses this in an ironic sense.
In reading and studying “Speak” By author Laurie Halse Anderson , my character analysis has taught me how Melinda dealt with her problem and what she went through to get her life back…it also taught me to choose my friends carefully and that keeping your anger and pain bottled up can hurt you more than you know. Reading this book taught me that no one should judge anyone’s feelings because no one knows what they’ve been through and how they
For example, in this passage we understand that Norah is struggling with the grief of her lost daughter and doesn't want to let go of her memory, "Phoebe she would keep alive in her heart." (88) It helps us understand the reasoning behind her actions of drunk driving, dreams of lost things, and escalated emotion at random as well as other actions the character demonstrates through out the novel. The deception of her daughter effects Norah and explains why she bought the camera,"...So he'd capture every moment, so he'd never forget. "(88) Norah doesn't want her husband, sister and not even neighbours to dismiss her daughter as unimportant. Norah's great pain because of the "death" of her child causes her to be scared of change, she wishes she could capture a happy moment, and stay in that moment-perhaps forever. "
What I gathered is that all people in the borderlands act the same, with their ideals on belonging and acceptance, however Anzaldua is challenging these people to change because she believes that being a crossroads is the best way to live. When I first read the poem, with no back story or knowledge about the work or the author, I was extremely inspired by it. To me the Borderlands is not exactly a place of mixed race people with internal struggles regarding their makeup, but any place of diversity, where people of different cultures live together either in harmony or strife. I still believe that this is part of what Anzaldua wanted to get across in her conclusion, challenging people that live in diversity to take down their guards and live together as one, ignoring cultural differences. As a white boy that was born and raised on the streets of an urban area of a big city, constantly encountering people different from me, people from other cultures with foreign values, I connected a lot with the idea of being a crossroads.
It not only changes our view on Addie, but our view on the novel as a whole. Addie's voice is imparative to the reader's outlook and while we can sense it through the voices of others, her chapter best sums up her mind. So, what if Addie's chapter did not exsist? For one, we would never have comprehended her mind and the way it twists around things like how she feels about her children and husband. We would have all thought of her as still the same loving mother who watches her son, Cash, methodically build her coffin not because she is ready and wanting soon to be in it, but because he is her son and she loves to see him work.
Max's story aims to encourage Liesel to be brave and willing to counter words of hatred with words of love; these final lines suggest that others would be willing to follow her if she took such a stand. 10. "I am haunted by humans." (550) The Book Thief is framed by Death's and death's inability to reconcile the remarkable cruelty and the remarkable compassion of which human beings are simultaneously capable. Liesel's life story contains elements of both, and by the end of the novel, Death appears to be no more capable of judging humanity than at the novel's outset.
“An Hour or Two Sacred to Sorrow” summary In Richard Steele’s essay “An Hour or Two Sacred to Sorrow” Steele explains how people mourn the passing of a loved one; nevertheless, it is of equal importance to embrace the joyful memories of that person and keep their spirit in our hearts. The way death affects a family cannot compare to any other tragedy. No one can escape death, whether it be an honorable lover or a monstrous tyrant, but however one lives can affect how others remember them. It is important to gather with people who love and care for someone going through hard times, for those are the real friends in life The way death affects a family is devastating. Little children don’t always understand the extremity of death and how
Throughout the story, we constantly hear of the grandmother’s judgmental views of the misfit. However, when she is faced with her death in the end, her hypocritical side shines through. She tells the Misfit that they are in the same category; that they are both good people. The grandmother, in her way of pleading, tries to convince the Misfit that he is indeed a “good man” even though she thought of him as a terrible person before he held her life in his