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     My favorite character in this book would have to be Peter. He was a little bit of a tough guy yet timid, but wasn’t afraid to fight for his siblings lives. Peter was the oldest amongst his brother and two sisters and was most likely the brains and brawn of the bunch. In this story, Peter has to fight off a wolf to test his courage or, in Aslan’s words, win his spurs. He returns victorious and is knighted by the lion called Aslan. His brother Edmund, a very mischievous boy and a bother to his sisters Lucy and Susan, looks up to Him though he never admits to it. Peter was definitely the highlight of this book.

My favorite character is Marv. When we first meet Marv he is a simple guy that seems like he has nothing going for him. He drives an old, barely working Falcon. He has so much money but lives like he has nothing. He is always talking about how much money he has saved up in the bank for a “rainy day.” However, there is more to Marv than what he is introduced to as. It is not until the end of the book that Marv’s story comes out. As we get to know Marv, we learn that he bought his car as a teen to take out his girlfriend Suzanne Boyd who later moved out of town. Because of the last card, Ed finds out the real reason Suzanne left town and he needs to help Marv. Even though they are best friends, he never told anyone about what really happened. Ed says, “Marv is suffering, completely alone, and he uses all of those things to sweep the guilt from his stomach every day.” (Zusak 317) Suzanne and Marv would go to a corn field and spend the nights there until one day she got pregnant. That’s when her father took her away from the town and Marv without a word. He knows he has a child, but he doesn’t know how it is, what it looks like, or even the gender of it. With the help of Ed, he finally gets the courage to go to her house but the father kicks him out. The next day Ed takes him to meet Suzanne and his daughter at a park. Even Ed gets choked up, “Marv’s smile and the giant glass tears on his face are two of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.” (Zusak 330) In Marv I saw a

Tobias Wolff’s short story, “That Room” is a very suspenseful story that has the reader on the edge of their seat while reading it. Suspense and excitement is created through the plot and theme of the story which are both developed through four main literary devices. In the story, the narrator is put into what is potentially a life or death situation and it is at this point that he becomes aware that one is never really in full control of his or her own life. Throughout this literary analysis I will discuss the plot and theme of the story in terms of how Wolff uses setting, tone, characterization, and symbolism to enhance both the theme and the plot.

Characters: Leo is a person that never gives up on getting something that he believes should be his, How “ He looked around for his gold nugget” And he never gave up on looking for it. Also leo never likes to leave anyone behind how he saved his friends/not so good friends from the the fire in the building, They would of died almost if it wasn’t for Leo. He saves good or mean, Which i thought was pretty cool and nice, And as a gift guys gave leo the sack quickly and let him have his gold nugget while in the burning building, I think that this main character is the best one I’ve seen yet. Leo, A saviour of good and bad people. :)

One of the things about the book that I personally liked was the characters, some of them were easy to relate to, even if you couldn't you could relate someone you knew with them. For example, David is not one of the main characters from the story but the more you learn about him, the more you realize how ambitious he is, wanted to change his career path almost every week, standing up to Mr. Neck. I think he's one of the things that helped Melinda find her voice.

Lastly, the isolated room that the narrator stays in is a symbol. The room symbolizes a safe haven, giving the main character time to write and process many

All of these characters weave a tale that takes the reader through many twists and turns and provides hours of easy reading enjoyment.

The main character, Jurgis Rudkus, went through an implausible number of extreme changes in the period of time the story takes place. He morphs from a pure-hearted family man, to an alcoholic tramp, a beggar, a criminal, a player in machine politics, and finally a sober, hard-core member of the Socialist Party. The other characters are hardly worth mentioning. Readers really don't care much about them because they are so under-developed.

The Room itself represents the author’s unconscious protective cell that has encased her mind, represented by the woman, for a very long time. This cell is slowly deteriorating and losing control of her thoughts. I believe that this room is set up as a self-defense mechanism when the author herself is put into the asylum. She sets this false wall up to protect her from actually becoming insane and the longer she is in there the more the wall paper begins to deteriorate. This finally leads to her defense weakening until she is left with just madness and insanity. All of the characters throughout the story represent real life people with altered roles in her mind.

“The room was dark, except for a faint, yellow light filtering through the bars of the window” (Farmer 29). When one thinks of the word “escape”, rooms like such come to mind. From Matt’s ever-present struggle to free from literal captivity to escaping the confinement of prejudice, the novel’s continuous theme of escapism is displayed in different ways. Including, El Patron’s various attempts to escape death, Felicia’s drug use to get away from reality, and Tam Lin’s flee from guilt and crime.

Another interesting character in the book would be Lanaya you can see how her personality changes during the book and how she views things. The main character Spaz had a very interesting background/history that the author starts to explain in chapter six “The thing about bean”. Spaz originally lived with his foster parents Charlie and Kay he also lived with his little sister Bean.

The best part of this book are the interesting and engaging characters. One of the most interesting characters

Turtle as the main character was a poor choice in my opinion because of his weaker personality, it felt like at often times he wasn’t actually the focal character. Kinkajou, as stated before, was an excellent addition, although it was a bit irritating at times with her under the love spell, I still think she was great, probably my second favorite character in fact. Anemone had transitioned quite a bit from her initial introduction in the second book, in my opinion. The Seawing princess had been absolutely adorable there, whereas in this book, as well as the other three in this extension in the series, she was snobby, bratty, and peevish. Darkstalker on the other hand, was absolutely brilliant. The humanity he displayed was extremely emotional while was looking at the ruins of his home, reflecting on his life and lost loved ones, this was my favorite part by far. Although, he soon showed how intense he could truly be. The only issue I had was that he was simply too overpowered, there is seemingly no believable way to defeat him. This tied into my least favorite segment of the book, in which Turtle enchanted a stick to hide himself from Darkstalker, who is supposedly all powerful, and made himself immune to other animus dragons’ magic, so I didn’t understand why it’d

Primarily, the characters in the book are foils for each other. One example is Lucie Manette and Madame Defarge. Lucie is a very gentle and loving woman. Everything that she does shows her kindness and virtue. Her tenderness and adoration for everyone empowers her to unite the family. For instance, when Lucie 's father was in a horrible state of depression, the only cure for his sadness was the sight of Lucie 's face and the touch of her skin. On the other

In No Exit, Jean Sartre uses imagery in order to represent how the living room, or ‘hell’, was controlled by an ‘external force’, The Nazi party. In the opening scene Garcin notes, “Second Empire furniture, I observe. . . Well, well, I dare say one gets used to it in time”. The Second Empire was another occupation in France lead by Napoleon the Third in which the working class was mobilized and living conditions became much tougher. The fact that the room is furnished by a previous occupation shows how this ‘Hell’ that they are in, is completely controlled by an external force such as a regime. The room in which they stay signifies hell within the book but externally is being likened to living under the Nazi occupation and how unconventionally hell like it was. There were curfews, restrictions on food, music, dance, art but there were no instruments of torture in the book or the occupation in France at the time either. This shows how they were not being tortured in the conventional sense, but there was a strong presence of mental torture that that characters go through within the book. They face many challenges including privacy which is hard to come by in one living room to the point where Inez states, “ Don't forget I'm here,