Alice Harper's Character Analysis

Alice’s relationship would not go very far, constructing her ending for Henry, “Henry Reyna married Della in 1948 and they have five kids, three of them now going to the University, speaking calo and calling themselves Chicanos.” This quote essentially dispersed Alice’s hope for something more with Henry. Making Alice side with Henry’s parents in his potential marriage with Della due to his responsibilities, “If it was just me and you, Henry it might be different. But you have to think of your family.” This quote shows Alice’s understanding of what Henry must do. In the end Alice’s feelings are put aside due to what cannot be done and what must be

“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.” This beginning to the novel “Ellen Foster” by Kaye Gibbons, prepares readers to enter the world of one of the most influential and appealing young woman protagonists in modern fiction. Ellen Foster, the main character of the book by Gibbons, is, in my view, the most fascinating and remarkable character in the story. Readers are introduced to the narrator Ellen, a determined, yet mature and individualistic eleven-year-old, who lives in the South during the 1970s. She lives with an alcoholic father and a sick mother. Ellen must go through many hardships and face much trauma, when she foreshadows her mother’s death and the long journey in front of her by saying that a storm is coming- “I can smell the storm and see the air thick with the rain coming.” (p.7). Young Ellen must go through much more than the average child her age, but she knows that she will get her happy ending. After dealing with her abusive father and depressed mother, Ellen deserves to go to a happy family, one that will accept her with smiles on their faces and joy in their eyes. Even if it means jumping from foster home to foster home, from a cruel grandmother to a condescending aunt and cousin, Ellen will find the people that will love her, even if it means first having to go to those who don’t.

“She thinks of when she fought a flood…There are some things a bushwoman just cannot do… she cried then.” The woman crying shapes our understanding of her mental strength, after everything living in the bush has thrown at her, being reduced to tears and physically beaten she stays strong. Willing to endure even more the environment can throw at her. Burton also uses flashbacks to add depth to Alice’s character; the flashbacks are symbolic of the decline in her imagination, her willingness to try the ‘impossible’ and a symbol of her conformity. These flashbacks are also a sad reminder of the passing of her father; he was one to encourage the use of her imagination and believing in impossible things. Her current adventure in Underland is very different to the first because she has forgotten to believe in the impossible; once she crosses this barrier Absolum confesses she is again the ‘real Alice’.

She becomes very reactive and unapologetic. Her final step in harming her marriage is stonewalling. Alice starts to pull away from Michael and his love. He wants to help her, but she is not ready to accept that yet. She makes is difficult for the entire family to heal by doing this. She becomes withdrawn and pushes away those who love her. These things are very are very apparent in this couple’s relationship.

Alice has gone though a lot, but things start to go well for her. She’s with Joel, her family loves her, and she’s friends with kids that don’t smoke or drink. She stops writing in a diary, but dies a few weeks later because of an overdose. Either she was drugged or she started doing drugs again.

Anna is Alice’s oldest daughter; she’s a successful lawyer and is married to Charles, also a lawyer. Anna is strong and fiercely independent just like her mother. Anna deals with her mother’s disease by suggesting that if her mom “thinks for a second” then maybe she’ll be able to remember things (p. 173). Anna, however still makes time to care for her mom when her dad is away.

The book “Lisa” is a historical fiction by Carol Matas and is about a young thirteen year old girl named Lisa. Lisa is a thirteen year old girl that has auburn hair and green eyes. Lisa is living during World War II which began in 1939 and didn’t end until 1945. We are introduced to Lisa with her living with her family in the city of Copenhagen in Denmark. The story takes place while Germany was invading Denmark. Lisa, at the beginning of this story is an uninformed, childish, and anxious girl. However, as the war progresses she develops new character traits which help her grow as a person. The four big character traits that she develops are curiosity, self-discipline, perseverance and valiance . These traits all help her develop into

When Alice begins to grow forgetful at first she discards it, but when she gets lost in her own neighborhood, she realizes that something is terribly wrong. She didn't want to become someone people avoided and feared. She wanted to live to hold her daughter, Anna’s, baby and know she was holding her grandchild. She wanted to watch her youngest daughter, Lydia act in something she was proud of. She wanted to see her son, Tom, fall in love. She wanted to be able to read every book she could before she could no longer read. Alice once placed her worth and identity in her academic life, now she must examine her relationship with her husband, her expectations of her daughters and son and her plans for herself. “Losing her yesterdays, her short-term memory hanging on by a couple of frayed threads, she

    Families come in many forms, and family may not be considered “traditional” can still have a deep-seated relationship, much of the time more so than “traditional” families. Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Bean Trees makes non-traditional families very prevalent, showing their supportive and functional nature. A traditional family is a family that has a mother, father, and children, whereas a non-traditional family varies from that set. Barbara shows the reader that non-traditional families can function and support the members of the family just as well, if not better than traditional families.

In U.S. history the roles of society were decide by gender, men’s role was mostly the same throughout history, but the women’s role changed slowly over time. There was many women who were fighting to change their roles and one such woman is Anne Marbury Hutchinson. In “Divine Rebel” Selma R. Williams tells the story of Anne Hutchinson, who was a Puritan woman of the late 1500s, and researched informations was hard to find. She was often described as a woman who did not fit the ideal woman mold and she did nothing to force herself into such a mold. Anne Hutchinson is described differently in the textbook that was assigned to our class as well as a few similarities. Anne Hutchinson may

At the beginning of the novel, before Alice attended the fateful party that changed her world forever, she did not fully see her parents’ affection toward her; she was caught up in her teenage world of guys and heartbreak, leading her to misinterpret how her parents only had her best interests in mind. For example, on September 17 she

Throughout this book, the character that grows the most and is a dynamic character is Beverly. Not only does Beverly grow in age, he grows as a person. As Beverly gets older he starts to realize that life is unfair. Slavery isn't okay. That's the biggest thing he learned. Beverly became an exquisite violinist when he was an adult. He would play as a side job . Throughout the book we are able to watch Beverly become a mentor for Maddy and Easton. Teaching his brothers violin and showing them important life skills was something he did as a male figure in their lives. I would say almost everything above goes for Maddy as well. Maddy didn't teach his brother violin. Easton and Beverly were the ones who enjoyed playing the best. Easton actually

Also, the character of Alice has some interesting meaning to the story. The character of Alice may be modeled after the author Alice Munro because they have shared similar experiences between men. Apparently, the author had been through a divorce and many of the

A major influence on Alice's identity was when she was a young child and her grandmother would tell her stories about events that occurred in Cambodia. In Alice's teenage years, her beloved grandmother has a stroke, developed disabilities and eventually had passed away. It is around this time where serious psychological problems occur for Alice. This almost forces her into a mental state in which she knows she does not fit in with the Australian culture. She believed she had to do everything she could to change that otherwise Alice knew she would break down mentally. Alice was forced to attempt to fit the social standards of Australia.

Before seeking treatment, Alice’s struggles are pretty evident. I think the struggles are the most evident when looking at Jess. You can tell that she knows her mom is not well and that she worries about her. She watches her struggle to get out of bed in the morning, and voices her worries to Michael when she does not come home when she is supposed to. Trying to find a solution to their struggles, Michael suggests that they rearrange his flight schedule and take a trip to Mexico. While there, Alice continues her heavy drinking and reckless behavior. This results in her falling out of a rowboat, into the water and if not for Michael jumping in to save her, drowning. This event scared the two of them enough to realize that she had a problem and needed to start putting in some serious effort to stop.