An Area Of Darkness Character Analysis

Throughout life, we lose a countless number of possessions and many are taken away from us. Loss is an inevitable part of life, we lose friends, family, cell phones, papers, and even tiny items such as paper clips. Though, most people do not actually appreciate what they have until it is taken away from them. In Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, Lina loses her lifestyle, family, and freedoms when she and her family are taken as war prisoners during World War II.

Conflict will always exist in the modern world. One of the biggest motivators in the approach to conflict is fear. Conflict shapes the formation and intensity of fear. Fear can bring about ideas or actions that one normally would not ever think or implement.As fear builds up people will often go to extremes to try as much as possible to mitigate their fear. Eventually fear grows so large that it may consume all of one’s thoughts. This will motivate someone to resort to desperate plans to try and assuage their fear. The fear caused by war can do many things to the human body mentally and physically. In “ All The Light We Cannot See”, Anthony Doerr proves in times of conflict, fear becomes one of the motivating factors.

The book, Between the Shades of Gray, takes place during World War II. The character Lina is arrested and deported by the NKVD following the annexation of Lithuania. She was then forced to provide labor in order to survive the extreme conditions of the Stalin’s camps. Her ability to cope, her relocation, and the death of her mother contributes to her development and survival.

1. Who is the main character(s) of the novel? Consider both protagonists and antagonists. Provide a brief description. Lina Vilkas is the fifteen year old main character and protagonist of Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. Lina has long, wavy, honey-colored hair and blue eyes like her mother, but she bears a resemblance to her father as well. “‘Kostas, Lina looks just like you” (Sepetys 34). Her personality is headstrong, impulsive, and outspoken, which puts her in danger with the Soviets. Though it is risky, she uses her art to express her strong emotions and opinions. “When I imagined sketching the commander, I had no problem, until I got to his head. My mind saw… a nest of wicked snakes sprouting out of his neck, or a skull with hollow

Colonialism is the action of taking away a country’s people, political and economical power. In Jamaica Kincaid’s essay “On Seeing England for the First Time”, she uses numbers of rhetorical strategies to show her bitterness towards England, whose oppressive, pervasive influence took over her country’s identity, culture, and minds of nature. Kincaid uses repetition, symbols, and her tone to convey her attitude towards England.

The reader gets a rare and exotic understanding of a totally foreign and ancient culture experiencing the growing pains of colonial expansion during the British domination

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

According to Kristen Breck of Common Sense Media,”For good readers ages 12 and up, The Seer of Shadows is a richly detailed page-tuner, filled with elegant language and a well-crafted plot.”By reading the book, people will be clinging on to every word, hanging on to every moment.Some people might not like the fact that it is pretty slow throughout the beginning, but there are still many moments filled with suspense, emotion, and intrigue.

How does the author encourage virtue or corruption? In the book, The Dark Inside, the author Jeyn Roberts encourages virtue through her character’s actions. Roberts encourages virtue through the insincere actions within a character. Roberts encourage virtue through another character dishonest actions. Lastly, Jeyn also encourages virtue through cowardice actions in a character. In Dark Inside, Jeyn Roberts inspires the reader to be virtuous.

Light versus dark, good versus evil; themes seen in Harry Potter and many other young adult books, and a concept many struggle with. What is good and what is evil? Are people born evil or are they developed into someone who wants to do harm? In All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, the theme of light versus dark, and similarly good versus evil, is prevalent as the main characters struggle through the hardships of World War II. Doerr takes the reader back in time flipping the shifting plot back and forth from Germany to France, and from time to time. As the characters grow up the theme of light versus dark becomes more apparent as the characters live or in some cases exist through the dark times. The characters stories teach the reader that while there

An advocacy activity I observed this following weekend was at an off-Broadway play performed at Second Stage Theater in New York City. The play, Notes from the Field is written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith. In this performance, she gives her viewers a look into the past history of our country as well as some recent major headlining news that took part in our society. She re-enacts the behaviors of some characters but gives the viewers a different perspective then what the media portrays it to be. In the play, Anna shows some tragedies that took place in schools, and prisons systems. She shows the division of ethnic groups and how the civil rights actions have still failed even in today’s communities.

Things Not Seen is written by Andrew Clements. The Genre of the book is non-fiction. The setting of the book is in Detroit. The weather time is winter. The time Bobby, the person who got invisible got invisible was a morning.

binary oppositions in V.S. Naipaul’s short story ‘The Flag on the Island’. This aim is achieved via using Derrida’s deconstruction and Bhabha’s definition of these terms. Considering culture as a means of domination to get possession of control over the instruments of ‘collective self-definition’ is considered as a very significant policy in the political and cultural conflict for emancipation. This article focuses on a tension between recently autonomous nation and former colonial beliefs which results in binarism between modern and traditional values that led to the denigration of non-Western cultures. Therefore, the writer attempts to show how the characters of this story make effort to abolish this idea and retrieve the local and native traditions that were destructed during colonialism. This study concentrates on all characters and examines their contradictions and their effort for consistency that can be discussed through a deconstructive analysis.

Impact of British Colonization Exposed in A Small Place, A Passage to India, and Robinson Crusoe

E.M. Forster’s classic novel “A Passage to India” tells the story of a young doctor, Dr. Aziz, and his interactions with the British citizens who are residing in India during the time of the British Raj. Throughout the novel, the reader gets many different viewpoints on the people and the culture of India during this point in history. The reader sees through the eyes of the Indian people primarily through the character of Dr. Aziz, and the perceptions of the British through the characters of Mr. Fielding, Adela Quested, and Mrs. Moore. Through the different characters, and their differing viewpoints, the reader can see that Forster was creating a work that expressed a criticism that he held of the behavior of the British towards their Indian subjects.