Andi's Character Analysis

One of the protagonists and main characters in the story Hamadi, by Naomi Shihab Nye, is a girl named Susan. She is a 14-year-old freshman in high school, who lives in U.S, Texas. She is reaching the point in her life where she starts to question her surroundings and the world, which leads her to an interest in a family friend, Saleh Hamadi, who’s an old-fashioned man and very wise. She is a complex character in this story because she has many different relatable traits, has many thoughts and relationships in the story and changes throughout the story.

“I wanted to be successful. I definitely didn't want to be poor.” Said Andrew Cherng, this quote clearly represents how people in Annawadi thinks by surviving and searching opportunities to get out of the slum area and live a better life or a better future for them and their family. As I see in slums such as Annawadi I saw many opportunity for them to succeed such as Abdul family was doing pretty okay as a trash recycler until the family was accused in killing Fatima in the fire. As I believed there are many ways of getting out of poverty, but for me the one of the best way of getting out of poverty such as in Annawadi is through corruption.

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.

Sophie Biyoya Ciardulli is the main character in the book, “Endangered”, by Eliot Schrefer. She is the daughter of Florence Biyoya, who is Congolese, and an Italian-American dad. Her mother had always thought of protecting bonobos as her top duty in life, so it was no surprise when she chose staying in Congo to develop her bonobo sanctuary rather than returning to the U.S. with her husband and daughter, after Sophie’s dad is transferred to Miami, Florida by his company for a job. Sophie attends school in America, but spends summers with her mother. Sophie had always been angry and hurt by the fact that her mother was the reason her parents divorced, but when she meets Otto, she transitions slowly in opinion and grows in acceptance of her mother’s

Grace has been told for more than half her life that she was crazy. Her mother’s death that she witnesses was an accident, there was no scarred man, and there was nothing she could do to change what had happened. But Grace knew they were wrong. With the help of her friends Noah, Megan and Rosie, she managed to discover that the scarred man was Dominic, the first love of her mother, who was there to kill her mother, but chose instead to stage her death. Grace came down just as Dominic was taking the picture, and picked up the gun that was lying on the floor. Firing blinding, she missed Dominic and shot her mother instead. The traumatic moment of shooting her mother was blocked from Grace’s mind as it was unable to handle what she did. Her family tries to protect her from this, saying it was an accident, trying to get Grace to stop pushing. When pushing too hard, Grace discovers the truth of what happened that night, and what she did, and with the

In Lorraine's Hansberry A Raisin In The Sun. Walter wants to make money to support his family. He wants money because he thinks it makes him a “man”. How ever when his money is stolen, Walter’s perceptions of manhood shifts from valuing wealth and power to valuing family and pride.

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Younger wants to be a “real man”. His dream is to become successful in business and make his family rich. However, when all his money is stolen, he becomes very pessimistic, abandoning the ideas of morality and dignity. At the end of the play, his son Travis inspires him to value his family’s pride over materialism. Over the course of the play, Walter’s view of manhood changes from someone wealthy and successful to a person who has pride and believes in human dignity.

Rosanna, made my day when she asked me to be a guest on her blog. We seem to share the same belief, a Selkie would make an amazing choice for a hero in our books. A mythical creature of Scottish and Irish folklore who is a little less known than other shifters.

Coming to Paris with her dad was never Andi’s intention, though her dad made her. She wanted to stay with her mom in New York because of the difficulties she has also dealt with after Truman’s death. However, Andi’s dad made a deal with her that she had to write her senior outline thesis for her to go home to New York. Andi was determined to finish this because she didn’t want anything more than to go home to her mom. As Andi progressed through this writing as illustrated in the novel, she struggles here and there due to her hate for school. Though she seems to be able to complete it, for her to go home. Andi was really excited. At this time she had met Virgil, but not too well, so she if she left she didn’t feel like she had left anything

Musti is a great example of how well I actually control my ocs. Once they are created, they’ll start having their own plans and if I say one thing, they'll do other.

As we can see from the novel, Andi was a very dark character. Andi takes recreational drugs, couldn’t care less about her classes; with the notable exception of music), getting expelled from school, and contemplates committing suicide through most of the book. She is also on psychiatric medication, which causes her to hallucinate about her brother’s death, and sometimes turns to physical pain to escape from her emotions. In addition to this, her parents started to stop paying attention to her, after her brother’s death. Music was just what brought her up and made her feel like heaven. Just like most people have things that make them feel relaxed and carefree, music was Andi’s lifesaver. Coming from just a freshmen, I can understand Andi’s hardships

The protagonist of the story is Andi, a depressed teenager who has sunken away from the rest of the world. When Andi’s brother died, a part of Andi died also. She is now on medicine to help take the pain and sadness away. Andi is a rebellious teen who doesn’t listen to anyone. She does whatever she feels whenever she wants to. Her actions are partially justified. Yes she is in pain and deserves a little slack for her actions, but after awhile she needs to move on with her life. She cannot act the way she does for ever.

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In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger family is trying to achieve the American Dream, which is “the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American”(cite dictionary.com). The Youngers are a black family living in a poor part of Chicago. They inherit ten thousand dollars because Mama’s husband died. Mama is the matriarch of the Younger family. Each family member has their own idea about how to use this money to fulfill their dreams, and the play uses the decisions of the family members and other characters to show the reader that people’s actions are not always motivated by what they appear to be. Mama wants to use the money to buy a house in a white neighborhood, because she thinks it is a better environment for her family than their current living conditions and will benefit her family. Although there are a number of people in A Raisin in the Sun who appear too want to help the Younger family, Mama shows through her decision to buy the house that she is the only person that is looking out for the best interests of her family.

The novel, A passage to India written by E. M. Foster is a modernist novel ,which portrays a colonial India under British rule, before its liberation. It is set in India, in the 20th century . In the novel, Foster structures his book into 3 sections: Mosque, Cave, and Temple to portray the complex relationship of the characters as they struggle to getting together during the turbulent time in India.