Zainab Nusrat
Mrs. Chetty
10 September 2016
ELA 10-1
Essay Prep “Before you judge my life, my past or my character… Walk in my shoes, walk the path I have traveled, live my sorrow, my doubts, my fears, my pain and my laughter. Remember, everyone has a story. When you’ve lived my life then you can judge me.” -Unknow This quote represents andy and the people who were judging him based on his jacket and they didn't know him. Andy was not just a royal, he was Andy. It doesn’t matter what people think of you because in the end of the day it only matters what you think of yourself. In other words, the Guardians, the couple, the drunk men and the police officer all judged him without knowing him. Also, Laura is the only person that really know Andy, as Andy. Andy point of views changes over the time period of the story. The Guardians, the couple, the drunk men and the police
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Before Andy was stabbed the most important thing in the world was being a Royal and at the end, it was being Andy. For example “It was then he wondered if he was dying. No, he thought I can’t be dying, not from a little street rumble, not from just being cut. Guys get cut all the time in rumbles. I can’t be dying. No, that's stupid. That doesn’t make any sense at all.”, “He could remember how happy he was when the Royals had taken him. The royals and the Guardians, two of the biggest. He was a Royal. There had been meaning to the title.”, “He wondered about the meaning. If he died, he was Andy. He was not a Royal.”, “Had they know that he was Andy or had they simply known that he was a Royal wearing a purple silk jacket? Had they stabbed him, Andy, or had they only stabbed the jacket and the title.”, “Even in his pain, there had been some sort of pride in knowing he was a Royal. Now there was no pride at all.” and “ He could only think: I want to be Andy. It was not very much to ask of the world.” Over time Andy's views
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Nathan Scott is main character and the basketball star of the Ravens high school, just like his very proud father. Dan Scott wants his son to be an over achiever, but he gets pushed even harder by his dad than the team's coach. Dan Scott went to tree hill and was a well know basketball player and pushes his son to achieve his best. When the team celebrates a victory they decided borrowing their schools bus. Several arrests were made; Dan to talk to the coach and police and manages to get Nathan out of trouble. Unfortunately others are less lucky and got kick off the team. The coach had to get new players, so the coach invites Nathan's step brother Lucas Scott. Who only plays basketball for fun because his passion was reading books. Nathan
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In the beginning of the year Doug Swieteck was a childish bully and a pest. Toward the middle of the book he starts to learn from his mistakes and makes up for it by standing up to and for others. Now that we are at the end of the book, by now Doug hasn't changed any, so you could say he stayed quite the same from the middle of the book to the end.
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Charley is neighbors with the Loman family, the father of Biff’s best friend, Bernard, and also a very successful businessman. Charley is considered humble throughout the play principally towards Willy, “I offered you a job. You make fifty dollars a week, and I won’t send you on the road” ( Miller Act II:70). After finding out that Willy was previously fired from the only job he had Charley quickly offered Willy a job with him but instead Willy rejected it. Willy is always declining the help from Charley.
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"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."
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