Annie John Character Analysis Essay

Having an older sibling is rough already, but having a brother that you have to worry about him breaking in and stealing valuables of your own, that's tough and the main character Gordie Jessup has to deal with the betrayal of his older brother, Chase Jessup everyday throughout Katherine Holubitskys’s novel “Tweaked”. Gordie’s efforts trying to fix his family are overwhelmed by Chase’s drug addiction and money debts he has with his dealers. There are many themes throughout the book.

Two specific characters caught my eye as I watched Annie, one of them being Annie herself. The way she held herself like a child and radiated optimism assisted me in believing her character. Her gesticulations were good, but since I was in the back row, some of them were hard to see and interpret. She held herself like she was Annie very well,but she also spoke like a child, and intensified her character by sounding how a uneducated child would sound. Her undeniable optimism let her foil very well with other characters, making the play better. In the scene where she was talking to the hobos, she revealed the hobos pessimism, while reinforcing her own optimism without having it shoved down our throats by her simply saying she was optimistic outright. The way she built her

Jackie is an elite distance runner when no one else in her family has this trait is because she has a different combination of gene versions. Evidence card D states "she ran sprints three days a week, but her sprint times were nit very good, and she never won any races." This evidence supports the claim 2 and refutes claim 1 because even though she did train, she was not very good. Based on the he evidence I could conclude that Jackie's running ability did not have to do with training. Another piece of evidence is on card B, it states that Lincoln has a gene version combination of A1 and A1 which points to the result of Jackie's mother having A1 is one of her gene versions. This is important bad use when you inherit genes from your

Aurora believes ?with all [her] dad?s crazy friends coming over all the time and [her] crazy little sister running around naked and failing the first grade? (93), that she can not be kind to her. The majority of the time people expect or at least for it to seem normal for a child to run around half clothed. Here again, Aurora exaggerates her sister?s because who actually believes she runs around naked? She even goes to the extent to call Annie, again a six year old, ?a slut? (95). Aurora also feels that Annie will ?do anything for attention?that?s why she failed the first grade? (95). It is possible that Annie failed the first grade because of this reason but one would doubt that this is the only reason or at least the reason to blame. Aurora constantly over dramatizes the events or stories like any teenager does. Aurora constantly over dramatizes the events or stories like any teenager/adolescent does.

-Annie is a hippie and believes in freedom for everyone, rather than being locked up in a cell.

Blanche’s sole purpose when she comes to live with Stella is to find stability, security, and gain control of her life. In order to cope with the preexisting stress and rising tension during her stay at her sister’s house, she used delusions and illusions as a way to survive. Blanche's world of delusion is categorized by her playful relationships, attempts to revive her youth, and her unawareness in the direction of reality of life. Blanche has a fantasy that her relationship with Mitch can work out when in reality she just wants a safe haven; to not feel lonely. She lies about her age in order to create an illusion to others that she is still young, attractive and desirable. She states, “I don’t want realism. …. Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth …” She clearly states that she believes in her own created illusion and she expects others would believe it too. However, her dreams crashed down when Stanley’s realistic point of view came across Blanche’s dissociation from reality. On the other hand, illusions bring to her magic, the image of life that she would like to lead but in doing so, Miller has conveyed that her attempt into living deceitful ultimately lead to her downfall in which it sternly affected her mental and overall

Annie learns about her femininity and uniqueness and accepts that she does not need to label herself as anything other than independent: “I am independent. Me, I’ve always been independent” (332). She now understands that her individuality comes in the form of self acceptance, and begins to view herself as her own person. Instead of viewing herself as Suzanne, she compares herself to her, recognizing their similarities and differences. This proves that she has her own distinct self image, different than the way she views her sister.

she would sign up for Shooting Competitions. Annie would beat all the boys with her amazing shooting skills. When she went to go to one of her competitions she was shooting against a man named Frank. Little did she know, she was going to marry Frank and win the competition.

Annie’s actions were clearly in self-defense. In the time period that Annie and Floyd where away from the café there was plenty of opportunities for Floyd to threaten Annie and make her fear for the safety of her own life or her daughter’s life. Who is to say that Floyd hasn’t beaten Annie before? Annie could have very easily been in an altered state of mind suffering from “battered woman’s syndrome” from previous episodes or threats. This could have caused her to see events play out differently that the eye witness’s accounted for. After five years Annie knew how Floyd’s mind worked and knew she was imminent danger and had to defend herself.

“I opened my fingers a crack, like a child with a secret, and smiled at the silver globe cupped in my palm. If I dropped it, it would break into a million replicas of itself, and if I pushed them near each other, they would fuse without a crack, into one whole again” (Plath 138). This quote and the direct explanation of how the ball of mercury would break and then come back together again is the symbol of the entire book and the breakdown of Esther Greenwood’s character. As the character of Esther Greenwood begins to unfold by the end of chapter fourteen, we see Esther Greenwood in a dark and lethal state of mind. Consequently, as a reader, Esther Greenwood’s character is somewhat of a puzzle piece. In earlier attempts of suicide, you start to question Esther’s real motives because she is so easily discouraged by small challenges that get in her way.

Both Dade and Julian where fixated on proving themselves right and defending their beliefs about

Annie feels like others are out to get her, and believes that is her against the world. According to the article with medical references titled “Paranoid-Personality Disorder” it states that “people with PPD are always on guard, believing that others are constantly trying to demean, harm or threaten them.” Similarly Annie displays behavior to avoid other people and she goes out of her way demonstrate that she is a stable and proper woman. In different instances Paul becomes aware that most of Annie’s efforts to clean and to take care of her farm are to “keep up appearances.”

She hides everything from everyone so she is responsible for her own tragedy. Blanche hides many things from Stella for example, she said that she took a leave of absence from school, but in real she gets kicked out of school for abusing a young boy. “Mr. Graves is the high school superintendent, he suggested I take a leave of absence. I couldn't put all those into the wire” (14). If she tells the truth of what was happening in her life to Stella it might bring some changes in her life, but by hiding everything she builds more lies and ruined her life. She also hides everything from Mitch. "Yes Stella is my precious little sister. I call her little spite of the fact she's somewhat older than I. Just slightly less than a year"(66). After Mitch

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.

Even though Dr.Agnos did have a point, without Annie, Hellen may have never spoken in her life. Hellen could not see, or hear, because she had a illness called “brain fever”, but Annie managed to teach Hellen unlike what Dr.Agnos Said “Hellen is like a little safe, locked that no one can open.” Because of Annie’s patience Hellen learned how to speak.