Annie Persuasive Essay

Paul begins to make frequent visits to the university library in an attempt to discover more about Keller's past. Incidentally, he discovers a couple having sex on the floor and decides to watch on. In his mind, this makes Paul thing about having sex himself. And in turn having sex with his first crush at his new school Megan Murray whom he admits to the sexual dreams he has had about her and despite her appreciation, she rejects him. After returning back to school Paul meets new student Rosie Zollo, who falls for Paul however he initially finds her annoying. After the advent of Pauls newfound sexual maturity, Paul will fall for Rosie. "Each day my eyes seemed to be opened just a little wider, and more of that sun-drenched town of lush garden, scents, and sexuality seemed to cram itself in. Nothing I heard in that dark, humid room in the Swam had much place in my new world.." later on the couple share their first sexual experiences with each other. Megan, who Paul later has sex with, regrets it and realizes his love for Rosie. This shows Megan who is a symbol of Pauls sexual adolescence and was really only a depiction of physical attraction. Pauls maturity then blossoms when being around Rosie who he learns to love and care for her in a way that he had never cared about Megan. His love for Rosie grows so deep he then begins to sadly ignore keller and begins to miss lessons to be with

and Mrs. Fisher. Case in point, Paul finds his voice and stands-up to his brother, Erik, and Erik’s friend, Arthur. “ I stepped forward…. Erik. Come on”(261). Furthermore, a second altercation happens when Paul confronts his parents about his eyesight. “I exploded… Am I that idiot”(264). This evidence reveals the beginning of the resolution because throughout the whole novel, the main character, Paul Fisher, has been quiet and shy about his internal ideas, or thoughts. Paul finally gets enough courage to stand- up to his brother and

Paul and his platoon have been turned into machines due to the war, controlled by

Paul walks into the room where Rose’s funeral and wake took place, and he sits alone by Rose’s casket and begins to insult her, asking why she left him; at that moment, Paul realized that he never really know the person that Rose was and he starts to

Edward Bloor made Paul seem like that quiet and more to himself kind of kid but he’s actually the one who sees what’s going on around him and everyone else. On page 64 it says, “I said to myself, There goes another one of your koi, Mr.Costello”. This texts shows that Paul is actually seeing the truth of the osprey taking their community fish but the homeowners are assuming that people are taking the fish and selling them. But instead of not telling anyone about the osprey and the koi fish he just sits back and doesn’t say anything. In the beginning Paul is invisible to everybody and nobody listens to him because he’s that “blind” kid that people ignore at first.

He realizes just like his father and his mother he is using drug and alcohol to cope with his pain is slowly killing them. Paul still didn’t know if he wants to live or die so he flirts with the idea of death, but he stops himself at the last second.

Paul uses many tactics throughout his imprisonment in order to keep some control over his and Annie's alliance. One effective method he uses is flattery, complimenting Annie in order to keep her happy and her mood stable. His use of this move is demonstrated on page 60 in the novel, when he calls Annie his favorite nurse. He uses it again on page 107, telling Annie that she could not be old enough to remember the chapter plays, hinting at how she looks way younger than she actually is. Paul uses this strategy to lighten Annie's mood and keep her happy, which is vital to him because Annie can become very destructive and impatient when angry, consequently being the main source of Paul's pain throughout the book. In addition to flattery, Paul

To begin with, Paul is counseling having flashbacks about his family and secrets that are untold. The author

On question 2 I think Paul could have maybe learned in the split second before his decision to kill himself. He realized all that he was giving

When he is reunited with his mother "[they] say very little," but when she finally asks him if it was "very bad out there" Paul lies. In trying to protect her by lying, Paul creates a separation between his mother and himself. As Paul sees it, the tragedies and horrors of war are not for the uninitiated. Sadly, the true nature of war further separates the two generations.

the love and care he unknowingly needs. Paul takes on roles that disguise his own traits and turns him into what he believes to be a person nobody can say no to. When he takes on these roles, he

Paul's father had abused him emotionally, and probably physically, throughout Paul's life. He did so much to Paul's flagging self-image that he had to boast to others to make himself feel big, when he felt tiny inside. When he finally achieved that "bigness" that he always wanted, the glamour of "the good life," his father found him out and took that away from him, or rather, made Paul give it up. This made Paul feel even smaller and made him feel that he would be better off dead. So Paul decided to make his life "better off" and

so she remembers it as a better time than Paul might feel at the time, where it is all Paul knows. Audience in mind as well Paul is more personal and complains more as she is writing in the form of a letter to someone who she has a connection with, not just the general

Additionally, recurring patterns of transitional shifts in character persona in the characters of Paul Sheldon and Arthur Leander indicate how participation in the arts can cause a loss of privacy. In Misery, Paul describes the act of writing as one that is akin to masturbation in that it is something intimate to the writer and so, is individual and private (King 345). At the beginning of the novel, he is able to produce stories such as “Fast Cars” that are based on his ideas, observations, and personal interests (King 86). But, through Annie and her influence as a “constant reader,” Paul’s writing transitions from being private to that of being public. By having to write ‘Misery’s Return” as a story “just for (Annie),” she violates Paul’s

He thought that he could just apologize to her and then everything would be okay. Well boy was he wrong! At first, he doesn’t really realize how much by him missing the dance recital effected Lisa. As the play goes on though, he comes to realize that it really hurt Lisa and had an effect on her. He thought he could just apologize to her and that everything would work out, but when that didn’t work he tried something else. He tried to be more friendly with her and joke around but that still wasn’t doing the trick. He ends up making Lisa a tender offer which leads to him asking Lisa, “if she’d show him her dance recital” (pg. 821). He ends up dancing the other parts in her dance recital and in the end was able to lighten the mood up before they went back home. Paul was finally able to realize that he needed to spend more time with his daughter Lisa, so that they could have a better relationship than what they had