Character Analysis: Hi Windy

Of all the deaths that plagued New Bremen in the summer of 1961, Ariel’s death robbed their community of more than just her music. William Kent Krueger’s novel Ordinary Grace cleverly weaves in filaments and truths about grace through the person of Ariel. As the summer tumbles forward at a fevered pace, Ariel’s character continuously gives insight into the threads of grace that hold the Drum family together. Ariel plays a pivotal roll in Ordinary Grace because her character explores the facets of grace: kindness, beauty, forgiveness, and hope, while exposing how dark life is without it. As the eldest and only daughter in the Drum family, Ariel carried the expectations and hopes of her family like hefty luggage.

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.

Violet Duran being a protagonist of the novel “Feed” by M.T Anderson stood out the most. To me she wasn't just some girl, she was different. titus was drawn to her and from the minute him and his friends started talking to her at the moon, they noticed she wasn't like them. Violet had her feed implanted in her brain when she was seven years old due to her parent’s financial situation. She is also home schooled by her father who is a professor who teaches the dead language. Both her parents didn't have the feed and were even hesitated about getting it for Violet. Until Violets father figured it was necessary for his daughter due to the generation she was going to grow up in and because of the job interview. He stated “Then one day, when

The title, Speak most represents how the book is about Melinda’s journey to regain her ability to speak. In the beginning of the book Melinda is raped at a party. She calls the cops however does not report the rape.Melinda loses everything from her friends to her ability to speak. Incapable of telling anyone about her trauma, Melinda only has herself but the burden of her secret may be too much. Throughout the book Melinda finds her voice and will begin to put her life back together.

I hope all is well. I know how busy you probably are, but I didn't hear from you after our talk on Tuesday and wanted to check in on your decision timeline.

No, no, it has been MY privilege and very pleasant experience cooperating and communicating with you and even more, learning from you. You were, in my book, one of the best and most precious resources Pinellas County had and I will certainly miss you. Have a fantastic, happy, healthy and loooooooong retirement my friend! I hope to see you occasionally on the tennis court.

The setting of the Devon school brought back a lot of memories to the character finny. Finny is a very outstanding person. He is extremely athletic the most athletic out of all his friends. Finny’s best friend Gene is extremely smart not so much of an athlete. Finny is a very friendly person he always thinks the best of people.

All refugees, the circumstances notwithstanding, face immense hardship throughout their lives. In time, these hardships give way to new opportunities, dreams, and perspectives, as even in the face of suffering, one always retains their intrinsic self. Kim Ha, the protagonist in Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again, experienced this through her family’s daring escape from war-torn South Vietnam. Consequently, Inside Out and Back Again serves as a fitting title for her story.

Jody is about an adopted child. It is about searching her natural parents. Who wants to know her true identity. This is the story of being human who has ever about the heart’s journey home. This is true to life story written by Jerry Hulse. Jody was an adopted daughter by Mary and Bruce Carr, who’s married dozen years before they adopt her. She was born on May 13, 1931 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was faces now serious surgery and the doctors needed her family background or medical history about her parents. When she was 16 years old, she knew that she was only an adopted daughter. Her adoptive parents never told her about it, only the place where she was born. And that is the only information to find her mother. Jerry Hulse her husband is the first travel editor in Los Angeles. He was died on 2002 at the age of 77.

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

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon is able to connect to the world through many different scenarios and situations. These situations can be represented by George's irrational fear of having an unsolvable disease or death, Katie's self doubt about her future decisions, and Jean’s longing for something more than what she has. The human race is known and expected to make decisions and inevitably second guess themselves at the slightest provocation. All people should have experienced this and will continue to. A Spot of Bother accurately demonstrates this by providing specific and detailed situations that, in most cases, are blown completely out of proportion.

Jing-mei originally believed that in order to “be Chinese” one must live in China and abide by the stereotype of Chinese people; after her visit to China, she finds that “being Chinese” is accepting the Chinese DNA in her blood and understanding the culture. In the beginning of A Pair of Tickets, Jing-mei does not feel Chinese. She repeatedly denies being Chinese saying, “… and all of my Caucasian friends agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were” (Norton 179). She had never experienced the culture first-hand and never truly connected with her true heritage. She sees China in her visit. This is the first opportunity she has ever had to interact with other Chinese people. Coming from a social group of all Caucasian friends, first-hand interaction allows her to understand the Chinese people in a much more advanced manner. They seem less

Authors in many instances use the main elements in the story such as setting and narrative to prove a point in the story. For example, writers often use characters, their actions, and their interaction with other characters to support or prove a theme. In the short story “Our Thirteenth Summer”, Barry Callaghan effectively uses characters to develop the theme that childhood is fragile and easily influenced. One of the ways that Callaghan makes effective use of characters to develop the theme is by describing the tension between Bobbie and his parents. This usage of characters supports the theme because Bobbie’s childhood is no longer free to do what he wishes, but has to bow down to his parents’

Charley is 15 and he lives in Minnesota. He’s going to join the war. He is going to make A $11 a month. Back in the days $11 was alot of money. He is too young to go to war. He is a very brave boy. Im Octavio I’m 12 and I live in Osceola Ar. I live on 6008 n pearl st. I have 4 brother and 4 sisters but 2 of my sisters are grown. And 1 of my brothers is grown.

In “A Little Cloud” by James Joyce, Gallaher plays a key role in shaping how Little Chandler conducts himself, as well as provoking the abrupt change Chandler has towards his family and life. Gallaher seems a successful, cultured, and metropolitan man who achieves much of what Little Chandler hopes to do in his life. While Little Chandler becomes stuck in his boring job, Gallaher travels around Europe writing newspaper articles and exploring an adventurous life that Little Chandler strives for. This life of Gallaher’s not only evokes jealousy in Little Chandler, but also anger and changes the way he sees his life and the life he truly wants. Little Chandler changes throughout the story because of his meeting with Gallaher, who parades the perfect life Little Chandler always wanted, and causing Little Chandler to regret his life choices and stimulates frustration and resentment towards his current life.