Character Analysis: Louise

The book “Lisa” is a historical fiction by Carol Matas and is about a young thirteen year old girl named Lisa. Lisa is a thirteen year old girl that has auburn hair and green eyes. Lisa is living during World War II which began in 1939 and didn’t end until 1945. We are introduced to Lisa with her living with her family in the city of Copenhagen in Denmark. The story takes place while Germany was invading Denmark. Lisa, at the beginning of this story is an uninformed, childish, and anxious girl. However, as the war progresses she develops new character traits which help her grow as a person. The four big character traits that she develops are curiosity, self-discipline, perseverance and valiance . These traits all help her develop into

The introduction of Mrs. Auld in chapter six of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one that hold a lot of importance not only to Douglass but to the reader as well. Douglass portrays her in a way that allows her to be human. The reader is allowed to not only see the change in her but to experience it. The rhetoric surrounding her even changes as she does. At first, Douglass uses emphasis when she is first introduced, this is done by stating the same idea about the character in various places within the first paragraph. As her character changes, Douglass uses juxtaposition to switch his rhetoric to turn Mrs. Auld to stand for a bigger concept rather than just a human. Douglass in a literary sense holds the reader’s hand by explaining Mrs. Auld’s change step by step of what Mrs. Auld was, what she became, and what happened in between to cause it. Douglass uses the presence of Mrs. Auld to demonstrate the dehumanizing effect that power has on the nature of a human.

Twyla and Roberta are two very different people, but bond in very similar ways. They become friends very suddenly, not because of how old they are, but because both have a mother. Twyla's mom is a dancer, and Roberta's mother is too sick to raise her. They later meet in their twenties in a not so settling way. Twyla had been bussing tables while Roberta had been living large about to meet Jimi Hendrix. Twyla was embarrassed at her long past friend and was ashamed to show herself. Five years later they meet at a grocery store where they both have kids and are settled down. They decided to go vet coffee where it starts off both are different races so they take opposite sides of the debate.  Roberta accuses Twyla of abusing one of the girls at the orphanage. Twyla only remembers sitting and watching the girl get abused by other girls, and Roberta's memories start to come back to her. This holds their relationship together for the next five years when

Another conflict in this story is the role of the wife versus the role of the husband. For instance, Louise struggled with her feelings about her marriage for years. Louise thinks "what could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being." She admits that she did love Brently, but often she did not. On the other hand, the story suggests that Brently was completely content in the marriage and assumed that Louise was too. This conflict is reflected in Louise's internal struggle. When she realizes that Brently is alive, she must die. This is the only way she can win the freedom she was struggling for within herself. She dies because he is alive, he is ultimately responsible for her death.

One of my challenges is sharing a room with my sister and her name is Marcie Fuentest was a challenge because when it was bedtime and I was trying to go to bed and Marcie would talk to me for hours and hours.I fix it by “telling her if she dose’t be quite then” I will tell my mom and dad and then she was

I believe Ruthie’s vision is ‘20/20’. I think that she is trying to make the journey more pleasant for her and for Bill. As “she [is] from rural Ohio and thrilled to death to be anywhere else,” she uses her imagination. She is “capable of seeing wonderful things.” For example, she says that she sees a Bigfoot when in reality she is seeing reflectors nailed to a tree stump. She is just trying to have fun as she almost never gets to be anywhere else besides rural Ohio. She also proves that she is an observer. On the other hand, Bill is not even paying much attention to what is happening on the sides of the road. “Bill rested his eyes while she cruised along making the occasional announcement…,” this quote proves that Bill is not an observer and

Linda was O’Brien’s first experience with death and the loss of a close friend or loss of a person in his life. She represented young and innocence in life. After Linda died, O’Brien kept her alive by dreaming of her all the time, he even looked forward to sleeping just so he could see her. This was the beginning of his storytelling and keeping people alive with his mind or through stories. She represents the loss of innocence and loss of childhood. This representation is an example of the young soldiers who lost their lives and drastically changed in the war. When she died and Timmy saw her dead body he realized that people die and your friends can die; which is something the soldiers experienced for the first time. O’Brien keeping her alive

We must all sacrifice our lives to give her greatness to the world” (227); she hasn’t had to try to achieve her needs and wants, she is the preferred child. Even with these advantages it turned out that Caroline needed Call, even though Call wouldn’t have been her first pick because overall she could have anyone she wanted. Call has always been a family friend and Caroline needed that sense of security. Caroline became dependent on a man; on contrast Louise didn’t want to be dependent but have a relationship with equality, maybe more praise to her. She didn’t end up becoming a doctor but a nurse which was more fulfilling because she was able to live in Truitt which was a valley surrounded by mountains and become a mother to three children and have two of her own with the husband she loves, Joseph Wojtkiewicz.

Throughout the novel, Kingsolver was able to make all her characters appealing to the reader. Lou Ann is full of southern charm and her overbearing parenting is comical. Kingsolver describes Turtle in such a way that makes her lovable without her saying any words. Her mannerisms are described with impeccable imagery. Taylor, the protagonist, seems to be the girl next door that is everyone's friend. She also provides comedic relief in the tense times.

I, Matthew Tohme, am writing this character reference letter in support of Kimberly McCarthy and to express my belief that she is more than adequately capable of raising her child in a way that is in his best interest. I have known I first met Kim and Jordan when they moved across the street from me in April and since then have become very close to them.

A few blocks down the road Estelle Louise says,” Clemmie Sue that there gotta be the greatest birthday in many a long years. Who you be thinking this here Harry guy might be?”

Heart troubles play a huge role within this story and that is why it is also a great example of symbolism. We find out that Louise has heart troubles to begin with. Her heart troubles affect her both physically and of course symbolically. Since she has heart troubles, it makes it hard for her to do much of anything in the first place. The heart trouble that Louise is dealing is from the state of her marriage with her husband. Her lack of freedom and independence is affecting her ongoing heart troubles through marriage. She is doesn’t have that freedom and independence from her husband which is affecting her heart and causing these troubles. When the death of her husband came out, it took a huge toll on her physically. Symbolically the heart trouble plays well towards the end of the story when Louise dies. She goes into shock when her supposed dead husband walks through the front door and she drops dead to the floor. The doctors say she had died due to heart disease but symbolically she died of a broken heart caused by her loss of freedom and her independence because her husband wasn’t

She could do whatever she wanted and not have her husband their to tell her what to do. Louise was with her family when she realized this and she never thought her life would change this way. Louise loses her husband in a tragic accident at the beginning of the story. This is a devastating loss for Louise and the rest of the family, seeing that they have all gathered to mourn together in the story. “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death…when the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease- of joy that kills” (Chopin 181-182).

To deal with the pain she locks herself in her room, where she refuses to open the door. As Louise mourns, she begins to enjoy her new sense of freedom and is glad to have time to herself. She eventually opens the door and walks down the stairs happily. Louise’s husband walks in the door, unharmed. As soon as she sees him alive, Louise has a heart attack and dies. As you can see, the main character, Louise, is quite the individual. She showed us she has the power to rely on herself and be independent without her husband.

Lauren Parsons is a humble junior here at Chino Hills High School. Lauren claims she is doing well, and her happiness is usually fueled by Disneyland.