Character Analysis Michelle

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.

b.) The Duff feeds into the typical stereotypes given to teens in high school. Wes was the popular good-looking guy who also happens to be the star of the football team and also dates the gorgeous prom queen. In some people’s mind being comedic is a sign of popularity. The movie aims for Bianca to break away from labels, yet it labels every other character to a particular high school

The drastic changes in Maris’ life forced her to reevaluate the way the thought about everyday existence. The way she goes about living is drastically different than those around her. Mairs commented on her own life saying, “Of late, I have begun to catch myself wondering how people can propel themselves without canes” (Mairs 67). She has become used to her disability and this has created a disconnect between her and the rest of the world. While others are free of even giving a thought to what she handles everyday, she has a adapted into a way of thinking that accommodates to her life. Even the way she perceived others interactions was changed and she feared that any act of kindness from others was out of pity and shame. The author has completely altered the way she interacts with the world because of just one single part of her life. People become used to thinking of their lives in a certain way, not objectively as just a part of society. Throughout her emotional journey, she had to accept who she was.

The dynamic change that the narrator experiences at the end of the short story is that he becomes more sympathetic. He starts to see that sometimes you have to take a stand for what you believe in. He did not want to be apart of what had just happened at the store with the girls. From the way other customers were judging them by the way they were dressed. Along with how the store manager embarrassed them with their inappropriate appearance. In my opinion he would not have had such a dynamic change in the story if the store manager would have addressed this in a different manner. The manager could have approached the three girls individuality in a private setting instead of getting into an altercation in front of all the customers in the store. The way of knowing he was making a dynamic change in the story is when he quit. He learned that it was time to make a stand in his life for what he did not feel was right. He has witnessed first hand how hard life is going to be. In a short time he saw how

From the tone of Mick’s voice, the alcohol acts a sedative to numb the pain from his past. This motive for drinking is also evident through Lisa’s brother, Jimmy, after he loses both his girlfriend, Adelaine, and his goal in becoming an Olympic swimmer. The legacy of residential school is also manifested in Trudy and Tab’s mother-daughter relationship. Tab becomes the victim of her mother’s psychological and emotional upheaval that is a result from her childhood. In the grip of alcohol, Trudy often mistreats Tab. Removed from a family environment and placed in a reformation school, individuals return not only emotionally and psychologically scarred, but also unable to reestablish their own functional family. Tab confesses to Lisa that she wishes she had a mother like hers, saying, “You’re lucky. You’re really lucky that your dad was too young to go to rez school. [...] Just Mick and my mum went and it fucked them up” (Robinson 254). Trudy’s sister Kate also notes that Trudy “thinks Mother’s dirt, while she goes out and parties and treats Tab worse than what she blames Mother for” (Robinson 285).

Her desire to make Nola happy shows that she is trying, but inside thoughts show that she does not like the way Nola dresses, or the clothes she picks out, or the restaurant they eat at. Her emotional attachment and need for her daughter overpowers her knowledge that it is time for Nola to grow up.  She would prefer for Nola to remain young.  Despite her mother's desire, Nola is growing up and becoming her own person.

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

She struggles because her father also has kicked her out of his house. She struggles to find herself and is lost in society. At one point in her life she was homeless and begging for food and selling her clothes and personal belongings for necessities. Meredith comes to her common senses and returns back home to start a life for herself At an older age of 30 she had to care of her mom because she had multiple sclerosis and was very worried about her, but sadly she died in her 40’s. When Meredith was 30 she met her son that she gave up for adoption, when they met there was no emotion. She found out his name was Paul and he grew up in poverty with an abusive father, it was a very important part in her life because they were finally able to meet and connect with each other. She never finished her senior year of high school, but she gets a second chance. She’s with other misfits and feels at home, during this stage she starts to find herself. She then is becoming old and weary and finds a cabin in her hometown in the wilderness. She seeks silent refuge within

In Bone by Fae Myenne Ng, it is presented in the first person by Leila Fu. The setting takes place in a small town called San Francisco, California. It starts off with a family that has three daughters, a mother and a stepfather. The bond between the three sisters, represents the family as a whole and their connection with one another. One the “sisterly” bonds has broken, by Ona’s suicide, it alters the connection in the family.

Her character is torn because not only is her family against her, her beloved friend Carl is moving also. She begins her thought process about staying on the Divide. She thinks of her father and her conversation with Ivar, and although she seems hesitant at first, she decides to remain on the Divide and cultivate a new system for the land.

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

Michelle being the baby of the family is portrayed as cute,but slightly manipulative in trying to get her own way. The middle child Stephanie is seen as devious, and nosey. The final child DJ is the oldest and acts like what a typical older sibling would be, always looking out for her younger siblings. Other characters

Marilyn, because she couldn't be a doctor, is hard on Lydia to get good grades, she is living vicariously through Lydia. Marilyn willingly ran away from her family to complete her degree, which just shows how oppressed she felt, she actually had to leave her home because she couldn't do it there. James and Marilyn had difficulty getting along because they could not pinpoint their frustration, which was their difference in ideologies, this resulted in their children’s misplaced identity. “How had it begun? Like everything: with mothers and fathers.

From the beatings her mother gave her to going AWOL after hating foster homes, Olivia’s life was far from perfect. When Olivia was a teenager she was a ward of the county, hopping from one group home to another. Other girls would steal her clothes and chase her around with a hot iron. She went AWOL shortly after that, living in her own apartment, having a crazy work schedule, that was just her life. Whenever she had financial issues she would return to her social worker and yet again be put into a foster home. One time she went AWOL though and couldn’t afford rent anymore, she

Marnie was different from the other girls. She didn’t care about school and hated all her teachers because, well with her mom’s fame and after her death, Marnie will get, when she’s old enough, all of her money which is about $235.27 million. Whether she had a job or not when she’s older, she was going to become wealthy. As well, she was a very anti-social person and was always alone playing her online role-playing game because it was a way to escape her horrible and trapped life. And even her school taught she was using the computer and playing the game too much that they restricted her from using her computer for a long period of time. This upset her and made her mad because she felt like they took a part of her away.