Character Analysis Of Leah In Kingsolver's The Grapes Of Wrath

A quote I liked from this section was “The camp looked as though it had been through an epidemic, empty and dead“I think it was important to include this quote because it helps us picture the condition of the camp. Elie uses the word epidemic which means a widespread infectious disease in a community. We can visualize how badly the camp is messed up or trashed.

“I got thinkin’ how we was holy when we was one thing, an’ mankin’ was holy when it was one thing”

1-1. “Before me and Neeka started asking D about her life, we were erasers too—she got to step into our world, with all the trees and mamas calling from windows and kids playing on the block, and forget.” (18)

The diction words I picked from the quote was “blasted” and “sleeping” and which then I chose the tone word, uneasy because reflects how even though the Clutters lost their live due to being shot in the head, Perry and Dick also destroyed their own lives because they turned themselves into murders which means they will have to run away for eternity.

Both his wife and children are under the impression that he was rewarded for an act of heroism, and that his goal of saving the Congolese is driven by his selflessness. What they later discover explains quite a lot: Nathan was not rewarded for being a war hero, but for simply escaping the Bataan Death March, a brutal situation for both the American and Filipino armies in which “starving and sick troops were forced to walk over sixty miles to the prisoner of war camp” (“Bataan”) and “were forced to endure countless atrocities” (Williams and Showalter 155). Because Nathan was the only one of his company to survive, he began to see himself as a coward when he returned home and decided to never again abandon a dangerous situation. Orleanna described the shift in Nathan’s personality as a “suspicion of his own cowardice from which he could never recover” (Kingsolver 197). The idea that their father was a war hero drove each of the daughters to be understanding of his actions because they saw that he was capable of doing great things and helping people in miraculous ways. When they realized that he was not rewarded for being extraordinary, it became more and more difficult for them to view him as a role model. By contrasting both views of Nathan, Kingsolver gave the reader a choice to determine how to interpret his

Characters: Matt, Sam, Joe, George, Justin, Harry, Jaron, BIlly, Chris zhane, Ben, Bob ( NOT GUILTY)

Mama Joad has proven herself to be one of the most involved and caring characters throughout the The Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck. Mama a woman who holds her family together and is constantly showing her strengths. Even Pa noticed the authority that Mama showed. She is an example of a strong mom that every family would hope to have. Within the Church, there are seven Catholic Social Justice Teachings, which include: the life and dignity of the human person; call to family, community, and participation; rights and responsibilities; option for the poor and vulnerable; the dignity of work and the rights for workers; solidarity; and care for God’s creation. A person who exemplifies the above characteristics is someone who is attempting to lead the best life that they possibly can. Mama Joad is a major character who lives by the seven tenets of Catholic Social Justice Teaching, especially call to family, rights and responsibilities, and solidarity.

Throughout The Poisonwood Bible, Leah develops a deep love for Anatole (Kingsolver). Her love becomes conflicting, and race causes Leah’s love to become a challenge. Leah is a white girl from America and Anatole is a colored man from Africa (Kingsolver). Beliefs, views, and

The Dust Bowl, a series of severe dust storms in the 1930’s, left the southern plains of the United States as a wasteland. The storms occurred due to the lack of use of dryland farming techniques to prevent wind erosion. Powerful winds would pick up loose soil and carry the sediment around the countryside. Called “black blizzard” or “black rollers”, these storms had the potential to black out the sky completely. Due to the inability to grow and sell crops, banks evicted families and foreclosed their properties, leaving them homeless and without an income. The author of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, wrote his American realist novel to allow readers to understand the experiences of the migrants from the Dust Bowl era. Not many

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck uses numerous literary techniques to advocate for change in the social and political attitudes of the Dust Bowl era. Simile, personification, and imagery are among the many devices that add to the novel’s ability to influence the audience’s views. Moreover, through his use of detail, Steinbeck is able to develop a strong bond between the reader and the Joad clan. This bond that is created evokes empathy from the audience towards the Joads as they face numerous challenges along their journey. The chapters go between the Joad’s story and a broad perspective of the Dust Bowl’s effect on the lives of Mid-western farmers in which Steinbeck illustrates dust storms devastating the land, banks evicting tenant

In Barbra Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible, there are numerous distinct perspectives within each member of the Price family. However, the most compelling evidence of perception is the Price family towards the father, Nathan Price. There is a common consensus between the Price family that Nathan’s arrogance and ignorance has resulted in their excessively timed stain in the Congo. Throughout the course of Poisonwood Bible, each character in the Price family perspectives cohesively alters towards disgust for Nathan.

In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 over two thousand crew and passengers were awoken to the ghastly scraping of ice upon the Titanic’s hull. As the dying ship slowly descended beneath the waves and into the deep cold waters of the North Atlantic, the culprit of this gruesome scene was apparent. This was the work of the gigantic mountain of ice protruding from the dark waters. But ultimately what caused the destruction of the “Unsinkable Ship” and took the lives of fifteen hundred innocent souls was not the formidable ice face that arose from the freezing waters, but instead the unseen structure twice its size that lurked beneath the surface. Ernest Hemingway does the same thing to his readers that the iceberg did to the titanic. In Hemingway’s writing it is undeniably what lies beneath the surface, what remains unsaid, that truly shakes the reader to their core.

“At the heart of every immigrant’s experience is a dream- a vision of hope that is embodied in his or her destination” (Gladstein 685). In the novel, The Grapes of Wrath the migrants imagined the absolute aspects of living care free to the west. However, everything changed once they traveled to the west, realizing the simple concept turned into hazardous problems. John Steinback emphasized the American dream of economic stability and truculent situations towards the Joads family's point of view. Throughout the immigration, the Joads family goes through constant and unpredictable changes in employment, and their eventual failure to find success in California. The novel has been called by critics "a celebration of the human spirit", in several ways it is true due to the aspects of human nature. Despite the hazardous actions people can do, it is important to realize everything around us.

     Ernest Hemingway was a great American author. He was a giant of modern literature. Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899. He was the first son of Clarence and Grace Hall Hemingway and the second of their six children. Hemingway’s gather was a doctor and his mother was a music teacher. Hemingway’s parents owned a cabin in northern Michigan where he spent most of his summers hunting and fishing, being separated from the rest of middle-class society. Hemiongway’s mother was a strict person and tried to impose a moral order her children. This caused hostility between mother and son. A major dispute arose between the two when Hemingway returned home

Hester Prynne lived in a small cottage on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts in 1642. The Puritan society was a group of people that lived in this village and town. They are very religious and use the Bible and God as their standard for behavior and punishment. This group of people, especially Puritan women are very intimidating and ruthless. They love watching people be punished and embarrassed when they committed a sinful crime. Hester Prynne is one of the first characters to be introduced to readers. Nathaniel Hawthorne describes Hester Prynne as a tall woman “with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes” (Hawthorne 60). Hester was the lady every guy wanted. She was stunning and so graceful. However she had committed one of the worst sins.