Character Analysis: The Book Lisa

Randy Pausch. Who is he? What does he stand for? The day he gave the last lecture... His last lecture he only had months to live. He packed a lot of lessons into his lecture. The claims he gave that stood out were to be optimistic, to be determined, and to take risks.

Growing up in a wartime environment affects the identities, confidence and adolescence process for many people. In the books, The Diary of A Young Girl, Farewell to Manzanar, and Night, World War II accelerates Anne’s, Jeanne’s and Elie’s precious maturity and coming of age process. World War II, the Nazis and their identity of being Jewish forces Anne and Elie to grow up and mature much sooner than expected. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, World War II have a negative impact on Jeanne’s confidence and she starts to lose respect towards her Japanese heritage. All three of them are struggling to find out who they truly are. Anne Frank, Jeanne Wakatsuki and Elie Wiesel all are greatly affected by the war, but in different milieus and in

It is a common experience: a woman dates a man who is rude to everyone except for her. He makes her feel special, but a few months later, he becomes an abusive, controlling boyfriend. Walter Younger from the play “A Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, while not an abusive person is a milder example of this phenomenon. He is the father in a large African American family, and lives with his mother, sister, wife, and young son. His father has recently died, and his mother, Lena, receives an enormous check from their life insurance. They need this money, as they live in a small house and need to move to a larger one, but Walter wants to invest the money into opening a liquor store instead. Although the play seems to revolve around him, Walter

"...What impact did your father not being there have on your childhood?"(The "Other" Wes Moore -Part I: Fathers and Angels - pg. 4) This question is what connected me to the novel. The "author" Wes began the story of his and the "other " Wes's memories of their fathers. This explains how and why they grew up fatherless. Wes " the author" recalls only have two memories of his father one was when his father had a talk with him after he punched his sister Nikki and the other one was the day his father passed away. The "author" Wes father didn't choose to leave, unlike the "other Wes's father, which he never met until years later. I related to this chapter a lot, I too was raised by a single mother but my story is just a tad different. My family

Rivalry can be playful and good natured, but it isn’t always this way. Rivalry and competition can help individuals grow as a person, and help them to develop into mature adults. Competition can be a motivator to do better. It can also lead to vast destruction, and severed friendships. Rivalry in this case is unhealthy, the overall outcome of the story proves this. Finny and Gene didn’t really have a ‘healthy’ rivalry or competition. Their relationship wasn’t healthy, and it eventually leads to the death of Finny. In “A Separate Piece” by John Knowles the rivalry between two friends turns unhealthy very quickly. The competition and rivalry between the two friends is destructive, it destroys their friendship,

Lily came into the kitchen to get something cold to drink, when she found May on the floor making “a little highway of broken graham crackers and marshmallow bits” to guide the roach she saw out the door (172). This reminded her of when T. Ray told her that her “mother was a lunatic when it came to bugs… she used to make trails of graham cracker crumbs and marshmallows to lure roaches outside” (172) Because she saw May do the exact same thing her mother did, she started questioning if she could have learned that trick from May, or if it was from a book. Finally, she gathered up her courage and asked May if she had ever knew of a Deborah. She responded by saying “Oh, yes, Deborah Fontanel. She stayed out there in the honey house. She was the

Do you remember when you were a specific age or have you discovered a time in your life? Where you looked at individuals and saw them for who they are and what or who they could be? It’s like you never bothered to see someone else purpose in life. So you start to question yourself for the reasoning of their presence. Think about a time in your life when someone just wanted to see the good in you and wanted you to live up to your full potential. Sylvia’s character in, “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara represents Sylvia's transitioning from her childhood to adulthood. It is motivated by Miss Moore's Lesson where the process of the growth is demonstrated through Sylvia’s life experiences which later makes her realize she needs to grow up.

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

Hi Anthony it's nice to meet you. I am hoping the same as you to be able to earn a high passing grade. I am also hoping to improve my writing skills as well. I can agree with you on being able to talk about almost any topic for a long period of time, but writing it out can be hard. I hope you have a great quarter and you earn the A that you are working

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.

Lisa from the book “Next” by Michael Crichton has been saying that her “father” isn’t actually her father. She finally went to get a DNA test done, it turns out she was right. He is not the father and she is angry that she wasn’t told so. Her mother keeps denying it, why is her mother denying it when she knows the results?

Andrew is very excited to portray the Baker in Into the Woods this fall. Some of Andrew’s previous credits include Lord Farquaad in Shrek the Musical, Horton the Elephant in Seussical, and The Beast and Gaston in Beauty and the Beast. Andrew has been a part of Rancho Cucamonga High School Chamber Signers for four years and has performed at Disneyland in the Candlelight Processional. Andrew would like to thank his friends and

1. Who is the protagonist in Jacobs' work (I'm looking for just a specific name)? Linda Brent (the alias that Harriet Jacobs used for the character that represented herself) 2. Who is the antagonist in Jacobs' work (this is open to interpretation and will require explanation)?

World War II was a catastrophe that affected many Jewish people’s lives across all of Western Europe. One individual who personally documented this experience was Anne Frank. She was a Jewish teenager living in Holland during World War II. Once the Germans began to take Jewish people to concentration camps, Anne and her family had to go into hiding so that they would not be discovered. As the war went on, many events affected Anne’s daily activities and morale. Anne began to document these events and as time went on it became obvious from her entries how much the war changed her. Anne’s situation was different than many other Jewish people during this time because most Jewish people were being killed or tortured in concentration camps while Anne was in hiding.

Mary Gaitskill uses a third person perspective, along with crafty diction and insightful allusions to keep her reader’s in suspense through her piece of “Tiny, Smiling Daddy”. It is with these tools that Gaitskill is able to slowly change our perceptions of the narrator from likeable to confusion and ultimately ending in dislike.