Character Sketch on Idgie Threadgoode from 'Fried Green Tomatoes'.

Bradbury uses her to evoke a lot of intense thinking from both the reader and the other characters in the book and this in turn helps to develop the plot. She knows that she is considered an outcast, but she chooses to embrace it rather than to conform to the social norm. "I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I don't tell them what. I've got the. Running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back,like this, and let the rain fall into my

She steals book bag and leaves. She runs away to a university. Alice asks a girl for a ride to get close to where the computer lab would be. When Alice final makes to the computer lab she realizes she needs a student ID but doesn’t have one. Luckliy a group of boys are walking down hall. When they finally reach her she asks if they could open the door for her since she “forgot to get hers”. She notices that one of the boys was familiar. Paul who use to go to her school, they had a short conversation but he didn’t recognize her.

They talk about what they will be when they grow up. Then they found out they both read Steve Canyon comic in the newspaper. This makes them become more comfortable with one another. Soon as they were chattering Myra takes out a brooch out of Alice’s Cracker Jack. Alice insists that she has in. This clearly made Myra happy and she said on page 39, “I can wear it on my good dress. My good dress is blue.” This was the moment when the reader and the two new friends become instantly connected you see a true bond and you wish you could have been there to witness the creation of a new lasting

From the beginning, Janie’s happiness is abundantly clear in her relationship with Tea Cake. Although she is now a woman in her forties, Janie acts very youthful and unrestricted with him. She wears “new dresses and...comb[s] her hair a different way nearly every day (111)”. Tea Cake allows for Janie to be herself, in stark contrast to misogynistic Joe who constrained her individuality daily. Janie reports that “Tea Cake love[s] me in blue, so Ah wears it (113)”.

Her dream is to find that man and when it finally happens tragedy strikes. When Janie was young her grandmother made her marry a wealthy man that was a little older than Janie. Janie had no feelings for the man, “Please don’t make me marry Mr. Killicks (Hurston 15).” But Janie’s grandmother made her. That was not the true love that Janie wanted and ended up leaving Mr. Killicks. Then she married Jody, an entrepreneur that convinced Janie to travel with him. Jody created hit own little town that he become the governor of. At the beginning, they were both happy but as the town grew so did the responsibility. They began to nag as they got older and before long he died. Finally she met a man called Tea Cake, who took her heart. Her dream was fulfilled. But all was not happy and dandy, Tea Cake was bit by a rapid dog and started to go crazy. Janie was then forced to shoot him and away went her husband and her

The lights are shining as bright as the sun, it’s seven o'clock as the football team is about to come out. As the football team comes out we are yelling C-K-H-S. The game gets started and it is all fun in games . Halftime roles around and the boys are up 12-0 but her feet start to hurt and her cheerleading costume starts to get uncomfortable as it is a little too tight and super itchy. She's known as the pretty one that does well in school and gets good grades. The one that all the boys go after but always has a boyfriend. The one who has two older brothers that are popular and strong.

Peggy Sturmfels was adopted in the early 1990’s when she was two weeks old. Her birth parents were just teenagers and couldn’t even take care of themselves therefore they felt it would be in Peggi’s best interest if they allow her to get the best life possible with someone who could provide for her. They opted for a closed adoption because at the time no one knew she was even pregnant. Her adoptive parents John and Gabrielle Sturmfels agreed with Peggy’s birth parents and vowed not to tell her about the adoption. To her birth parent’s wishes John and Gabrielle gave Peggy the best life a child could imagine, she was their little princess and they treated her like royalty. Peggy was sent to the best schools and graduated high school as valedictorian. After graduation John and Gabrielle had a huge surprise for Peggy; they were going to allow her to attend the college of her dreams: UCLA. Peggi had dreamed to go there but her parents did not feel comfortable with her being so far away from home. Three months later Peggi had packed up and had started her first semester of college. She was doing very well and passing all her classes so she felt it was time for her to have a night to just relax and have some fun. Her friend Abby suggested that they go to one of the Frat parties close to their dorm. Peggy agreed and they went. At the party there was drugs and alcohol everywhere and Peggi didn 't feel comfortable but Abby insisted she stayed and referred to her as a “party pooper”.

Cady enters her first classroom and meets two interesting classmates; Janis, an apparently goth outsider with a artistry for revenge, and Damian, an outgoing friendly fellow who Janis describes as, “Too gay to function”. The two amigos view Cady as a cry for help and take it upon themselves to inform her of the most prestigious and superficial clique in the school, the Plastics. The Plastics’ leader is Regina George;an arrogant, malignant bitch whose taste for evil is only matched by her beauty and will to dominate. Janis describes her perfectly,

Lindsey Ames, a soon to be high school freshman, views her new school as an opportunity to start over. With the help of her new established friends, Teeny and Grouper, she believes that a change in her wardrobe will eliminate her image that was so haunting and discomforting in the past. Lindsey is successful for a while until her worst possible nightmare appears, her long-time adversary, Avery. The same spoiled bully that ruined her whole middle school life, now reminds Lindsey of her place. As the book continues, the main character’s coping strategies begin to be visible to the reader. Lindsey and her friends, without including the adults, struggle to manage the bullying. Despite this immutable problem, there are other things on Lindsey’s mind. She wants to join the National Honor Society, she wants to take Italian, she wants a cute boy to ask her out, but most of all she wants to change her reputation. However, this does not happen so quickly. As tensions rise, Lindsey faces the complex nature of bullying, and experiences the ups and downs of life as a high school teen.

A person can do a lot in a matter of nineteen minutes. Although it may not seem like a very long time, nineteen minutes forever changed the lives of nearly everyone living in Sterling, New Hampshire. Beginning at 10:16, 10 lives would be lost, 19 would be injured, and countless people would live in fear and constantly be brought back to that day. On March 6, 2007, Peter Houghton brought 4 guns into his high school and began shooting, and shooting, and shooting. Peter’s life had been filled with relentless bullying, ever since his first day of Kindergarten.

She is the protagonist in the story. “Her short linken walkind dress was, as far as he could judge, in the height of fashion and revealing an extent of silk- clad leg as disturbing as ever.” c, Barbara. Bright Hair About the Bone. New York: Bantam Delta, 2008. This quote show that she was someone who liked to show off a bit and everyone at her college thought she was kind of a trouble maker. Her godfather was Daniel who was murdered and a year later she receives a note the day he died. Instead of wondering who killed him she wanted to find out who did it and she did. Her actions showed how much she cared about Daniel and it showed how close they were together. Her relationship with other characters is that she is very stubborn and doesn’t listen to anyone if it’s not what she wants to do. She likes to succeed in everything she does even if it might be dangerous or impossible. An internal conflict is when she thinks about why there was a body in the trench out in the open where she is digging which meant they wanted her to find it as a message to her. An external conflict is when the gun is pointed towards her and she tries to make the shooter focus on her to figure4 out there scheme and figure out why they killed Daniel. In the end she is changes like becoming more in touch with her emotions. Many other characters seem to think that she is stubborn, some characters are attracted to her, others

The movie's protagonist, Cady Heron, a new student previously homeschooled in Africa, is initially introduced as the new, innocent girl. She is first befriended by Janis and Damian, the stereotypical free-spirited, artsy types. From the start, they immediately give her the lay of the land, outlining the cafeteria scene and advising her on who and who not to be friends with. The Plastics, foil to the characters mentioned above, are the highly popular group of girls headed by Queen Bee, Regina George. Within the week, eventually, Damian and Janis convince Cady to join The Plastics in an attempt to dethrone Regina, but instead, she is transformed completely into a real Mean

Melinda Sordino begins her freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York, with a heavy secret weighing on her. Over the summer, she and her friends went to a party and Melinda ended up calling the police, causing her friends and everyone at the party to reject her. Melinda's only friend is Heather, a new student, who tries to get Melinda involved in the group called the Marthas just to try to gain more popularity. Melinda, however, is not interested in gaining popularity and spends a lot of her time in an abandoned janitor's closet at the school. This janitor’s closet soon becomes her “safe place”. While she is becoming depressed using self-harm and reliving the past she is silent she won’t speak to hardly anybody not even

She is forced to do things that she does not want to and is denied inclusion in activities that would make her happy. This oppression starts in her teenage years when Nanny forces Janie to get married because she is afraid for Janie’s well-being after she dies. Then the years she spends with Joe are years of oppression and self-denial. He forces her to tie up her hair because of his jealousy and insecurity, he denies her the opportunity to interact with the town, and he forces her to keep all of her thoughts to herself. Later after Joe dies she is finally free to do as she pleases, and Tea Cake happens to be the only person who can help her because without him she would still be oppressed by the judgmental eye of society. Janie did not get to experience many things a young lady today would experience. She was denied the opportunity to date and search for love and she was denied rights that all women should have.

Wannamaker says, Addie is “a woman who longs to find an identity of her own that