Clara Barton Character Analysis

Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is an essential character in the story who provides more insight on the journey of attaining Henrietta Lacks’ recognition. Without her, the readers would not have been able to see the outlook of the struggles and hardships of Henrietta’s family. Scenes, like the faith healing on page 289, would have been lackluster if it hadn’t been for Skloot’s input on the actions of the characters first-hand which delved further on how they cope with the new information they are presented with. Also, her thoughts gives interpretations on the situations she encounters. Deborah constantly looks at Elsie’s pictures in her car and starts thinking about sad thoughts that Skloot, at one point, wants to

“Let me,” Ludington called, “I can ride as well as any man!” A young woman of only sixteen told her father one night during the Revolutionary War. Sybil Ludington volunteered to round up her father's troops when the original messenger could not go any farther. Sybil traveled over three times farther than the well-known story of Paul Revere. She rode farther, alone, and in horrible weather to bring four hundred soldiers to aid Henry Ludington. Sybil, though her remarkable story is largely ignored by historians, should be as well-known as Paul Revere for her bravery and contribution to the war effort.

Vera Elizabeth Claythorne was an attractive and athletic woman. “Quite attractive- a bit schoolmistressy perhaps” (Christie 5).She was working as a physical education teacher when she received a letter from U.N Owen to be her secretary for a summer job. Everyone that had been invited to the island had a dark secret. Vera was accused of murdering Cyril Hamilton, the young boy she used to look after. She was involved with Cyril's uncle, Hugo. They planned get married but were unable to because Hugo did not have the money to support a family. If Cyril were to die, Hugo would inherit all of the money. Even though Vera knew that Cyril was unable to swim out deep into the sea water, she allowed him too. As Cyril was drowning, Vera pretended to try

Although the people of a single nation share the same homeland, contradictory these people live in separate worlds. In the lives of the privileged and the unfortunate they are separated between their positions in the social ladder, which is defined by their financial stability. In Elizabeth Gaskell's, Mary Barton the different worlds of the wealthy is contrasted to those of the poor. Gaskell's attention to detail emphasizes the division among the two social classes, demonstrating the lavish and luxurious lives of the upper class as it is contrasted to those of the impoverish and disheartening lives of the lower class, while also developing characterization, illustrating the character's reactions to the

“I jolted awake. My sheets were soaked through with sweat, blood, and the foul-smelling black substance that marked a victim of yellow fever. Yellow fever,” despite her desperate cries for mercy, yellow fever struck young Matilda Cook with its evil hand, along with thousands of other unfortunate victims. An unpredictable future haunted the families of Philadelphia as this unbearable sickness slithered in between their homes. In the novel Fever, Laurie Halse Anderson described the fictional epidemic that occurred in 1793 to the citizens of Pennsylvania. She passionately painted the picture with blended colors of pain, perseverance, and hope. Despite unbearable pain, the protagonist pressed on with strength and hope. While her character certainly deserves admiration, Matilda Cook is not the only strong character in this story, her friends Eliza and Nathaniel share some of her inspiring traits as well as some of their own.

Have you ever wondered what it was like being a nurse on the battlefield? Well lots of women were nurses but only one made history.

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.

Clara Barton’s early life made a great impact in her later years. For example at the age of eleven her brother, David, suffered an injury while helping build a farm. Most eleven year old girls wouldn’t have been able to manage taking care of a person for two years, however Clara felt the need to help, and she was rather good at it. This is what

In U.S. history the roles of society were decide by gender, men’s role was mostly the same throughout history, but the women’s role changed slowly over time. There was many women who were fighting to change their roles and one such woman is Anne Marbury Hutchinson. In “Divine Rebel” Selma R. Williams tells the story of Anne Hutchinson, who was a Puritan woman of the late 1500s, and researched informations was hard to find. She was often described as a woman who did not fit the ideal woman mold and she did nothing to force herself into such a mold. Anne Hutchinson is described differently in the textbook that was assigned to our class as well as a few similarities. Anne Hutchinson may

Think about the culture of the last organization you worked for, your current, university, or another organization or club to which you belong. Then answer the following questions:

Throughout the years inequality between races and genders has become a recurring issue in our world, especially throughout the United States and Latin America. These issues are seen even today but were much more frequent in the past. While focusing on the 1950s to the 1990s, racial inequality and gender inequality serve as major themes in many events including the story of Henrietta Lacks, the dictatorships in Chile and Argentina, and in the mass sterilizations that happened in the United States.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee presents Mayell Ewell as a complex, round character with traits that evoke various feeling from the reader. In one light, “she seemed somehow fragile-looking” (179). She is scared of what would happen to her if anyone found out she was lying. The questioning became too much and made her “stare at (Judge Taylor) and burst into tears” (179). The crying showed her emotional and fragile side of her. The fact that there was a bigger, more powerful being forcing her to act a certain way scared her. She continued to cry at certain times and didn’t answer some of Atticus’s questions. She was scared of what would happen if they didn’t win

She spends much of her adult life angry, and saddened by this. Later in life she goes back to school and easily obtains a masters nursing degree, using the skills she learned on her own. Now, she is able fulfill her life's ambitions, while also helping others achieve their

Katherine Mansfield's "Miss Brill" is a woman self-contained, not pessimistic but settled, content. She is not a victim of her circumstances, but the satisfied creator of them. You could say she has her ducks lined up the way she wants them. Through the character of Miss Brill, Katherine Mansfield reveals a woman who has the ability to enjoy a simple world of her own elaborate creation.

Mae Holland is an ambitious, intelligent young-woman and the main character in Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle. Although her character is paramount to telling the novel’s main story (detailing the prominence of the monopolistic, power-hungry tech company known as “The Circle”), she is hardly a protagonist, with her being ill-informed at best at the book’s beginning, and complicit in the Circle’s nefarious doings by the novel’s conclusion. Mae is an exceptionally bland character who offers little interesting internal dialogue and who’s only notable overarching character trait is her ever-present insecurity and her need to please others. Arguably, it could be said that Mae truly is not the main character of The Circle at all; Rather The Circle company itself, or more precisely Mae’s relationship with the The Circle (and by association its dystopian philosophies) are what take center stage. As a character, Mae is malleable; a clean slate waiting to take orders and eager to agree with her superiors, she yearns for attention from others, is figuratively trapped inside The Circle’s elaborate campus, and acts as a mouthpiece for the The Circle’s leaders; repeating whatever they want her to say. Due to the fact that Mae Holland possess these characteristics, she is comparable to a parrot.