Code Talker Character Analysis

Richard Harland uses the novel “Worldshaker” to convey a sense of discrimination and fear, this is further shown when Cols position as potential Supreme Commander changes depending on where he is, living conditions are different between the social classes, and how the physical layout of Worldshaker portrays inequality.

In the book Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac, Ned Begay is a young Navajo that experiences the horrors of white boarding school as a child. After graduating, he volunteers to be a Marine in World War Two as a Navajo code talker. Being Navajo had both a positive and negative effect on Ned’s life.

In John Updike’s short story “A & P”, a dynamic and round character expresses his subjective attitude towards his views, a plot twist causes him to realize his future. Sammy an opinionated cashier at A & P grocery store does not agree with his Lengel, his manager after he reprimands a particular group of customers at the store. Sammy’s further actions cause him to face the true reality of his future.

If you were a Navajo boy, forced out of your own culture and made to live in the brutal world of white man's racial standards; could you survive that reality? The book code talker, written by Joseph Bruchac, biased on the historically fictionalized story of Neds Begay's life. Ned as a child, is herded into the extremely deprecative atmosphere, of boarding school. Ned, eventually goes on to fight for the same country that implemented him into the hardship he was forced to endure; at the same time making friends that would be so loyal as to sacrifice themselves for him. Ned’s friends talked to cheer each other up and be were always there for Ned or anyone else if things got tough for them. They would laugh, talk and overall have such a strong connection with each other that even if it was for a second Ned would forget

Grace has been told for more than half her life that she was crazy. Her mother’s death that she witnesses was an accident, there was no scarred man, and there was nothing she could do to change what had happened. But Grace knew they were wrong. With the help of her friends Noah, Megan and Rosie, she managed to discover that the scarred man was Dominic, the first love of her mother, who was there to kill her mother, but chose instead to stage her death. Grace came down just as Dominic was taking the picture, and picked up the gun that was lying on the floor. Firing blinding, she missed Dominic and shot her mother instead. The traumatic moment of shooting her mother was blocked from Grace’s mind as it was unable to handle what she did. Her family tries to protect her from this, saying it was an accident, trying to get Grace to stop pushing. When pushing too hard, Grace discovers the truth of what happened that night, and what she did, and with the

Trying to learn English is hard enough but getting into the marines at the same time is a challenge. Yet, somehow, Ned manages to make it all the way to boarding school and still not want to go home and disappoint his parents. Ned continues to progress making tons of friends along the way. See, when Ned wanted to go into the Army they told him he had to know fluid English. He then begged his parents to let him go to school and that carried him all the way to high school. Where he then entered code school so now he had to learn English, then he had to learn a brand new code for war. After that he went to boot camp to try and become a marine. Ned makes so many friends like Georgia Boy, Smitty, Wilsie, and Ira. They would sacrifice themselves for each other. That's real friendship.

The book “Ugly” by Robert Hoge it is a inspiring, true story about, Robert, a boy who grew up in Brisbane, Australia, with a tumor the size of a tennis ball on his face and two deformed legs. Robert had four other brothers and sisters, who were all older. The story is the journey of Robert Hoge and his life with artificial legs and deformed face, and all the challenges he faced along the way.

Toni Morrison’s short story, “Recitatif” is about two young girls, named Twyla and Roberta, who grow up in an Orphanage because their mothers were in no condition to properly take care of them. The main theme in the “Recitatif” is concentrating on racism. A very mind- grabbing event in the story is how the author never tells the race of the two girls. Morrison leaves class codes but not racial codes, as in the story Twyla states, “ It was one thing to be taken out of your own bed early in the mornings—it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race” (pg 201) , even the girls do not mention which race the other is. Recitatif is a great story as it plays with the reader’s emotions and effectively makes the reader aware of the stereotypes and each races characteristics.

In the book Always running there are lots of examples of an individual making a difference in society. Luis the main person in the book he is the person that leads the walkout and leads the students to try to make a change he fights against injustice in the school against Mr. Madison after he decided to fire one of the Latino teachers at the school. Luis also fights against cultural appropriation when he tries out to be the mascot of the school, the mascot was an aztec and before Luis became the mascot all the other mascots were White people who probably made fun of the culture. One of the techniques that the author used in the book and I saw this a lot is vocabulary he had to make a 3 page glossary with spanish words he also didn't use spanish

1. In Speak, Anderson uses the ever-changing mascot to show that things are always altering to try to please people, but it is often not the solution. It also shows that there is no stability in Melinda's life and mind. The author uses the changing of the school's mascot is a source of humor because of the constant change are idiotic. “We pass the janitors painting over “Merryweather High – Home of the Trojans.” The Trojans are now the Blue Devils. The school board thinks “Trojans” didn’t send a strong abstinence.” (4) This brings humor because when you think of the word “Trojans” you think of the condom brand which again is an idiotic mistake of the principle to make. The school changed the mascot again from the blue devils

The contemporary classic novel Speak, profounds a girl, Melinda Sordino, entering freshman year at Merryweather High School in Syracuse, New York, with a heavy secret weighing on her. Unlike regular students, Melinda isolates herself from the society after a devastating event that she had experienced. Through her perspective, we enter her world of depression as she struggles her way through the school year. From her eyes we see the way she sees life, hear the ways others described her and enter her mind on how she thinks of the world. On a journey of gaining back herself, bad things turn worse, as that one person enters her life again. ‘It’, who made her fall into misery, ‘It’ who destroyed her once happy life. Melinda fights not only with herself, but It, the school, the world. The only thing that she feels comfortable in doing is art, where she drew trees to Anderson will definitely make you laugh throughout her book, however along holds undeniable sadness as we watch Melinda heals her way through her trauma that doesn’t seem to leave her.

In Toni Morrison's short story "Recitatif", the story revolves around two girls, one white and the other black, and how their social status affects their way of life. The narrator, Twyla, has five significant instances in her life where she is in a setting with her childhood best friend, Roberta. When they first met at the orphanage, they disliked each other, but because both of them still had a parent to their name, they were seen as social outcasts to the other children of their orphanage. Through their social disgrace they became friends and helped each other out. As they grew up, their lives were distinctly different with Twyla living the life of a lower-middle class citizen while Roberta was living a lavish lifestyle, creating conflict between the two. In the end, there is a slight sense of reconcilement in that they clear up a misunderstanding of their past, but there is an open question to what had happened to an element of their past.

Most families are complicated but supportive. For example, a family could argue a lot, but still love one another. In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” mama still supports her daughters even though, they’re not around much. Their issues are not unique because my family has its issues, too. The family in “Everyday Use” and my family both have similarities and differences regarding siblings, bonds, and mothers.

The author of Recitatif, Toni Morrison, is an acclaimed writer known for her fictional stories and her explorations within the black community. Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 was one of her most acclaimed accomplishments. Morrison’s American Midwest family had an unfathomable appreciation and love for black culture and showed this through there many traditions and storytelling. Recitatif, a fictional short story, was written in 1983.

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