Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki Character Analysis

Everyone in the world has their own identity but some are still searching for it. Many base their identity on race, religion, culture and language because it’s easier to belong to a certain group. However, there are some people who struggle with finding where they belong. For instance, James McBride in The Color of Water wonders who he is through most his childhood and some of his adult life. Mcbride tries to find himself by learning about his mother's background. After evaluating his mom’s past,culture and race his own issues with himself were made clearer because now he finally knows where he came from.

The characters in this story are all within the same family. The narrator’s mother died, at an earlier time, due to eating poisonous fish. He had a brother, sister, and father who play major roles in the family dynamic. The narrator and sister are both young and not traditional in a way their father is. For example, “'You were swayed by certain -influences. Like so many others.” (____) The father is expressing his distaste for the way the sons generation acts; however, their father, being older, is a very traditional person compared to the children. The narrator feels uncomfortable around his father due to how uptight he is; furthermore, the narrator does not know how to hold a meaningful conversation with his father due to negative childhood memories as well as the failure of his business. The failure lead to the Watanabe family’s death, his business partner committed a murder-suicide. These differences create

man, her family cuts all ties with her and sit shiva, to prove that Ruth is no longer

He felt like he didn’t belong in the reservation and felt the World State represented everything he despised has a child which was his mom inability to control her sexual desires. He felt that he didn’t belong in both those worlds and the feeling of isolation can really eat away at a person mentally and physically. At the end, he found that the only solution was to pull the plug on his miserable existence. Even though he enriched himself through his appreciation of classic literature and to getting to make new friendship to set him apart from his

Malala Yousafzai once stated, “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world”. In one’s life, there is always someone or something steering them in a direction. It can be as complex as an intervention held for someone, or as simple as a small talk with someone that is idolized. In the short memoir, The Color of Water, by James McBride, James takes the simple route. He is portrayed as a young careless boy throughout the story and starts going into a downward spiral after death approaches those around him. Due to all of his bad habits such as drugs and cutting class, he is sent to other family members and connects with a strange man on the street corner. This man turns out to play a huge role in shaping what james will become. Throughout James McBride’s life, the most influential person on his identity was Chicken Man.

The author also tries to add the sense of hopelessness when Dr.Sasaki, the only uninjured doctor began to rush to help the injured. “Dr. Sasaki worked without method,taking those who were nearest him first and he noticed that the corridor seemed to be getting more and more crowded...he decided that all he could hope to do was to stop people from bleeding to death” (Hersey 25). Under the circumstances, Dr.Sasaki begins to realize that there were not enough doctors and nurses because they too were affected by the noiseless flash. He realizes only the people who were injured not as severely can be saved while the seriously injured were left to die. This makes the readers want to feel sympathy towards the Hiroshima citizens.

Over the course of your life, you come to struggle with the philosophical idea of personal identity; the thing that makes you, you. Oneself may shape their identity around aspects of their life that they have no control over like race and physical traits, as well as decisions that are made throughout their lives like affiliations and religion. Your personal identity can be seen through your passions and interactions with others. An individual’s search for their identity is something that may occur in everyone’s’ life. In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie highlights the theme of how the search for identity is always prevalent, through the conflicted characters of Junior and Mary throughout the novel.

betrayal, and violence. His father abandoned him seeking to find a life less confrontational to a

For example, he has a loving family who would always be there to support him. In conclusion, the conflicts in the story, person versus society and person versus self, show the need to be optimistic during tough times.

Sayuri is just a normal little girl in a fishing town in Japan. With a sick mother, and a quickly aging father, it seems as thought Sayuri and her sister, Satsu, may soon be alone in this world. However, a man soon visits their village and takes the sisters away--for a price--and soon they are introduced to a whole new world.

Black Like Me is about a white male, John Howard Griffin, who was disheartened by how blacks were being treated. In an effort to bridge the gap between blacks and whites Mr. Griffin conducted research on blacks. Because Mr. Griffin is a white man the black community would not speak to him truthfully. Blacks were afraid that whites would harm them if they said anything offensive. Mr. Griffin knew the dilemma so he came up with the idea to become a black man in order to receive the truthful response he desired. Mr. Griffin knew that if he became a black man he would lose all his “white rights.” However Mr. Griffin still continued with his idea.

Celie, the narrator of The Color Purple, is an uneducated, submissive, 14-year old black girl who lives in Georgia. Celie is constantly being abused and raped by her father, Alphonso. He has already impregnated Celie twice. The first one was a girl while the second one was a boy. All her children were taken away by her father after they were born. Her father told her that she better not tell anybody about their relationship but God, which explains why every letter she write begins with “Dear God”. Celie’s mother is happy because Alphonso doesn’t bother her anymore, but the truth is that Alphonso has been raping Celie as a substitute for her mother to gratify his sexual needs. Celie’s mother becomes seriously sick and eventually dies. Alphonso brings home another woman but continues to sexually

Characters throughout Alice Walker’s The Color Purple can be evaluated and analyzed using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a five-stage model consisting of fundamental needs and growth needs. His theory states that the basic, lower tiered needs have to be met before the growth, higher tiered needs can be met, to ultimately reach the top tier, self-actualization. In The Color Purple, Walker shows the eventual progress to self-actualization through the protagonist, Celie. Celie’s growth is shown through her letters to both God and her sister Nettie. Celie fulfills her basic physiological needs when she gets married to Mr._ because she is finally able to escape her father’s abuse, beatings, and rape. It takes a while, but Celie gains safety and security when Shug Avery tells her, “I won’t leave… until I know Albert won’t even think about beating you” (Walker 76). The relationship that Celie forms with Shug helps Celie satisfy her belonging and intimacy needs. Their love for each other can be shown when Shug states, “cause she [Nettie] the only one you ever love… sides me” (120). As Celie begins her life in Memphis, she meets the respect/self-respect needs when she opens her own business making and selling pants. Celie feels so pleased and shows her character development when she says, “I got love, I got work, I got money, friends, and time” (218). Celie finally reaches self-actualization by the end of the novel. She has a successful business, is able to be independent in her own house, and realizes that she can bring herself happiness and that through every situation she needs to see the bright side. This is evidently shown when Celie is talking to Mr._ and says, “If she [Shug] come, I be happy. If she don’t I be content” (288). Celie’s evolution to reach self-actualization is clearly displayed in The Color Purple as Celie faces and overcomes hardships and learns to be confident in herself.

The use of character, style, and point of view that Atwood uses to write this story gives you a real feeling of pity for these characters, only having horrible lows or average highs in their relationships. It appears that there is no great place to be in her story. Reading this story for the first time, the reader could assume Atwood has an obsession with bad relationships, boring average marriages, and death. The key to understanding what the author is trying to convey is realizing how the stories all link together and how they all lack the essence of excitement and desire. The author brings the idea that without focusing on the “how and why” of life and only focusing on the “what, what, what” will leave you with an average

Mr.Takata does not talks to others and seldom expresses his emotion to people. After his wife dies, he moves to a small village that close to the sea. He refuses to face the reality and rejected to express his pain to people, including his son. Because of that, his son mistakably believe Takata not only denies the reality but also denies himself as a son. He feels he is abandoned so he rejects to accept his father either. However, you can’t say Takata does not love his son Kenichi or he will not go to China, a completely unfamiliar place, alone for Kenichi. Mr.Takata, just like a typical average Asian father, he love his son but he is so shy and he does not know how to speak his love out. From being rejected by Kenichi in the hospital to knowing the obituary on the phone, there is no painful on Takata’s face. Instead, he just stays