Dascima Character Analysis

Clarisse McClellan is a very unusual teenager in her society. She was an outcast, and looked different to the people around her. She was an idiosyncratic thinker, and quite unlike all of her fellow peers, who go along with whatever people told them to do. For Clarisse, on the other hand, being her own self was such a major part of her personality. This uniqueness affected the main character, Montag, greatly. She introduced him to thinking differently. From the very beginning, Clarisse talks to Montag about things that force him to stop and think. During their first initial conversation, on page 8, Clarisse says "You laugh when I haven't been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I've asked you." Here, Clarisse goes from a very light conversation, and switches to a very deep and meaningful phrase. Most people in their society can't do that. This forces Montag to take a moment to analyze what she said, and makes him speculate the meaning of her words. Montag is speechless, because it was such an unusual question. This makes him do something that he's never done before, which is think for himself. Throughout their very first conversation, Clarisse makes it clear that she's an independent thinker.

As people, we understand the world through our own perspective. When people do not quite understand, or do not want to, they often misunderstand situations and other people. Humans tend to label each other as one thing when they can be something else completely. In Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya, Narciso is misunderstood as just a town drunk when he really is a hero.

The book, Bless Me, Ultima is one of fiction which is loosely based upon Anaya, the author, and his life as a child. The book centers around a six-year-old child living in New Mexico named Antonio. He grew up quickly during the end of World War II when the veterans return. Because of the war, Antonio experiences events as a child that most people only hear about. Soon after the story of Antonio begins, there is religion, insanity, tragedy, and battle. Bless Me, Ultima is a book about Antonio greatly maturing through his mental and emotional hardships experienced as a child because of WWII.

In the novel Bless Me, Ultima author, Rudolfo Anaya introduces a character by the name of Antonio Márez or “Tony” as referred to by his friends and family. In the novel Antonio appears to be the embodiment of an entire generation of children that are born to traditional Mexican/Native families but raised in an ever so diverse United States. In a Q & A with Rudolfo Anaya at the end of the novel he states, “my mother was a very religious person, much like Antonio’s mother in the novel. I grew up completely imbued with the Catholic cosmology. Later I discovered there are many religions in the world, many spiritual paths. These paths are part of our inheritance as Nuevos Hispanos. They stretch from Mesoamerica to the Indian Pueblos of the Río

Do you ever feel like someone is trying to make you something you’re not? In Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, and in Two Kinds by Amy Tan, Antonio and Amy go through the same thing. Antonio’s mother and father have big dreams for him, but only he can decide who he wants to be. Amy tries hard to live up to her mother’s expectations, but she has to decide what she wants to do with her life. Antonio and Amy’s character development and culture leads them to figure out that only they can decide who they are.

What makes a man worthy to be honorable? Is his greatness something earned through struggle or just a title that has been passed down? It is the man Sundiata is destined to have been, the greatest king, as he is portrayed in D.T Niane’s classic tale “Sundiata: an epic of old Mali. This classic tale shows the impact of courage, power, and motherly love on the life of the ancient africans kingdom's greatest king. D.T Niane’s shows the life of a man once being looked down upon, to now being known as one of the greatest in history.

People in America do not fully know about the situations of the people in Iran, like weather or not they have electricity. People give Iranians a tempting stereotype of them riding camels and living in tents. “They wanted to know about more important things, such as camels. How many did we own back home? What did we feed them? Was it a bumpy ride?” (Duma 90)

After the trial, Oshmito gained her power through knowledge. Through the wind inside of her that guides her through life she is able to stand up to her abusive stepfather, Herman. She says to him, “You won’t ever lay a hand on me again. . . Never. And I’m never going back” (208). She begins to tell everyone that she’s not going back to the life she once lived and it’s all because of what has happened to her and what she has seen. She also made the decision to not go to school anymore because of what she was learning. She disliked what she was learning and the “false history” (211). But at the very moment that she decides to join the Taiga people that’s when it all comes full circle. She says, “And I walk toward them. They are waiting for me

The DePerry’s are a family of three that lives in California, California. Danielle, 40 is the mother; Maison, 41, is the other mother; Savannah, 14, is the daughter. Danielle DePerry works as an E.M.T at the Thunder Valley Casino and Maison is a Plastic Surgeon at The Medicus Firm. Danielle and Maison are doing jobs at which they are both qualified, and have chosen their places of enjoyment because they both have interests in their jobs. Savannah is a freshman at Dougherty Valley High School.

Babamukuru’s children, Nyasha and Chido, were bred in England and therefore, have developed many Western values, resulting in the loss of their original roots. Tambu's mother thinks that Nyasha's eating disorder and subsequent mental breakdown are a result of her exposure to Western culture (Dangarembga, 1988), and she fears that the western culture will swallow her daughter, Tambu. Nyasha and Chido are unable speak Shona, and Tambu cannot speak English - nor does she approve of Nyasha's revealing clothing. When Tambu moves to the mission, she has a much easier time obeying Babamukuru than Nyasha, and is often appalled at Nyasha's insolence, these are the results of the environment both, Nyasha and Tambu, were bred in. However, recalling her

In the scene where he met his mother, he didn’t get much out of her. He didn’t receive his answers as to why she left him. Overall, this was a significant the reason for his journey. This didn’t cause Antwone to get filled with answer, he proudly, explained to her all of his accomplishments and that he was a good man. He did not revert back to anger by the lack of response to his questions. Previously Atwone, would’ve have been outraged at someone who ignored him while he was talking. Those past feelings of abandonment, and loneliness was not prevalent in this scene. Atwone exemplified, resilience from most of his pre existing feelings he had towards his mother. This shows tremendous growth in Antwone’s psychosocial development.

1. The narrator is giving a transition from the speaker’s childhood to his adulthood, which reflects his thoughts and words, also actions, and his reaction of what he had whenever he was young. The limitations that based the reader to one adult perspective, is that, the reader doesn’t know the thoughts and feelings of the other characters since it’s from one character and his view on how he sees things, and since it is from an adult perspective, the reader might not know how he had felt whenever he was younger. The story would’ve been different if it was a third person omniscient, because the reader would’ve gotten an insight of all the characters thoughts and feelings and not just one character, it would’ve also showed a more clear perspective

Jack, Jacques or as they call him, Sarge. He was born in Montreal and a few members of his family were in the military. Sarge was a soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces and his last mission was a peacekeeper based in Rwanda where he felt guilty for not saving many victims from the genocide. The guilt was mainly the reason why he can’t live his life like a normal person would. Jacques lives in a tent and doesn’t have a permanent home, he have a family, but lost in touch since the peacekeeping mission. Sarge depends on alcohol and drugs to get away with his hopeless life, he thinks that these are the only way for him to forget about what happened in the past. The past haunted him in almost every day of his life, everywhere

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu portrays the narrator Laura as the prey of the vampire Carmilla, who is later acknowledged as the Countess Karnstein Mircalla. Laura is isolated living in the castle in Styria, and dreams of having friend. As a child, she sees a mysterious figure in her bedroom, who is revealed to be Carmilla. Twelve years later a carriage crash brings Carmilla into the narrator’s life. When she was welcomed into the schloss, she was not believed to be a vampire. When Laura’s health began to deteriorate and no medicine was helping, is when it was then discovered that Carmilla is not who they thought she was. The carriage crash expresses the secretive nature of Carmilla. She was silent about her past and would disappear during the night. The way she was introduced also expressed a secretive nature of her character.

In this world there is an important stress on balance in one’s life and the lives of everyone surrounding them. For this reason, I pick Colima as the school which receives my vote. Colima has a more balance in terms of scores on the Loki and Pollyanna index, but it has higher scores in both regions compared to its competitor, Chimborazo. Provoking the status quo does leave room for innovation and change, however in excess, I believe it can lead to anarchy in a safe environment. The provokers need the kindness of the other group to help balance their passion, and to help bring their ideas to life, and the generous need the provokers to let them know that they can stand up for themselves. In essence, those that had a higher Loki Index score have