Dead End In Norvelt Character Analysis

Shift is from Chris’s point of view, first person. An example of this is when Chris is coming to Morgan and Effies to talk to Win. On page 215, Chris says, “ He didn’t say anything. I have the sensation that we are wrestling again.” This shows that it is first person because it narrates the fact that Win didn’t say anything and then he says “I” and “we”. In the another example in the book, Chris is also talking in first person. An example is on page 81 when Abe Ward is investigating him and Chris asks, “ Do you think I did something to Win or not?” In this sentence, they use “I”. In Shift, the reader can get Chris’s thoughts and emotions/feelings. Usually first person novels have one main character and that is true for this novel.

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SUMMARY-In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini fights as a bombardier in World War II. Louie ends up crashing one of his planes and is forced to face the brutal struggles of the ocean. Finding land after 47 days of being stranded, Louie becomes a prisoner of war to the Japanese. He is beaten, starved, and worked to near death where he learns how to survive anything that is thrown at him. He becomes resilient which is what led him to survive.

The main protagonist in Unwind is Connor Lassiter, a sixteen year old rebel who found his unwind order form when looking for a stapler in his dad office. Connor was a rebellious teenager who got into fights with his parents and at school. He is stubborn, impulsive, and very easily angered, which means he often loses his temper. He has three emergency modes, while most people have two. Fight or Flight. Connors has fight, flight, or screw up royally. As the stores progress Connor becomes more rational and is able to control his anger, of course this is with the help of Risa. Now in the whole series the main antagonist is the whole idea of being unwound. However each book has their own antagonist other than being unwound, in Unwind its Roland Taggart. When Roland and Connor first meet they both have a mutual dislike for one another. Roland is very similar to Connor in the sense that they were both troublemaker, expect Roland was much worse than Connor. Roland was sent to be unwound because he beat up his stepdad for beating up his mom, which in turn his mom sided with the stepdad. Roland puts up a tough front but he is just as scared as everyone else when it comes to being unwinding.

Romeo and Juliet is a story based on conflict. The conflict in the story is Capulet against Montague. From ancient times, the two families have held grudges against each other. As the book states. “Two households, alike in dignity...from ancient grudge break to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean (1.Prologue.1-4).” The grudge between the two families has led to fighting and even death.

Conflict will always exist in the modern world. One of the biggest motivators in the approach to conflict is fear. Conflict shapes the formation and intensity of fear. Fear can bring about ideas or actions that one normally would not ever think or implement.As fear builds up people will often go to extremes to try as much as possible to mitigate their fear. Eventually fear grows so large that it may consume all of one’s thoughts. This will motivate someone to resort to desperate plans to try and assuage their fear. The fear caused by war can do many things to the human body mentally and physically. In “ All The Light We Cannot See”, Anthony Doerr proves in times of conflict, fear becomes one of the motivating factors.

In the novel Everlost, Allie is the main protagonist. She is a strong-willed, goal oriented girl who takes risks living her afterlife in Everlost which shows that any problems she encounters will not stop her from doing what she needs to do. Allie is a bit strong-headed but also very independent although, her choices may never be the best. Her main goal is to find a way out of the limbo world between life and death known as Everlost to “get where you’re meant to go”.

Juliet’s father forces Juliet to marry Paris, and if she does not he threatens to leave her to ‘hang, beg, starve, die in the streets’. This arranged marriage with one she does not love compels Juliet to find an urgent resolution, and this resolution contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The families’ feud contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, as they know that their relationship must remain unknown. The feud leads to delusion and deceit, and their eventual death. Ultimately, the feud between the families makes their deception necessary and inevitable; but this deception leads to their untimely deaths.

‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare incorporates the theme of conflict through many different characters and situations. The definition of conflict is “a fight, battle, or struggle; especially a prolonged struggle; strife” The play mainly focuses on the tragic lives of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet; the two characters belong to the Montague and Capulet households respectively, which have held ongoing grudges against each other for years. The play ends with both main characters committing suicide, to be together in heaven. As with many of Shakespeare’s works, the theme of conflict is a strong one. For a start, there is the ongoing conflict between the two families; the Montagues and the Capulets. The audience is unsure how this

In the novel Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos, the main character, Jack, could be considered a best friend. Although there are many reasons as to why this could be true, one that stands out is the fact that he is very caring. He is always very kind by helping Miss Volker, an elderly woman, with writing obituaries. Page 36 explains that Eleanor Roosevelt, the founder of their town, Norvelt, chose Miss Volker to be the chief nurse and medical examiner. This means she is in charge of writing the obituaries when people pass. But, on page 27, Miss Volker states that her fingers “‘don’t work well because of my arthritis’” and that she “‘can’t write with them anymore,’” (page 28). So, Miss Volker tells Jack what the obituary should say, and he

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

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

Dreams are vital to human existence. Without them, a depressing life such as the one the Youngers have in the play A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, would be utterly unbearable. The Youngers were strong and faithful, continuously trying to make their dreams become reality. Even though they were a family plagued by the hardship of poverty, they pushed on through whatever obstacles they encountered. Beneatha, one of the main characters, had the American dream of becoming a doctor, which is affected by her individualism, determination, and expressiveness.

Mr. Davit Shanto and I have worked closely together for the past year and a half. During that timespan, Davit has been a self-starter and an industrious contributor to the team endeavors. In addition to having an extraordinary degree of integrity and that type of person that brings out the best in those around him; he is one of those unique character who can both follow directions and take the leadership role, as appropriate. He is one of those individuals where I depended on him if I asked him or put him on projects, that either the task or project will be done by a certain deadline. He is strong in time management and his competence extends above and beyond the skills for which he was initially hired.