Direct Characterization Elena Character Analysis

In the novel Sold by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is a 13 year old mountain girl who lives in Nepal. She has been sold to somebody as a prostitute for 10,000 rupees but she doesn't know that. The value of a human life is more than just a dollar amount.

In John Shanely’s Doubt there are two sides the reader can take at the end of the play. The side of Sister Aloysius, claiming the Father Flynn was guilty, or the side of Father Flynn, claiming that he is innocent. For the majority of the play I leaned more towards the side of Father Flynn, however evidence that is brought up at the end of the play caused me to doubt Father Flynn’s innocence.

The Family Crucible is a story about the Brice family who is recommended by Claudia’s psychiatrist to go to family therapy due to the fact that she has not been making progress in individual sessions. The Brice family comes to meet with Dr. Carl Whitaker and Dr. Augustus Napier, who co-facilitate family therapy throughout the story. The family is made up of five people: Claudia, the IP; Carolyn, mother; Laura, the sister; Don, the brother; and David, the father. The family is coming into therapy because there have been mounting concerns about Claudia and her behavior—acting out, staying out late, some fairly typical teenage stuff.

Carmela and Elena construct a friendship because "Lila's silence pushed me towards Carmela" when Elena talks bout the time her period comes (83). One morning Carmela and Elena team up against Lila to play checkers which causes an unspoken type of mayhem. This occurs right around the time when Elena sets off for middle school and Lila feels like she has been left behind and now is rethinking about what her priorities are in life. On the other hand this friendship with Carmela Peluso "who absorbed Lila's influence so potently that she became at times kind of surrogate" made Elena sense how heavy the importance of Lila weighs in her life (84). This space that Elena and Lila now had made Elena repeat the same question in her head over and over again "why had she left me with Carmela" (92). These feelings that now control Elena help make her friendship with Lila equitable

She feels ignorant in her own home because she cannot share in her children’s laughter and conversation. To try and get closer to them she buys a book to learn English but only gets ridiculed by her closed-minded husband who disapproves of her knowing anything that he doesn’t. She feels judged on her knowledge of the English language, by not only the outside world, but her family as well. Elena feels overwhelmed but knows that she needs to keep going. When Mora writes, “…if I stop trying, I will be deaf/when my children need my help.”(LI. 21-22), she is metaphorically showing how Elena feels “deaf”, when she cannot understand what her children are saying.

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.

Randy Pausch. Who is he? What does he stand for? The day he gave the last lecture... His last lecture he only had months to live. He packed a lot of lessons into his lecture. The claims he gave that stood out were to be optimistic, to be determined, and to take risks.

Many characters of the book don’t give up as easily as others. This sets them apart from the rest. Those people value their family, and would do anything to keep them alive. Ms. Arvydas is an example. She became a prostitute to protect Andrius from the Soviets. She chose his safety over her own. For instance, when Andrius clarifies Lina when she wrongly assumed Andrius loyalty to the Lithuanians,

In the book “The Juvie Three” by Gordan Korman there are two characters named Gecko and Mr. Healy. They both overcame major obstacles throughout the book. A character named Gecko in the book goes to a halfway home ran by Mr. Healy. Mr. Healy got put into the hospital after getting knocked off the balcony, and he got hurt badly and lost his memory for a while. Both Gecko and Mr.Healy came over big obstacles in the book by working hard, not giving up and not going the easy way.

Keeping the central focus of thought exploration on how she might challenge her beliefs about her life choices through reflecting on her siblings’ life choices may be a safe way to allow Elena to begin connecting the deeper thoughts behind her ability to make life choices. From a cognitive perspective and the lens of cultural identity, my goal for Elena

Throughout the story she shows signs of being self centered and a liar when she brings the cat after being told not to, tries to get her son to go to Tennessee instead of Florida so that she can visit some people, and her efforts not to get herself shot and killed despite her family

With her attempted suicide being interpreted as a noble, her gradual steps towards sanity and survival are dignified. Esther has made a significant recovery through contrasting Esther's concrete independent attitude with the false confidence that Joan displays before her suicide. Plath contrasts Esther's resolve, even when making poor decision such as sleeping with Irwin, to the random behavior displayed by Joan Giling. Joan shifts from location to location, unsure of what she will be; this parallels the behavior demonstrated by Esther during the early chapter of the novel, and thus indicates how far Esther has progressed.

The worker contacted Andy Lu the brother of Jennifer Lu. Mr. Lu stated "Helen and her sister Cindy doesn't get along with each other, so they rotate week to week with one staying with Jennifer and the other staying with their father Henry, but now they're all living with Jennifer and I'm not totally sure why she moved back with Jennifer, but I think Helen was having trouble at school, but I'm not sure because nobody talking to me about it." Mr. Lu stated he didn't have any concern for any illegal drug use and stated his sister Jennifer doesn't drink alcohol but Henry does like to drink and party on the weekend but when does go out his mother watches the kids. Mr. Lu stated Henry does have a temper problem and the children are afraid of him

"No matter how you feel. Get up, dress up, show up, and never give up." Elena was living this quote day after day. Elena is sweet, kind, and a determined person. She looked like her father and mother combined. Short blond wavy hair, thick eyelashes, blue eyes, freckles. Elena grew up with an absent father and a present mother. Divorcement is how Elena's world became all mixed up, and she was only two years of age. Her mother found love again when she was five year's old. It actually helped her out for the male role model part.

In this novel, Graceling, a character named, Katsa, is a strong independent women; but not at the beginning. Not only is she beautiful, but she knows herself. She knows her limits, she knows what she can accomplish, and she knows who she has to be in different situations. In the beginning of her life, she was very shy, not really knowing what to do with herself; something that we can all relate too. She, like us, did not know her purpose. The People around her influenced her to be things that she was not. But she overpowered the influences in her later years. She said, "I won't do what Randa says." (Cashore, 133)