Examples Of Indirect Characterization In Don T Even Think About It

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee uses indirect characterization. Furthermore, having indirect characterization about a character in the story allows you to imagine what they look like, how they act and what others say about them. In chapter 11 Jem can’t handle is frustration and anger anymore with what people call Atticus “N-lover”, he proceeds to cut down all of Mrs.Dubose flowers. His actions lead to him reading to Mrs.Dubose everyday after school for a month. By Jem getting in trouble it, shows and teaches us a little more about her, instead of what people say. It is vital that, we have Indirect Characterization throughout the chapter to deeply explain character rather than just having what people say about them. Towards the end

Whilst running away from the white people, she runs slowly because she is pregnant. When Esch says “I don’t want him to know, bit I can’t tell him, because I can’t say it” (86), she is worried and afraid about how her brothers might judge her, as well as how they will react to it as she is only a teenager. However, she is constantly worried because she is afraid he already knows. The different personalities of Esch reveals her significance of being the narrator, as it gives her a unique difference in opinion and personality, from being the only girl in the family. Esch’s pregnancy is also plays an important part in the significance of Esch being the narrator. When hurricane Katrina strikes, Sketch yells at his father “She’s pregnant” (234), and immediately, Daddy pushes her into the water. While swimming and saving her life, her brothers and Daddy help save her from drowning. With Esch being the narrator, it is important to look at what she is thinking about when her dad prioritised her first, because it is in a parallel state of being like her mother when she was giving birth to Junior, close to

Thought can take time and effort, it can be meticulously simple. Thought can be quick and easy, simply saying the first thing that pops into your mind. Thought can be anything you want, imaginative, serious, etc. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury shows that everyone is capable of thinking for themselves, some people just don’t want to, or they feel like they don’t have the time.

"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." [P.1], says eleven-year-old Ellen. Thus the young narrator begins her life-story, in the process painting an extraordinary self-portrait. “Ellen Foster” is a powerful story of a young girl growing up in a burdensome world. As one reads this work presented by Kaye Gibbons, a chill runs down their back. Ellen, the main character is faced with a hard life dealing with endless losses, with the deaths of both her parents and her grandmother being included. Why would one get a chill you wonder? This individual has thoughts and feelings that many have never experienced and cannot express. Ellen is merely a child no older then the age of ten but if not knowing this fact,

Grace is a second grader. She sits quietly with her hand folded in front of her and watches tv. She sees Dumbo and thinks of the stuffed elephant on her bed. She remembers her brother winning it for her at a carnival, where she got to ride a pony and eat cotton candy. A few minutes pass, and Grace has no idea what is happening around her or on the cartoon. She is not worried, because there really isn't a time that her mind is not wandering.

To provide social commentary regarding the dismal, yet realistic possibility of government surveillance, a human’s capacity for violence, and loss of self, James Dashner creates a futuristic society in which children are under manipulation through supervision. In The Maze Runner, children are stripped from everything they have. This includes materialistic possessions, family, friends, and their memory of all of those things. The teenagers’ reality is living in an experiment and fighting for their lives by the result of a disease. In the world today, there are are a plethora of diseases, but even with advanced medical technology, a lot remain incurable. The Maze Runner presents a possible outcome of a terribly contagious disease. James Dashner uses social commentary to explain the negative aspects of a world which the government is almost in complete control.

Humans by nature are constantly thinking and acting based on different parts of their subconcious. This is true for people in real life, as well as characters in books. In the book Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, the three main characters have particularly specific parts of their subconscious controlling them, and a psychoanalytic breakdown of each character will determine what section of the brain is influencing each character. Ethan Frome, Mattie Silver, and Zeena Frome are the three characters who all become miserable outcasts, of sorts, due to the lack of balance in their subconscious.

The human mind is vast and intricate, yet responsive. Everyone has their own special abilities and talents. Eidetic memory, artistic brilliance, and mathematical mastery are all special skills possessed by very few, but the one that Gladwell glorifies in his non-fiction story, “Blink”, is the power of thinking without thinking. He discusses how certain people’s subconscious mind has the capacity to respond to complex dilemmas and situations in less than two seconds. Similar to talents such as photographic memory and musical mastery, Gladwell states that the adaptive unconscious can be strengthened and improved.

Numerous teenagers notice the beginning of high school to be a difficult as they encounter a new obstacle, when walking into a new atmosphere it is common to lose one’s confidence not knowing what lies ahead. Mixed emotions are dealt from a freshman, Melinda Sordino, as she struggles to develop due to no growth and lack of confidence Unable to face her experiences and seek for help from others, in the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The text uses Similes to display how Melinda is feeling where she passively lacks confidence due to her trauma. The use of metaphors is to describe Melinda’s fear of facing the truth towards her suffering. Finally, the value of symbolism explains how she is dealing with her trauma by observing her trauma towards

In the novel Speak, the author uses the protagonist, Melinda, to teach the reader the importance of verbal expression. Melinda refuses to speak up about an event that occurred in her life; therefore her classmates cannot show empathy towards her. Melinda never spoke up about why she did what she had done during an event in her life, so people judge and bully Melinda for her decisions. Melinda’s silence slowly erodes her self esteem and leaves her alone to handle her depressive behavior and decisions.

Another two important themes this novel is based on is Illusion and Isolation, a false interpretation or perception. Illusion affords each of the three main characters a means of escape from the reality of the silent and isolated lives they lead. According to Wharton, Ethan would " imagine that peace reigned in his house" when Zeena stopped watching Mattie so closely after her arrival. Isolation, which is not self-imposed before the tragedy that befalls Mattie and Ethan, but is enforced upon them by outside circumstances. Ethan tried to escape the isolation of Starkfield and his father's farm by going off to the technological college at Worcester. He began to cultivate his own social traits and to overcome his reticence; however, his

Markus Zusak focuses the novel on a distrait young girl, Liesel Meminger, which through her the audience captures the spectrum of existence. Each human, having a stand on a certain place at random, waits for chance to give its say. Liesel experiences tragedies and disasters alike that only engulf the fear of being either alive or dead. The same way the act of no longer breathing is terrifying, so is the incidental continuation of a pulse; having of seen other characters die before her adds to it. The author takes points of views from characters, aside from Liesel, that’ve been chosen to live through traumatizing events. Their dialogue and surroundings further act as a basis for survivor's guilt--- which causes those who survived to continue

The sweat was dripping down John’s face as he pushed the weights off his chest. Everyone ran towards their bags after a student said there was a gun in school. Twitter was the first source that everyone checked just to make sure. Boom! The door slammed open as Coach Ben yelled “Hurry up and get out”. John’s heart started beating faster and faster. No one knew what was going on. As students were running to the gym everyone was panicking and pushing each other. John could feel the burn on his elbow but he didn’t know what it was. When everyone got to the gym John’s elbow was covered in blood. Everyone was told to get down and stay quiet. Later on coach told everyone a student brought a gun to school and was planning on committing suicide.

I moved as fast my little legs could take me into the hallway of the tiny elementary school. It was crowded and every child was gossiping about what was going on. “Maybe there’s an earthquake.” “Maybe someone got sick.” “Maybe Mrs. Mack died.” All the ideas were twirling around

A visiting plague in the town of Oran provides the perfect situation for Camus to analyze the effects of isolation that people feel during a traumatic event. Citizens of the town isolate themselves from each other as they fight their own personal battles, and the city isolates itself from the outside world to prevent the spread of the disease. One major effect of personal isolation that Camus emphasizes is the struggle to communicate an experience with others. The language barrier that people come up against when trying to express themselves reflects a deeper problem of an emotional barrier that people cannot cross. Camus uses isolation and the characters’ subsequent struggle to communicate to impart the idea that true sympathy can never be