Formalist: Protagonist and Character Vs Essay

Having an older sibling is rough already, but having a brother that you have to worry about him breaking in and stealing valuables of your own, that's tough and the main character Gordie Jessup has to deal with the betrayal of his older brother, Chase Jessup everyday throughout Katherine Holubitskys’s novel “Tweaked”. Gordie’s efforts trying to fix his family are overwhelmed by Chase’s drug addiction and money debts he has with his dealers. There are many themes throughout the book.

Ruth just want to get out of poverty and to have a happy family. She doesn’t want to lose her opportunity to get out of the too small dilapidated apartment of which her family is forced to live in do to their lack of finances.

Firstly, Ruth is a mature woman who can make decisions on her own. Ruth tries to get an abortion, “I think Ruth is thinking bout getting rid of that child”. Ruth is an independent mature lady, she makes a decision to get an abortion which was unlikely for Ruth to other family members. Ruth’s family has been struggling with money and relationship with each other, bringing

symbolizes in the story that death will come to everyone. No one can hide, and there is no escape.

The first being the house itself. The house represents the stubbornness of Emily. When everything near her was changing, she did not, and neither did her house. They both remained constant through the revolutions. Another symbol is the smell that is trapped inside the walls of the house, then eventually escapes. It symbolizes the decaying of Miss Emily’s mind, and how her mental state is continually going downhill. The sidewalks that are being built around her house, resemble evolution. While everything around Miss Emily changes and becomes better and bigger by evolving, she chooses not to change. She refuses to pay the taxes the new tax collectors are demanding of her because she is set back in her ways and is too stubborn to admit

In her essay “More Room”, Judith Ortiz Cofer uses many different similes and metaphors to describe her Grandmother’s house. A smile that Cofer uses is that her Grandmother’s house is like a “chambered nautilus”. A nautilus is an ocean dwelling mollusk whose shell has many different compartments or chambers. This simile gives the impression that Cofer’s Grandmother’s house is large, mysterious, and amazing. This simile is used at the beginning to introduce readers to the house.

The seven rooms in the house also conveyed stages in life ending with death. These rooms were set up from east to west. This meaning that the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west, and death comes in the darkness. "In this chamber only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the decorations. The panes here were scarlet--a deep blood color." The guest's avoided this room because it was a sign of death.

Situation goes worse. When they are all getting off the same bus stop. The little boy's mother pushes Julian's mother over the edge, and her blood pressure rises too high. Suddenly Julian's mother collapses on the side walk half- dead. While he is crying for help she dies.

One of the first things to note is how the house is used to represent the state of Roderick’s mind and physical appearance.

The ending tells us that the boy does not have sense of propriety. He does not see and

The colonists had been self-ruling for many years and as such had a strong foundation to form or build a government. Even though they had their own governing bodies, when the monarchy started neglecting them by enforcing stringent rules they felt that it was unfair. They believed that a government could be legitimate if it must require the consent of the governed people and if it must as well respect human liberty because it was given by Creator and it existed prior to any government. Having felt such ethics, the colonists wrote down these principles and immediately put into

In addition to growing savvy when dealing with discrimination, Ruth devotes her love to her kids so they will not repeat her sad youth. Roth recalls her despair in her callous Jewish family, “I was starving for love and affection. I didn’t get none of that” (McBride 83). Ruth resents the tyranny and cruelty of Tateh, who disrespects his wife, molesters Ruth, and enslaves his son. Attracted to black men’s kindness, Ruth falls in love with James’s father Dennis, yet their marriage offenses both Tateh and the Jewish faith. Ruth depicts the

swept off by her father and her life will continue on effortlessly. She has had to tolerate the

What is character? Character is something that is hard to explain. It is who we are, the way we act, and the kind of person we truly are and want to be. Character is what you are in the dark. But if character is the kind of person you are when no one is looking, then why does it matter? Character matters because even when we think no one is looking, they are. People are always watching us and the way we behave and many will look to us in admiration and inspiration, so it is our job to constantly be a role model of good character. A couple of ways that we can show our character are through gratitude and respect, but we can also look up to others, such as Benjamin Franklin, as role models for good character.

Both Dade and Julian where fixated on proving themselves right and defending their beliefs about