How Does the Writer Make the Reader Feel Pity for Veronica?

This literary analysis will show how how Laura’s skills in writing a beautiful theme, developing characters throughout the book, describing the importance of setting and use of author's craft.

Helen is the protagonist because she deals with changing her attitude towards people who are not like her or the other girls in the class. The story is told in her point of view and what she thinks of Myra. Helen is a flat character because there are not many details about her. Her thoughts mostly tell about what she thinks of Myra. Finally, Helen is a static character. Helen goes through the journey of understanding what it takes to reach out to someone that is considered “rotten smelling” and “withdrawn”. She does not like this and fears that the other girls will view her the same way. At first it seems that Helen will be friends with Myra and accept that she is different. Unfortunately, at the end of the story when Myra gives her one of her birthday gifts Helen thinks she will, “give it away, I thought, I won't ever play with it. I would let my little brother pull it

During the weeks Molly spends with Vivian, she learns a lot from Vivian. Most important, she realizes that Vivian also had a difficult childhood but was able to overcome her bad experiences and lead a happy life. Molly’s realization reflects the theme of the book: learning about the experiences

In the passages Confetti Girl by Diana López and Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes, the narrators and the parents have different opinion on what is the right thing to do, and because of their different opinions, tension and distance in their relationship is created. The narrators in both passages feel alone or left out either because of the lack of attention of because they are missing a beloved parent. In both passages the narrators feel uncomfortable with the parent and is not fully opening up to them. In the sections Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the different opinions between the two narrators and parents create distance and tension in their relationship.

Equally important in the story is the use of characterization to show the reader exactly who the protagonist in the story is and what kind of life she is living, we first read of her sisters and how they act in contrast to the protagonist: “I [the narrator] wasn't even pretty or nice like my older sisters and I just couldn't do the girl things they could

The author agrees with the idea of women as victims through the characterisation of women in the short story. The women are portrayed as helpless to the torment inflicted upon them by the boy in the story. This positions readers to feel sympathy for the women but also think of the world outside the text in which women are also seen as inferior to men. “Each season provided him new ways of frightening the little girls who sat in front of him or behind him”. This statement shows that the boy’s primary target were the girls who sat next to him. This supports the tradition idea of women as the victims and compels readers to see that the women in the text are treated more or less the same as the women in the outside world. Characterisation has been used by the author to reinforce the traditional idea of women as the helpless victims.

This apprises the reader on how Margaret is kinda being bi-polar and how she just faked the whole thing about her being sad. By her crying, she indirectly professes that she cares about her husband but in reality she’s a brutal women who does really care about him.

It is told in the first person so that the reader feels they are present while the story is happening. Even though it is told by a young girl of thirteen as she recounts the details as if reliving the incident. She takes the time to introduce each character in a way that gives them life and personality. Josie is a young newly married woman, pregnant and facing physical abuse

Veronica Roth openly insisted, “I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could”( Allegiant). Veronica examines that the overall influence family has among a person’s character and identity as they grow up and begin to comprehend the world strongly shapes an individual. Due to the overwhelming amount of time childhood and life is spent among family, people begin to pick up the similar habits, characteristics, and feelings as their loved ones. Despite whether the one’s around an individual teach them how they would like to live their life, or what path of life and difficulties they would rather avoid, family always has a major impact on someone’s identity. Although Hyeonseo’s identity in The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee is incessantly evolving throughout all three parts of the novel, her family manipulates her identity significantly more than the remaining parts of her erratic life in Part One as she is growing up and learning about her country, in Part Two as she starts her new daunting life away from her home country, and in Part Three when she is dealing with the consequences of her mother and brother’s perilous escape.

Rayona is in a way lost and can’t seem to find her place in the world. She thinks about herself in the way that she thinks others think of her. She is fifteen years old at the time and does not have a lot of sense of her self. Rayona is half African American and Native American, which makes her think she’s different from others and makes her have a low self esteem. She struggles with her identity and physical appearance. Another thing that makes it difficult for her to find her true self is that she lacks information about her heritage. Her dream is to have a “normal” life, meaning to have a functional happy family and to be able to fit in. Rayona feels like a real family is the opposite of what she has. She goes through a series of events and learns a little about her self in each of them. Rayona is

This shows the reader that she is not very stable because she imagines seeing people when there is no one there. With this in mind we are able to go deeper into the story and see what or whom the people really represent.

“The Semplica-Girl Diaries” is a short story in which George Saunders, the author, presents unique ideas of the way people live their life and what each person does to be able to live. The dad, Saunders’ main character, writes in a diary and explains to the readers what he experiences almost every day with his family. He wants to be there for his family and provide for them the best that he can, but it is difficult when he has young children who have desires as any children do. The dad mentions status throughout the short story, and the children are aware that they do not have money like some other people who are around them. Not everyone in the world has the best job and life, because it is not always up to people to make the choices that need to be made for their family.

In the beginning of book one “Doon” you see Veronica or Vee is trying to find her destiny . She hallucinations or visions she has turns out be signs pointing to her future. How she thinks it will happen or how she interprets them never is correct. She believes wholeheartedly that something will occur and it never happens. As seen, when she thought that things were

The initial element the writer gives in in the first line of the story. This element is the point of view, which is Connie, “She was fifteen and she had a quick nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors, or checking other people’s faces to make sure her owm was all right.” (Oates 312). This is very important to read within the first line. The reader can immediately imagine the girl’s innocence and nativity. It is very important to paint this picture early for the reader because the entire piece must be imagined from the eyes of an innocent girl. Connie and her friends were just kids, “They must have been familiar sights, walking around that shopping plaza in their shorts and flat ballerina slippers that always scuffed the sidewalk, with charm bracelets jingling on their thin wrists.” (Oates 313).

Veronica’s trauma doesn’t end at the date rape and goes as far as her best friend, Lilly Kane, being mysteriously murdered, which are two terrible instances for a young teenager to experience. These traumatic events are the reason the series should be under the genres of hardboiled and noir because it’s evident that Veronica is a victim a lot of the time in the series, which eventually shapes her to be a strong, independent teenage detective.