Inside Out Character Analysis

A character can be dynamic by changing him/her self or their life by taking life threatening risks. In the book Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon, one character in specific changes throughout the book. Madeline Whittier, or Maddy, is a eighteen year old girl who changes by taking one of the greatest risks of her life. Maddy has never left the house as she is diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency, also known as bubble baby disease. This is a hereditary disease weakening her immune system. Because her body is more susceptible to infections, everything and everyone around her has to be sanitized and her home serves as her own personal bubble. Maddy’s eighteenth birthday comes around and suddenly a boy moves in next door. She

Há’s life has changed in several ways. One way Há’s life changed is that she started to get bullied. For example, on page 196 it says, “She should be a pancake, she has a pancake face.” This shows Há is getting bullied because someone called her pancake face. Another way Há’s life changed is she felt dumb when she first got to Alabama. For instance, on page 156, it states, “I’m furious unable to explain I already learned fractions and how to purify water.” This shows Há felt dumb because she is learning the same thing over again.

The book, Between the Shades of Gray, takes place during World War II. The character Lina is arrested and deported by the NKVD following the annexation of Lithuania. She was then forced to provide labor in order to survive the extreme conditions of the Stalin’s camps. Her ability to cope, her relocation, and the death of her mother contributes to her development and survival.

Imagine that you had to start at a new school, without knowing anybody. You are a talented artist, but you are shy and don't like to share you work. This is what Jade had to do in the book “Piecing Me Together”.

In John Updike’s short story “A & P”, a dynamic and round character expresses his subjective attitude towards his views, a plot twist causes him to realize his future. Sammy an opinionated cashier at A & P grocery store does not agree with his Lengel, his manager after he reprimands a particular group of customers at the store. Sammy’s further actions cause him to face the true reality of his future.

I was pleased to have attended a lecture cosponsored by the Ethics Center, the Fresno State office of the president, the Fresno Bee and Valley PBS. The lecture began with Dr. Castro recognizing a few leaders on campus, including a past Fresno State president, Dr. John D. Welty and campus volunteer Mary Castro. Dr. Castro then mentioned a few things about Mr. Brooks stating that he is a columnist for the New York Times and an analyst for the PBS “News Hour” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Dr. Brooks also teaches at Yale University, one the finest university in the country. Dr. Castro continued by saying that he learned that Mr. Brooks office hours are from 9am to 1pm and how “cool” it sounded to him. I was surprised how many people attended the event. I was fortunate to find a seat. David Brooks mentioned how he has some remote roots in the Central Valley because his father grew in Chowchilla, CA but Mr. Brooks grew in New York.

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

The book “Ugly” by Robert Hoge it is a inspiring, true story about, Robert, a boy who grew up in Brisbane, Australia, with a tumor the size of a tennis ball on his face and two deformed legs. Robert had four other brothers and sisters, who were all older. The story is the journey of Robert Hoge and his life with artificial legs and deformed face, and all the challenges he faced along the way.

Some people experience emotional journeys in their lives. In S.E. Hinton’s, The Outsiders and in Thanhha Lai’s, Inside Out and Back Again, the major characters experience emotional journeys. Ponyboy from The Outsiders experiences a difficult relationship during his journey. Ha from Inside Out & Back Again has to leave her home as part of her journey. Ha and Ponyboy both meet emotional challenges in early life that they have to overcome.

As children, it can be difficult to lose a loved one. A common effect of this loss is for the child to mature emotionally. Ruta Sepetys demonstrates this well in her novel Between Shades of Gray. A fifteen year old girl named Lina is being removed from her home and gets put into terrible circumstances. Along the way, many of her loved ones get separated from her and killed.

All of the characters in the book Speak were very important to Melinda, in a bad way or a good way, and affected her experience trying to get through high school with a horrible experience weighing her down. At a party in the summer before Melinda’s freshman year in high school, a character named Andy Evans raped her. Melinda was so scared and wanted to get out of the part, so she called the cops. After Melinda called the cops at the party, everything changed. Her friends, her personality, and her family.

In conclusion, Nadia is patient when others don't listen to her, she perseveres through the hardest moments, and she withholds anger within herself. Telling everyone about Hamed when her father forbid her took a lot of risks and personal strength to do so. Overall, Nadia is a very strong person on the inside and the

In the book “The Hidden Oracle” from the Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan, a major change that I would apply if I were a character would be a mentor for Apollo in the real world.

So who is Hà? Well, Ha is the main character in the book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai. The author starts the book off with a ten-year old girl named Hà who is talking about Tet, the first day of the lunar calendar, her mother warns her to think about her actions. Depending how they act will affect how their year will turn out. Instead of not being careful of her actions, Hà is disrespectful to her mom and four brothers. She doesn’t do as told and hides her brother’s sandals. She is basically testing her mother’s limits, but she doesn’t know that will bring tragedy.