In the book Inside Out by Thanhha Lai, Ha is able to show us how she is a dynamic character by being stronger, and even more complex than she was to start off with. Ha shows us that she is strong when her mother tells her that “Your father is truly gone.” ( Lai,250) this shows that Ha is strong because she learned her father has just passed on after years of not knowing and hoping that he was out there somewhere. That she was able to hold it together to help her mom showed she is strong. Another reason Ha is strong is Ha is in a new country and has to learn a new language, but when she was able to do something that others couldn't meant that was was being strong and proud of herself even when everything changed. “I go to the board, chalk the
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.
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.
How does the author encourage virtue or corruption? In the book, The Dark Inside, the author Jeyn Roberts encourages virtue through her character’s actions. Roberts encourages virtue through the insincere actions within a character. Roberts encourage virtue through another character dishonest actions. Lastly, Jeyn also encourages virtue through cowardice actions in a character. In Dark Inside, Jeyn Roberts inspires the reader to be virtuous.
In conclusion family should always help each other out. By helping each other out you can do this much more efficiently like how the Gilbreths had a family council to made sure everyone knows what's happening and how they are handling the situation. Also finding tactics to help make things go faster for people who live in a large family like the Gilbreths is helpful because then you can spend more time with your parents and siblings other that spending a long time doing something like taking a bath. So being efficient can help in many was in in this novel it helped bring the family together and spend more time doing other things like studying for school or helping the father with motion study. Lastly, the movie and novel Cheaper By the Dozen
“I get by with a little help from my friends” - The Beatles. Friendship is a key essential that helps one overcome any challenge in life. Friends provide guidance to develop one’s identity. In the novel If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth and the movie Wonder, the theme of friendship helps the main characters develop their identity as confident people through maturity, acceptance and loyalty.
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 “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.
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”.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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