Laurie In Charles By Shirley Jackson

Charles is a character the narrator never actually directly interacts with, simply because Charles does not exist. Not in the form of flesh and bone anyway. In reality, Charles is Laurie’s wall of deception. Jackson seamlessly demonstrates Sigmund fraud’s concept of the alter-ego. By creating Charles, Laurie is able to maintain his innocence at home, and act out of line at school. Charles

In the 1959 movie Imitation of Life, we meet a main character, Sarah Jane Johnson. Sarah is the daughter of Annie Johnson who is an African American mother. The problem that conflicts the whole story is that Sarah rejects her mother and her friends in order to live a life as a white women. Since Sarah is white colored and her mother is Black colored, Sarah lives a life she doesn’t want. She wants to be “All white” as she puts it. As series of events pass on and Sarah’s mother gets sick and passes away, Sarah finally admits that she was wrong and that she didn’t mean any harm towards her mother. We also read Sophocles’ play “Antigone,” and from what I gathered the title character is a young women of royal blood who sacrifices her life for the honor and integrity of her family, and to obey the commandments of the gods. We also read from our readings in our book “A World of Ideas,” and there are four authors that would react in a strongly manner to the life situations of Sarah Jane Johnson and Antigone.

Laurie does bad stuff and blames it on an imaginary boy named Charles.”The teacher spanked a boy for being fresh” (73). Today Charles hit the teacher’s friend. “Charles Yelled during story hour and hit a boy in the stomach” (75) .This shows that Laurie is manipulating his parents even when he is only a child. This is significant because his parents believe Laurie, and they aren’t doing anything about it. The parents believe “Charles” is a bad influence but it’s really just. When you first meet Laurie

Strong. Independent. Smart. All describe Mattie Cook, the main character of Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Yellow fever rages throughout the colonies, and nobody can escape it, Mattie Cook faces hardships and worse as the yellow fever attacks her home city and the newly hatched America. Mattie faces near-death experiences, loved one’s deaths, and a lot more, changing her from a lazy and dependent little girl to a hard-working and independent young woman. Mattie changes because of some characteristics that have helped her survive the destructive and malicious yellow fever.

In the works The Glass Castle, a memoir written by Jeanette Walls; it is profoundly evident that young Jeanette lived through an abnormal childhood. Parents Rex and Rosemary Walls psychological self-hatred and selfishness, has created a false illusion of a healthy childhood for their daughter Jeanette Walls. As they manifest detrimental influences through her childhood, Jeanette takes control, resulting in an adult who perceivers through harsh obstacles; coming out stronger in the end. Although her entire surroundings and lifestyle seem to be a toxic catastrophe as a child, the most notable examples of harmful conditions are her father’s uncontrollable drunkenness and desire to steal from his children, her mother’s greed and disregard towards

Our Town by Thornton Wilder focuses on the lives of the residents of small town Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire in the early 1900s, more specifically, the lives of young George Gibbs and Emily Webb. Throughout Act I, Thornton describes the daily lives of the people of Grover’s Corners. The milkman delivers the day’s milk, the paperboy brings the morning paper, mothers prepare breakfast, and children get ready for school. The day winds down, everyone has had their supper, homework is finished, and adults arrive home from choir practice. Life in Grover’s Corners is traditional, ordinary, and unremarkable, not much goes on out of the ordinary. Act II focuses on love and marriage in the town. The narrator says “Almost everybody in the world gets married, - you know what I mean? In our town there aren’t hardly any exceptions. Most everybody in the world climbs into their graves married.” and Mrs. Gibbs articulates that “People are meant to go through life two by two. Tain’t natural to be lonesome.”(54) George and Emily get married, much like the other young couples of Grover’s Corners, and proceed to live blithely and contentedly on George’s uncle’s farm. Act III looks into the last act in a person’s life, death. Emily passes away during childbirth, and at the cemetery, she meets the spirits of her mother-in-law and many other deceased townspeople.

Mattie is the main character in Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. In the beginning of the book Polly the serving girl dies of an unknown plague leaving Philadelphia in shock. As grandfather and Mattie return to the coffeehouse they find Mother lying ill with the yellow fever. Later on Mattie and grandfather leave the coffeehouse as an order from Mother but soon return after they both are kicked out the wagon and they fall ill with the yellow fever causing many deaths. As the days come to an end Mattie is left alone to care for herself after grandfather passes. Mattie is a dynamic character in Fever 1793 after being faced with many challenges the epidemic brought her. Throughout the story Mattie become more independent, mature,

Heroism can be defined a courageous act or great bravery. It can come from any individual, one does not have to be special or have a heroic moment. He/she may consider an individual like a parent, family member or friend a hero. Others may see policeman, firefighters, paramedics and our military to be our heroes. Altruism can be a synonym for heroism, as the reaction of risking your life to save another. The one, to help another without expecting anything in return, displays heroism.

The prompt I have chosen is, “In the story The Summer People, The Allisons believe that the locals (the Country People) are harassing them because of their decision to stay at the cottage past Labor Day. Do you believe the locals are actually doing this or do you believe the Allisons are simply paranoid and imagining this? Please respond in a concise, well written three paragraph essay with specific examples and textual evidence from the text to support your answer.”

The book Speak is written by Laurie Halse Anderson. This moving novel expresses the struggle a victim can experience after rape and or physical and mental abuse from family and friends. Also the harshness that can sometimes come along with high school and adapting to the type of group you want to fit in with. Throughout the book the author try to teach or at least make you think as the reader who you can really trust as friends and people in general.

Annie Dillard arose from her tent that rested in the Ecuadorian jungle. She was outnumbered by six men to one female on her morning journey, as she and her six male escorts reached Providence Village. The first view of excitement to capture her attention was a dwarf size, frail frame fawn roped to a tree near a thatched roof hut. This was symbolic of the stability of a vicious pit bulldog that would be chained to a six-foot chain length fence, back home in my neighborhood. One could only imagine the gruesome details of the helpless fawn that Dillard was describing. This fawn had been captured and roped to a tree. If this was not humiliating enough, the agony continued, the fawn twisted his limp bloody frail body as if he was interacting

“Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are” -Christopher Barzak.

The madness that was Charles continued onto the following weeks. Laurie then continued to tell his parents about all the trouble that the boy was causing. His parents in shock just came to the realization that it was better to deal with someone like Charles early in his life rather than later. Charles was also a defiant young boy. To support this, in the story Charles “threw chalk” (346) and could no longer use the blackboard.

With a youthful face, and striking blonde hair, the 41 year old is very knowledgable when it comes to crime within families. “the kids that I deal with suffer from massive issues with things like ADHD and there are other things running along side like schizophrenia and they are constantly committing crime, its almost like an impulse. There are other kids with preverbal trauma who have grown up in a violent background with people around them who have abused the law and when they grow up tend to do the same.”

In King’s play one of the main characters died of natural causes. Katie couldn’t understand what the person was saying. They have 3 kids Dennis, Connie, and Jeff. The the person who called meant to call. She thought it was a family member, but it was herself. This play is for the television.