ABSOLUTE FACTS:
NAME: Lil Bit
AGE: Changes throughout the play (Age 11 to adulthood)
SOCIAL CLASS: Middle to lower
EDUCATION: Highest that we know of is a freshman in college
OCCUPATION: Student
RELIGION: Unknown although it can be assumed that they loosely practiced some form of cathalosism
ETHNICITY/RACE: White
FAMILY SITUATION: A very harsh family life, broken in parts, but close in others. Has an uncle that holds too close of a relationship with her
NATIONALITY: Unknown
ERA: Present day
LOCATION: It can be assumed somewhere possibly southern PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS DEPRIVED FROM ABSOLUTE FACTS: Large in the bust area, average looking girl, soft looking
PHYSICAL CONDISERATIONS:
SEX: Female
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ATTITUDES: (TASTES, PREFERENCES, LIKES, DISLIKES, BUTTONS): A button of hers later in the show is when Peck says that he can’t live without her. This is a point for her when all hope of letting him down gently is lost and she has to get through to him. She dislikes the fact that Peck does not pick up on all of the hints she lays right in front of him. She doesn’t respond to his letters and tells him not to send anymore, yet he does not get the picture. She has a taste for knowledge, she wants to be bigger than her family was and go to school to do all the things her family hasn’t.
IDIOSYNCRASIES: She has the tendency to close off at first to an uncomfortable situations, but after the happening moves through her head and she gives it a good thought, she then speaks up.
SOCIAL AND ETHICAL VALUES: She knows that what Peck has been doing to her for all these years is not right, but she needs that support system in her life that the rest of her family is not providing her with. She knows that her uncle is married to her aunt and that they should be in love and that should be enough for him, but she wants so badly to help him. To help him out of his drinking and back in love with his aunt, but she doesn’t have the means to do that.
ACTIONS THESE INSPIRE: The inner struggle of how to handle her
Her attitude changes threw out the play, she’s very confident in the beginning, she doesn’t really talk back to anyone, but as it goes on her attitude changes and she’s very upset all the time and depressed.
They have learned a lot from their ancestors and use it in daily living. I would still assume that they live off of the land and use no technology and electricity. Of course some may have adapted to live now and live in homes. They believe in the afterlife, and worship the sun, rain, and nature. They have many gods.
Trying to learn English is hard enough but getting into the marines at the same time is a challenge. Yet, somehow, Ned manages to make it all the way to boarding school and still not want to go home and disappoint his parents. Ned continues to progress making tons of friends along the way. See, when Ned wanted to go into the Army they told him he had to know fluid English. He then begged his parents to let him go to school and that carried him all the way to high school. Where he then entered code school so now he had to learn English, then he had to learn a brand new code for war. After that he went to boot camp to try and become a marine. Ned makes so many friends like Georgia Boy, Smitty, Wilsie, and Ira. They would sacrifice themselves for each other. That's real friendship.
Throughout her early childhood, she ignores her father's drunken escapades, and thinks of him as a loving father and excellent teacher of the wild. It isn't until her junior year of high school that she realizes the indisputable flaws her father has. She resents Dad's drinking and how he constantly lets her and the rest of the family down yet never openly admits it or allows his flaws to be discussed. Jeannette also begins to resent her mother, whom she’s never been close to. Some cause of her resentment includes her mom’s refusal to hold down a job long enough to provide her kids with a stable food supply, especially since Rex won’t be providing like he says he will. This resentment eventually motivates her to move away from her parents and Welch. She ends up in New York City with her sister Lori in which she focuses on her studies and becomes a successful journalist. Jeannette is a natural forgiver and it shows even when she moves away from her parents, but this doesn’t stop her from being haunted by her past and with her transition from poverty into the upper-middle class. By the end of the novel, Jeannette is a symbol of the resilience and
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Have you ever thought having a secret language or code was cool? Growing up did you ever create words that only you and your friends knew? During WWII the Navajo people used their language to create a secret unbreakable code. The book Code Talker, written by Joseph Bruchac looks at the life of Ned and how Ned and his friends survived war and boarding school. Ned faced a number of traumatising experiences such as boarding school and World War, which can both cause PTSD and insanity, for a kid to go to war at 17 right after being taught he was inferior to whites is unimaginable. Ned survived the horrors of boarding school and war because of key friendships specifically his friendships with Hosteen Mitchell ,Smitty ,and Tommy Nez.
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There are multiple themes throughout the novel, but five really grab the reader’s attention. The first is self-sufficiency. Even during their hardest times, Rex and Rose Mary refuse to become a charity case. Walls stated that, “Mom liked to encourage self-sufficiency in all living creatures.” (77). They do not even accept help from their children in their late adulthood, even though they depended on the childrens’ incomes while they lived in Welch. The value of being self sufficient descends mainly from Rose Mary, whose upbringing in an incredibly disciplined home leads her to believe rules are overrated and everyone should be a free spirit. Her children, must learn how to be self sufficient and strong. They should not rely on society or doctors
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.
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Their Religion ruled everything in their culture. They based their government, laws of nature, and their everyday lives on religious beliefs.
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