Lisa Howard Character Analysis

If you lost your entire family in death, could you live without them? This is the decision Mia struggles with in the novel if i stay by Gayle Forman. In this novel, 17 year old Mia Hall has the perfect life with a great family, amazing boyfriend, and an up and coming career as a professional cellist. This is taken away from her when she and her family get into a car accident. She loses both her parents immediately, and her brother is left in a critical state. The accident leaves Mia trapped outside of her own body, and stuck with the decision to fight to stay, or to give up and go. In her “ghost like” state Mia hovers over her loved ones, and reflects on the time she has shared with them. Although the movie provides a great visual to the storyline,

“Everything is not what it seems,” while this lyric may seem trite, it holds great truth. People, places, activities, each can be viewed in more than one way depending on the circumstances. From these viewpoints spring complexities and mystery in the shape of differing facades.

The introduction of Mrs. Auld in chapter six of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one that hold a lot of importance not only to Douglass but to the reader as well. Douglass portrays her in a way that allows her to be human. The reader is allowed to not only see the change in her but to experience it. The rhetoric surrounding her even changes as she does. At first, Douglass uses emphasis when she is first introduced, this is done by stating the same idea about the character in various places within the first paragraph. As her character changes, Douglass uses juxtaposition to switch his rhetoric to turn Mrs. Auld to stand for a bigger concept rather than just a human. Douglass in a literary sense holds the reader’s hand by explaining Mrs. Auld’s change step by step of what Mrs. Auld was, what she became, and what happened in between to cause it. Douglass uses the presence of Mrs. Auld to demonstrate the dehumanizing effect that power has on the nature of a human.

Have you heard about the salem witch trials? They were a dramatic time when many people were acused of being a witch and hung for it. In history class to english class this is used in may classes as examples to learn from. In the cruibable there are manyh people that you could blame for the cause of this tragic event. You could blame abigail williams, or possibly danforth, and even john proctor; but the most blame could go to Mary Warren. Mary warren is to blame for these tragic events because of her willingness to play along with the games of abigail. Mary warren has many flaws but the three major flaws that make her responisble are; she can be easily influenced, she is also highly emotional, and lastly she is young and foolish in her thought and actions.

In U.S. history the roles of society were decide by gender, men’s role was mostly the same throughout history, but the women’s role changed slowly over time. There was many women who were fighting to change their roles and one such woman is Anne Marbury Hutchinson. In “Divine Rebel” Selma R. Williams tells the story of Anne Hutchinson, who was a Puritan woman of the late 1500s, and researched informations was hard to find. She was often described as a woman who did not fit the ideal woman mold and she did nothing to force herself into such a mold. Anne Hutchinson is described differently in the textbook that was assigned to our class as well as a few similarities. Anne Hutchinson may

Lisa from the book “Next” by Michael Crichton has been saying that her “father” isn’t actually her father. She finally went to get a DNA test done, it turns out she was right. He is not the father and she is angry that she wasn’t told so. Her mother keeps denying it, why is her mother denying it when she knows the results?

My grandmother, Katherine Phillips-Crance, was born in 1957. The town was a small one located in upstate New York by the name of Elmira. It was also in this town that she was raised. Throughout her childhood and into adulthood, her mother, Opal Phillips, was a strict parent. Aside from this, Katherine had no complaints about her childhood. She also does have an older sister, Sandy, who is married with children and grandchildren of her own. By the time Katherine was born though, Sandy was already out of the house paving her own way.

A few blocks down the road Estelle Louise says,” Clemmie Sue that there gotta be the greatest birthday in many a long years. Who you be thinking this here Harry guy might be?”

Honorable teachers are those who are a daily encouragement and inspiration and it commonly goes unappreciated. However, the gratitude I feel toward Diane Starkey is insurmountable because of the significant impact she has made in my life. Starkey has given me wisdom in her classroom, advice for life, and taken me by the hand and been one of the most remarkable friends I have had.

1. Who is the protagonist in Jacobs' work (I'm looking for just a specific name)? Linda Brent (the alias that Harriet Jacobs used for the character that represented herself) 2. Who is the antagonist in Jacobs' work (this is open to interpretation and will require explanation)?

Maggie Glenn, a 28-year old photojournalist from Tamassee, South Carolina, is a character that, throughout the novel, stands in the face of adversity and becomes a stronger person as a result of it. She gets sent back to her hometown to cover the death of 12-year old Ruth Kowalsky, a girl who's body has been trapped in the Tamassee river. All of a sudden, Maggie is at the middle of opposing factions. She has to be sympathetic to the Kowalsky family, who just want to retrieve their daughter's body from the river, but also has to understand the environmentalist argument that the rest of the community is making. Meanwhile, this isn't the only hurdle that she has to overcome. As she returns to Tamasee, she is forced to confront her dark past and

In his most famous work, the medieval French poet Francois Villon, suggested that, “necessity from virtue hinders, and wolves seek for prey by hunger prest.” Omar Tyree explores this philosophical problem of the origins of good and evil in his dark novel, Leslie. The story introduces Leslie, the twenty something college student of Haitian origin, who grew up in the abject poverty of New Orleans’ projects. Unable to deal with her unfortunate circumstances, she gradually embraces the dark side. Tyree uses language emphasize the character’s alienation and stereotypes, the masks and disguises to symbolize moral disengagement and the captive character of a cynical drug dealer, Coup, as a proxy for a cruel reality, devoid of any illusions and wishful

Learning can have a positive effect on a person ,it won't always have a positive effect but it can considering what type of person they are. Learning can be astounding for certain individuals but for those others they might take it for granted. It highly depends on what you are learning rather than just the person.

Sherri Franklin is a Honorable, loyal, and passionate person. Sherri is a very honorable person to the community, the local shelter,and to all the older dogs. Sherri is a loyal person to the older dogs because she will do anything for them as they go on with their lives. She is also started a cage free open space called Muttville for all dogs who were stuck in local shelter

experiences is extreme and he tries to block it out of his memory, yet the trauma finds unconscious expression through his dreams.