Marylyn's Family Character Analysis

It is a well known fact that experiencing war changes people; there is an innocence that is forever lost. In Tim O’Brian’s, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”, Mary Anne Bell is an unusual example of the innocence that is lost in war because unlike the rest of the soldiers, she is a woman. Mary Anne’s transformation from innocent “sweetheart” to fierce warrior left readers with mixed emotions because although Mary Anne felt at peace with her transformation, she was also disconnected from reality.

' Mary's heart was already with god and conventional values were not going to keep her a way from the life he had chosen for her.' (Mary MacKillop A tribute, 1995)

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.

Lydia’s Story starts off like any good narrative should. A vivid introduction that captures the reader’s attention gives so much detail through sense such as: the smell of “the chemical odor of a cleaning solution…” The touch of the “uncomfortably cold from air conditioning.” The sound of “the cackle of a television set…” The sight of “several rows of cots and mattress with few people lying on them.” All presented with so much clarity that the reader can imagine themselves in the narrator’s place.

Mrs. Mirabel Fallwell, a ninety-year-old wealthy aunt to Jerry Jarvis, was murdered. She fell out of the window of her twelfth-floor apartment and died. Her nephew and heir, Jerry Jarvis, is a suspect in the crime as he was also in the apartment at the time of the tragedy. Mrs. Fallwell death was a murder because there was physical evidence and a clear motive from her nephew, Jerry Jarvis. There was physical evidence shown in Mrs. Mirabel Fallwell’s spacious apartment floor. There was a fallen footstool, wide open windows, a half-full wine glass, and a few more unusually kept items in the apartment. From the picture shown, it can be assumed that there might have been a physical alteration or a problem that occurred in the area. Maybe while

“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.

As time went on she became more involved in church, and religious activities. She got baptized and saved at the church that she always attended. She grew to love the black church that she grew up mocking. The old lady that always sat in the front row made her realize how deep the roots of her church were.

In the story St.Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves there are three main characters. Janette ,who is the oldest but not the wisest. Claudette, the ,middle child who is the wisest out of the three sister and the most out of the three girls. And lastly Mirabella, who is the wild child out of the three sisters and is not even close to wise unlike the others. Throughout the stages Claudette and Janette begin to act more human and are doing most of the things that were expected. But unfortunately Mirabelle is having a rough time with the changes,but she isn't the only one throughout the stages. They all hope to become human and pass the test. But will Mirabella make it ?

Soon after being held in captivity, Mary Rowlandson’s attitude started changing from hopeless to hopeful; “Oh, I may see the wonderful power of God, that my Spirit did not utterly sink under my affliction: still the Lord upheld me with His gracious and merciful spirit, and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning” (Rowlandson 131). Here Rowlandson is talking about how she is able to keep her spirit up even though her daughter is extremely sick and she has no friends to comfort her. She claims she is able to do this because of the great power of God. It seems like her mind is being uplifted by the thought of God, and she is able to focus on the good things she still has in life. I believe without her religious beliefs keeping her mentally healthy throughout all of her hardships, she would have never been able to handle her captivity as well as she did. Even after her daughter died, she is still able to keep herself together; “I have thought since of the wonderful goodness of God to me in preserving me in the use of my reason and senses in that distressed time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own miserable life” (Rowlandson 132). She recognizes looking back that she could have easily decided to take her own life after losing her daughter at such a young and helpless age. It is God who protected her and kept her from doing anything bad to herself at such a low point

Mary Rowlandson, The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson, is a captivity narrative, published in 1682. Rowlandson expresses the story as a memoir, focusing on events that she has witnessed as well as her experiences. Describing people along with events as they appear to the outside reader from her impartial opinion. Rowlandson describes her thoughts and motivations which allows the reader to understand her feelings towards situations. The contextualization depicts the work which is placed in 1675, the past, primarily in Massachusetts Bay Colony, extending from western Massachusetts to Boston.

Theresa was a good catholic girl. Her faith was important to her. She went to mass on Sundays, her mom was very involved in the community and her dad had a very important job. Her family was the normal American family. Her dad’s job required them to move around a lot and because of that she never had true friendships. One day her family moved to Birmingham and her life changed dramatically.

Victoria is a twelve-year-old girl who lives in Wyoming. She has blonde hair and brown eyes. Her religious beliefs would fall under the religion of Christianity. She attends church every Sunday, and goes to Sunday school every Sunday. In the class, they play games such as Jeopardy to try to learn different parts of the Bible. After the class she goes to Mass. She always tries to really take in the lesson. One habit that she has is praying before everything she eats, and praying before she goes to sleep. She always makes sure to pray for others that she knew were going through a rough patch. Ever since she was eight, she takes in the eucharis on Sunday. The eucharis is symbolic for the body of Christ. It also symbolizes that she has accepted

Social groups play a major role as they connect to certain themes and aid character development throughout the plot. In Tim O’Brien’s book Things They Carried, women are represented as supporting roles in the war and therefore are utilized by O’Brien as an escape from the traumatic experiences of war. O’Brien touches on how some soldiers often carried with them, physical items that offer them comfort from the war. Other soldiers such as Tim O’Brien and Jimmy Cross carried emotional attachments with them to accompany them. Female characters such as Linda and Martha are optimal examples of women that are represented as supporting roles while having the ability to influence their respective male’s behaviour.

Janet felt betrayed by her parents because they had denied her the chance to embrace her religion. These feelings of betrayal lead her to pull away from her parents and her religion. As she progressed through high school, Janet’s life revolved less and less around her religion and more and more around her own life. She no longer attended church every Sunday and the very same parents who would not let her embrace her religion began making her feel guilty for not attending services. She remembers her dad leaving for church each Sunday saying he would pray for her. Her community also noticed she was not attending church services and that added to her guilt.

The film All About My Mother is a drama which sees a mother, Manuela, on a search to find the father of her son. This journey comes after her son, who has always desired to meet his father, was tragically hit by a car and killed while chasing down actresses of the play A Streetcar Named Desire. This play, which Manuela was an actress in twenty years earlier, becomes small piece of her son she holds, since it was the last thing she did with him before he was killed. This desire she feels to be complete is a trait which recurs in a few other characters during the story. The characters that the desire to feel complete is most shown in is Manuela, Esteban (her son), and Huma.