Meg Murry Quotes

Have you ever been “schooled” before? When you are schooled you learn a lesson often from something you did or forgot to do. Many characters in the novel have been schooled, therefore, the title “Schooled” is appropriate for this novel.

In the story, Lady Macduff can be seen as accepting of her role in society and very passive. In the book, she says “Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes, His mansion and his titles in a place From whence himself does fly? (4.2.6-8)” This quotes shows how Lady Macduff expects her husband, the Thane of Fife, Macduff, to stay and defend everything he has instead of leaving it and going to England.

The character Madame Defarge plays a role as one of the leading villains in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, whose actions turn out to be one of the major causes of the French Revolution in the book. The main influence of Madame Defarge's hatred is fueled by a self-centered issue that was germinated by another family who happens to be aristocratic. In Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Madame Defarge is justified in her hatred against the St. Evremonde family because her sister was raped and her brother was killed by the two patriarchs.

“Be sure you taste your words before you spit them out.” Auliq Ice. I chose this quote because in the book ,Wednesday Wars, Mrs Bigio evolved from a bully, to someone who is loving, thoughtful, and cordial. This quote is telling you that you should think before you speak. Most people don’t even realise how they affect someone by saying a hurtful comment.

‘The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.’ The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes once said. Tuesdays with Morrie is exactly the book that gets me through life and what it suggests always echoes in my mind, reminding me of every word I said and affecting every decision I make.

Every character in a book has a overall mission that they under take. Some of the missions can be dangerous others can be easily solved with common sense but the mission is what makes the main character of the book. I have chosen 3 characters to tell how they undertook their mission and what drove them to undertake the mission, no matter how hard or easy it was.

Jack Merridew is a character who embodies the side of human nature that commits murder, stretches the truth, and causes pain to others. He was the main source of conflict in the novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. This character was a powerful figure in this story and because of that, influenced this group of vulnerable, young boys into a dangerous pit of savagery. Jack Merridew has a violent, tyrannical, and evil aura to him that Golding really pressed to his audience. He symbolizes a side to human nature that is too frightening to contemplate.

The character I will be discussing is Julia May Jackson. In the start of the book Julia

The biggest belief that Chris McCandless has is that trust is essential to have a relationship with someone. This idea became clear to me in chapter twelve when I saw the quote that McCandless had highlighted in his book saying, “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry,” and then the author mentions that McCandless wrote the word “truth” at the top of the page (page 117). From the fact that McCandless wrote and highlighted these words means that the quote is important, and the word truth was significant to him. Therefore, I can see that McCandless agrees with this quote and values truth more than any amount of money or love. Truth is something obviously something McCandless cant live without and I think this is because of his relationship with his dad. McCandless’s father wasn’t truthful with his family in chapter twelve when the author said, “Long after falling in love with Billie, long after she gave birth to Chris, Walt continued his relationship with Marcia in secret, dividing his time between two households” (page 121). In this quote we can see that

Lady Macduff’s expresses her feelings towards Ross, who tries to protect Macduff. Ross advises for Lady Macduff to have patience but she angrily reveals that he should have never left them behind even if you are not a traitor. “Wisdom? To leave his wife,to leave his babes,/His mansion and his titles in a place/From whence himself does fly? He loves us not;/He wants the natural touch” (4.2.8-11). Lady Macduff insists that Macduff should protect his family before he fled, therefore showing that he lacks love for his family. Her anger towards her husband reveals that Macduff does not place his family first, causing her to (17)loathe his choices. After expressing her feelings to Ross, she states that he is not a father and is a traitor for what he has done.

In Lucy Christopher’s novel, Stolen, Gemma has a very strained relationship with the peculiar Australian man because he kidnapped her. At the beginning of the novel, Ty kidnapped Gemma in an airport and took her to Australia and is holding her hostage in a house that he built. Gemma says, “You opened the door and grabbed my T-shirt at the back of the neck. You pulled me toward you, my elbows scraping against the ground”.(20) This quote illustrates how Ty is acting deranged. Gemma is trying to get away from Ty but he sadly caught her before she could go and he acted on his desire to keep her as his prisoner. Furthermore in the book, Ty is trying to keep her from running off again, Gemma says, “My feet were tied to the bedposts with hard, scratchy

“A girl in a green dress stands waiting, her heart pounding. Me. The screen is dark, and it stays dark. That can only mean one thing” (Condie 6-7). Matched by Ally Condie is about a girl named Cassia Reyes. When she looks at a picture of her Match, suddenly the picture changes, and she falls in love with the boy in the picture even though the Society told her there was a mistake. Now she has to figure out what to do because she is not allowed to love the boy in the picture. Teenage girls should read Matched if they like romance because it has a connection to hiking and it tells people that not everything can be controlled, especially love.

Mary Anne, upon returning from a three week mission with the Greenies, is found by Fossie singing in the Greenies’ hootch. This Mary Anne, however, was different from the Mary Anne he had known and fallen in love with. She had changed. Rat, describing the story, said, “There was no emotion in her stare, no sense of the person behind it. But the grotesque part, he said, was her jewelry. At the girl’s throat was a necklace of human tongues”(105). This symbol, the tongue necklace, shows the change in Mary Anne’s demeanor from sweet and innocent to ruthless and frigid. She became an empty husk of who she was before. The necklace served as a trophy, the winnings from her kills, like a deer head mounted above a hunter’s fireplace. The old Mary Anne

Mikasa Ackerman is a character from aot/Attack on titan. When she was little her parents where killed right in front of her. After, she was knocked out. Then when she woke she couldn't move. Eren Jaeger came to save the day for Mikasa.

Finally, she is able to detect the lies of her father. Lies he tries concealing. As he once indirectly pushed her away, Mariam needed him to know how much damage he causes. She would not spare him of the injustice he has commit. It would be the first time she speaks against a man. “ ‘I’ll visit you’ he muttered.[. . .] ‘No. No,’ she said. ‘Don’t come. I won’t see you. Don't you come. I don't want to hear from you. Ever. Ever.’ ”(50). Mariam is an intelligent, outgoing girl, daring at times. She went as far as walking to the busy streets of Kabul to search for her father. With this, she wanted to leave him with a wounded heart. Like she felt when he refused to open the doors of his home. After the miserable ceremony, these traits withered away.