Nancy Blachman Character Analysis

Jennings Burch, a young boy who had to overcome a lot of obstacles throughout his childhood. Jennings childhood, very few good things has happened yet, he had many bad things occur. He had remained stoic through abuse, when his friend “Mark” had died from a heart condition, loss of many of his friends, and separation from his family. His abuse, he had gotten abused and starved at a foster home while he stayed there. Some examples are from the book,” You better get used to the rules here, or i’ll beat the daylights out of you Mrs.Carpenter said.” and “ Uh… I’m hungry. I was wondering…” Jennings asked. “ We eat breakfast and dinner around here and that’s all,” she snarled “I can’t afford to be feeding you anytime you feel like eating. Besides, you’re not worth it, you dirty little bastard.” Mrs. Carpenter snarled. Jennings had been starved and had to sneak in some jello powder to eat. During his stay at the home, made him miss his family and friends, and was still confused on

Randy Pausch. Who is he? What does he stand for? The day he gave the last lecture... His last lecture he only had months to live. He packed a lot of lessons into his lecture. The claims he gave that stood out were to be optimistic, to be determined, and to take risks.

Sophie Biyoya Ciardulli is the main character in the book, “Endangered”, by Eliot Schrefer. She is the daughter of Florence Biyoya, who is Congolese, and an Italian-American dad. Her mother had always thought of protecting bonobos as her top duty in life, so it was no surprise when she chose staying in Congo to develop her bonobo sanctuary rather than returning to the U.S. with her husband and daughter, after Sophie’s dad is transferred to Miami, Florida by his company for a job. Sophie attends school in America, but spends summers with her mother. Sophie had always been angry and hurt by the fact that her mother was the reason her parents divorced, but when she meets Otto, she transitions slowly in opinion and grows in acceptance of her mother’s

In the book 1984, Smith is trying to be an individual in a society that is ruled by Big Brother. as a consequence of him trying to be an individual, he is testing the rules of the party. The individual in an authoritarian society is forced to follow the rules and beliefs of the rest of the society.

By now, Jennie’s life was focused on softball, though she did have a normal life outside the sport. She liked to shop, try on her mom’s makeup and hang out with her friends. In school, she was an excellent student. But softball consumed most of her free time. Every summer the sport brought her to a new part of the country for a national tournament.

Twyla and Roberta are two very different people, but bond in very similar ways. They become friends very suddenly, not because of how old they are, but because both have a mother. Twyla's mom is a dancer, and Roberta's mother is too sick to raise her. They later meet in their twenties in a not so settling way. Twyla had been bussing tables while Roberta had been living large about to meet Jimi Hendrix. Twyla was embarrassed at her long past friend and was ashamed to show herself. Five years later they meet at a grocery store where they both have kids and are settled down. They decided to go vet coffee where it starts off both are different races so they take opposite sides of the debate.  Roberta accuses Twyla of abusing one of the girls at the orphanage. Twyla only remembers sitting and watching the girl get abused by other girls, and Roberta's memories start to come back to her. This holds their relationship together for the next five years when

“No one loses their innocence. It is either taken away or given willingly” Tiffany Madison. A person’s innocence and freedom should be theirs to hold and control, but that is not always the way things unfold. Conviction flaws, poor evidence, and the social responses to these flaws are all involved and present in the cases of Paula Gray and Keith Allen Harward, as new evidence thirty years after they were imprisoned comes to light.

Ms. Nancy Mairs, an accomplished and a renowned linguist, describes how she views herself with multiple sclerosis. Mairs presents herself as an extremely confident and proud woman who does not back down from her so-called “disability”. By explicitly calling herself a “cripple” Mairs is showing her audience that she is a strong woman who has come to terms with her condition and is now explaining it to others.

One of my challenges is sharing a room with my sister and her name is Marcie Fuentest was a challenge because when it was bedtime and I was trying to go to bed and Marcie would talk to me for hours and hours.I fix it by “telling her if she dose’t be quite then” I will tell my mom and dad and then she was

The Vietnam War was a perplexing, unjustified conflict where both historians and the media over-generalized service members’ experiences. They constantly failed to speak for all people with firsthand combat experience and focused solely on the male’s perspective. Lynda Van Devanter, a former member of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (ANC) and Vietnam veteran was the first woman who educated America on the female’s position during the Vietnam War and systematically destroyed the stereotype of an undamaged, inessential Vietnam nurse. Contrary to popular belief, the Vietnam War distorted the mentality of both men and women who served overseas, according to Devanter. Historians and the media, rather than acknowledging the Vietnam Nurses’ distinct perspective as a key element of the morally ambiguous altercation, they focused solely on male veteran experiences and failed to accurately portray the war. By changing the subject of Vietnam War stories through her forthright memoir, Home Before Morning, Devanter wrote about the fallacious stereotypes nurses

The ability to handle hardships in the world can come easy to some and to others it may be so completely out of their own grasp that they give up without even trying. During the time frame of Kaye Gibbon’s novel Ellen Foster, the world was divided; the rich verses the poor. Others could view the nation as the whites verses the blacks. Ellen Foster is right along the middle of this division. Ellen is a white eleven year old child who faces hardship one after another. A main theme in Ellen Foster is how she deals with her pain by distracting herself with self-determination as well as comedic relief.

Lily came into the kitchen to get something cold to drink, when she found May on the floor making “a little highway of broken graham crackers and marshmallow bits” to guide the roach she saw out the door (172). This reminded her of when T. Ray told her that her “mother was a lunatic when it came to bugs… she used to make trails of graham cracker crumbs and marshmallows to lure roaches outside” (172) Because she saw May do the exact same thing her mother did, she started questioning if she could have learned that trick from May, or if it was from a book. Finally, she gathered up her courage and asked May if she had ever knew of a Deborah. She responded by saying “Oh, yes, Deborah Fontanel. She stayed out there in the honey house. She was the

Anywhere you go in the world, will see examples of families that lack unity and other vital core values. Children across the globe suffer from parents seeking their own interests instead of their children’s wellbeing. In Ellen Foster, many themes continually resurface which express the emphasis that Gibbons places on the values of a strong family unit. Gibbons repeatedly emphasizes the importance of a strong family unit through the experiences of Ellen: a strong-willed girl whose increasingly dangerous home life results in her life being turned upside down.

This project will focus on the similar characteristics of Joy-Hulga Hopewell from Flannery O’Connor’s story “Good Country People” and Dee-Wangero Johnson from the Alice Walker story “Everyday Use”. Although both characters have diverse backgrounds, the essay will demonstrate how much they resemble one another in their nature, struggles, and relationship with their mothers. This essay will focus on three main points of similarities between these women. A first example will be how Joy and Dee are both highly educated women which causes a great division for them with their families whom are uneducated in comparison. Each one creates conflict with their mother which they view as inferior and mock them, oblivious to how family is so important

Miss Brill is a very interesting and unusual character. She talks to fur and she thinks that she can control what goes on around her. She believes the bench that she sits on every Sunday at her local park gives her that power. Every Sunday at her local park Miss Brill sits on her bench and eavesdrops on people who go to the park believing that no one is aware. Eventually she’s pushed back into reality when she’s being mocked by a younger couple. Every Sunday she repeats the same routine, living in her own box. Miss Brill is unusual because she talks to her fur, she stick to a strict routine of visiting the park every day and, she enjoys eavesdropping on people.