Okay For Now Character Analysis

One thing the book talks about is keeping childhood innocence. Mostly through the characters of the story the novel also shows how easily experience can change people and cause them to lose their youthful traits. Dallys rough youth has made him tough and fearsome, and he seems not to care about anything. But Dally has a soft spot too caring for Johnny.

In the beginning of the novel, Ponyboy is a marvelous student at school, however as the novel progresses, he becomes more rougher and experiences life transforming events. An example of this is an event when Johnny and Ponyboy rescue children trapped in a burning church. During this rescue, one of his best friends, Johnny Cade suffers harsh injuries resulting in his death. Around this time, Ponyboy opens his eyes to the real world and has emotions that indicate toughness and anger due to his friends’

The text "Dougy" the characters who arise to fear, dougy through being shy and facing the moodudda. Gracey through racial tension with the whites and about leaving the town with her. scholarship. cooper and his friends give into fear about how the blacks get everything for free and they get nothing. Characters in Dougy when faced with fear and panic either rise to the challenge or give into fear.

Because of Doug’s job, or the things he does Doug’s father always picks on him. ¨Tips? That's all? Tips.” They are making fun of him for how little he is getting paid...He told me I was a chump.” (56) Since he couldn’t keep his job in their old town, Doug’s father makes his family adjust to a new lifestyle. Although Doug’s father is the one who called Doug a chump, Doug should be the one to call his father a chump. Though he can't. Dougs father doesn’t want help from other people. He wants to deal with things himself. “Are you crazy? Are you freaking crazy? I work forty-five hours a week to put food on the table for you, and you want me to take you to Yankee Stadium because you lost some stupid baseball cap?” (4) Just as he should, Doug’s father doesn’t give other people enough credit. In the same way, he wants to blame other people. “It's not just some lousy-...That's all I got out. My father's hands are quick. That's the kind of guy he is.” (4) From being drunk and abusive, Doug’s father doesn’t know how treat other people

Our actions and interactions with others and society are what define us. Society’s perception of an individual may contrast with that individual’s perception of self. Our actions and interactions with others create certain stigmas which may not change despite progression and change an individual has undergone. But however at the end of the day we are our own creators and we chose who we interact with.

John “Crash” Coogan is the typical jock; he lives in Pennsylvania and is starting his second year of middle school as a 7th grader. I thought the main theme of the book is don’t judge a book by its cover. At least what most of us have in mind as a jock? Crash had always picked on his neighbor Penn Webb because of his choices and his lifestyle until later he realized something about Penn that he was his meant- to- be best friend. Crash has a wonderful life, until life deals him a hand that he could not have expected. When Crash 's grandfather unexpectedly has a stroke, Crash instinctively steps back and re-evaluates his life without even realizing he 's doing it. Suddenly, his cool friend, Mike doesn’t seem so cool anymore. Things that

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

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.

Doug meets a few adults such as Mr.Ballard, the owner of The Ballard Paper Mill, and Coach Reed, the gym coach, that offer him kindness and guidance. The adult characters and others evolve him from his character at the start of the book to the end.

The story is told as an historical narrative about the lives and relationships of the four main characters in this movie, Gordy, Chris, Teddy, and Vern. This relationship created a sense of belonging that is unparalleled, still being of significant impact to the narrator as he depicts though his telling of the story. The narrator, one of the boys named Gordie, is specifically impacted through this friendship, creating the sense of self belonging he longed to develop. Gordie had been physically and mentally starved of belonging from his parents. As his parents favourite child had died (Gordie’s brother Denny), they had fell into a great depression, attempting to remove all emotion from their soul. This is shown throughout the movie, as Gordie has flash backs of his past, with the most memorable one being the graveyard scene. As Gordie’s brother was being buried, his father approached him stating that “It should have been [Gordie].” Despite the sadness and importance of the situation, his father still delivered those horrendous remarks to his grieving son. His parents used Gordie as a punching bad, an outlet for there anger at the world for taking there Son so soon. From these remarks and actions spurred a deep dejection towards Gordie. He felt that he wasn’t welcome, and actually started to believe his father’s remarks. However, as his circle of friends developed throughout the journey, and Gordie started to learn about his friends in depth, Gordie felt that his friends accepted him and found him useful. He finally had a meaning in such a diluted world, a sense of self worth. One example of Gordie finally experiencing a sense of belonging was while the sitting around the camp fire, the boys beseeched him into sharing one of his marvellous stories, that he personally believed were childish and

The way Michael describes the town in chapter one is so vivid and pure, it makes me wish I had a place to go as beautiful and meaningful to me, as New Auburn is to him. This is where he belongs. Part of belonging to a small town though, means relating to the people living in

The main character is Doug Swieteck in the book “Okay for Now.” At the beginning of the story they introduce Doug receiving a baseball cap from Joe Pepitone than later that day Doug’s brother threatened to injure him if he didn’t give him the hat. So right away it showed that it was not easy for the main character at home. When the author introduced Doug it made him seem like he was just a normal boy living a contented life but in actuality his life is anything but joyful.     The author has made it clear through Doug's actions that he is pretty mellow and not the kind of guy who tries and takes control of a situation, for example on page 2 when Christopher got Doug to tell him where his hat was that belonged to Joe Pepitone. He is

Goetz was a retired English teacher who helped try to prove the innocence of one her former students. She was a hard-working woman who saw the best in people, and played an important role in the book, working for almost twenty to prove Darryl's innocence and comforting him when times were hard. Darryl Hunt was a former student of Ms. Goetz who was convicted of a crime he did not commit. Darryl was a kind, respectful man who was sentenced to life in prison after being accused of murdering a young woman. Darryl was gentle and honest, he even refused to lie even though it would have cleared his name.

Question 1 - One adult character who showed Doug kindness and compassion was Mr. Powell. Mr. Powell showed kindness to Doug when Doug was drawing. “Mr. Powell said i was pretty good.” Doug said. Then he stated “I tried to remember the last time anyone told me I was pretty good at anything.” (pg. 96) Mr. Powell was one adult character that showed kindness and compassion throughout this story. Another helpful adult character was Mr. Ferris. Mr. Ferris was unlike the other teachers on Doug’s first day of school, and also offered Doug some guidance. At the end of the day Mr. Ferris said “The basic principal of physical science is this: two bodies cannot occupy space at the same time.” Once he said that Doug didn't understand what he meant, so Mr. Ferris went on to explain, “It means, Doug Swieteck, that in class you are not your brother.” (pg. 101 - 102) By saying that, he is telling Doug to be and act like himself, not anyone else. Overall, Mr. Powell and Mr. Ferris were two helpful adult characters to Doug throughout the book.

In the novel Catch Me If You Can by Frank William Abagnale, Frank is a well defined static character. Even though he faces different challenges throughout the novel, he remains the same a the end of the story as he was in the beginning. Being said this, he still continued to run away from his problems and did cons. He is a confident individual who ran away from home at a young age to find a life for himself. Frank is a smart, young and charismatic boy. During his early teen years, his parents started to go through a divorce, which left him torn between whom to choose to stay with. After learning about the divorce that was about to take place, Frank decides to runaway. Frank states, “One June morning of 1964, I woke up and knew it was time to go.