Oliver In The Arrow Character Analysis

Depending on the person, the idea of courage has many different meanings. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird's, the definition of courage is “when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do” (149). The novels definition explains that one needs to do the right thing even if one doesn’t win.

A courageous action most often is associated with reaching a goal or task of importance, despite the dangers even risks associated with it (“Courage”). For any specific act to be considered truly courageous it must be reasonably thought about and determined that the goal is well worth the risk or danger (“Courage”). Courage so often can be put with words such as heroic, and bravery although with courage there can be a fine line between courageous acts and plain foolishness. All this can make people believe that courage only applies to physical actions. There are two kinds of courage moral and physical in many cases they are both displayed in a single courageous act; however, bravery must come before all else, because they are associated with reaching a task of importance regardless of risk.

In his mind, Oliver had nothing to resign from. In order to please the Sons of Liberty at the time, Oliver promised to write home to ask for said “resignation” and not execute distributing papers.

Courage is when someone does something for non-selfish reasons, no matter how frightening it may be. It’s not just physical bravery that can be considered courage, just speaking out can be just as powerful. A person is courageous when they make decisions that help positively affect another person's life. It means you stick up for what's right no matter the consequences that follow. People can express courage through following their hearts, standing up for what’s right, and expanding their horizons.

* Arrow thinks about why she kills the men on the hills, at the beginning it was because it was her duty to kill them but now she kills them because: “She knows she no longer kills them because they are killing her fellow citizens. That’s just a part of it. She kills them because she hates them.” (Pg. 190)

The next character in the novel, Alisa, uses the name Arrow to frame any of the vile acts committed from the horrors of the war. The violence of war has made her become a protector of the people bringing vengeance to the men on the hills, a recurring not just group, but thought in the novel. This thought has only given her an excuse to bring justice through death and more or less blame the murder on Arrow, not Alisa. But for her they’ll always be a consequence. She also feels remorse in times of violence, when the Colonel instructed her to kill the targets he picks out and she denies his demand.

For Arrow, witnessing the violence and bloodshed in Sarajevo changed her outlook on the world to the point in which she completely separated her pre-war and present-war self entirely. Arrow, Alisa pre-war, was an individual who, based off of Maslow’s hierarchy, had reached her self-actualization. She knew and understood the significance of life and its purpose, “she realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It’s a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever (12).” However, Arrow’s attitude and perspective on life is change when she witnesses the war and realizes that the men on the hills have robbed this knowledge from her and the citizens of Sarajevo, “/but because the soldiers have robbed her and almost everyone else in this city of this gift. That life will end has become so self-evident it’s lost all meaning (12).” Satisfying her hatred, Arrow changes her name and weaponizes herself to who Sarajevo knows now. Witnessing the violence and chaos of war, changes Arrow’s outlook on life as she loses all meaning of life and even the lives of others, the lives of the men on the hills. She reaches the point where she dehumanizes the men on the hills until she sees them as mere targets. This new perspective on life, has changed Arrow’s understanding of the world around her and has altered her existence until she changed

Arrow never hated anyone before, she enjoyed her life and “stumbled into the core of what it is to be human” (12), she valued life and believed in cherishing every moment of it, but things took a turn for the worse when the war started. In an attempt to live two separate lives. She changed her name from Alisa to Arrow, and instead of cherishing life, she had now ended more lives than she could count. Arrow never even repeated her real name and wanted to forget what her life was like before. The war had changed Arrow, and the belief of hatred and vengeance had chosen her, and there was nothing she could do about it. She was now a different person with different values. As quoted from the book, “I am Arrow because I hate them. The woman you knew hated nobody.” (13). In this quote, the important thing to note is the fact that she used the past tense of know, which is knew. This is significant because it shows that Arrow is no longer associated with her first life and only identifies with her second life. Even though she thought that if she were to use an alias, her second life would have no effect on her first life, but little did she know, the life of Arrow would soon completely consume the life of

Oliver (2015) and Kristi Beach (Bonnie Parker’s daughter) tells the audience about Bonnie Parker and how devout she was to Televangelism. Beach specified how Bonnie donated any and every time she could even though she couldn’t afford it. Beach stated in the interview that her mother believed in the seed theory and that being the bigger seed you plant the bigger your harvest would be. This meant that her mother believed that if she donated a lot of money to Copeland’s church God would bless her with more money and whatever she was in need of. Beach also mentioned that her mother had cancer and refused to receive medical attention because of Gloria Copeland (Kenneth Copeland’s wife) who often preached that instead of going and seeking medical attention for illnesses everyone should donate to churches so that God would heal them of the illnesses that overcame them.

. Oliver is an orphan and a pauper, meaning his "fate" is more or less sealed from birth: social forces appear poised to keep him in a "low" position forever. But Oliver, as it turns out, is the illegitimate son of a gentleman, and his father has inherited enough money to be able to pass some on to Oliver. Thus Oliver has a competing fate: that of a son who realizes his fortune later in life. Most of the incident too shows that though he had a terrible life by fate,he uses his own conscience and decides for himself what is

The next day Oliver is used in a training exercise against a missionary, challenging him to a death match. Oliver is drug from his cage to fight the soldier and somehow manages to win. The missionaries tell Oliver that he must fight Fei next, who quickly defeats him. It appears he is dead, but later the storyline reveals that Fei hit Oliver in a certain spot to make him pass out and make his pulse shallow. Flyers allows Fei to give Oliver a proper burial, but he really takes him down to the river and floats him atop the water. The next scene is Oliver gasping for breath on the banks of the river. For now, he seems to be safe.

Felicity, wanting to be funny, mocks her husband as he hasn’t asked her how she’s feeling due to the minimal sleep she has gotten in the last few weeks. When Oliver mentions Jerry being Helena’s cousin, Felicity jokes that she remembers when Oliver slept with Helena and how well it went down. Ignoring his wife’s playful jab, Oliver explains the reason Jerry called upon him was because James threatened his daughter and that they’re going to team up to stop

The poem begins with Oliver imagining death in a variety of different forms. The first is a simile comparing the arrival of death to a bear. Oliver states, “When death comes/like the hungry bear in autumn” (lines 1-2). It creates a strong image because in autumn bears are searching for food in order to put enough weight on to hibernate through the winter. This bear is desperate for food, making the bear seem scary and violent. Also this death is expected; every fall bears prepare for hibernation. Thus death is

think she has any other life to turn to. She has a hard time with good

Although bloodlines seemed to dictate who raised whom in the 1830s, children could find guidance through those closest to them regardless of their non familial relationship. In Oliver Twist, Dickens provides numerous figures to guide poor Oliver, none of which are related to him by blood, excepting Rose. After falling ill and denounced as a thief, Mr. Brownlow and the housekeeper bestow great kindness and tender care upon Oliver and nurture him as though he was their child:“‘I have never forgotten them or his quiet smile, but have seen them every day, side by side with those of my own children’” (388). The housekeeper especially gives motherly attention to Oliver although she has no prior relation to him. She compares Oliver to her memories of her own progeny and therefore blatantly stands in as a mother figure in Oliver’s life. By