Steel Magnolias Character Analysis

“Steel Magnolias” is a story about the close-knit relationships between six eccentric Southern women living in a small town in Louisiana. The film has a home spun, unpretentious feel to it. The plot alternates between humorous, everyday events with good-natured quips and the seriousness and heartaches to life’s unexpected crises. Through the laughs and tears, the six women learn to endure hard times and emerge from the struggles with grace and dignity. The film is set in the 1980’s with a tight knit homespun atmosphere. The Southern belles who are goofy on the outside but strong enough inside to survive any challenge that life deals them. Friendships help with a

Steel Magnolias” is a movie about relationships between six women that form an unbreakable bond. The movie takes place in Louisiana in the 1980s. (Ross, 1989) The majority of the movie takes place at the beauty salon owned by Truvy. Truvy has a happy-go-lucky personality and is always very enthusiastic. She always sees the good in every situation. She has a husband that spends most of the time on the couch and a son who has grown up to be a rebel. Truvy loves making everybody feel good about themselves. She also loves to gossip, and hear the latest town news. Truvy hires Annelle, a shy young woman who has ran into tough times, and is all alone in a strange new town. Annelle is struggling to make ends meet because her husband stole everything she owned

Steel Magnolias is a great movie of love, laughter, and tears. It features six strong-willed woman who "are the Steel Magnolias of the tittle…” as Roger Ebert says. The women dealt with many set backs in life, but no matter what they kept their southern grace and charm in tact at all times. In the film one of the main set backs is Shelby, one of the “Steel Magnolias” (Julia Roberts), fighting with diabetes. Shelby’s diabetes is so bad she’s not supposed to have children due to the strains it would put on her body. Although there is a risk and against her mother’s will Shelby is determined to go though with the pregnancy. In the movie Shelby must choose between having a baby, which is one of the greatest moments in a woman’s life, or

Street car named desire The street car name desire, is a play set in New Orleans after the second world war that is mainly based in a conflict between two strong people with certain different characters and culture who have different points of view about things. The first one is a masculine person with a well constructed body and impolite as well which is visible since the beginning of the play when he heaves the same of meat at Stella and has also a low and weak usage grammar which is noticeable when he talks to his friends or wife. On the other hand, Blanche, who is a female, is a highbrow class and a well educated person as we can see when she mentions famous people like Edgar allan Poe, she is daintily dressed with a fluffy bodice costume and is very self confident and has a high level of

The Movie steel of Magnolias is about six women that come together in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton, newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility of losing her only daughter, M'Lynn Eatenton looks to her four closest friends for strength and laughter as she battles her deepest fear of death in order to join Shelby in celebrating the miracle of new life.

Imagine you are a lawyer tasked with an impossible case, and everybody in your community is against you, but still there is a shred of hope you cling to. What might that be you ask? That to which you cling are your morals. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch had been given the Tom Robinson case, where a black man was convicted of raping a white woman. As a single father of two children, he continues to reinforce his values throughout the trial and during his daunting task of raising his children. In To Kill A Mockingbird what Harper Lee suggests about the nature of morals is that you should try to stand up for what you believe in even if people oppose or reject your ideals. Even when faced with an insurmountable opposition you should stand up for your morals because in the end if your don't follow your beliefs you are just contributing to the problem. We should try to create a voice for what we believe in and impress that upon the next generation so they can continue to exercise their beliefs to make the world a better place.

Sometimes opposites do attract. In the book The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines they are on a show called “Fixer Upper” where they fix houses up and flip them. Chip and Joanna meet when Joanna was working at her dad's shop in Waco, Texas. Throughout the book, Chip and Joanna did have there ups and downs, but they always managed to get through it. Sometimes it’s weird the direction you think your life is going to take you, and the way it ends up going.

In the novel Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry, Daisy Werthan is forced to deal with a sudden change to her normal lifestyle, which is a significant struggle for her considering she is a very stubborn traditional woman. After wrecking her car, Miss Daisy is forced to have her own personal driver who is hired by her son, Boolie. Throughout the novel, Miss Daisy and her driver, Hoke Colburn, develop a strong friendship. Throughout the novel, Daisy Werthan experiences an evolution of her character. She changes in many ways throughout the novel and reveals herself as a kind woman, especially towards Hoke, who was originally a threat to her stable and independent life. Miss Daisy eventually begins to accept help from Hoke throughout the novel, however she still remains independent and does not accept assistance graciously. Although Miss Daisy undergoes change in the novel she remains the same in some aspects of her personality and character. Miss Daisy remains set in her ways and doesn’t want her life to change, she is a bossy individual and she remains an independent woman who will rarely accept help from anyone except Hoke.

The prompt I chose for this assignment is to rewrite a chapter from a different character’s point of view. I chose to do this prompt because rewriting chapter four in Johnny’s point of view would give a better description before the events that occur after. This chapter is the start of when Johnny and Pony had run away to the old church. It is also the start of when their worlds are completely changed. This chapter starts things that have many significant meanings throughout the book. It started a chain of events that shaped The Outsiders.

In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, there are two social groups: the Greasers and the Socs. The Socs are the more popular, and rich kids, and the Greasers are the poorer and less popular kids. Throughout the book, the Socs treat the Greasers horribly. Because of these two social classes, the protagonist, Ponyboy, and his friends, who are all greasers, feel like outsiders. I believe that everyone has, at one point in their life, felt like an outsider.

Mitch shows to have a caring nature by taking care of and worrying about his ill mother and comforting Blanche. Mitch has an awkward, shy, but gentlemanly feel to him as shown when near Blanche and regularly asking for Blanche’s permission before kissing her to make such she feels comfortable with it, as well as wanting to bring home a nice girl to meet his mother before she passes. Mitch has a trusting heart as shown when Blanche easily deceive him and did not believe Stanley, at first, when he told the truth about blanche. Even though she lied to him, Mitch still tried to help Blanche when the doctors proceeded to take Blanche away and cried when unable to. Mitch has a massive bone-structure, a muscular physique as he enjoys excising, and

Doctor Seuss once said, “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” This can be taken to mean that adults are not more than big people with the brain of a child. So there is no reason that children like Scout and Jem Finch should not be able to understand them. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee peruses the idea that children and adults view the world in different manors. It is evident that children see the world more coherently and clearly than adults, and that adults are more prejudiced.

Courage is an often hard to find quality in most people. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee it is especially noticeable in many of the protagonists. It is a book written in the 1960s that depicts a segregated town during the Great Depression, called Maycomb County. In this town an African American man is accused of raping a white woman. Since everyone is allowed the right to a trial, he is assigned a lawyer named Atticus Finch. This novel is narrated by Atticus’s daughter, Scout. A little girl with not much experience in the real world and no idea about the racist society she is raised in. Throughout the novel, readers witness Scout as she comes to new realizations about the people around her and the bravery she must put forth to survive the trial with her family. The characterization of Scout and Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrates that courage is often portrayed through following one’s own morals instead of conceding to Society’s.

To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been banned by some school districts since its publication in 1960, but it is also loved and treasured as a classic “full of wisdom” (Greitens) by millions. It is a story of learning to accept others, learning to compromise, learning to be uncomfortable in certain situations. Governor Greitens of Missouri writes to his sons about To Kill a Mockingbird: “part of the wisdom of the book is how the characters respond to… troubling words. But you can’t appreciate their actions without feeling the discomfort. The author wanted you to wince.That kind of discomfort is how you grow….Discomfort is the warm-up act of growth.” Lee helps Scout, Jem, Dill, and readers grow through the themes of social expectations, rumors, and racism.

Famous philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli stated, “I’m not interested in maintaining the status quo; I want to overthrow it.” This is the mentality that everyone should strive to advocate. People uphold the status quo because they are comfortable within the community and fear that not abiding by it would lead to being outcasted by the community. Society is quick to judge others when they have a unbreakable mindset about a group someone may come from, the color of their skin, or who they associate with. In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, many people are victims of prejudice in the town of Maycomb. Atticus Finch takes on case involving a black man accused of raping a white woman, and throughout the novel, the inhabitants of Maycomb are revealed to have prejudice views on numerous residents of the town. Maycomb exhibits long standing prejudice, which shows that people will ostracize others to maintain the status quo despite their individual morals.