The 5th Wave Character Analysis

In the book “The Juvie Three” by Gordan Korman there are two characters named Gecko and Mr. Healy. They both overcame major obstacles throughout the book. A character named Gecko in the book goes to a halfway home ran by Mr. Healy. Mr. Healy got put into the hospital after getting knocked off the balcony, and he got hurt badly and lost his memory for a while. Both Gecko and Mr.Healy came over big obstacles in the book by working hard, not giving up and not going the easy way.

This quote in the first chapter of the book sets the overall tone. The author Tim O’Brien uses his language through out the book in an extremely straightforward manner. He does not sugar coat the way going to war and being in a war is. He does not use stories of heroes,

One of the majors put it like this, “After the first tour, I’d have the godamnedest nightmares. You, the works, Bloody stuff, bad fights, guys dying, me dying…I thought they were the worst,” he said. “But I sort of miss them now.” (341). The soldier grieves his old dreams because they made him feel normal. This situation is ironic. Kids or adults that have nightmares want them to stop happening, while this soldier wished he could have them. The major also had a dream where he was being tested in Quantico with an aptitude test: “They’re handing out questionnaires for an aptitude test. I take one and look at it, and the first question says, “How many kinds of animals can you kill with your hands?” (341). Being asked about killing animals with your hands isn’t a normal thing, but to the soldiers it was. Sometimes soldiers found familiar activities to attempt to feel normal in a broken circumstance. A grounds crew of soldiers was dropped off in a rice paddy by the jungle. Upon their arrival, shots were fired at them from the tree line. They crouched behind a wall to wait for gunships to rescue them. All of a sudden Herr heard a Jimi Hendrix song : “when I suddenly heard a an electric guitar shooting right in my ear and a mean, rapturous black voice singing, coaxing, ‘Now c’mon baby, stop actin’ so crazy’ and when I got it all together I turned to see a grinning black corporal

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.

Does seeing the life of a character (within the context this work of literature) unfold before one's eyes mean that one could be made to understand the themes presented with ease? Robertson Davies' world famous novel Fifth Business follows this template in an attempt to present the themes within the text. For the purposes of greater specification only the lives of Dunstable Ramsay and Percy Boyd Staunton will be analyzed in depth due to length constraints held upon this essay. Furthermore, through the analysis of Ramsay's life with respect to the hero's quest for enlightenment; outlined by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With A Thousand Faces, will be examined in order to further understanding of the themes in the novel. Through the tales of Dunstanble

Imagine a novel or a movie that is about war that has not even one change in a character’s personality. Change is really important in many novels and movies for instance in Batman VS Superman: Dawn of Justice, the theme of change takes a huge role in the movie because by the end of the movie Batman and Superman unite after being against each other or in George Orwell’s allegory about the Russian Revolution “Animal Farm” the theme of change takes a huge role also because in the beginning the pigs order the animals in the farm to rebel against their bad farmer Mr. Jones and Humanity but by the end the pigs became friends with the humans as if no rebellion happened. The of change is really important for all the stories that are about fights or war. In “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien the theme of change is one the most important themes and without it Tim O’Brien will not make a good point about war’s effect on people and if a person wants to join a war he or

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” (Mary Shelley, Frankenstein). War can be a drastic change for the life of a person as war can ultimately morph them into a slave of the battlefield. In the book The Things They Carried, Tim O’ Brien describes the experiences of people in the Vietnam War and how they have become changed individuals from their past lives before combat. War pummels you with things that transcend your typical escapades and the more you try to understand them, the more you get sucked into the void of combat. The increased time the characters are in the battlefield, the more they have to think about it, thus shaping who they are. Only time can determine how much war can affect you.

The impact of childhood events determines one’s character in the course of one’s life. This is particularly true in the life of the principal characters of Robertson Davies’ Fifth Business, where one incident, the throwing of a snowball, decides the future of Boy, Dunstan, and Paul. Whether or not a person can move beyond his past has a profound effect on individuals as they age. In the novel, psychological well-being during childhood development is one of the central themes that shapes the characters. Boy Staunton, who is born into the richest family in the town of Deptford, grows from an irresponsible and spoiled boy to an ambitious and arrogant tycoon. His character epitomizes the way many rich people behave when they are unwilling to accept

The novel, Tomorrow When the War Began, by John Marsden, tells the story of a brave group of unlikely heroes who journey out to camp in ‘Hell’. Throughout this novel, the characters are able to change the way they act, feel and treat others. This opens up new, stronger relationships in the group, and creates an unbreakable bond between certain characters.

A powerful quote in the novel Pulse by Jeremy Robinson is said directly after Pierce discovers that he is invincible, but at the same time savage. He looks into a reflection in a metal cabinet and sees “green-tinged skin and bright yellow eyes. As the face in the reflection mirrored the expression of horror on his own face, he realized the awful truth. He was the monster,” (Robinson 154). This was a powerful quote because throughout his entire time working at Manifold, Pierce thinks of Ridley as a horrible person, and a monster. Now that Pierce looked was literally a monster and Ridley was still human, the roles were reversed, and this is a traumatic change for Pierce. However, this quote also puts things in perspective for the reader. It

In this essay, I will discuss how Tim O’Brien’s works “The Things They Carried” and “If I Die in a Combat Zone” reveal the individual human stories that are lost in war. In “The Things They Carried” O’Brien reveals the war stories of Alpha Company and shows how human each soldier is. In “If I Die in a Combat Zone” O’Brien tells his story with clarity, little of the dreamlike quality of “Things They Carried” is in this earlier work, which uses more blunt language that doesn’t hold back. In “If I Die” O’Brien reveals his own personal journey through war and what he experienced. O’Brien’s works prove a point that men, humans fight wars, not ideas. Phil Klay’s novel “Redeployment” is another novel that attempts to humanize soldiers in war. “Redeployment” is an anthology series, each chapter attempts to let us in the head of a new character – set in Afghanistan or in the United States – that is struggling with the current troubles of war. With the help of Phil Klay’s novel I will show how O’Brien’s works illustrate and highlight each story that make a war.

Where innumerous catastrophic events are simultaneously occurring and altering the mental capability of its viewers eternally, war is senseless killing. The participants of war that are ‘fortunate’ enough to survive become emotionally distraught civilians. Regardless of the age of the people entering war, unless one obtains the mental capacity to witness numerous deaths and stay unaffected, he or she is not equipped to enter war. Kurt Vonnegut portrays the horrors of war in Slaughterhouse Five, through the utilization of satire, symbolism, and imagery.

The first theme, “war cannot change who a person really is at their core,” recurs during several incidences which reinstates the significance. For example, Ben tries to make Ringer smile despite being in the midst of the end of the world. When Cassie and Sammy reunite, he goes back to his five-year-old self despite his being in boot camp for months prior, and lastly, Cassie and Evan flirt

Authors in many instances use the main elements in the story such as setting and narrative to prove a point in the story. For example, writers often use characters, their actions, and their interaction with other characters to support or prove a theme. In the short story “Our Thirteenth Summer”, Barry Callaghan effectively uses characters to develop the theme that childhood is fragile and easily influenced. One of the ways that Callaghan makes effective use of characters to develop the theme is by describing the tension between Bobbie and his parents. This usage of characters supports the theme because Bobbie’s childhood is no longer free to do what he wishes, but has to bow down to his parents’

"You just don 't know," she said. "You hide in this little fortress, behind wire and sandbags, and you don 't know what it 's all about. Sometimes I want to eat this place. Vietnam. I want to swallow the whole country—the dirt, the death—I just want to eat it and have it there inside me. That 's how I feel. It 's like . . . this appetite. I get scared sometimes—lots of times—but it 's not bad. You know? I feel close to myself. When I 'm out there at night, I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and my fingernails, everything, it 's like I 'm full of electricity and I 'm glowing in the dark—I 'm on fire almost—I 'm burning away into nothing—but it doesn 't matter because I know exactly who I am. You can 't feel like that anywhere else."” (O’ Brien 80-81). Tim O’ Brien shows how being in contact with the war can change a person so pure and innocent to a person who isn’t in connection with themselves and is forever trapped inside their own mind. Also it shows how the people who can’t handle the rough environment of war can have a terrible reaction and loose themselves. He also shows how the war changes you mentally making it hard for you to tell if the is the real you or just a persona you took when you couldn’t handle it anymore and needed to mask your broken soul.