The Beginning Of Everything Character Analysis

Everyone has to mature someday Anita, main character of the book, knows that she, too, must as well, before it’s too late. With the SIM invading along with the dictator, El Jefe, looming over her family, just how fast can she do so? Anita is a twelve-year old girl living in the Dominican Republic during the 1960’s. In the book, Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez, her family is secretly opposing the government and their dictator, El Jefe (Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina), so they can someday become a free nation. Over time, in the novel, Anita does grow up, but her change is gradual. Maturing and dealing with trauma is hard for her, just like would be for anyone.

I was pleased to have attended a lecture cosponsored by the Ethics Center, the Fresno State office of the president, the Fresno Bee and Valley PBS. The lecture began with Dr. Castro recognizing a few leaders on campus, including a past Fresno State president, Dr. John D. Welty and campus volunteer Mary Castro. Dr. Castro then mentioned a few things about Mr. Brooks stating that he is a columnist for the New York Times and an analyst for the PBS “News Hour” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Dr. Brooks also teaches at Yale University, one the finest university in the country. Dr. Castro continued by saying that he learned that Mr. Brooks office hours are from 9am to 1pm and how “cool” it sounded to him. I was surprised how many people attended the event. I was fortunate to find a seat. David Brooks mentioned how he has some remote roots in the Central Valley because his father grew in Chowchilla, CA but Mr. Brooks grew in New York.

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.

With a wind chill of a hundred degrees below zero and a rapidly diminishing supply of oxygen, travelers are ascending their way to attain their ultimate destination, the summit of Everest. Jon Krakauer confronts a countless number of physical and psychological obstacles with his comrades along the ceaseless expedition. Into Thin Air is a reflection of physical and psychological violence because of the treacherous environment, varying experience level of each climber, advertisement of Everest, and the mental conflict within each individual.

"Anything Goes" is a comedy, romance, and drama filled musical. In this play there are several different characters with their own plots and problems. All the plots later intertwine somehow as the characters interact with each other. The main character, Reno is a stage performer who is the main performer in "The Angels", a group of "evangelist" showgirls. Reno is in love with Billy. Billy is a businessman working for Elisha Whitney. Billy is also in love with a girl named Hope Harcore. Hope is engaged to a wealthy English man named Lord Evelyn, but she secretly loves Billy. Billy is supposed to be in New York doing work after he drops Elisha's passport off, but then he realizes Hope is on the boat. He sneaks onto the boat using an extra passport and ticket from a "pastor" who is actually a famous mobster named Moon Face Martin. He is trying to win Hope over. Reno and Moon are helping Billy stay under cover while getting to Hope. All of these characters interact which each other as they are all on the same boat and all have different purposes. In a turn of events, Reno and Evelyn fall in love. This helps Hope and Billy be able to get married, but Hope's mom, Evangeline, insists Hope marries Evelyn for his money. Elisha ends up receiving a large profit for a deal and Evangeline Harcore changes her mind. A triple marriage ceremony concludes the musical as Hope and Billy, Reno and Evelyn, and Evangeline and Elisha become married couples. This show is filled with plot twists,

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines takes place in 1940’s, a time period of segregation. This was a time when blacks were often at fault for a crime they did not commit, such as what transpired in this book. A man named Jefferson was convicted of a crime he did not commit and was insulted during court. Now his family, friends, and even Jefferson himself were trying to prove the white community wrong about their beliefs that a black man is unequal and lacks dignity against Jefferson and the black community. Not only is Jefferson going through a period of suffering on death row, but others, like Grant Wiggins and Miss Emma, are also facing their struggles and they will try to prove others wrong and redeem themselves through knowledge,

All refugees, the circumstances notwithstanding, face immense hardship throughout their lives. In time, these hardships give way to new opportunities, dreams, and perspectives, as even in the face of suffering, one always retains their intrinsic self. Kim Ha, the protagonist in Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again, experienced this through her family’s daring escape from war-torn South Vietnam. Consequently, Inside Out and Back Again serves as a fitting title for her story.

In the book Okay For Now, one of the main characters, Doug shows a lot of traits including being nice,proud and even sometime being mean. The book is written by Gary D. Schmidt. Doug is around 13 years old. He lives in a town called Marysville in New York. He faces many problems during this book and he has to find a way to get through them. He uses art to get his difficulties out of the way.

In our society today, we have forgotten about the art of talking with others face to face. When we talk with others, we can learn about their life lessons. When I was talking with Jim P., I learned an important life lesson. Jim P. said, "Get over the brick wall." Jim went on to talk about his wife dying from pancreatic cancer and how that was his brick wall. Since her death, he has gotten over the brick wall. Jim said that he's living life and has accepted the fact that she is gone. In the book The Last Lecture, Randy faces a similar brick wall situation. Randy is dying from pancreatic cancer, and tries to get over the brick wall. However, his brick wall is pancreatic cancer, which is a severe cancer. Unfortunately, Randy did not get over the

"We get pulled out of our comfort zone to help shed our lukewarm nature, eventually trusting God in all of our circumstances"~Taryn Barnes

Subject 12-M sounds much more like a science fiction character than a refugee fleeing Communist Hungary, but do not let that fool you into thinking his recollection of Hungary is fantasy. This individual has displayed a great disdain towards Communism, especially between the years of 1944 and 1945. Just a juvenile during these years, Subject 12-M found himself within the Soviet Union’s sprawling territory following the conclusion of World War II. With the annexation of Hungary into the Soviet Union came the arrival of the Russian soldiers into the country. On their way through Hungary, establishing Leninist Communism, the soldiers spared no sympathy in raping, looting, and plundering just about everything they could get their hands on.

In the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, we are introduced to the Bundren family. This isn’t the typical family you usually read about and they are far from the normal day to day families you encounter in real life. In the novel we see a very strange and distinct relationship between the members of the family. The most interesting character of the Bundren family is Darl. Darl is the closest thing to a narrator in the story. Due to the fact that Darl is nothing like the rest of his family his relationships with his family seem to be very negative, all the relationships he has except one. The one relationship that really stands out in the story is the one between Darl and Cash. The reason that this relationship stands out is because

"We attract who we are and repel what we are not, which is who you are, what you love, and why it has your attention with attraction." ~ Jon Barnes

Hi Anthony it's nice to meet you. I am hoping the same as you to be able to earn a high passing grade. I am also hoping to improve my writing skills as well. I can agree with you on being able to talk about almost any topic for a long period of time, but writing it out can be hard. I hope you have a great quarter and you earn the A that you are working

Ezra Faulkner had everything going for him varsity tennis, popularity and a girlfriend but that's when everything hit him all at once. Ezra’s life was beginning to change dramatically, his girlfriend cheats on him, he shatters his knee and falls in love with the new girl Cassidy Thorpe. Life for Ezra changed and as time went on he realized his life had greater possibilities awaiting him. The believe the theme of the book is things are never as bad as someone think they might be. The plot supports the theme because when everything changed for Ezra he thought the worst was to come and couldn't find himself. But he realized throughout the book that things really aren’t as bad if you create the best out of the situation.