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Peer and family relationships help to change and shape both the identity of Josie and Amal from the novels Looking for Alibrandi and Does my head look big in this? Identity is who someone is and their characteristics. Everyone has an identity although finding that identity can be a challenge but something that has to be done. Identity often changes for the better and is necessary in life. Having positive and negative relationships are a key to changing someones identity. Learning from negative relationships will help create identity, rather than just believing all relationships will be positive.

Despite being a very diverse literature genre in terms of influence and inspiration, North American literature encompasses many works that share some very common thematic elements. Though there are several themes shared, one in particular can be found in most any work – the importance of identity. Particularly in some selected pieces yet to be named, identity is a very important element, not only because it is a necessity for a main character in any work of literature, but because these works express ideas about identity as being very individualistic – as opposed to being a mere result of cultural surroundings. Zora Neal Hurtson’s Their

Have you ever felt like you wee never afraid to speak your mind? That is what Jean Louise Finch(Scout) felt like throughout this book. It is full of old things that Scout has missed out on, and worse things yet to come. Go Set a watchman was written by the now deceased Harper Lee. This book shows what the south is all about: money and drama.

Identity is a state of mind in which someone recognizes/identifies their character traits that leads to finding out who they are and what they do and not that of someone else. In other words it's basically who you are and what you define yourself as being. The theme of identity is often expressed in books/novels or basically any other piece of literature so that the reader can intrigue themselves and relate to the characters and their emotions. It's useful in helping readers understand that a person's state of mind is full of arduous thoughts about who they are and what they want to be. People can try to modify their identity as much as they want but that can never change. The theme of identity is a very strenuous topic to understand

In many pieces of literature, identity is continuously a theme that pops up. Whether it is in movies from Disney, or books from Hawthorne, or even in life: identity has crawled its way into being one of the most important theme. As Elastigirl from The Incredibles once said, “your identity is your valuable possession. Protect it.” After thinking about that quote for hours, the one question that continuously kept running around in my mind was, how do we know what our identity is?

She also wrote a few short essays , including “Romance and High Adventure” (1983), devoted to Alabama history. Go Set a Watchman, written before To Kill a Mockingbird but essentially a sequel featuring Scout as a grow woman who returns to her childhood home in Alabama to visit her father,, was released in 2015. Although Harper was reported to be working on a second novel, no other novel by Harper was ever seen in print again. On November 6,2007. President George W. Bush presented to Harper the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her services to literature. She was also awarded for the National Medal of the Arts in 2010. Refusing to appear for interviews or anything to do with her popular novel, Lee moved to Monroeville, Alabama where she later died on February 19, 2016.

Go Set A Watchman, by Harper Lee created false impressions and disillusion to readers with the drastic change of Atticus Finch’s character from the first book, To Kill A Mockingbird. It strengthened the topic of discrimination of blacks after just reading the captivating plot of Atticus taking a stand on racism. Atticus was a hero to all races in To Kill A Mockingbird and then sadly known for his racist behavior in Go Set A Watchman. The role reversal of Atticus Finch left questions to his morals and values. Atticus’s daughter, Jean Louise at the age of 26 found him in a meeting with Henry attending Maycomb citizens’ council, an organization dedicated to preserving segregation in the South. She could not wrap her head around the deceit and lies that her father had sheltered her from in her childhood. Jean always looked up to Atticus and his stance for equality. Atticus’ views were hard for Jean to define as she was growing up into adulthood. “Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?” (Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman.) Atticus believed the world was only for white people. “She felt sick. Her stomach shut, she began to tremble.” (Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman.) Previously, he claimed to want fair treatment for all races in To Kill A Mockingbird when he defends Tom Robinson, a black male who was accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. "Scout," said Atticus, "nigger-lover is just one of those

What exactly is a self-narrative or in other words an identity? Could it be described as someone’s life story and their individual uniqueness? A self-narrative is a broad topic that has more meaning just one. In order to get a wide range of knowledge about a self-narrative one has to understand the different self-making narratives. In the stories Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta, Being Prey by Val Plumwood, Nightmare by Malcolm X, express self-making narratives by stating how their experiences have transformed their self-identities originally. This occurs when External and internal beliefs are altered, turning points in our lives occur, creating a self-narrative full of distinctiveness. All of these stories stated above all show

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is the eye-opening and long awaited sequel to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In the sequel, we see Jean Louise Finch, a 26-year-old writer, visiting her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama. Her annual visits home include catching up with her father Atticus, Uncle Jack, her friend Henry, the people of the town and the memories it contains. Ever since she moved to New York, her relationship with Maycomb has been the same in her mind, but things are changing. Her hometown and its people are beginning to adjust to the new ways of the world around them, including increased segregation. Now Jean Louise, or Scout, must come to terms with these changes she never imagined would happen, including her father. Go Set a Watchman contains many strengths and weaknesses that affect the overall presentation of the book. The strengths make the book what it is and is very important to the way we perceive it, while the weaknesses take away from the flow and understanding of the book.

It did not go through publication however, because her editor thought it would be better if the narrator of the story, Scout, was a child. So Go Set a Watchman was put aside and discarded until Lee’s lawyer Tonja Carter found the old manuscript in a safe deposit box in February of 2015. Because Lee was 88 years old at the time the manuscript was found and was struggling with numerous health issues, society wondered if it was really Lee’s decision of publishing the book or not. But according to Lee, “"[She’s] alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions to Watchman." (“Harper Lee

What makes your identity? Is it your past, your family, your hopes, dreams, fears? It is all that and more. Your identity makes up who you are. It is always growing and ever-changing. Your identity is what makes you human. Finding it can be a struggle, maintaining it can be even harder. Katniss and Peeta in The Hunger Games were two examples of finding and holding onto your identity. Katniss was the girl who had to grow up to fast. She had to learn how to provide for her family, to be strong. Katniss thought to do this she had to create a wall to hold back all the childish things that were apart her. She put on a mask to grow up but to also protect herself from those who would wish to abuse her innocence. The mask, the wall they kept her

Your identity is as simple as who you are. Yet there are a few things that can change this such as new beliefs, or certain life experiences. We see examples of these in two different pieces of literature, “Araby” by James Joyce and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot.

Through the eyes of Jean Louise Finch(Scout) a young girl in the Depression, Harper Lee explores the prejudice and fear in her famed novel to Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the novel, Scout grows up in the small town gamboling around with her elder brother Jem and her friend Dill.

Especially during their teenage years, when they move to another country or when their country faces a crisis. I am a teenager, and I know for a fact that one of the main reasons I find it difficult to create an identity is the amount of possibilities of who I can be. Also, most people my age face this struggle and feel pressured to create an identity and stick to it before growing up too quickly. It sometimes feels like a commitment, to be this person and keep being this person you created, so much that you forget to just be yourself and do whatever makes you happy. “I was an alien in the sitting-room” Moniza states. The feeling of alienation is inevitable in cases like these. I think that another chapter with conflicts regarding identity is when a person has parents with different nationalities or has a multi-cultural background, they often seem to struggle in finding their true

Identity defines a person’s character, whether it is given by others or made by themselves. It carries people to success but also pulls others into a whirlpool of failure and misery — more often hardships than not. Authors tend to write about such matters to bring them into light. Many stories and poems base their entire themes and main ideas around the specific topic of identity. The poems “Richard Cory” by, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and “Mirror” by, Sylvia Plath, for example, both use identity to tell an emotional story but achieve it in various ways.