The Girl Perseverance Quotes

People try to hard to be popular in Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. Stargirl becomes Susan to try to be popular, but it did not work. The most important lesson that we learned from Stargirl is that popularity does not matter, no matter how much you are hated.

You start to cower on the ground of the dirty marketplace of Kabul as several members of the Taliban creep past with swords on their hilts. You see one of them slide their eyes to you, and suddenly fear floods your body when you realize that he could kill you in an instant. You accept your fate, but instead of a sword landing down on you, he shakes a letter in your face. “Read this. You are a letter reader, correct?” You are safe… This time. Perseverance is a steady path of persistence despite obstacles. The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis is about the struggles of a Afghan girl named Parvana and her family and how she overcomes them. Parvana shows perseverance throughout the entire book by overcoming the obstacles she faces. ava

The phrase “Why fit in when you’re born to stand out?” (Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl) is false in the context of how Stargirl acts. Throughout the novel, Stargirl acts differently from her classmates, which has negative effect on her classmates. During the novel Stargirl cheers for the opposing team- encouraging others to do so as well- and acts in a manner that other students see as desirable. The way that her actions affect the Mica High students is discouraging and competition and causing students to abandon their self-identity, respectively.

I have chosen to read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. I have chosen this book based on my personal interest and interest in this specific genre, which is fiction, young adult literature, and children's literature. This book takes place at Mica Area High School in Arizona. Leo Borlock is your average eleventh grader, and he is the only one who accepts Stargirl for who she is. Sarah "Stargirl" Caraway is a unique tenth grader, and she is rejected by everybody in the school. She dances in the rain, plays the ukulele at lunch, and wears strange outfits. Stargirl had small bursts of popularity, but they've never lasted long. Soon after Leo accepts Stargirl, they began a relationship together. As the relationship

“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart,”, Anne says in lines 1928-1931. You’re probably mentally conceiving, how could anyone still believe that all people are civil? It’s quite simple, Anne was an exceptional puerile girl, thirteen to be precise, at the time she was driven into obnubilating. She left a place where she could run and play and make as much noise as possible, she just wanted to do that again. Another reason is, she was highly optimistic. When reading the play you learn quite expeditiously that Anne is genuinely ebullient. She was the type of gal who could never sit “buttoned up”, you could say.She was always endeavoring to find the effulgent sides to her situations. She was always trying

Perseverance is the only thing that will truly keep the world alive. If humans had given up instead of persevering America would not exist, tyranny would reign and slavery would still exist. Several characters throughout literary history, such as Odysseus from Homers’ Odyssey, and Louis Zamperini in Unbroken are the prime examples of perseverance, and they did it through personal strength and determination to not be broken. After all, it is better to persevere and live a hellish life than to relinquish that life in order to live more comfortably in the hands of those who seek to degrade the soul.

Broken; to be separated into parts or pieces by being, hit, damaged, etc. Also meaning, to not be working properly. In the novel, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, it is shown that Louie Zamperini was challenged immensely throughout his whole life. There is no doubt that he was damaged, broken, and torn down to achieve what he did. From the beginning of Zamperini’s life, he has pushed himself to his limit, and beyond. As a child, Zamperini, ran everyday to reach his goal of running in the Olympics, even though he was told he was never going to make it. When he was in the military, his plane crashed and he was stranded in the ocean for 47 days. In spite of the fact that he made it out alive from being stranded, he was captured by the Japanese and

Louie Zamperini was an Olympic athlete turned into a prisoner of war. Louie had a passion for running. He took his passion through school, and to the Olympics. His competitors knew he was big competition, so they tried everything they could to break him, even breaking his rib. Louie then joined the army to serve in WWII. Shortly after, he was captured by the Japanese, and held as a prisoner of war. Louie Zamperini, from Laura Hillenbrand’s book, called Unbroken, represents two strong character traits; perseverance, and optimism.

Perseverance is an important theme to A Long Walk To Water. The first example of Perseverance is when the war broke out, and Slava ran away from his village for safety, wondering if he will ever see his family again. Salva still kept walking thinking how his family would have been proud. The second example of Perseverance is when Mariel disappeared and was thought to be dead. Salva was heartbroken that now his only friend was gone, but fought through the sorrow and kept going toward his goal, knowing Mariel would have done the same.

This quote reveals the character trait of determination in Jeanette. It demonstrates how Jeanette is willing to do anything to better her life, a common motif throughout the book. Before this quote, Jeanette discusses how people look down on Ginnie Sue because she is the town whore, which is degrading. At this point in her life, Jeanette is rummaging through trash for food and is barely surviving. The chicken not only represents food, but the ability for Ginnie Sue to provide for her children.

“Watch me now. Pay close attention. Survival of the fittest, baby.” Never fully trust someone, always pay close attention to every detail and that’s how you will survive in life. Beware that Girl by Teresa Toten is a thriller fiction young adult novel about Kate O’Brien, a senior at Waverly Academy, who has been the scholarship kid who has the best grades for her entire life. She lies to anyone in order to get where she wants which is Yale. On her journey she targets Olivia Sumner in order to get out of poverty and in the popular girls group but she finds her cold calculations ruined when she actually finds out how good it feels to have a person you can at least somewhat trust and have them trust you back.

Over the mountains, in the city of Kabul in the marketplace, tea boys running around in the hot sun selling gum, tea, and cigarettes. But in the corner next to a building there is a young boy sitting on a blanket reading and writing letters. But what might think of an average boy, there is actually a girl trying to help out her family. Parvana is that boy on the blanket. Perseverance is defined as someone whom is going through a difficult time but manage to stay strong. In the book, The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis, is about having hope even when times don’t look so good. The Breadwinner reveals how a girl, Parvana, shows perseverance throughout the story.

“People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you but it’s not where you start, it’s how strong you are in the end.”~Unknown The quote is telling the reader that no matter what is going on in life, it does not matter as long as you end strong. Dictionary defines perseverance as “Doing something difficult in achieving success.” An synonym is “Countenance” An antonym is “Discontinuation” The common purpose is perseverance. Perseverance is important to literature by how the characters change over hard times in their life. In this world perseverance is shown by if bullied. Then stand up to that bully to achieve success through what people have done in the past. Another real world that perseverance shows how people give up because they are to afraid of rising up to make a change on achieve that next step to life. Maya Angelou is a girl that did not speak for five years because she thought her voice would kill people. When Temple Grandin was only four years old, she did not speak until she went to school and got help from her teacher and mother on her journey to define herself. The literature Warriors Don’t Cry is about how nine Black Americans went to an all white school. This is where their life got brutal until the last straw. The authors use nonfiction literature to influence the reader through perseverance by showing how much the literature grows from a start of brutal bullying, until the end where they achieve success.

Quarta is underrated because she treated differently. For example, at lunch the students have to catch their food, but the teachers sometimes give Quarta food because she can't catch it, which Quarta said that it made her feel like a baby. It makes her stand out from the crowd and kids will shun her for it. In addition, a lot of kids make fun of her and call her a freak. How would it make you feel if you got called a freak just because you looked different from everyone else? Furthermore, Quarta explained that her friends “Would be nice to her, but it was more like how you treat a pet than a person.” For instance, pets are treated with kindness but are told what to do, if Quarta was treated like a pet then that couldn’t have been a good experience with her “friends.” This proves that, Quarta is underestimated because she is treated differently.

In the book Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow, the theme of determination stands out to the main characters in the book as well as the reader. Proving to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that Marcus, Van, Jolu, and Darryl were not in the wrong definitely was a challenge. The things they had to do were very crucial. It started off with them not knowing anything about what had happened with the terrorist attack, to being innocent until proven guilty, and lastly to them being the only hope to DHS for finding evidence and winning their victory.