In the Novel “The Girl who loved Tom Gordon” by Stephen King, a nine year old girl named Trisha is lost and alone in the forest by herself. Her mom and her older brother abandon her in the forest by forgetting her when she went to go pee. To help her not lose her sanity, she uses the voice of her favorite baseball player, Tom Gordon, while he is talking on her Walkman. She somehow survives and spends several days in the forest until she is found by a local hunter. This story is important because it show the willingness of a person to find light at the end of a dark tunnel. She survived by herself when all the odds were stacked against her. She didn’t have a lot of food supply with her and she doesn’t have any survival training. She is a young girl at only nine years old so she didn’t have a lot of body weight to compensate for her body going in “survival mode.” “You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now” (King, 142). She started to have flashbacks to her childhood. She realized that she was in a bad situation and had to make the the best of it. She could either survive and somehow make it how …show more content…
The reader will be scared for the girl because they won’t know if she will survive or not. “Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way” (King, 113). The forest sets a dramatic tone and a dark setting for the story because of the dangers in the wild and she is alone. When she first gets lost, she risked being found by leaving the place where she was last seen. She starts to travel in the forest. This decision worked in her favor because she was found by the hunter. She also displays her braveness near the end of the story when she encounters a bear. She stands up to the bear and even throws her walkman like a MLB pitcher to scare it. The hunter fires a shot to make the bear
Charley is very brave because she was doughtful to go in the wouds to tame Coyote the wild dog but she went into the woods anyway.She was doughtful because she hasn’t gone into the woods since her mom died and her mom spent most of her time in the woods taking pictures with Charley.She is also brave because of the actions when she had to tell her dad about Coyote because she thought that her dad wouldn’t let
(Chapter 14,93)"It shows that she is brave because she wants to stay up all night so that she can protect her sisters and tried to purposely forget what she was told to protect her sisters. She also sacrificed her sleep to keep her sisters safe from the chupacabras. This is why her special characteristic is her bravery. This also shows how she uses her bravery to succeed in this part of the
The forest setting, with its dense karri trees and remote wilderness, becomes a metaphor for the characters' emotional and psychological isolation. It reflects the harshness of their circumstances and the relentless struggle for survival amidst unforgiving natural forces. Winton's descriptive prose captures the haunting beauty and desolation of the landscape, evoking a sense of foreboding and unease that mirrors the characters' inner turmoil. The young man's solitary journeys into the forest to gather wood highlight the isolation and loneliness he experiences, accentuated by the absence of human companionship and the oppressive silence of the wilderness. By immersing the characters in this stark and unforgiving setting, Winton underscores the pervasive sense of isolation and vulnerability that permeates their lives, reinforcing the theme of societal
In the beginning of the book, that she explained her experience and life, which she was struggling because she showed her emotions
to a less her father taught her, or a moment of weakness he helped her overcome. It is undeniable
There is danger lurking in the shadows of the dark mountains and it threatens to destroy what's left of her life and her heart.
In this quote, she realizes her attitude was bad when she was with her family, and since they died she realizes she didn’t stand in good faith.
Scout shows courage by being on her father's side even though people we out to get her because of it. They both show courage out of being
This quote demonstrates that if she is scared she is not showing it. She was ready for whatever she was about to hear. Courage goes well with her determination because she does whatever she has to do and fear doesn't get in the way. Resilience shines in her personality. She never gives up even when she gets knocked down again and again. "
In the story "The girl who loved Tom Gordon" it works with the theme man vs. nature. It demonstrates the unimportance of a single human life, while at the same time shows the limits of a person’s strength and motivation to exist. Trisha’s experience shows her struggle against the strength of nature and her potential to live pleasantly with nature by her will to keep on moving forward, using what she had around her, going delusional, and the wasp god/ beast following her.
As she stated, “I was swallowing my secrets and making my body expand and explode. I found ways to hide in plain sight, to keep feeding a hunger that could never be satisfied — the hunger to stop hurting. I made myself bigger. I made myself safer.” (p. 61).
However, she is forced to choose between being independent or going back to her family. In the end, She realized that she needed her mother. A situation happened with Arnold and “she cried out, she cried for her mother…” (Oates 196). At that moment she realized that she did not want to be independent and she needed her
problems. on page 39 in her book she wrote”my father had turned his weakness into strength”.In
The poem "Girl" by author Jamaica Kincaid shows love and family togetherness by creating microcosmic images of the way mothers raise their children in order to survive. Upon closer examination, the reader sees that the text is a string of images in Westerner Caribbean family practices.
Have you ever wished that someone had given you a guide on how live the right way? Jamaica Kincaid does just that in her short story, Girl. The narrative is presented as a set of life instructions to a girl by her mother to live properly in Antigua in the 1980’s. While the setting of the story is not expressly stated by the author in the narrative, the reader is able to understand the culture for which Girl was written.