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What happens to a person who has no identity at a time when identity can be one’s last hope – their salvation or a mark for death. In his novel Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli invites readers to experience the Holocaust through the eye of a young boy who misunderstands everything except the love of family and the different forms it can take. Misha, an orphan boy is taken in by a young group of Jewish thieves. He is simple minded of his own identity because Misha adopts the identity of the people around him in his life, first as a gypsy, then as a Jew when he follows his friend’s family into the ghetto. Readers are forced to focus on the simple acts of caring that takes place in a time of suffering because Misha is unable to understand what is really going on around him. Hope and selfless acts of love still exists during a time of havoc in the Warsaw ghetto, is shown through the innocent eyes of Misha. By using techniques such as dramatic irony, revealing characters’ emotion, and a unique choice of a narrator, Spinelli successfully makes his readers to feel empathy.

How would you deal with living in a community in isolation, feeling lost with those around you, and having your whole life changed with one drop of blood? FOUR by Veronica Roth displays all this with a story of a young man named Tobias Eaton. This book demonstrates the drama and strategy which keeps readers involved. From being placed in one environment from birth and choosing something precisely different, readers can see what Tobias had to go through. The main elements of this book are conflict, style, and mood.

Society shapes our identities and who we are as a person which contributes to how our future turns out but sometimes the paths we are led down are not always the direction we would choose, through the novel's ‘Room’ by Emma Donoghue, ‘The Book Thief’ by Markus Zusak and the films ‘Girl Interrupted’ directed by James Mangold, ‘Sucker Punch’ directed by Zack Snyder, the character’s hardships are shown through the protagonist's lives. The novels both similarly follow children who are exposed to a less than normal world and a harsh version of reality. The Book Thief follows a young girl whose whole life is turned upside down after she loses her mother and brother due to events surrounding WW11 and is then placed in

It is fascinating when two people from completely different backgrounds have common characteristics. A world of poverty is depicted in Liz Murray’s book Breaking Night (2010). The memoir tells the struggles of a young girl’s journey from living on the city streets to attending one of the top schools in the country. Although our lives are quite different, Liz Murray and I show similar traits through struggle and success.

As a child, Jeannette’s sense of wonder and curiosity in the world undermine the need for money. During her young adult years, a new wave of insecurity associated with her poor past infects her. Finally, as an experienced and aged woman, Jeannette finds joy and nostalgia in cherishing her poverty- stricken past. It must be noted that no story goes without a couple twists and turns, especiallydefinitely not Jeannette Walls’. The fact of the matter is that growing up in poverty effectively craftsed, and transformsed her into the person she becomeshas become. While statistics and research show that living in poverty can be detrimental to a child’s self-esteem, Jeannette Walls encourages children living in poverty to have ownership over their temporary situation, and never to feel inferior because of past or present socio-economic

Everyone knows that in life, there are hardships, up's and downs. In the book Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, Mattie has to overcome the yellow fever, helping others and getting help herself. Mattie has to grow up quickly to survive. There are many, many other themes that can be chosen, but overcoming hardship is one of the most obvious ones.

Would it be more difficult to be told by your father that the world is full of hate because of your skin color or to not be able to communicate with those around you? The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, and Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, both deal with the alienation of a person or group of people. To be looked upon as somebody who does not fit into society, can cause people to feel remote and isolated. The negative impact of this isolation is not only damaging to the person but to society as a whole. This isolation, like in Coates’ modern day biography and Kafka’s dated book, is something people today experience in all walks of life and for many reasons.

An individual’s identity is an ever changing composition of a person’s aspirations, beliefs and morality. Identity change is often influenced by many aspects of an individual’s life, but individuals must always return to their roots in order to stay true to their morality. This internal struggle over one’s identity is successfully illustrated in the characters of Three Day Road. In the novel, Joseph Boyden vividly recounts the journey of two Native Canadian soldiers, Xavier and Elijah, who struggle with identity loss from the adversity of the Great War. Through their harrowing experiences from the battlefield, they experience a dissipation of morals which is only recovered in Xavier, the sole survivor, through Niska’s stories of her past, his own past, and of the

Over the course of your life, you come to struggle with the philosophical idea of personal identity; the thing that makes you, you. Oneself may shape their identity around aspects of their life that they have no control over like race and physical traits, as well as decisions that are made throughout their lives like affiliations and religion. Your personal identity can be seen through your passions and interactions with others. An individual’s search for their identity is something that may occur in everyone’s’ life. In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie highlights the theme of how the search for identity is always prevalent, through the conflicted characters of Junior and Mary throughout the novel.

What if a person was forced to change their identity and escape from who they truly are inside? In the novel, Caucasia by Danzy Senna a girl named Birdie goes through an identity crisis not knowing where she belongs. Her mother is white and her father is black making her a tan skinned girl while her sister is more similar to her father’s looks. Confused with her race, she is overlooked and not noticed by others, this causes her to become depressed and develops an invisible quality about her. Throughout the book, Birdie feels pressure multiple times to pass as either white or black. Caucasia explores controversial topics of racial passing, invisibility, and identity crisis within the text through the confused and lonely character of Birdie.

Now, after moving to the United States and becoming well-off, she’s still happy and satisfied – perhaps even more so. But much like her childhood, she often imagines a different life – the life she had as a child, when things were simpler. Yet she knows it wasn’t all the perfect “Eden” she sometimes thinks of it as. Her lack of a nearby doctor, plumbing, and light at night causes her to accept that she couldn’t afford to live that life again. This lack of a simpler life mirrors her childhood lack of the privileges of living in a more developed world – and so is “Lack, Part Two”. It also further

What do people do when they are trapped in a toxic environment? They escape! In “The Uglies” by Scott Westerfeld, Tally, the main character, tries to escape her fate of extreme plastic surgery and brain damage. In “The Art of Resilience”, Hara Estroff Marano discusses how troubled children rise above adversity, and change their lives for the better. In “The Third and Final Continent” Jhumpa Lahiri tells a story of an Indian immigrant who travels to Britain and America to make a better life for himself. A common theme throughout these texts is that when someone is in a inadequate environment they will find a way to get themselves out, as shown by point of view, characterization, and setting.

In a like manner, Colin Turnbull is an anthropologist who studied the native Pygmy culture who live in the Belgian Congo. Pygmy, or BaMbuti, as they are also called, resides in the Ituri Forest, in the northeast corner of Belgian Congo. Turnbull writes of his travels and adventures with the Pygmy in The Forest People. Turnbull helps his audience visualize and understand the respect, love, and tenderness that the people of BaMbuti feel towards their beloved forest, and also the importance of their Molino. They call themselves the “people of the forest” while also having a comfortable relationship with nearby villagers. Pygmy, live, breathe and fear the forest, with everything that they have and need coming from the said forest. They respect their environment and depend on it entirely for their navigations and understanding of life. And like our

However, it is when people grow up that their sense of morality and justice is most malleable. Jones also says that cultures have a very strong influence on social life. It can be seen in high school cliques, among educated professionals, and gangs.

Almost all teens experience some sort of an identity crisis. They struggle with finding a clearer sense of themselves. Arnold Spirit Jr., a 14-year-old reservation Indian, faces an identity crisis when he leaves his reservation to go to school in Reardan, a town inhibited by white people. To begin, Arnold moves between different settings, and when he does, there is a change in his identity. Moreover, there is a change in his character as he moves between cities. Finally, Arnold experiences an identity crisis as well as conflicts with his community. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the author uses literary elements to emphasize that one’s racial and ethnic identity changes depending on the social surrounding.