The Novel Legend, There Are A Wide Variety Of Characters With Varying And Backgrounds

Inherit the Wind is a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee that depicts the infamous Scopes Trial. The real names of the persons involved in the case were changed, however, the play recounts the same story. One journalist in the story, E.K. Hornbeck, who is closed-minded, a hypocrite, and very cynical proves that the religious community of Hillsboro is not the only one to be intolerant.

In the fiction novel, “The Samurai's Garden” by Gail Tsukiyama, readers explore how a samurai slowly becomes recognized. Stephen, a 20-year-old boy is sent far away from his family to explore a completely new world away from the ongoing war. He lives with Matsu, the caretaker of the family property in Tarumi. Suffering from a terrible sickness, Matsu helps Stephen grow and get back a normal life. In a town named Yamaguchi, he develops friendships and grows appreciation to those with leprosy, especially Sachi, a beautiful young women and one of Matsu’s friend. He starts to love what he can call his new home and all the people around him. Is this all because of Matsu? Matsu might definitely be what one could call the real samurai of the novel because he shows traits of a strong samurai, both character and physical and owns a significant garden in which correlates to the title.

In the novel Legend by Marie Lu, there is one character in which I would be delighted to be my friend. Day is everything you ask for in a friend. He is an honest and humble person. Day has a charisma as well as a loving personality to him that makes his loved ones like to be around him. If there were two words to describe Day, it would be daring and caring. Day completes all of these stunts to annoy and anger the Republic. He gets hurt sometimes, like his three story fall out of the hospital, but always springs right back life. Day is a caring person because of his actions towards his family and dearest friends. In the book on page 6, Day shows that he cares for his family. “I dig through the little pile of goodies inside the bundle, then hold up a used pair of goggles. I check them again to make sure there are no cracks in the glass. ‘For John. An early birthday gift.’ My older brother turns nineteen later this week. He works fourteen-hour shifts in the neighborhood plants friction stores and always comes home rubbing his eyes from the smoke. These goggles were a lucky steal from a military supply shipment.” Even while Day is constantly living on the run and off of his steals, he still manages to take care of his family. John is the messenger that gives most of Days care packages to the family. No one else knows in which Day is still alive and that he is now the Republic’s most wanted criminal. While living on the streets with Tess as his only company, he still cares about

Throughout the story the protagonist is left nameless. This provides the reader with another question of identity. Without a name to attach to the character, we are left without an identity.

There comes a point in time in an individual’s life in which their name truly becomes a part of their identity. A name is more than just a title to differentiate people; it is a part of the person. In Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. Kim, names play a major role on the character’s identities. The absence and importance of the names in the story make the story rich with detail and identity through something as simple as the name of a character. Names are a significant factor affecting the story and the characters throughout the novel Lost Names.

"...What impact did your father not being there have on your childhood?"(The "Other" Wes Moore -Part I: Fathers and Angels - pg. 4) This question is what connected me to the novel. The "author" Wes began the story of his and the "other " Wes's memories of their fathers. This explains how and why they grew up fatherless. Wes " the author" recalls only have two memories of his father one was when his father had a talk with him after he punched his sister Nikki and the other one was the day his father passed away. The "author" Wes father didn't choose to leave, unlike the "other Wes's father, which he never met until years later. I related to this chapter a lot, I too was raised by a single mother but my story is just a tad different. My family

The narrator is not the only story character without a name. The narrator's parents are also unnamed. The unnamed are all individuals who fit within the black community in expected, responsible ways. Sonny and the other named characters, such as Creole and Isabel, all have names due to their deviance. Each of these characters don't quite fit into the normalcy embraced by the narrator. Creole, in particular, gains his name by providing a parental figure to Sonny. He usurps the place that otherwise would have been filled by Sonny's nameless father.

What people say about someone who commits crimes and get away with it? From both of the films, LA Confidential and Nightcrawler portray that archetypal character in an intimate way. Through the eyes of both characters and their narrative, Lou Bloom and Ed Exley justify murder to achieve their goals. Either, out of necessity for survival, like once an honest officer Ed Exley or simply an impulse to benefit oneself, like the thief Lou Bloom. They could be a byproduct of their society or coerced into it.

My two characters are Samantha and her brother Scott. Samantha seemed like a terrible person before her accident. She lost her memory and can't recall anything before that. From what people tell her, she used to be rude and mean to others. In the story it said," You were a terror to everyone who knew you. And this is an improvement." Scott told Samantha that when she returned from the hospital because she wasn't aware of how bad of a person she was. Another quote from the book would be, "I was stuck in this life I didn't remember, squeezed into the shell of this girl-this Samantha Jo Franco-and the more I learned about her, the more I was starting to hate her." Since Samantha didn't know anything about herself after the accident, she wasn't

June is sent undercover to gain the Electors trust and to lead him to his death. While working undercover June realizes that this country doesn’t need a revolution but a leader and she believes that the Elector is the man to do it. When the time came to assassinate the Elector, June risked her life in the hope that Day would get the meaning and abort the mission. Day does just this and he makes sure that the Elector’s assassination is thrown off track. Day and June escape into the Colonies and are tracked down by one of the former Patriots, who told them that Republic is in chaos and they are the only two people that can set it straight.

Everyone has a personal legend. The Alchemist is a perfect example of trying to find your personal legend. I have a personal legend also, the cover of the essay depicts a tree with a slug. The tree is in the shape of a brain on the top this represnts the mind. For me i want to pursue a career in psychology, the study of the mind.

The short story “ Paper Menagerie”, by author Ken Liu takes place in Connecticut. This exceptionally written story centers around a boy, Jack, who’s childhood had been depicted in this story. Other characters with major roles in the story are Jack’s mom, who Jack had a very rocky relationship with, and his father, who picked his mother as his wife out of a catalog. When Jack was young, his mother made him origami animals and breathed life into them. Those animals, especially the tiger Laohu, were his best toys, and even coming close to friends. But, as he grew older, Jack started to despise his mother for not being “American” enough as she wasn’t very fluent in English and she was different than other mothers and this turned out to be the main conflict of the story. This led to many disagreements and then complete disregard of his mother. They were strangers, who knew each other as well as strangers who bumped into each other on the street. One possible theme of this short story is to not let cultural differences divide you, as what happened between Jack and his mother.

Names can say much about the character and Allende uses this well, using them as a device in the novel to explore the relations between the characters with out to much explaining.

Kino is the main protagonist and is a dignified, hard-working pearl diver that cares very much for his wife and son.

In the movie I Am Legend, starring Will Smith, depicts an post apocalyptic world after a cure for cancer backfires and makes the recipients of the antidote blood thirsty monsters. The man focus in the movie is based on our main character, Neville, and his best friend a dog named Sam. Neville spends three years in isolation, location in a destroyed New York City trying to find an antidote using his own blood since he is illume to this infection. The movie gives a good idea of what may happen in the near future with new cures for terminal illnesses and how they can backfire on society. The film bring forth the reality that we do not want to deal with human consciences like death and sickness. The movie uses lighting, framing, and lighting