The Palace Thief Character Analysis

In the beginning of the story, when Sedgewick arrives, we learn that Hundert has confidence in his job as a teacher and believes that his students can learn from antiquity. When he is questioned at his work by Sedgewick, Hundert starts to take disciplinary actions to attempt to make Sedgewick a better student, but when all his actions fail, he threatens to call upon his father for his poor behavior. Soon after that, we start to see a change in Sedgwick. For example, for the first time he passed his quiz and even reenacted important scenes from Julius Caesar adequately.

Huckleberry gets in trouble from Miss Watson for wearing dirty clothes. She wants Huck to pray every single day, and tells him he can have whatever he wants. This confuses him, but Miss Watson meant he gets “spiritual gifts.” He figures that he should always put other’s needs in front of his, but he sees no advantage for himself, if he does this.

Throughout history, pride and determination have motivated people to do amazing things. In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson proves that pride and determination aided the creation of The World’s Columbian Exposition.

I believe that one way you can look at the book The House of the Scorpion through a lens is by considering how class plays a role in the lives of different characters and their relationships in the book. Some characters whose lives have been affected by their class include: Matt, El Patron, and the Eejits.

People interact with each other on a day to day basis, often times revealing more about who they are about a person and what they believe to be right and wrong. The author of “The Palace Thief”, Canin, strategically uses character interactions to evolve a central idea. Morals are a debatable subject because not everyone has a moral code and not everyone follows their moral code as closely as they think they do. The environment in which people grow up and live in for a long period of time affects how strictly they follow their morals, if some people grow up never following their morals, in the future they also aren’t going to follow their morals. Canin utilizes character interactions to support the overall central idea that whether or not we have a moral code, it is set early on in life.

The Palace Thief, a short story written by Ethan Canin, explains the bond through the narrator communications. The interactions with the characters demonstrate the character's personalities, experiences and the family shapes of individuals selfhood. The narrator of the story mainly focuses on the twist of an individual character. In this essay, I'm going to go over the relationships and correlations of characters William Hundert (Mr. Hundert), the three-year teacher at St. Benedict Academy, Charles Ellebry, who went against Mr. Hundert for teaching duties, Sedgewick Bell, who was a very clever student, and Senator Bell, who was a powerful demagogue.

In the story House of the Scorpion, written by Nancy Farmer, the main character is Matt Alacran. The main setting is in the future in the opium fields and Atlzan. In the beginning of the story, we meet Matt in Celia's house. The main conflict in the book is Matt being a clone, the whole entire book Matt worries about being a clone and that people will know and what they will do. The solution to the conflict is that all the Alacran died and he is now a real person since El Patron died.

He thinks of Mr Hundert as nothing more than a teacher and he could care less about his son’s education basically if his son looks good falling it's ok to he.

The Scarlet Ibis Theme Essay Selfishness is a quality that affects both the person who possesses it and the people around them. When this selfishness is caused by pride, the results can be fatal. James Hurst’s short story “The Scarlet Ibis” narrates the story of Doodle, a young child born with a disability that prevents him from walking.

In “The Book Thief” written by Marcus Zusak, Liesel is a small, resourceful girl, who Death says “Has a mountain to climb”. It is not a physical mountain that Liesel has to climb, rather a emotional mountain full of rocks that tumble down the steep slopes trying to knock her off every time she stops moving forward. All her life she has gone without and been abandoned, but that never stopped her from climbing. Liesel is a very lucky girl to have so many “climbing partners” so to speak, such as Hans, Rosa, Max, and Rudy. Without her partners to help anchor her to the mountain, I am sure she would have perished long ago. Her journey started when she was just a small girl living in poverty with her mother and brother.

This caused Hundert to wonder what the point of trying if boys like Sedgwick would never learn. Following this leads to the meeting to Senator Bell, Sedgwick’s father. Upon this meeting Hundert comes to the realization that he doesn’t have the guts to stand up to Senator Bell. “I’m sorry, young man,” he said slowly, “but you will not mold him. I will mold him. You will merely teach him.”(164). This made Hundert realize the fact that the tyrant has a point, that teaching him will make him learn but wasn’t his job to make him to a man. His morals are also broken by letting Sedgwick win all the Mr. Julius Caesar test just to see him cheating up stage.

His newfound perspective is his understanding that Doodle will always be his brother, so he must change him. To do so, he creates a development program which will prepare Doodle to go to school and be like his classmates. However not for Doodle’s self-assurance, but for the narrator, to escape being labeled a brother of a disabled. “‘Aw come on, Doodle,’ I urged. ‘You can do it.

Having too much faith in an unrealistic goals will lead to criticism from others or disappointment in being unable to achieve it. In “The Scarlet Ibis”, the narrator has a plan to train his physically disabled brother, Doodle, to be able to run, swim, climb and fight like other boys before he started going to school. However, as the day school began comes closer, the narrator finds he was making little progress. “It was a Saturday afternoon, just four days before school began. I should have already admitted defeat, but my pride wouldn’t let me” (Hurst 187).

Mr. Hundert is a teacher that follows many virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and honesty. One can definitely see this teaching when he meets Sedgewick Bell, but one may also see his failures. To entice his virtue of courage, for example, he tells Sedgewick to do well in school. One can tell in the movie that Sedgewick might believe that trying in school will make him not popular, or maybe it fears him. Either way, there’s something hindering his performance in school, and of course, Mr. Hundert was able to convince Sedgewick to start doing well in class by giving him a book that helped him get understand the material. Another incident where he’s helping Sedgewick was when he wasn’t able to check out a book in the library. Then, Mr. Hundert enters asking the librarian to give him the book, and it was given. Another virtue

If you believe in yourself and have dedication, pride, and never quit, you will be successful. Markus Zusak, the author of The Book Thief, creates a story of a young orphan named Liesel Meminger, who is living with her new foster family. She learns the wonders of reading from her foster father and grows to love books. During Liesel’s time with her new family, she shows determination through her efforts and kindness with her encounters with other people. Liesel in The Book Thief expresses her traits, such as hardworking, and bravery.