“This Old House” by David Sedaris, is a story of a younger adult misunderstood by his own family and most of society who simply just, “longed for a home where history was respected.” After taking a trip to visit an old friend in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he decides to stay in the city longer by finding work and a place to live. He finds work as a dishwasher in a restaurant hoping to eventually advance from his current position. After finding work, he then unexpectedly meets his future landlord who also has the same appreciation for the past. After moving in to his new home, a friendship blossoms between the main character and his landlord, even with other tenants’ opinions and ways of lives that have other opinions on how life …show more content…
The antagonist of the story would be the landlord, Rosemary and the other tenants of the home. This is because her portrayed way of life attracted the narrator to Rosemary’s house, which in return almost solely based his decision on living there. Later in the story Rosemary changed into another person that the main character almost could not recognize. With her change in appearance from vintage clothing to more updated clothing, as well as her almost disregard for her so much loved antiques when the main character first moved into the house. The other tenants, mainly the character Chaz, would constantly ridicule the main character and seem as if their lives were more how life should be lived. In the entire story being told, there are no exact dates or times stated by the main character as to when the story being told took place, but from reading through the entire story, it could be concluded by readers that the story is from a more modern period of time. With the way the main character refers to the out of date clothing styles he chooses to wear and descriptions of the past from the depression era and how the other characters, such as the main character’s father and the tenant Chaz always ridiculed the way he dressed or his opinions on how life should be lived. Even though there is no exact time frame for the story, the reader does know where a majority of the story took place. The main
The antagonists in my book was Catherine Roerva Pelzer. She was David's mother. But she was a horrible mother. Because she would abuse her son very badly. That she almost killed him.
The antagonist would be the strict rules of his community. Jonas would a dynamic character because at the beginning he did not realize what all was going on in the village then he was carefree then once he
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The Oogie Boogie man is the antagonist, or the character that creates the problems. Jack, who is the protagonist, is a skeleton from Halloween town. He is seen throughout the whole movie, and all of the conflict revolves around him. There are also all of the witches, goblins, ghouls, and other monsters. Even though these are minor characters, they are still in the movie and they help give the watcher a sense of
What would he think of our noisy Chinese relative who lacked proper American manners? What terrible disappointment would he feel upon seeing not a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes but Chinese food (74). But as Tan grows older she begins to realize that giving up her Chinese heritage for more American customs is not what she truly wants in life. Similarly, “Museum” by Naomi Shihab Nye conceals irony in the authors thoughts. Nye thinks that mistaking the strangers home for the McNay was a big mistake in her young life. But as it turns out this “mistake” unintentionally taught a valuable lesson to the residents of the home. This is reveled to the reader by Nye through a quote from one of the residents “That was my home. I was a teenager sitting with my family talking in the living room. Before you came over, I never realized what a beautiful place I lived in. I never felt lucky before” (80). Including these traces of irony helps add character and comedy to the already entertaining articles.
I believe Nae was the Antagonist throughout the story. She created conflict for Sourdi, who I believe would be the protagonist. The conflict she created was understandable because I was seeing the story through her. Nae was very consistent with her actions throughout the story. I know she means well when she tries to save or fix something but I think at that time, she was too young to understand. Nae was at the age where all she wanted was for her family to be happy. I could relate to her actions because I could see myself getting in the way of things with my older brothers just as Nae did with her
In this section, identify and discuss the antagonist (person, group, or force that creates conflict for the protagonist). Explain how the antagonist impedes the protagonist’s goals or creates problems for the protagonist. How is the antagonist a problem for the protagonist?
He had an old maple pipe and a black fedora and a black suit, in his back waistband he carried a uzi with an extended clip he was the biggest Mafia boss in all of new york and his name was Smokey, Old Smokey. He was fifty years old, born and raised in New York. His family was murdered by the tri-ad, a chinese gang, and since that day, he wanted revenge. So he became the most feared mafia boss ever.
An antagonist is a character or group of characters that oppose the protagonist or causes the drama in the literary work (Literary Devices). “The Piano Lesson” was written by August Wilson in 1990. “The Piano Lesson” is about Boy Willie trying to sell the piano that his sister, Berniece, kept that belonged to their mother. Berniece refuses to let Boy Willie sell the piano because of the message behind it. Boy Willie causes all this drama so that he can sell the piano and use the money to buy land. The antagonist in the play “The Piano Lesson” is Boy Willie, even though he is not an evil character.
It was easy to determine the protagonists of the story, because it closely follows them and their struggles. The protagonists of the story were Lennie Small and George Milton. Figuring out the antagonist of the story is a little more difficult, though. I would say that Curley, is definitely an antagonist, but I also believe that society is an antagonist in Of Mice and Men. Society is an antagonist because if society wasn’t so terrified of big things, like Lennie, then most of this story wouldn’t have happened. If society was more accepting then they wouldn’t of had to leave their original town.
As the reader followed that plot of the novel, the main conflict is the person versus person, or the killing of each individual house guest against the
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a horrific short story that reflects the struggle of women during this era. Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartfield, Connecticut. Furthermore, Gilman did not have a good life growing up. Her father abandoned her and her mother soon after she was born, leaving them to fend for their own. In this time, it was not fit for a woman to live independently.
From my perspective, the bear is the antagonist because it has wounded the dog and several other people. Also, I also believe that the antagonist role is portrayed by the environment because
When people think of normal ghost stories they think of stories told around the campfire. Like a ghost of a one handed axe murder that kills kids that venture out into the woods, or the ghost of a kid who drowned in the lake and seeks vengeance on every camper that comes there. Many people don’t associate ghost stories with tales like Macbeth and Hamlet by Shakespeare. Or other works of literature like the Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien. Both tales are great examples of a unconventional ghost story not normally told around the campfire, because of the hidden underlying “ghost”.
"Of Mice and Men" takes place in California sometime in the 1800's. It was never exactly stated when it took place, but it was when slavery was still in use.