True North Character Analysis

Constellations, an absurdist and post-modernist performance by the Queensland Theatre Company, perceptively explored what the play’s title suggests; a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern. More plainly, though, it revealed that fate will prevail. This was evident through the relationship of characters Marianne and Roland’s, where conflicting predicaments of their romantic connection were explored in many alternate universes that each aligned with each other and correlatively led to the same destiny. Particularly, this concept encompasses the ideal that “we have the time we’ve always had. There’s not going to be any more or less of it.” As such, roles and relationships, time, tension, movement and symbols were prevalent elements

Lucy was born August 13, 1818 in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. She had 8 siblings and her parents were farmers. Lucy’s father taught her to have anti-slavery beliefs, but she was angered that her father thought that men were dominant over women. She had a passion for public speaking and women’s rights. At sixteen she became a teacher and was furious when her brother told her that women had a lower income than men. To try to solve that

In ‘Lucy’ the character Lucy, an immigrant girl, leaves her home in the West Indies to come to America in order to reinvent herself and to discover her own identity. Her struggles for personal freedom and independence would require her complete disconnection from her family especially her mother. To do so, Lucy not only had to let go of her former identity, but she also has to void herself of the self-destruction and loneliness. Lucy’s liberation from the past is the key element to her finding her new self. That too will require her to mentally recolonized her past and present in a way she feels comfortable. The novel places Lucy at a cross road of culture and identities Antiguan and American. Upon arrival to America to work as an au pair for an

At the age of 14, Lucy described herself as critical, sarcastic and she also believes that she is rather rebellious. She states that she has always had a problem with authority. Lucy does not seem to understand why this might be. This may have to do with the nature side of her development. When Lucy was 7 years old, she was not willing to back down when others were wrong and she was willing to correct them. A 14 year old Lucy also stated that whenever she knows that she is right and the other person is wrong, she will not allow someone to put her in her place. However, an older Lucy believes that she can take criticism

When Lucy wanders a little farther than she is used from the house, Lynn gets agitated over her safety. If Lucy is ever to go out of her sights with Stebbs, she was protective in asking if he would be able to defend her with a rifle (page 205).

After the alarm had been raised the girls returned to camp with no sign of Lucy. No one can find her. Lois was called into the camp counselor’s office, who then began to insinuate that Lois was involved in Lucy's disappearance. She asked Lois leading questions, seemingly in an underhanded attempt to get Lois to confess to either killing Lucy directly, or simply allowing her to die. Lois was not quite sure how to answer, and in her mind, the implied accusations follower her for the rest of her life. Soon after the meeting, Lois returned to the cabin she shared with Lucy, and saw that everything was just as she and Lucy had left it, merely waiting there until they both returned. She felt that people were constantly looking at her sideways, making silent accusations with their eyes, condemning

Lucy is clearly the most sexual female of the female characters and this description leads to the reader understanding the inappropriateness of the women being overtly sexual and in some ways them understanding the threats the ‘New Women’ possess. When dying Lucy is described as having a “voluptuous mouth” and her body to be “withering and quivering” once again the ‘New Woman’ is referred to as being very sexual and confident,

Unlike in her novel Annie John, however, Kincaid does not specify which West Indian Island Lucy hails from. It also seems to be set in the post colonial period and there is evidence

She is torn between Cecil’s world of books and conformity and George’s world of passion and nature. This decision is not easy for Lucy to make.

Even early on in their friendship Lucy not only trusted a stranger faun, she believed in his goodness too (Emerson). When Mr. Tumnus began to tell Lucy of all of the evil plans he was supposed to follow, she replied to him in disbelief by saying, “I think you are the nicest Faun I’ve ever met” and “I’m sure you wouldn’t do anything of the sort” (Lewis 19). Lucy’s will to see the good in him ultimately influence Mr. Tumnus to risk his life for hers (Emerson).

They are very over protective of her and create a safety net over her whole life. So everyday her father and brother repaint the barn which she paints everyday, watch The Sixth Sense, and provide her with a copy of the same paper. Her brother and dad spend most all of their time keeping Lucy from the truth. Her lack of short term memory and possession of long term memories turn her brother and fathers lives’ into an everyday replay. One time after Henry and Lucy break up he visits Lucy and sees all of her paintings. Obviously when he comes by she doesn’t recognize him except that he looks like the man she has been painting. All her recent paintings include Henry in them. That means Henry has helped her some what retain some of her short term memories.

This unforsaken tragedy, an untimely death for one proves to be a new beginning blossoming for the pair. The death also leads to the figurative death of the “old” Lucy, and makes for a shifting, dynamic character to arise. A defining moment of her transformation occurs when lonesomely wander the city, her thoughts begin to take control. Her mind wandered “the gates of liberty seemed still unopened. [Lucy] was conscious of her discontent; it was new to her to be conscious of it. "The world," she thought, "is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them" (27). It is clear here that she seems trapped, in a way she her self can’t explain, she is only aware that she isn’t happy with the way she is and has been living. This feeling was new and she was aware of just that, she had unlocked a new level on consciousness she had been unable to acquire in the home country of England. She knew she needed to leave it behind, to break away from this feeling that was consuming her, but how she was going to go about it, had her confused. Subconsciously she knew this was a step in the right direction to finding her identity. Her whole life Lucy had merely allowed other to make decisions on her behalf, she was no stranger in being told what to do. As Lucy began discovering her own identity and becoming her own person she struggled with the new obligation of thinking for herself, “This solitude oppressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts

Charlotte routinely subjected Lucy to negative feelings and began to kill Lucy’s youthful spirit. As the novel progresses, Lucy becomes more aware of this, starting when she notices how Charlotte loved to eat up gossip as if “[nibbling] after blood” (320). A page later the narrator tells the reader that “it might be possible to be nice to [Charlotte]; it was impossible to love her” (321). Lucy could never really love Charlotte because Charlotte always tried to control her with the pessimistic views she learned as an old bachelorette. If she could never experience marriage, how dare Lucy be subjected to it, especially at the hands – or rather the lips – of George Emerson. The tension in Italy comes to a pretty dramatic head as Charlotte decides it best for the pair to hightail it out of Florence on account of George’s sneak attack kiss.

Toni Morrison’s short story, “Recitatif” is about two young girls, named Twyla and Roberta, who grow up in an Orphanage because their mothers were in no condition to properly take care of them. The main theme in the “Recitatif” is concentrating on racism. A very mind- grabbing event in the story is how the author never tells the race of the two girls. Morrison leaves class codes but not racial codes, as in the story Twyla states, “ It was one thing to be taken out of your own bed early in the mornings—it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race” (pg 201) , even the girls do not mention which race the other is. Recitatif is a great story as it plays with the reader’s emotions and effectively makes the reader aware of the stereotypes and each races characteristics.

After that Lucy and her mom got into an argument about Lucy losing her pair of socks and Lucy gets tired of everyday arguments with her mom on little things. She stays with Kaylie for a day. The next morning she wanted to say sorry to her mom but she found her mom covered with a pile of newspaper she died. Lucy stopped right before she was about to call 911 she thought if everyone saw the dirty house what will they think about her and her life. So she thought that I will clean the house very hard so there is not spot left dirty and she will have to keep the house freeze for her mum’s dead body. Lucy remembered when last time her mum got into an accident and had to go to the hospital for days and her aunt came over and Lucy and jean her aunt thought that maybe Lucy’s mum will be happy to see their house clean so they both cleaned it and when Lucy’s mum came home she freaked out and it only took her six months to destroy the house for forever and never cleaned it and plus she kicked aunt jean out too. Some chapters tell a little more details about Lucy’s mum. Lucy remembered that on Christmas Eve her mother gave her 7 wallets that were on sale and she felt like her mom