Valentines day

When anyone tried to pick on me she would help me and it also helped to the fact that she was popular and all the boys wanted her and what she said was taken as gospel. She always had my back even when my mom was whipping me she’d make jokes about my mom having the propensity of killing me because I was small which made my mom stop at times. It is very similar to the way Nisa describes her older brother Dau and his protection over her except it’s the other way around . Nisa tells of stories of Dau and how she looks up to him time and time again. She remembers that some occasions Dau would bring her mongongo nuts because it is her favorite. In another occasion Nisa’s older brother would intervene when their parents treat her punitively because Nisa would sometimes disobey what her told her not to do.

One’s character subconsciously influences her actions so her behaviours towards others reflects one’s character. In” Valentine’s Day” by Stuart McLean, the protagonist Stephanie enjoys and suffers from romances at her school, and her reactions to other characters reveal her self-conscious, simple, and easygoing character.

Another theme contributing to the story is the obvious parental neglect that takes place in the narrator’s home. The girl makes the distant relationship between her and her

“And What may your name be  sweetheart” Captain Graff  said to the innocent 7 year old at the end of the line  “Valentine-Valentine Wiggin sir”  “Valentine?” questioning if the young girl was capable enough for such a test  “ well valentine I wish you the best of luck on this exam, girls your age don’t usually do these test so young, but you seem rather fine with it, don’t you?”  “Yes sir, I do, I’ve heard so many things about this test but I’ve always wanted to judge for myself before I took someone else's judgement for me”. Before Graff left he took a long glance at little valentine, while she stood their smiling he knew she was extremely special. As valentine took a seat in the room so silent she could hear her blood flowing,  she now

My brother, Jonathon, and my home life was different than Sonny’s and his brother. We grew up in a nice house in a safe neighborhood. Drugs or alcohol were never a part of our lives, our parents were divorced. We lived with my mom full time. She worked nights and slept during the day in order to pay the bills. Our mom always made sure we had what we needed, but not necessarily what we wanted. We played by ourselves most days, and were home alone at night a lot. The two of us spending most of our time together and alone grew the responsibility of me taking care of my younger brother. I taught him how to do laundry, I made him dinner, helped him with his homework, made sure he went to bed on time, and got him up for school in the morning. Taking care of my brother felt like a full time job most days. Just like in the book the responsibility of taking care of my younger brother for most of my life felt more like a burden than an honor,

In the film Valentine’s Day, directed by Garry Marshall, it focuses on intimate interpersonal relationships on Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is celebrated on the fourteenth of February every year and although Valentine’s Day isn’t a national holiday, it is celebrated worldwide. Knapp’s developmental model is portrayed by many of the couples seen in the film. In this film, age plays a role in the movie to present the differences in how they show the intimacy of their relationships. The Johari window is also used inside of the film to reveal some secrets of many couples. In the film, relationships of many couples are shown to go through heartbreak or the beginnings of a new relationship.

She has a lively sense of humor and is witty and sarcastic as she is clever: “'Life goes on.’ What a nonsense, I thought, of course it doesen’t. It’s death that goes on.” (TGLS, 91,92). When one of her neighbours are expecting twins, she says: ‘“I am going to ask her to give one of them to me” (TGLS, 52). She also says to Sidney: “What an inspired present you sent Kit - red satin tap shoes covered with sequins (…) Where are mine?” (TGLS, 165). Furthermore, Juliet has a likable personality. One of her qualities is that she can get along with almost everybody: “I am a grown woman – mostly – and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose” (TGLS, 53). However, she is also reserved, as she does not want to talk so much about her youth. We are pleased to know her mostbly through her friends. At he beginning, Juliet is a bit lost and frusturated. She is bombed out of her apartment, and “no longer want to write” (TGLS, 3) because her “heart just aren’t in it” (TGLS, 3) and “don’t want to be considered a light-hearted journalist anymore” (TGLS,

She is a indian, with a lightning bolt tatoo, and medium length hair. Her personalitys contain reading and writting about romance. She is important in Juniors life because she moved away and died. Her problems were becoming a better person and getting a education in collage. Juniors grandmother is also important in his life because she changed how people treated her. She is a indian, older lady with white hair. Her personalitys is being sweet to everyone no matter who they are. Shes important because she meant a lot to Junior and when she died people started to treat Junior with respect. She encountered problems like living life as a poor indian. Last juniors parents, his mom is a older indian with short hair, she loves to read. His dad is a older indian with long hair, and loves to play the sax. There important to the story because they help junior go to school miles away and still manage to be parents. They encounterd problems by dealing with Marys death and taking care of Junior.

Her character is different from most in the play. She displays compassion, modesty, and care - - the exact opposite of wit. Her caring nature makes her ask Vivian a personal question.

In most young adult books, the parent- child relationship lacks due to the relationships among brothers and sisters. Sibling-relationships have an essential role in the development for young adult readers as individuals and bring out as much emotions of joy, rage, pain, frustration and pleasure. It is often insinuated by critics that a great narrative is one which the characters undergo growth and/or change. From the Mix-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and One Crazy Summer’s protagonist experiences a tremendous amount of growth in balancing their youth and expectations as the oldest

certain mindset. The reader can tell that Juliet is thinking fast and irrationally. She goes

When little Gera got of walking age she would miss her big brother a lot because other family members was enjoying his presence. She would wobble around going to look for him but couldn’t find him. There were days when Gera would get lucky and they would want to take both children. Gera loved it because she was very spoiled by her big cousin Matthew.

She was stunningly gorgeous with platinum blonde hair cascading down her shoulders and an enchanting English accent. He was frozen by her beauty, she looked about his age but, he couldn’t take his eyes off of her. The older boy noticed this and stepped in front of her.

Arielle says that her bluntness is her most favorite part of her personality. She says that she is “most proud of speaking [her] mind. You are able to let out emotions and not hold back.” Her articulated pride has helped her get out of tricky situations such as when she once had a problematic friend in high school. Her friend always talked about other people and Arielle became very tired of it. She decided that it was better to tell her friend that she was exhausted with it all and that she needed to stop. She recalled that “after high school, we didn’t talk, and that benefitted me because I no longer had to hear or deal with [the drama]”. Arielle now feels drama free and able to only care about what involves

Valentine feels like Peter and Ender are like a coin. When one face is up, the other face is down. Ender thinks he's facing the down at the battle school. Valentine feels like she is the metal in between the coin. She understood Peter, even though she despised him and Ender had been only a memory till now. Valentine thinks that they have all been the same all along, they just thought they were different from each other out of jealousy.