White Log Character Analysis

Hidden Figures is a film based on a remarkable true story about three colored women in the 1960s. The movie follows the lives of Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Kathrine Johnson. These women used their intellect at NASA to contribute to the launch of the first American into space. Hidden Figures also represents the contribution of these women to society. They helped put a man in space, yet they didn’t receive the proper appreciation during their time. Hidden Figures helps give those women gratitude for all that they did for NASA and the United States. Even though this film acknowledges their achievements, it recognizes the hardships the women faced while working for NASA as well as the hardships of all other African American women in the workplace. A few of the hardships they faced were sexism, discrimination, and ageism.

His first wife, Double Strike Woman, is the mother of his two sons, called White Man’s Dog/Fools Crow and Running Fisher. Rides-at-the-door also is married to Striped Face and Kills-Close-to-the-Lake, and each wife lives in a separate lodge or home. The children are primarily raised by their mother at a young age, learn about waging war and hunting as they get older. The oldest son, called White Man’s Dog or Fools Crow, is not viewed very favorably as a child, he is teased, considered weak, and not a future leader. Rides-at-the-door heard these comments about White Man’s Dog and did not take his oldest son seriously and considered him weak, until he becomes a man and his father’s opinion begins to change. Rides-at-the-door feared that his oldest son might be morose, even timid, and he had heard talk that he might be a coward. The following quote represents the first time Rides-at-the-door recognizes his son has potential to be a brave hunter, warrior, and leader of the Pikuni. “Rides-at-the-door pulled a burning stick from the fire and lit his pipe, his eyes shifted back to White Man’s Dog, who was telling a story about Napi, Old Man. As he watched his son act out the story, he felt a small seed of optimism grow in his chest” (9; ch. 2). Through the first eighteen years of his life, White Man’s Dog is given little respect from his family or people, and

In John Updike’s short story “A & P”, a dynamic and round character expresses his subjective attitude towards his views, a plot twist causes him to realize his future. Sammy an opinionated cashier at A & P grocery store does not agree with his Lengel, his manager after he reprimands a particular group of customers at the store. Sammy’s further actions cause him to face the true reality of his future.

The protagonist is White Fang, half dog and half wolf, and White Fang is dynamic and round. The antagonist is Lip-Lip, Lip-Lip is full wolf and he is static and flat. Lip-Lip played a very import role teaching White Fang to be aggressive ways. Lip-Lip bullied White Fang. Other important characters are One Eye was White Fang’s father. One Eye is complete wolf and kill all of his rivals to mate with Kiche. One Eye is flat and static character. Kiche, who is dynamic and flat, is White Fangs mother. Kiche was half wolf and dog. Kiche had a big impact on White Fang because she raised him and showed him how to kill. Gray Beaver is flat and dynamic. Some character traits that Gray Beaver shows is betrayer, leader, disciplinary, and not emotional.

Have you ever thought having a secret language or code was cool? Growing up did you ever create words that only you and your friends knew? During WWII the Navajo people used their language to create a secret unbreakable code. The book Code Talker, written by Joseph Bruchac looks at the life of Ned and how Ned and his friends survived war and boarding school. Ned faced a number of traumatising experiences such as boarding school and World War, which can both cause PTSD and insanity, for a kid to go to war at 17 right after being taught he was inferior to whites is unimaginable. Ned survived the horrors of boarding school and war because of key friendships specifically his friendships with Hosteen Mitchell ,Smitty ,and Tommy Nez.

B- Arlo's Mom on the other hand is a static character. She is a static character because she only has one emotion and she never changes throughout the whole novel. Arlo's Mom is always worried about Arlo and head injuries. ¨Just make sure you read the file¨ (Lynch 13).

The book “Ugly” by Robert Hoge it is a inspiring, true story about, Robert, a boy who grew up in Brisbane, Australia, with a tumor the size of a tennis ball on his face and two deformed legs. Robert had four other brothers and sisters, who were all older. The story is the journey of Robert Hoge and his life with artificial legs and deformed face, and all the challenges he faced along the way.

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.

In Toni Morrison's short story "Recitatif", the story revolves around two girls, one white and the other black, and how their social status affects their way of life. The narrator, Twyla, has five significant instances in her life where she is in a setting with her childhood best friend, Roberta. When they first met at the orphanage, they disliked each other, but because both of them still had a parent to their name, they were seen as social outcasts to the other children of their orphanage. Through their social disgrace they became friends and helped each other out. As they grew up, their lives were distinctly different with Twyla living the life of a lower-middle class citizen while Roberta was living a lavish lifestyle, creating conflict between the two. In the end, there is a slight sense of reconcilement in that they clear up a misunderstanding of their past, but there is an open question to what had happened to an element of their past.

His friends teased him and called him dog-lover” (Welch 4.) White Man’s Dog was not as wealthy as his counterparts and often envisioned his life with a woman. However his luck soon turned around when he goes on a horse-taking party to the Crow tribe. Although the party has bittersweet success, White Man’s Dog proved he was a man when he killed another during the raid. “When the news of this deed got around, many of the men had honored him with scalp songs”(Welch 62.) After this event, White Man’s Dog quickly rises through the Pikuni ranks even though he is uncomfortable with the idea of the slaying in the first place. The cataclysmic event is a major turning point in the development of White Man’s Dog as he is finally recognized as an equal within his

The author of Recitatif, Toni Morrison, is an acclaimed writer known for her fictional stories and her explorations within the black community. Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 was one of her most acclaimed accomplishments. Morrison’s American Midwest family had an unfathomable appreciation and love for black culture and showed this through there many traditions and storytelling. Recitatif, a fictional short story, was written in 1983.

The main antagonist of the story is Jack Merridew. He is proven to be an angry, cruel boy from the very beginning, this is shown through his snarky comments and uncaring of others.

This quote shows why White Fang acted friendly towards Gray Beaver. Gray Beaver gave him food, warmth, protected him, and gave him companionship. While White Fang guarded his property from other people who might want to steal it, defended Gray Beaver from harm, and obeyed him.

White Fang by Jack London is a breathtaking example of classical composition. This piece of fictionalized American literature has shown, in the simplest way possible, the struggles of a wild made tame wolf as he is thrown in and out of captivity. Mr. London’s novel has shown, in vivid detail, how a good natured cub like White Fang turned into a raging beast. He hated his own species and humans because of the cruel treatment he had received, but by the end White Fang was able to learn what trust and loyalty truly meant. This tale has become an important part of literary history because of it’s tantalizing plot that keeps you riveted. You’ll be rooting for White Fang from the very beginning of the book.

The central character of White Fang was a wolf named White Fang. He was born in the wild; he was the only one out of his litter who survived the cold. The antagonists who forced conflict with White Fang were Beauty Smith, Lip-lip, and himself. Lip-lip was another wolf that White Fang met when he was a puppy. Lip-lip would bully White Fang. Since Lip-lip was older than White Fang, it was easy for Lip-lip to torment him. Beauty Smith who was White Fang’s second owner