Polly

In An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott, Polly Milton displays the character traits of caring, hardworking, and honesty. However, Polly finds it difficult to stay true to herself and gets tempted by the excitement of the city life. In the end, she manages to maintain her character and learns to find happiness on her own, old-fashioned way. First, Miss Milton displays the trait of being caring. In the beginning of this novel, Polly loved grandma and she always appeared in her room. She felt

allows it to influence his decision. Mr Doran only has two options, to “marry [Polly] or run away” (61). However, he cannot erase what has been done or run away from the effects of the affair, for “even his sense of honour told him that reparations must be made for such as sin” (62). In the end, we may infer Mr Doran agrees with Mrs Mooney to marry Polly, as after their meeting, Mrs Mooney calls out to Polly: “Polly! Polly! … Come down, dear. Mr Doran wants to speak to you” (64). So far, as I have

wife, Polly. John's lies ended up changing his life, he would tell one lie then have to tell two more to cover it up. All of John's lies ended up hurting himself and the people around him; this is shown with him getting the death penealty and in him killing Polly. When John left for Canada, he left his family behind; this included his wife Polly and his two children. At first John was trying to get back to Scotland so he could be with

when it [suits] his purposes, but Polly [seems] oblivious to it” (Simmie 8). Even when Jack says that he will take his own life if he cannot marry Polly, Polly finds nothing off about that. All in all, Polly just wants a happy, idealistic life; however, that does not end up being the case. After Jack leaves for Canada, and he no longer sends letters back to Scotland, Polly does not want to believe anything bad happened to Jack. Leaving her children behind, Polly travels to Canada all alone to resume

chamber with their missing great-uncle,Freddy, and great-aunt,Polly, from 1956, still teenagers, in chronic suspension. They bring them out into England 2009, and face a few challenges. They don’t know anything about the 21st century, they got a sickness from being in chronic suspension, and people are after them. And through all of this, somehow Ben finds the courage to try and fix this. One of the challenges in the story was that Freddy and Polly were in chronic suspension for so long, they don’t know

Leavers Rough Draft Characters navigate the pursuit of gratification in the aftermath of personal struggles. In Lisa Ko’s novel The Leavers, both characters, Daniel and Polly, find themselves struggling to achieve gratification from past conflicts. This leads them on a journey of defeating addiction and finding oneself. Both Polly and Daniel have the same end goal of reinventing themselves and having a successful start in life. This makes one of the main themes of the book, when characters' desire

story is not portrayed as a single gender discriminator, because it equally displays antagonistic views. “Love is a Fallacy” victimizes an inaccurate representation of a woman or Polly, as well as a man about the same. Since Polly is represented unfavorably to men; the story seems to place her below the status of men. Polly is depicted is a typical woman, who is inferior to the roles of men in the 1950s. A

hunter, and a robber. If Tom Sawyer can do all of this, how can any adult possibly catch up with all the madness? Luckily, Tom has a caring, loving, and pretty religious caretaker, his Aunt Polly. Aunt Polly can handle many challenges with Tom, but she isn’t exactly like your typical modern- day mom. Aunt Polly cares a lot about her reputation and can be very humiliated with Tom. When she went to talk to Mrs. harper about Tom’s miraculous “dream”, she told Tom afterwards that she went “ ‘to Sereny

often failed by fulfilling the dreams that he had, such as music instead of college. Meanwhile, Polly also faced some similar problems when she was sent to the detention camp. In Arysleville Polly thinks, “Because I wasn’t really here. This was the life of another person I was watching in a movie, saying, “What a pity, oh that poor woman, oh I’m so glad that isn't me” (299). While in Ardslyville Polly thought of herself as a distant character only because she had no meaning, no purpose, and no identity

herself up in a boarding house to make a living. Her son, Jack, and daughter, Polly, live with her in the house, which is filled with clerks from the city, as well as occasional tourists and musicians. Mrs. Mooney runs a strict and tight business and is known by the lodgers as “The Madam.”(pg. 416) Polly, is a slim nineteen-year-old girl, with light soft hair and grey eyes. Polly, was a very lively girl. Polly, who used to work in an office, but now stays at home at her mother’s request