Annie John Character Analysis

Success is a feat that is desired in any lifetime by anyone who wants to be something amazing in their time of living. Yet with success comes great sacrifice because in the work that is done and the time that it takes to do it sacrifices must be made in order to allow your time to be used as efficiently as possible. Although The characters Annie John in “ A Walk to the Jetty” and Marita in “ Marita’s Bargain” are both striving for success while enduring the same problems, they both have opposing views on the sacrifices they believe need to be made in order to achieve their goals. Throughout the beginning of the two stories you are able to grasp the idea that both characters are enduring some complications that they can’t control which are

She takes a look back on her life and believes that everything she endured growing up only held her back from success. She has this sense of feeling that she needs to leave it all behind in order to star anew and begin her trek for success, though as she travels she begins to think otherwise of what is happening and that she truly did love what she had in Antigua. Marita the main character in “Marita’s Bargain by Malcolm Gladwell” Is a young girl living in the South Bronx of New York City. This is the side of town where most of the minority live and are struggling in education, and economic status. Marita lives in a single room apartment with her mother and was struggling in public school. She was not studying enough nor did she have the opportunity to try and get help in her studies. She was falling behind and could not gain ground. They both knew a decision had to be made at this point in their life in order to achieve what they

The old fear of falling through the cracks of the jetty’s boardwalk came over her once again even though she was grown up. The anxiety and adrenaline of fear came over her and she was now regretting the decision to leave parents. As she boards the small boat that will soon take her to the large ship, she has one last chance to say good bye to her family. Annie now boards the ship and gives her family one last wave of the red handkerchief that her mother gave her. She can see the tears on her mother as she slowly floats away. She makes her way to the cabin where she will stay for the long trip. How she feels now contradicts how she felt then. Though in the back of her mind she still feels that the decision she made was for the best. Yet now with time to regather her thoughts she is beginning to wonder if this was really what she wanted. Was it really the best decision to leave Antigua in order to embark on nursing school or any other life than what she lived before or was it never the real desire. Now we look back at Marita , She is deep into her semester of school and she is on the right track to succeed. Though the times she use to spend after school with her best friend having fun now have turned into times of study, She rarely goes to her best friend’s house and when she does it is to work on an assignment together or to study. Marita has sacrificed all of her time to the school. School starts at seven twenty-five