Of the ten stories read over the past few months, one character has stuck out in my mind. The character that is most prominent to me is Mr. Johnson in One Ordinary Day with Peanuts. Mr. Johnson is my favorite character because of his mysterious, interesting, and thought-provoking way of life. The story begins with Mr. Johnson’s day going very well; he displays many random acts of kindness, and everything seems to be happening in his favor. One example of his kindness was when he helped a woman who was moving by watching her child while she worked with the movers. Mr. Johnson’s actions throughout the story made me question if his motives were spurious, and his ever-changing personality made me wonder if he was anything close to ordinary.
I found Mr. Johnson very thought provoking because of how he spent the day acting so kind to everyone, but when he offered to switch personalities the next day with his wife, he immediately became irate, snapping answers
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Johnson was speaking to his wife at dinner—they were having veal cutlets! —and she began telling him about her awful day. Mrs. Johnson was rude and negative towards everyone and tried to create many altercations throughout the day. Mr. Johnson then proceeded to tell her that they could switch places the next day. This section of the story made Mr. Johnson very interesting, in my opinion, because he treated how each of their days went similar to a game and traded how they would act the following day like you would trade cards in go-fish.
When the story ended I was left with several questions regarding Mr. Johnson’s personality, however, that is the aspect that makes him my favorite character. Mr. Johnson’s fluid personality between kind and cruel made him mysterious and interesting while his actions throughout the story made his character thought-provoking. Mr. Johnson’s overall personality and effect on the story make him my favorite character out of the ten
Johnson had become a member of their family. Losing him was like losing a son. Joe Robert had taken on the role of father figure already but “The Telegram” marks the point where he really begins to grow up and look at life as an adult. Loss and grief are inevitable parts of life and they jolt Joe Robert into awareness. At first he resists the news just like the rest of the family does but one by one they come to accept it. The book says Cora took it the hardest but the grief of losing Johnson stays with Joe Robert for some time. The Kirkmans never once blame Joe Robert for Johnson’s
Tom is a very ambitious person when it comes to his work. He is caught up in getting a promotion from work by doing a project. Tom just focuses on the “big picture,” which is his future, rather than the “small picture,” which is what his wife is doing. This trait changes at the end when he decides to go to the movies with his wife. When the paper flew out the window for the second time, he realized that he can do the paper over again but he can never take back that one specific night he could have spent with his wife.
Kotz discusses how Johnson's memories of the depravation of his poverty-stricken farm life with his father in the western hill country of Texas and the impoverished Mexican Americans in his home region influenced his later decisions. Kotz reveals how a feeling of inadequacy gripped LBJ's psyche. This feeling of inadequacy sometimes drove Johnson into periods of dark depression. Yet it also encouraged him to ignore the intellectual shackles of southern traditions of racial prejudice a...
The first character that intrigued me, probably because I could relate to him the most was Andrew, the "jock." A jock is the group of people that are athletically inclined and are usually part of a sports team. When all the students were confessing what they had done he seemed the most regretful of his actions. Andrew being a great wrestler at school saw an unsuspecting teammate that was much smaller than he was and decided to jump on him and start beating up on him. What made his case so extreme was that not only did beat up on his teammate but he taped his butt cheeks together. The perception that I, as well as the members of the breakfast club, had of Andrew was that he couldn't think for himself. He also thought the same thing because he said that he felt pressured by his dad to do something mischievous because he (his dad) used to get into mischievous acts often while he was in high school. So while he was looking at his smaller teammate he said that all he could here was his father telling him about being a winner and doing so many unnecessary things just because he was an exceptional athlete. When Andrew told his story it seemed that all the other people were going to cry because they could see that he regretted doing what he did.
Lyndon Johnson is an intimate, complex and ambitious portrait of a President. He came to office with strong ambitions to emphasize equality for all, to generate hopes for the Great Society, and to reshape his America, but ultimately he withdrew from the political arena where he fought so hard. Johnson’s legacy started with a tragedy and ended with a tragedy: the story began with the cold bullet that went through his predecessor’s head, which enveloped the country with anger, chaos, and mourning, and ended with the deaths of fifty-eight thousand Americans, which threw the nation into tumult.
I can't really explain why I liked this character so much. I don't EVER want to be like him or do the things he did. There was just something attractive about all his negative personality traits. Before he really starts getting into torturing the cop, he casually turns on the radio as if he needed some music to accompany the grizzly acts he was about to commit.
The Peanuts Movie can pave the way for a new genre of kids movies. Directed by Steve Martino, who is best known for Horton Hears a Who!, adapts the timeless classic written by Charles M. Schulz to a new generation. This kid friendly rated G movie movie centers around the already complicated life of Charlie Brown (Noah Schnapp) who can't seem to catch a break until a little red-head girl (Hadley Belle Miller) moves to town. Charlie Brown soon develops a crush on her and will try to beat the odds to have something good go his way for once. In the meantime his pal Snoopy (Bill Melendez) is off dreaming about being a flying ace in World War 1.
You must always take bias and point of view into account when reading a book, and Goodwin and Unger’s account of Lyndon B. Johnson’s life have both. However, as long as you understand this, you will be able to create your own opinion of Johnson. This opinion is bound to never be complete, for making an opinion about a man as complicated and nuanced as Johnson will never be possible. But, as long as you learn the facts and read the history, you will be able to decide what to think of this larger-than-life man.
...cally sums up Johnson and his presidency given the circumstances in which he could have been a hero to millions of African American’s and a pioneer to whites everywhere he chose a path in which looking back on shows all these characteristics that Johnson showed during the many different circumstances that arose during his presidency.
Firstly, minor characters break stereotypes to breathe life into the sleepy town of Maycomb, establishing setting. For example, Mr. Dolphus Raymond assumes the character of a drinker as a pretense for associating with coloured people, though in reality he is drinking coca cola and not alcohol, hidden the contents in a paper bag. He confesses this to Scout, saying “Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live” (Lee 200-201). This proves that what is most outwardly transparent and unlikeable in a character may truly be interesting and good-natured. Mr. Raymond’s secret causes the reader to look past the paper bag and ask why a man might go to such extent to hide his best qualities. It proves that, in Mr. Raymond’s eyes, Maycomb isn’t yet able to handle the truth. He must hide it behin...
After Winston got down safely everyone calmed down and went home. This is when you had left it was almost the beginning of december and thing weren’t going well because as soon as we finish Jerry and his boys came over and destroyed our decoration. I wasn’t going to give up so me and Jerry made a new deal, If i lose I would have to be Jerry slave and losers will be left alone and If I win Jerry would have to leave all the loser alone. All the loser didn’t want me to make the deal because then It would take my freedom away but I didn’t care and agreed it. Everyone was upset and wanted to give up but then Mr.Winecki said to me and Winston “I’ll make you a deal”, “you guys don’t give up and I won’t give up either” after haerd the Winston shook Mr.Winecki”s good hand and said “deal”. The next afternoon I went to Mr.Sankey who said he would help decorate, It turned out that our damage decorations wasn’t that bad, that night I meet my dad , he then give me the letter that was from you but I have one question to ask why didn’t you just tell me why you took my money and left instead of making me wait for my dad to give me the letter which i didn’t know he was coming. After we sorted thing out my dad went to your house and i went
Mr. Johnson calls each family forward to begin eating their seafood. Once everyone is done eating their seafood, Mr. Johnson starts picking teams for there annual kickball tournament. Mr. Johnson picks Don Adams. Don is mad because he is not very athletic and wants this tradition to be ended. His wife
Jeff Kinney effectively uses a variety of literary elements to explore the ideas of bullying and self-exploration, throughout Greg’s struggles in the novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Kinney successfully highlights the effects of these themes through issues such as popularity, to significantly showcase the importance of friendship over being
According to the author every person has good and bad inside of him. There is a continuous battle between the two forces, when the bad force won Dr. Jekyll committed suicide which is a lesson for us to keep the good force always on the outside and inside of us to live in harmony and peacefully.
...Jonson is an icon in theatrical history and literature (Ben Jonson), and he is also known as a master of comedies. With his mixture of personal prestige, the extraordinary number of his friends and enemies, and maybe the fact that we know little about him, Ben Johnson is considered by many to be one of the most eccentric playwrights ever.