In the novel, Zoobreak, in third person Gordon Korman does a great job at telling you the story of the gang with all kids, and their adventure to find their missing monkey. In 230 pages, he shows all the little details of the story to paint a picture in your head and so that you can be there and feel what the characters are feeling. The main conflict was between when the kids and the zoobreak night when the sailed across the bay and got onboard the zoo boat that kept all the abused animals and the monkey that he stole from one of the kids front yard. Griffin Bing is one of the main characters what makes him special is that he is the leader of the gang and he takes the lead in try to help find his friends monkey. Savannah Drysdale is also part
In the book the main characters are Jay Berry, Daisy, Rowdy, Grandpa, and the monkeys. The secondary characters are Ma, Pa, Grandma, and Sally Goodin. The beginning started with Jay telling about how his family moved to the Cherokee hills. The book ended with Jay giving his money to Daisy to fix her leg. In the end he ended up getting his pony and twenty-two as well. Money was a problem for Daisy up until the end of the book. There
“The main conflict in Calico Captive is during the family's trip with the Indians.” The family goes through long walks they even had to walk through rivers.They had little sleep at night and a infant that cries all the time. The trip with the Indians would be character vs. nature. There is a few main characters in calico captive such as. Miriam Willard,Susanna Johnson, and James Johnson.
They set the pary up in Doc's lab, which is also where he lives, one night while he is away on a trip, and the party end ups starting before Doc even arrives. Doc happens to be very late getting back from his trip, and when he arrives home at about dawn, the party is already over and his lab/home is competely trashed. After the party, a bad feeling overpowers the town for a long time. Many people in town blame Mack and the boys for the party going so wrong. Many other unfortunate events begin to occur after the party. A storm beaches several fishing boats, and a man falls asleep on the train tracks and loses his leg. The Bear Flag is shut down by crusading women from the town, and Dora loses the business that would have come from three conventions that are in town. Worst of all for the boys, Mack’s puppy, Darling, gets severely ill and begins to waste away. The boys have no one else to go to about Darling, so they decide to go see Doc. He tells them how to take care of Darling, and she gets better very quickly.
Hazel is the main character and narrator of "Gorilla, My Love," by Toni Cade Bambara. She is between the ages of ten or twelve years old and an African American girl living in Harlem, New York with her family. While riding in the car with her grandfather, her uncle Jefferson Winston Vale, aka Hunca Bubba, and her little brother in the beginning of the story story's, she learns that Hunca Bubba, is in love and plans to be married. This angers Hazel, and she thinks back to an Easter Sunday when she and her brothers went to the movies.
In Endangered by Eliot Schrefer, there was a character named Sophie. Sophie wasn’t much different than other 14 year old girls, other than the fact that her mom ran a fabulous bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo, located in Africa. The bonobo sanctuary saves bonobos from being hunted and is compatible for babies and adults. When Sophie rescues Otto, a baby bonobo, she loved him and vowed to care for him. Later,Sophie has to make a heart- wrenching decision, will she choose Otto or safety. Sophie is faced with many challenges during her journey, that shaped her into the strong person she is.
Some of the conflicts were the times when the kid was throwing rocks at his first whirligig, and when he left his whirligig book on the bus. Each conflict leads to a good ending though. The kid that was throwing rocks at it somehow gained a respect for the whirligig, after his mom told him off. Brent figured that the whirligig had helped him this far and now it was time for the book to help inspire someone else. So the whirligigs turned into a far bigger influence than anyone else could imagine.
"He was like a hunter stalking a bear, a whale, or maybe the sight of a single fleeing star the way he went after that ball (Malamud, 162)." Since he is young, Roy Hobbs has great ability and amazing talent in baseball. However, just like a tragic hero in Greek myth, those ones who fight for their honor, but fail because of their hubris or the desire of being such immortal and an aspects of not accepting the truth and reality, Roy Hobbs' hubris, ambition and a desire for fame and his fortune really tell that he is a tragic hero.
In the novel, Endangered by Eliot Schrefer, a girl named Sophie bought a bonobo, from a man on the side of the streets. Her mom owns an animal shelter and cares for bonobos. Sophie changes throughout the book out of experience. Buying the bonobo, caring for it, and then the war. The man that Sophie bought the bonobo from came back with two hurt and dirty bonobos. Sophie wants to buy the bonobos but she wasn’t allowed to. Although Sophie feels guilty, it shows that she is maturing because buying bonobos off the streets isn’t right.
Jack London wrote the novel The Call of the Wild; it was also his first success (Feast). The Call of the Wild is an exciting beast fable which dramatizes the unforgiving harshness of existence but shows that suffering can lead to heroic self-awareness (Buckner). London was big on the philosophical idea of Naturalism. As well as having links with literary naturalism, "The Call of the Wild is also a mythical book informed throughout with such traditional myths as the Myth of the Hero." Although Buck is always a dog throughout the story, his predicament is highly relevant to the human condition in a novel beginning with concise patterns of description and moving toward an increasingly lyrical style (Williams). The protagonist of The Call of the Wild is a dog named Buck. He's part German Sheppard and half Saint Bernard, he's labeled the "hero" of the story. The story takes place primarily in the Klondike region of Alaska except for in the first chapter it takes place in the Santa Clara Valley of California. The story is centrally focused around Buck; if it wasn't for him not having any speaking parts the reader would think he was a human because of the personality traits he possesses. In this paper we will discuss traits such as Buck's ability to adapt, Buck's bravery, his mental and physical strength, his loyalty and love and his instinct of the wild.
Have many people have ever gone to a film and thought it was going to be about one thing and turned out to be about another. In the story “Gorilla, My love” written by Toni Cade Bambara the story begins with a young girl named Hazel riding in the car with some family and during she starts to reminisce about a bad experience at the movie theatre, her interactions with her family, and her first heartbreak. In the story “Gorilla, My Love” although Hazel is young, her diction shows the reader that she’s relatable, mature and sticks to integrity.
There are many conflicts in The Homecoming. The first conflict I noticed in the story was person vs. nature. Clay boy is walking in the woods to find a Christmas tree and then he is attacked by an albino deer. Clay boy was forced up a tree by this deer. He gets out of this situation after the buck loses his antlers. Another conflict in this book is person vs. person. On Christmas eve, Charlie Snead is arrested for poaching. He pleads for the sheriff to have mercy and let him go, but the sheriff will not let Charlie go free because he has broken the law. Another conflict featured in this story is person vs. self. Clay boy likes to draw, unlike his father. He is expected to grow up and live the same life as his dad but he doesn’t want to. He
The first conflict that I noticed was regret. The main character Robert regrets moving to Africa and wishes he could move back to Europe. He regrets moving to Africa because he feels like he doesn’t fit in with everyone else. In the book, the text stated, “‘So? You’re still a Pom. In what way do you think you’re not a Pom, Pommie?’” (Wallace 25). This was a conflict for Robert because people from Africa were being mean to him because of his ethnicity. A pommie or pom is a derogatory term to use when referencing to a British person. Since kids are making fun of Robert, he wishes he could move back home to be with his friends and family.
Determine all of the story's conflicts. Determine the major conflict and state this in terms of protagonist versus antagonist.
In The Zoo Story, a one-act play written by Edward Albee, Albee describes an intense conversation that takes place between two different types of men spending time at Central Park. During a Sunday afternoon Peter, “a man in his early forties” (30), reads quietly while sitting on a park bench. Later, a man named Jerry interrupts Peter with random conversation. Jerry begins to ask Peter a series of personal questions that reveal certain characteristics and details about both characters. Analyzing their questions and responses reveals many qualities allows Jerry and Peter to be placed on psychologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs pyramid. However, they are placed into completely different levels. This shows that Peter and Jerry have many
In Edward Albee’s “Zoo Story”, the conflict between character vs. character is generated through the differing class backgrounds of Peter and Jerry. Peter is a well-to-do family man that appears to have very few worries in life. In opposition this class background, Jerry is a confused and lost individual that seeks a deeper relationship with other people. The primary stasis of the conflict is based on the Central Park setting of the play, which allows the men to meet each other in a balanced environment. The intrusion of the play comes when Jerry becomes hostile Peter over the issue of innocence: “You're a very sweet man, and you're possessed of a truly enviable innocence” (Albee p.5). This catalyst in the character v. character conflict escalates into Jerry brandishing a knife against Peter. Inevitably, the Jerry’s jealousy of Peter’s innocence