Min is excellent potter who has many different skills in the novel A Single Shard. A weakness/bad trait that Min has is that he is a perfectionist and works slowly. An example from the text that explains why Min is a perfectionist is, "Concentrating on the answer to the emissary's question helped steady Tree-Ear. "I think ten. Not fewer, but not many more..." He looked up and spoke with quiet pride. "My master works slowly."This quote explains that Min works slowly because he wants everything to be perfect so he can only make a couple of pottery pieces which compared to every other potter is Ch'ulp'o is a very small limit. Another example of how Min is a perfectionist is when he is making the pottery at the wheel. "Min sat up straight.
Grace is a very sweet and sensitive girl. She made some mistakes herself, but because of her foster parents she got through the tough parts. In Far From the Tree written by Robin Benway, she created a character that had a child in highschool and Her little girl was adopted and has a better life than what Grace could have offered her. Once Grace got told she had a sister named Maya she bursted into joy. Her heart was beating out of her chest when she was emailing Maya to meet up. When Maya replied with an answer Grace was ecstatic, but at the same time she did not know what to think. The moment when she saw the answer was ¨yes¨ she ran downstairs to tell her parents. Her whole life was now different because she had a relief that she had someone
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy of each other’s life” -Richard Bach. Far from the Tree by Robin Benway explores the meaning of family, and the impact that loved ones have on identity. The novel tells the story of three siblings who have three very different lives reunite after spending all of their lives separately. Grace, Maya and Joaquin grow dependant on one another, and unknowingly give and take values from each other that help them solve their own issues slowing being brought to light. With the help of his parents and siblings, Joaquin reveals a critical capacity for change as he leaves his old self behind and moves on to a better future with a loving family.
Hope and joy can be hard to find especially when times are tough. This is a situation in Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse , the character Billy Jo and her family are living in the time of the Dust Bowl and are struggling financially . Her father is a farmer in a time where nothing grows and after an accident Billy Jo’s mother passes away. This is a big part of Billy Jo is effected emotionally and shows seems very sad. Billy Jo has to move and has to move on and find joy and hope even in tough times.
The novel Suttree is centered on Cornelius “Buddy” Suttree, a college educated man who has decided to forsake his former life and live in a houseboat on the Tennessee River outside of Knoxville, Tennessee in a fairly destitute area known as McAnally Flats in 1951. He leaves his wife and child, a son, giving up the comfortable life to live as a river rat of sorts. He seems to be searching for something, unbeknownst to him or the reader. Possibly the meaning of life, but more than likely it’s a way to deal with death that seems to follow Suttree around throughout the novel. He’s not one for social norms, coming off as being an anarchist. He runs from his responsibilities, rebels against authority, and refuses to be bound by social convention. His everyday life is a hodge podge of drunken adventures, be it brawls or waking up in the morning in the local lockup hungover and confused. He associates with the
Many can identify with what it means to be a sibling. Whether you are the oldest, youngest, or somewhere in between, you can most likely relate to the individual struggle within one. Being the oldest may carry the burden of responsibility and a sense of duty, and the youngest may feel a sense of entitlement. Whichever place one holds may depend on the person. Mai Lee Chai’s “Saving Sourdi” tells the story of two sisters who came to America with the hope of finding freedom. The two girls found anything but that. The younger sister Nea, takes the unusual role of the guardian, while the older sister Sourdi is atypically being cared for by Nea.
In The Big Field, author Mike Lupica explores the theme, "Success uses motivation as fuel." Lupica portrays this theme through the main character, Hutch. Throughout the entire book, Hutch, a young boy that has just recently joined a highly talented baseball team, displays moments that exemplify this main theme. Hutch and his team have a chance to play in the stadium of the Miami Marlins, a Major League Baseball team, as long as they can keep winning games and advancing through a challenging tournament; however, Hutch's favorite position on the field, shortstop, the position located between 2nd and 3rd base, has already been filled on the team. Unfortunately, Hutch gets a demotion from shortstop, to second base, the position located between 1st base and 2nd base. Although Hutch was disappointed and melancholy about the switch in position, he was even more upset about the downgrading of leadership, since the
...that can foil even the best plans. Perfection does not have a single definition, “The act of making something perfect or better”-Merriam Webster. It is up to each individual to decide whether he or she achieved perfection in their job, and the bar to determine that is similarly different for each individual. In the end when the task has been completed individuals shouldn’t necessarily ask themselves if they were perfect, they should ask themselves how they can improve from their experience. Achieving perfection is a constant chase, when one thinks they were perfect they must also realize that they could have been better. When an individual thinks they are perfect, they have given up on the chase for perfection. “Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.”
Piaget believed that a child’s development is neither intrinsic (learning based on interest) or extrinsic (learning from an outside force, such as a parent). He believed that a child develops based on his or hers interactions in the environment (Mooney 2000). Piaget created four stages of cognitive development, some of which can be seen in the film “Cheaper by the Dozen”. A few examples of characters that display Piaget’s theory are the twins, who are in the preoperational stage and lack the concept of conservatism, and the mastermind, who is in the concrete operational stage and show's the concept of decentralism. These characters will have Piaget’s theory applied to them in the following paragraphs.
Anthony Doerr’s novel All the Light We Cannot See shows the reader how children would deal with war and how it shaped who they are today. Doerr’s purpose for writing this novel is to highlight how mentally taxing the war was and that there was no permanent escape from the war. Both Marie-Laure and Werner believed they could escape the war both physically and mentally, yet their involvement in it makes it more difficult. Marie-Laure’s fear of her father going to jail shows how she becomes involved in the war. Werner struggled with trying to escape the war through his fascination with radios when it just brought him further into the war. After understanding the effect on certain individuals; the story zooms out showing how the majority
Min’s relationship with Tree-ear at the beginning of the story was like a boss to an employ. Min was rude to Tree-ear and often ignored him throughout the book. Such as in, chapter six page sixty-six, “Watch that stone there, to the left! Keep that cart even, stupid boy. This-way – the path is smother here. Ai-go! What’s the
Pottery. Pottery is a tradition many people try; yet only some are actually willing to stick with it. For Min, a twelfth century potter in the story A Single Shard, this tradition is not a game or a joke. He is what the people of his town Ch’ulp’o refer to as a master potter; he will not be satisfied with his work until he knows that is perfect, a perfectionist.
Veterinarian, a round character Objective Character may be defined as the unique set of traits and features that form the nature of a fictional person. Characters that the reader will remember start with a basis of reality. The writer takes a trait, the mannerisms or perhaps the appearance of someone he has known and adds to and embellishes it, drawing from his imagination. Sometimes a character is a composite. Often a character reflects the writer's own background or fantasies. The character's motivation, the "why" of his behavior is revealed through his dialogue and actions. He is the sum of everything that has happened to him in his fictional life: a character with flesh and blood and genuine emotions who brings the validity of truth to a work of fiction. (Character, http://www.writersmarket.com/encyc/C.asp#192, Retrieved on 17/06/2003). A round character is a fictional person so specifically portrayed and described as to be recognizable and individually different from any other character in a novel, play or film. The protagonist and other main participants of a work are usually round characters: Their development is complex and tends to focus on their inner person (motivations, human traits, flaws, conflicts, distinctive qualities). Hamlet, for example, is a round character. (Round Character, http://www.writersmarket.com/encyc/r.asp, Retrieved on 17/06/2003). In pre-medical times there is reference to veterinary related topics in the 14th Century manuscript 'Sachsenspiegel' (Saxons' Mirror), and in French 12th Century epics that celebrate mounted men-at-arms; they describe horses in times of health and disease, and elsewhere in the literature horse injuries have been described. (Some examples of Veterinarians in Belletrist Lit...
While the other masters of various crafts saw no promise in Will, Halt saw his true potential not only physically, but also morally. Like any hero, Will is an honest, responsible, and respectful person. Though he is soft spoken and quite shy, he is very kind, friendly and also very curious. While Will’s tendency to get distracted and ask many questions annoy Halt, he eventually becomes very fond of him, serving as not only a mentor, but a fatherly figure as well. Always ready to follow orders and do the right thing, Will is an excellent apprentice and a likable character that keeps the audience immersed in the book. The relationship between the apprentice and the master is quite hilarious throughout the book because they serve as foils of each other in many
Some children are orphaned for various reasons. Some children are orphaned because their parents are deceased. Others are dropped off at an orphanage because their parents cannot care for their basic needs of life. Tree-ear is a Korean orphan in the book, A Single Shard. He is being raised by Crane-man who is crippled, old man. Ruckel, a Romanian orphan, is an orphan, who lives in three different places, in an article about how not having parents or not knowing who children’s parents are can have an effect on brain development. Although orphans share many of the same experiences, each one has his or her own story.
In the novel A Single Shard, the reader meets Min; Min is a potter in the village of Ch’ulp’o. Ch’ulp’o is a coastal village in 12th century Korea. Min is regarded as the best potter in the region of Ch’ulp’o and even the whole country itself. Min changes from the beginning as a grumpy perfectionist into a caring father figure to Tree-ear by the end of the novel.