In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as stubborn, clueless, and she has the typical seven year old attitude. Alyss is very headstrong, “I won’t need any lessons,” Alyss said “I’ll just imagine that I know everything and then I will, so you won’t have to give them to me“ (Beddor 26). Instead of listening to other people who are trying to help her, she is trying to be independent. She thinks she can be independent and does not need anyone else’s help, but she is too young to know everything and not need help. Alyss is also oblivious, she has no idea what a lot of things mean, “Where did you come from?” (Beddor 34). In this scene, Alyss is talking to the kitten that conjured at her feet. She is unobservant and does not think about how situations could be bad or dangerous. Alyss is also sassy and she has her ways …show more content…
For example when she says, “You’re the crulest man I’ve ever met, Mr. Dodgson, and if you had ever believed a single word I told you, you’d know how very cruel that is! I never want to see you again! Never, never, never!” (Beddor 89). Here this shows that she still has the same short temper she had when she was younger in Wonderland. Alyss will always have her smart remarks, even if she does mature throughout the story. Although Alyss still has this temper, she has transitioned into a very intelligent woman, despite her conditions. “They did not find Miss Lidell lacking in intelligence. Some perhaps even found her a bit too intelligent.” (Beddor 95). Although people find Alyss intelligent, they also find her beautiful “... and her beauty… yes her beauty was undeniable” (Beddor 96). Alyss has always been beautiful, but now that she is grown up it is even more noticeable. The reason this is important is because the men in the town are saying this about Alyss and it is a very big
In the Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett, Homer and Mother Maria both display straightforward, hardworking, and stubborn character traits. Firstly, Homer and Mother Maria both display a straightforward personality by being brutally honest about their opinions. For example, when Mother Maria asks Homer to build a chapel, Homer speaks his mind by telling her he does not want to build it. Mother Maria shows her straightforward behavior during Homer’s stay at the convent. One morning, when Homer sleeps in late, Mother to becomes extremely upset and is not afraid to show how she feels about him. Secondly, both Homer and Mother Maria display a hardworking spirit. Homer is a hardworking man because after finally agreeing to build the chapel,
“The thing I hate about space is that you can feel how big and empty it is… ”
In the beginning of the novel, Princess Alyss is characterized as mischievous, endearing, and naive. Alyss loves to play pranks such as “dropping jelly jellies from an open window and watching them splat on the guards below (Beddor 11). Instead of behaving like
The production of Honky is a satirical comedy, following the lives of five people and the language of racism. While it focuses on the plot of 5 characters, the storyline was well thought out and intriguing. One actor in specific, Gerard Joseph, who played Thomas, did an exceptionally well job at conveying emotion and projecting to the audience, in my opinion. The overall directing, from the actors to the soundtrack and lightning, seem to be presented with excellent detail. Overall, this production was well done.
Throughout the book Alyce proves to be a very empathetic and caring young girl. One of the times Alyce shows her empathy, the Midwife was trying to help a woman give birth, but the lady was having some trouble and Jane tried so much that in the end she just gave up to go help someone else she knew would pay her more, deciding to abandon the woman who was in need of help. Alyce decided that it wasn’t fair, and that a lady shouldn’t be left like that when she needed help, “The memory of the proud, frightened, Joan of a moment ago kept her there. And she asked herself, What would the midwife so if she were here? … Alyce took a deep breath and returned to Joan’s side” (59), so she decided to help Joan even though the midwife was too selfish to do so. Alyce also respects the people who don’t respect her, so when the village boys that had recently stopped teasing her were doing something that would have definitely gotten them in trouble if the midwife had seen them, she knew they’d have been in trouble so she went up to the midwife and talked to her to hold her off so the boys could get away. Alyce likes helping people that need help when no one else will help them, for example when she’s found a job at an inn after she’s given up her career as a midwife’s apprentice and a few people ride to the inn asking for help because they claim the lord’s wife is being eaten by a stomach worm but Alyce immediately realizes the lady is pregnant and decides to help her even though she’s a bit uncertain at first because of her recent failure.
In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as irresponsible, immature, and silly. On Alyss’s seventh birthday, she is now eligible to become queen. Bibwit tells her, “The position comes with tremendous responsibilities.”, but she doesn’t seem to care. (Beddor 25) Instead, she plays pranks on everyone and does not take her responsibility as queen seriously.
To prove that she is loyal to White imagination here is a quote from the book. “But she had caught it; the crystal cube was safe.” This quote represents Alyss saving the looking glass maze cube from hitting the ground and cracking. If it cracked it would be broken forever, never allowing the queens that come after Alyss to go through the maze. Another example of Alyss’ loyalty would be when she went into the maze to become the warrior queen that she had to become to save the queendom. “Do i kill or...but what’s to be done with her if I don’t? She’ll pose a threat as long as she lives.” In this quote Alyss struggles with how to handle her aunt. She shows loyalty to the queendom by thinking about getting rid of her aunt for the better of the land. She said that she would pose a threat as long as she lives. What that means is that it would be threatening the queendom if she does not kill her. This shows she is pretty loyal to white imagination/queendom.
Hatter Madigan is one of the characters that takes responsibility. After being told by Queen Genevieve to look after Alyss until she is ready to rule, Hatter Madigan takes the young princess to the Pool of Tears, “Alyss Heart, holding tight to
In The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, the story of alice in wonderland is modified and changed to where Alyss is the Princess of Wonderland, who is forced to leave wonderland when her evil Aunt Redd takes over and kills alyss’ parents. When hatter madigan and alyss are separated in the pool of tears, Alyss ends up alone in England. Eventually returning to take back her throne. When changing the story he developed new themes like how Dodge, Jack of Diamonds, and Alyss can not stay children forever.
One of them even said, “‘If we are successful against Redd, no one can say that our success is without sacrifice. But I sometimes wonder if it has required too much of us.’” (302) Alyss used her imagination to defeat Redd and defeated her for the good of the kingdom, not revenge. After Redd’s rule was over, Alyss proclaimed, “‘It will be rebuilt,’ she said. Dodge nodded. ‘No one will be forgotten, Dodge. Not Sir Justice, not the lowliest card soldier, no one.’” (357) Overall, Alyss had gained all of the responsibility she needed in order to be a wonderful ruler of Wonderland. She had gained a lot of responsibility from her adventure and all of her responsibility was
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
In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as lazy, invidious, and mischievous. Alyss thinks that she does not need any lessons and she believes she can imagine anything she wants to: “I won’t need any lessons, I’ll just imagine that I know everything and then I will so you won’t have to give them to me” (Beddor 23). Alyss does not want
In Frank Beddor spin on Alice In Wonderland, The looking Glass Wars, Alice is from Wonderland and her name is Princess Alyss Heart. In this version, Alyss’ Aunt Redd tries to take over the queendom by force and puts Alyss and the rest of Wonderland in danger. Alyss escapes through the Pool of Tears to London, England and lives there until Hatter Maddigan comes and brings her home to Wonderland to regain the throne. Beddor’s version has a more meaningful theme that consists through the literature. For example, good vs. evil is shown with Dodge, Alyss, and Redd
Since Alymer told her he’s been in disgust every time he saw her, she began to see herself the same way. Georgina is opposed by Alymer, because she feels that being a wife to man, you should do nothing but
Noah is the one of the main characters of The Notebook. He is the hero of this novel. Noah represents true love and true loyalty. In a way, The Notebook is similar to every modern day romance movie, and Noah represents the “dream man” that all the girls always imagine of having. The characters in movies are used to symbolize ideas, and in this novel, Noah represents true, faithful, committed love. Noah remains loyal to Allie even in the situation where he is unsure whether they will ever meet again or not.