How does the author use the interaction between the protagonists and the other characters to explore the central characters journey and what they gain and lose by the end of their story?
“Real friends never let go” this was undoubtedly the situation for Brynna Chase, not even her dead best friend Erica Shaw wanted to let her go. After moving to a whole new town Brynna and her family thought that she might be able to move on from that fateful night and that stupid dare which caused her best friend to become lost at sea. But when Brynna receives a tweet from Erica’s old account she is sure that Erica wants revenge, or does she? Hannah Jayne’s The Dare follows Brynna’s journey after losing her best friend. She’s influenced along the way by many
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The main positive influences were her new friends; especially Evan and Teddy. Evan takes the position of Brynna 's best friend when she moves to Hawthorne High and the two quickly gain trust in one another. Evan choses Brynna to be the first person to ‘come out’ to and in return Brynna tells Evan about Erica and the night she died. However not being completely honest and leaving out the fact that it had been her dare she thought that had gotten her best friend killed. Evans trust in Brynna is tested when ‘Erica’ was listening and decided to hurt Evan and frame Brynna. ‘Who else, Brynna? I told you, just you.’ Evan stared at her, his whole face contorted in pain, surprise and biting anger. The author’s descriptive emotions cause the reader to feel very empathetic to both Evan and Brynna as they know that ‘Erica’ did it and not Brynna but Evan can’t and would never believe her and still got hurt in ‘Erica’s’ twisted games with. Evan did eventually come back to Brynna though, worried about her disappearance and with the help of her other friends kept her alive. Teddy was also a major part of her happiness in this story as he was a ‘romantic interest’ of sorts. Although Brynna switches between wanting to be with him and being too afraid to let someone get too close to her in case ‘Erica’ hurts them. Teddy confuses Brynna’s fear for a disinterest in …show more content…
Evan, Teddy and her other new friends allowed her to experience what it’s like to have close friends that really love and care for her again as she had felt isolated after Erica’s death and turned to drugs and alcohol because of it. They also tested her trust as she didn’t want them to know about Erica’s torment yet she didn’t want to lose them and at one point she does because of Erica beginning to harm them and framing Brynna. But as true friends they came back and evidentially saved her life as although they weren’t the happiest of friends they still cared for her enough to discover her past. Christopher gave a twist to her journey of accepting Erica’s death. He caused her to not feel safe in her own town but because he disguised himself he could make Brynna feel safe and comfortable like she could tell him anything, trusting. Jayne’s use of flashbacks in the book allowed the reader to discover how much Brynna had evolved from her past and how the interactions of people in her past could connect to those she was surrounded by today. Jayne also used similar names for Erica and Evan to symbolise that Evan was Brynna’s new Erica and that she could move on from that horrible night. The use of water also connected past to present as the thing she once loved more than anything was the cause of her best friend’s death and could be the cause of her death.
In conclusion I believe Brynna grew as a person throughout her story. Realising
In the high criminal neighborhood where the other Wes lived, people who live there need a positive role model or a mentor to lead them to a better future. Usually the older family members are the person they can look up to. The other Wes’s mother was not there when the other Wes felt perplexed about his future and needed her to support and give him advises. Even though the other Wes’s mother moved around and tried to keep the other Wes from bad influences in the neighborhood, still, the other Wes dropped out of school and ended up in the prison. While the author Wes went to the private school every day with his friend Justin; the other Wes tried to skip school with his friend Woody. Moore says, “Wes had no intention of going to school. He was supposed to meet Woody later – they were going to skip school with some friends, stay at Wes’s house, and have a cookout” (59). This example shows that at the time the other Wes was not interested in school. Because Mary was busy at work, trying to support her son’s education, she had no time and energy to look after the other Wes. For this reason, she did not know how the other Wes was doing at school and had no idea that he was escaping school. She missed the opportunities to intervene in her son’s life and put him on the right track. Moreover, when the author was in the military school, the other Wes was dealing drugs to people in the streets and was already the father of a child. The incident that made the other Wes drop out of school was when he had a conflict with a guy. The other Wes was dating with the girl without knowing that she had a boyfriend. One night, her boyfriend found out her relationship with the other Wes and had a fight with him. During the fight, the other Wes chased the guy and shot him. The guy was injured and the other Wes was arrested
Firstly, the authors use the use of protagonists to show how they can present similar ideas in different ways. The two protagonists which the authors present are Keating from Dead Poets Society and McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest. These characters have readers intrigued and on their feet from the beginning. These characters always keep the readers guessing what they’re going to do next for example when Keating says “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” The Protagonists are presented as very different people but are in reality extremely similar and serve the same purpose. The authors present them as
As the story progresses, you get to see Melinda “grow” and finally speak out about what happened to her at the party. In some cases during the story there are flashbacks. Some would be good and some would be bad.
...family that she grew up in was such a negative environment. It is very possible that she will grow up to be an art teacher. One might think this because she looked up to her art teacher so much and admired her; Ellen’s mind is full of creativity and ideas. When Ellen’s school found out that her dad was abusive to her they put her up at her art teacher’s house. Ellen says “I came a long way to get here but when you think about it really hard you will see that old Starletta came even farther… And all this time I thought I had the hardest row to hoe” Like Ellen did, it is important for everyone to look back into their life and see what they have learned. Doing so cannot change ones past but only add to their future. Ellen will always carry the horrors of her childhood with her but by using all of her assets that she gained throughout the book her future can be enriched.
She befriends Renee and their common interest for Art makes Paloma, in addition to Renee, “[forget] even the very notion of trying to hide who [they] [are]” (Barbery 148). When Paloma stays as a guest in Renee's lodge, Renee reveals to Paloma that "[she] ha[s] found a good hiding place" but however, Paloma does not hide away in front of Renee. Instead, they are vulnerable to each other in light of the way that Art bonds them together. Art touches their inward soul. Paloma sees through the "“intuition of disaster in [Renee’s] heart", which gives her hope— the possibility to “change one’s fate” (Barbery 148). Not similar in age, condition and conditions, the dubious alliance—reinforced by artistic solidarity—bonds their souls. By comforting Renee, Paloma discovers meaning for life in a way that can serve others. Life is no longer like solitary confinement for her because Art impacts Paloma in a way that leads her on a quest to find the meaning of her
... emotional and mental growth from what happened to her through her artwork. Like Melinda had said in the book, she had gone through different phases in her art pictures from ones with dead, leafless trees to trees with cubism and beautiful leaves and branches. This shows her growth and recovery from what happened that night at the party. In the end, as this relates to Melinda, life is like a tree. You start off a little seed and then become a sprout. You learn from your mistakes and life lessons and begin to grow into a tall, strong, and mighty tree wear no one can harm or stop you from being yourself.
...ned with Ed and Marylynn, and it is very logical that one would do so. However, readers may find reading this story more beneficial if they can learn from it. The lesson behind this story is that one should not be suppressing one's feelings and emotions too extensively and should let out these feelings by seeking forms of release or by simply expressing one's feelings. One might argue that Sally's esteem is what ultimately led to her downfall, nonetheless we have to keep in mind that confidence and self-approval, not to be confused with arrogance, are also what individuals need in order to live a fun and fulfilling life. It might be an overstatement to say that our protagonist is living a lie, but it is easy to say that she is not living her life as her true self, her internal self, and can very well never be happy in this lifetime if she continues to live this way.
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...and through an unfolding of events display to the reader how their childhoods and families past actions unquestionably, leads to their stance at the end of the novel.
influence all her life and struggles to accept her true identity. Through the story you can
Tracy’s identity development is heavily influenced by her new friendship with Evie from that moment on. Evie is so popular, but she makes very poor choices and Tracy follows her lead because she wants to seem just as “cool” as her new companion. This is a type of peer pressure that affects many teenagers daily.... ... middle of paper ... ...
... each other and ultimately determine the fate of the characters in the story, especially the fate of the Heroine.
Writers have taken the idea of human interaction and used it to their advantage. They let the confrontation of characters bring out their personality and use the human experience of company to pull out major life themes and ideas. This is represented in The Streetcar Named Desire, The Metamorphosis and “Everyday Use”. The constant interactions (or lack thereof) of fictional characters can lead real people to think that life always has to be built upon relationships so they can become who they should be. This is not true because it is who we want ourselves to become that guides our interactions with other
This book, Dare The School Build a New Social Order by George Counts, is an examination of teachers, the Progressive Education Movement, democracy and his idea on how to reform the American economy. The book is divided into 5 different sections. The first section is all about the Progressive Education Movement. Through this, George Counts points out many downsides and weaknesses of this ideal. He also talks about how he wants teachers to lead society instead of following it. In the second section, he examines 10 widespread fallacies. These fallacies were that man is born free, that children are born free, they live in a separate world of their own, education remains unchanged, education should have no bias, the object of education is to produce professors, school is an all-powerful educational agency, ignorance rather than knowledge is the way of wisdom, and education is made to prepare an individual for social change.