Character Traits that Help Survival H: “Bang! Bang!” The sound of gun shots during a war but surviving isn’t always guts and guns, there are many other things that people have to survive. B: Hyeonseo Lee in “My Escape from North Korea” has to get out of all of the troubles in Korea, and save her family. Aron Halston in “Trapped” has to survive through the grit and pain of having a rock stuck on his hand. Chris Kyle in “American Sniper” has survive the long and extreme war. T: During these attempts at survival each person had to use a different character trait, Lee uses perseverance, Ralston uses adaptation, and Kyle uses his focus skills. C: To begin, Hyeonseo Lee had to use perseverance to escape North Korea and survive with her family. E: Lee said “I was scared… but I managed to keep it all inside of me”. A: She had to save her family and escape North Korea while being chased by the Korean police. Lee has to use perseverance to push through these tough times and find freedom. E: “I did everything to get my family freedom”. A: Her family was in jail and she was in China and she continually fought for not only her own but her families freedom. L: These are a couple examples of how her Hyeonseo Lee …show more content…
E: “90 hours of being trapped, 29 hours of drinking my own urine and 25 hours of no fresh water”. A: Aron chose adaptation when he runs out of fresh water, he finds a way to live as long as he can. Aron also has to continually change his arrangement in the canyon to allow his body to allow his body to stay stable. E: During his first few efforts to break loose from the rock which led to failure, he creates new ideas to allow him to escape from the boulder. A: He realizes that for the most part, his ideas do not work but Aron does not quit and finally finds the correct formula to escape. L: Aron Ralston uses adaptation to get untrapped from the boulder and
First, Lee needed courage in order to go against the rules of her country and escape. People who left North Korea and was deported back were often killed. Lee went against these risks, just to live a better life. As shown in paragraph 7 “North Korean refugees in China are considered as illegal migrants.” “I would be repatriated… back in North Korea.”
The film that we screened in class was titled the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and was directed by Ang Lee. The beginning of the film, Bai returns from meditating and decides to give up his sword. Once the sword is transported to Sir Te's, it is stolen by a masked character in all black, who is revealed as Jen later on in the film. Mu Bai, Shu Lien and Tsai go out searching for the sword and encounter Jade Fox, which is then followed by a battle; however, the masked character helps Fox escape. During that night Lo, a former lover of Jen, comes back to return her comb and then there is a flashback on how they met. After their encounter, Lo leaves Jen; however, comes back and tries to thwart Jen from getting married. In the end, Fox dies
Doug Swieteck, from “Okay for Now”, by Gary D. Schmidt, lived a life in anger. At the beginning of the book, he was very hateful of everything. He had spent a long time in anger and disgust, trying to find a way in life. Near the beginning of the book, Joe Pepitone gave Doug his baseball cap and jacket in person, to Doug. But, Doug’s mean older brother took the cap and his dad took his jacket. That added to Doug’s anger even more. But, luckily he turned it around in the middle and end of the book. He ended being a lot happier and was able to control his emotions better.
The book, Heat written by Mike Lupica, is a novel about a young boy named Michael Arroyo who faces many difficulties throughout the book, all for his right to play his beloved game of baseball. Michael lives with his dad, Papi, and his brother, Carlos. They are all Cubans who came to the United States for a better chance to follow their dreams. Papi always encourages Michael to play baseball and he always has high hopes for Michael’s career in baseball. It is right to believe in Michael so much because later he fulfills his father's dream for him. After Papi dies of heart failure, Michael still continues Papi dream for him, to be the Little League Champion. Throughout the book Michael meets two characters who have significant impacts on him,
She uses vivid descriptions, images, moods, symbols and word choices. For example, Hyeonseo Lee is not the name she was born with, or a name she was forced on, the name she carries is a name she choose for herself so that she may live the life she wants. The symbolism behind her many names adds to the identity she gained through her personal journey. Everytime she was forced on to take a new identity she felt further away from who she was, “I was already hiding beneath so many lies that I hardly knew who I was any more. I was becoming a non-person,” she portrays the internal struggles she felt because of her inability to keep anything as simple as her name so that she may overcome all the obstacles and attain her goal to be free. The author uses her style as a way to incorporate her ideas smoothly. She describes anything from her clothes to her goverment in great detail so that she may add the images the readers may need to understand the ideas as a whole. “It was an aspiring neighbourhood that retained a faint edge of slum, typical of Shanghai. Pensioners in Mao-era padded jackets would sit on doorsteps playing mah-jong, oblivious to the Prada-clad girls sweeping past on their way to work”as she describe a city in China her style gives the readers a clear image of what she witnessed. Hyeonseo Lee’s vivid style contributes to the success of her
Ji-Suk grew up as both an American and a Korean. I was very important for Ji-Suk’s mom to teach her daughter her Korean heritage but also wanted her to live up to American standards. This helps develop the theme of striking a balance. This is recognized in the text when the narrator states “Even though she'd made Ji-Suk take Korean lessons every Saturday morning followed by violin lessons in the afternoon—and cooked kimchi and other Korean delicacies with her at least once a week—Ji-Suk's mother had wanted her to succeed by American standards.”
The Chosen by Chaim Potok is a phenomenal novel about two Jewish boys who live in two very discrepant worlds because of the impressions of their fathers.The Hasidic Rabbi, Reb Saunders wants his son, Danny Saunders, to perdure the family legacy and become a Rabbi. Mr. Malter, Reuven’s father, is an Orthodox Jew who is easy going about what he wants his son to do. Throughout the book, both Reuven and Danny face problems and sufferings that helped them both to become stronger and get through the hard times they faced.
Helen did all she could to live a normal life and live the life she wanted. Helens teacher wanted to help her weather she wanted the help or not.”It's my job to help you,and I'm going to do it!”(Hickok 134). Helen's teacher forced Helen to let her help her and not give up.She made Hellen learn even when it was hard and she throw fits. Teacher gives Hellen hope for a better life. Helen's teacher comes in and gives her hope that one day she will be able to change the world and help many people like her.(Hickok 12)Helen had lost hope before her teacher came. When the teacher showed her she can learn she regained hope.Helen got hope in herself and changed lives and did what she could with voice,Officer Stallen chaned an dsaved lives by supporting them in his work force. Stallen did the best thing he could to help black lives.Jay Stallen became a police officer to solve black on black crime and help to save as many black lives as he could.(Shaw 11).Stallen decided to help the lives of black men and women by becoming a cop. He stood up for many black lives as he could..Stallen helped black lives every chance he got.Stallen wanted to save black lives so he stood up for black lives when he was
The play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry has many interesting characters. In my opinion, the most fascinating character is Ruth because of her many emotions and captivating personality. She goes through extreme emotions in the play such as happiness, sadness, anger, stress, and confusion. Ruth is very independent, firm, kind, witty, and loving.
A character is a very important component in literature. The narrator is able to create a character by his personal experience and his imagination. To make a character come alive, the development of a character is critical. A skillful writer could use various elements or skills to build a vivid character, such as creating internal or outer conflicts and describing character’s actions or thoughts. They stimulate the readers’ imagination and generate sympathetic response. In the biography of The White Rose Munich 1942-1943, Inge Scholl makes Hans as a round dynamic character through his early youth, his conflict and decision, his reason of making the decision, and his qualities that are shown by his action and thought.
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The Cay: Essay By: Alexxis Helton In “The Cay”, Phillip’s character reveals that through many different conflicts, he developed being frightened, overwhelmed, and in the end Phillip develops independence in the end. Phillip demonstrated being frightened after experiencing his ship blowing up and ending up being alone as evidence in the novel when he woke up after getting hit in the head to a random black man in the raft the him all by himself in the middle of the ocean.Phillip responded by being frightened because he just got lost from his parents in a boat explosion and is now with a stranger.”I closed my eyes again, maybe I was dreaming.”(Taylor 30) Phillip was now waking up from getting hit in the head 4 hours later and wakes up to some
AP English Literature and Composition MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET Title: A Raisin In the Sun Author: Lorraine Hansberry Date of Publication: 1951 Genre: Realistic Drama Biographical Information about the Author Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930. She grew up as the youngest in her family. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a real estate broker.
In “The Sniper” the conflict is man vs man, which means main character is tasked with killing his enemy, but it proves to be quite a challenge. Even though there were many challenges the sniper followed through with his job and persevered even after he was shot in the arm. Wanting to kill his enemy, stay alive, and be one step closer to ending the war was his main goals. Being brave, he took off his hat, placed it on his gun, and raised it above the edge of the roof. Instantly the enemy shot at it and the sniper, pretending to be dead, waited until the enemy got up for him to shoot him. He did some quick thinking and, with determination, handled the conflict quite well.
In the story, Young Goodman Brown, the character, Goodman Brown changes throughout the story. In the beginning he was a kind man, loving husband with nothing holding him down, not even the warnings of his wife, Faith. As he walked and talked with the Devil, he became more aware of what had happened in the past with his own family. When he saw the Devil talk with Goody Cloyse on the path in the woods, he figured out by the nature of their conversation that the Devil was more mischievous than he thought. He started to have uncertainties about the errand he was on. At that point, Goodman Brown told the devil he was not going another step. Shortly after the Devil left him in the path, Brown found a ribbon on a branch of a tree