Characters' Motivations in "Because of Winn-Dixie"

This novel was set in the early 1900’s.  During this time, the black people were oppressed by white people.  They were abused and taken advantage of.  Not only were the black people were oppressed but also women were oppressed.  They had little freedom and were unable to be self-sufficient.

Esther Greenwood was a scholarship student attending an all-women’s college in New York. While in school, she wrote for a women’s magazine under the supervision of her editor Jay Cee. Writing was her passion and she especially loved poetry. Unfortunately, the college life and New York City were not exactly what Esther had thought they would be. She always found herself being a third wheel or the outsider of the group. This may have been the spark that began her battle with depression. Either that, or the realization that her childhood crush Buddy Willard, a medical student at Yale, was a hypocrite. He and Esther had known each other since a very young age through the church and their parents had intended for them to eventually be married. After Buddy invited Esther to attend Yale’s prom, they began spending a lot of time together until she found out that he had lost his virginity to a sleazy waitress. This contradicted everything Buddy was and had claimed to be. His whole good and pure act was flawed whenever Esther discovered these facts. She was especially hurt, because they were very competitive with each other and she now wanted to lose her virginity so as to no...

story are bitterness, towards her father, resentment, generation gap, disolusionment and suppressed forbidden love, all tying together this tragic story.

E. L. Doctorow’s novel, Ragtime, provides a tale which intertwines historical characters with fictional characters in turn-of-the-century America. Halfway between fiction and history, the novel drives the reader to question what is real and what is fake. Through interlocking stories and relationships, each character develops their own distinctive story and personality. Set in a time of great change, the characters experience and undergo great transformation, for better or for worse. Two important movements happening during this time was the women’s rights movement and the African American civil rights movement. Both Mother and Coalhouse respectively represent these movements throughout the novel and the changes of the time period.

Point of View Displayed in Life and Literature People struggle through many obstacles that are sometimes unimaginable for others. Most cannot see the difficulties until they are placed in another point of view aside from their own. This theme can be expressed in texts such as “The Malala Interview”, “Zaching Against Cancer”, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Malala is forced to understand why people are trying to take her education away from her. In To Kill a Mockingbird, many children in Maycomb are unable to see why Arthur (Boo) Radley spends his life inside of his home.

The story begins with Jim Burden being separated from his family after their deaths. Since he loses his parents, he must travel to Nebraska to live with his grandparents, a journey that he set out on with one of the farm “hands” of his father. This journey to Nebraska offers for Jim a new and different life. Jim’s forced separations “orphaned and expelled from the East by his relatives, feels the same sense of having ‘left behind’ forever the things and people that matter to him” (Holmes); a loss from what he knew and where he grew up, leaving behind everything, even his parents’ spirits. He expresses his journey as setting out to “try our fortunes in a new world” (Cather, 49). Jim knows that there is a separation all around him especially the separation from his coach car to the immigrant car, where Antonia and her family are traveling in: “their initial separation is a durable dividing line that foresh...

...n all of these stories, the children look to their families to help them form their identity and find their place in the world; and in most cases are disappointed with the lack of unity and dis-functionality they encounter. This relationship is much like India has with itself and England. Rather than thinking independently and trying to move away from British culture and being a people oppressed by colonization, the Indian people become a victim once again insomuch that they continue to think like the colonized even after they have won independence.

This novel takes place in 1912-1937 in Mississippi. This is a time of racism an...

This book very strongly pertains to what has happened with the slaves in. Every slave owner treated their slaves differently. Like in Kathleen's case she treated her slaves and great kindness and thought of them as family.”Amber, She said,can I speak to

As she ran out of her large, caging house, down her street of houses similar to her own, all with their own struggles locked away in a dollhouse like simplicity, her massive, spotted dog jumped on her forcing her onto the ground as of saying, “Don’t leave me.” But she did leave. And the depressed dog ran back into the house whimpering and crying like a child.