Throughout the book the characters experienced personal growth; they learned something that changes how they look at life. In this essay I picked a character that I feel experienced the most growth and change and discuss what caused this change to happen and what they were like before the change occurred. I picked Miss Skeeter to write about, Miss Skeeter was raised in a home where she was brought up by a black woman as her nanny and maid of the house. For that era it was normal for kids to be raised that way. Miss Skeeter’s life was simple and she was rich, she didn’t know what it was like to need or want anything in life. She wasn’t exposed to many of the hardships that many of the black characters in the book suffer or go through. Her life …show more content…
Skeeter that she is working on a bill, “A bill that requires every white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help. I’ve even notified the surgeon general of Mississippi to see if he’ll endorse the idea.” Hilly Holbrook (Stockett 9) Ms. Skeeter recommends to Hilly that maybe she should have a bathroom outside. Before Ms. Skeeter leaves that night she goes in to the kitchen and apologizes to Aibileen about what Hilly said and asks her, "Do you ever wish you could…change things?" (Stockett 10). This showed me that she had compassion for Aibileen and it bothered her that Hilly hurt Aibileen’s feelings with what she said about the bathroom. This was the first time in the book that it acknowledges that she feels differently from her …show more content…
She says "Why is it that someone always seems to be ashamed of me?" Skeeter (Stockett 447). She finds comfort and a family sense through the maids that she interviews, the help grows to love her and appreciate her for giving them a voice and she finds what she needs in them as a family. The community rejects her but she finds acceptance in her new family. I think that the rejection of the community and the acceptance from an unconventional place shows that acceptance may not always come from where you think it will, however the people who really do care and love you will accept you for who you really are they will always be there for
Characters in the story have a major impact on the theme of fantasy versus reality. The main character Connie, is a fifteen-year-old who exhibits the confusing, often superficial behavior typical of a teenage girl facing the difficult transition
I chose this topic to show readers how the characters motives changed throughout the story. This is my thoughts on why they changed; because of one girl who stood up to her father changed so much which was like a domino effect and which made most characters change from within.
lands, these experiences shape and change the characters. In the novel some characters endure breakdowns, others conflict with one another and some even die, from these we see characters become independent, stronger, weaker and even loose control and breakdown. Romulus meets a girl called Christine, although he likes her, he doesn't value all the aspects of her personality he changes and adapts to her needs and desires. Romulus later has a metal breakdown and commits himself to a mental institution, because of this he Raimond becomes more independent and sees that his father is not indestructable. These are jus some of the many experiences that change and sculpt the characters throughtout the novel.
Mrs. Charlotte Phelan (Skeeter’s mom) and Ms. Aibileen Clark, (a maid and nanny of Jackson, Mississippi), played the role of a dynamic characters from my prospect. A dynamic character undergoes some kind of change because of the action in the plot. At first, Mrs. Phelan wasn’t very happy about some of the decisions her daughter Skeeter was making and not standing her ground when it came down to how she knew she really felt on the inside about blacks. Towards the end of the movie she came around and was proud of her daughter and thanking her for opening up her eyes up and r...
... a very young age and with it her independence. Once she gained back her independence she saw that safety was missing. She looked for it in “husbands” but found that they failed her. Stephen gave her back that security when she joined his family through marriage. Stephen left the comfort of home to help others, but found himself more helped. He came back with a new sense of independence derived from interdependence. The deepest lessons you can learn are from your own mistakes. These characters all had flaws, that much is true. The difference came from how they chose to deal with them. The best result came when they said “I cannot do this alone.” The balance is found when one is free and safe personally, but also shares that freedom and security with others.
... age of Gene Forrester. Because Finny causes Gene to grow up, we are able to realize that one must grow up to move on in life. In that process of growing up, several people impact your life. This novel shows us how our identity is basically created by those who are present in our lives; however we must not measure our abilities against another person (Overview: A Separate Peace 2). We are shown how the impact of one person can make a great difference. The goodness in people is what one should always take away from a relationship. This is shown in the relationship between Gene and Finny. The experiences Finny gives Gene cause him to grow up and become a better person because of them.
Characterization: Her character becomes very confident and self-forgiving as shown from this passage. What she used to do was only because she was trying to recover from her deceased husband.
Dessen was not like the other girls in her younger years. She would have rather woken up to a book on Christmas morning than diamonds or fancy clothes. This personality is shown in her characters. Sarah gets the message out to people that it is okay to just be themselves. Books of hers tell the reader that whether someone is tall, small or do not live up to society's standards is okay, and that people just need to accept themselves before they worry about others opinions. These characters have traits that their community did not think was “normal.” Haven in her novel That Summer was taller than anyone she knew, even her father, but in the end it seems that it does not bother her and just grows to the fact that she is who she is and she would not want to have it any other way. Also, in The Truth About Forever, Macy did not think she was up to paar with her perfect boyfriend. Macy then discovers that she should not have to change because she is not as “perfect” as everyone else, which is what Dessen wishes everyone out there should follow.
Conflicts: Name the five literary conflicts and give an example of each from the novel.
This book had a big impact on my life. It showed me that people may not be the person that they display to the world. Just because someone is smiling doesn’t mean they are truly happy or if someone is crying it doesn’t always mean their upset or that something is wrong. People express their emotions differently or
The Novel has changed my view of the life which I live as it has really opened my eyes to seeing how privileged I truly am. It also makes an individual realize that we should help the people around us as it can mean anything to that person such as the start to a new and better life. The novel teaches us to feed our passions and to ignore the ideas of others that may criticize it.
I chose to look at William Faulkner’s “Dry September” and Eudora Welty’s “Keela the Outcast Indian Maiden” because I saw the stories were shaped the most by race relations in the south. If the way race was looked at was different in this time period, these stories wouldn’t even exist. There are different ways white people treated African Americans in the south and they are all cruel and unjust in my opinion.
This is my reflection over the book. I will be talking about what characteristics I liked and disliked the the best and the least, which one can I most relate to with my personality, hopes, and dreams, and what would characters be doing today if they were still alive.
Throughout the novel the reader finds out that one cannot stew over a negative situation, but instead, find the positive in a negative situation and move on to better things. In addition, people should always be themselves because we all matter, no matter what our differences.
At first glance the narrator seems very plain and uneventful as she is the companion of the very snobby and stuck up Mrs. Van Hopper. Due to her father’s death, she must take in this demeaning and demoralizing job of ailing to the needs of Mrs. Van Hopper. Her willingness to follow every order that her companion gives her without any word back or without sticking up for herself at all gives her character the image of weakness and boringness. This job, however, is the reason why her whole life changes and changes her character into an outspoken woman.