Have you ever seen a dead body? Not many people have, but in The Body Finder Violet does nothing but see them. Violet sees “the girl’s face staring up from beneath the soil” (Derting 4) Ever since Violet has been discovering every dead thing that came across her path. Eventually a serial killer has made its home in her town. Violet has a drive to find the killer to give these girls peace. Violet would give her life to find this killer. She has a drive that no one else can understand. Kimberly Derting is trying to teach us that having a drive is needing to have determination, a need to succeed at any cost. In The Body Finder, Violet is very torn from her feelings and even more in her secret power. Though with this power comes a “Pulling sensation, the tugging that propelled her almost without her awareness” (Derting 59-60). Violets pull can be related to almost everyone. A pull to food, to succeeding. Everyone has their guilty pleasure; Violet’s pulls to the dead are the same thing. No one understands her pull, but it’s drawing her. Violet’s character is strong, independent and determined. Derting is trying to teach us to go for that pull, this can lead someone to success. Though the drive Derting is trying to teach us about can also lead to failure …show more content…
The thing Violet would never think she’d “See if [she could] get a feeling for who this guy is […] You can’t stop me, Jay. […] But I swear to you that every chance I get, even if I have to sneak out of the house to do it, I will be trying to find him” (Derting 113-114) Everyone has done risky decisions, taking a new job, or even saying something against authority. Violets even going searching for a seral killer. There’s risk in everything we do. Violets trying to reach a goal, she’s doing something risky and risk comes with fear of the future. The author wants us to get a scared feeling, a powerful feeling, an intense
Susanna recalls her suicide attempt: “I wanted to get rid of a certain aspect of my character. I was performing a kind of self-abortion of my character… but i had no heart to try it again” (Kaysen 39). Although Susanna’s action is viewed by some critics as alarming, it was a learning experience for her, and she moved on. Furthermore, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs emphasizes the idea of undergoing drastic measures in order for results to be evident. Also, self-actualization stresses the need for personal growth that spans a person’s lifetime (McLeod). Susanna’s drastic actions allow her to realize her need for self-evaluation and understanding her actions. Susanna explains that “scar tissue has no character... It doesn’t show age or illness... It shields and disguises what’s beneath. That’s why we grow it, we have something to hide” (Kaysen 16). Seeing Polly’s scar tissue, Susanna acknowledges the motives behind the creation of the form of skin, and thus, her understanding brings her closer to identifying her motives and what she seeks to gain from her actions. Susanna explains what goes into one’s detachment from life: “... practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying” (Kaysen 36). Susanna acknowledges preparing for suicide, however, she realizes after
Hope and joy can be hard to find especially when times are tough. This is a situation in Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse , the character Billy Jo and her family are living in the time of the Dust Bowl and are struggling financially . Her father is a farmer in a time where nothing grows and after an accident Billy Jo’s mother passes away. This is a big part of Billy Jo is effected emotionally and shows seems very sad. Billy Jo has to move and has to move on and find joy and hope even in tough times.
She is fairly new to the work world and has lied on her resume’ to get hired, and realizes that the job is harder than she first thought. All hope is not lost because Violet assures her that she can be trained. She ends up succeeding at the company and telling her husband she will not take him back after he comes back begging for her love again.
Julius Caesar is mentioned throughout the book, A Long Way Gone, many times. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael would be reading Julius Caesar or a soldier would be reciting some of the speeches in the play. In Chapter 12 of A Long Way Gone, Ishmael is called over to talk with Lieutenant Jabati. Then, Lieutenant Jabati showed Ishmael the book he was reading, which was Julius Caesar, and asked Ishmael if he had ever heard of the book. Ishmael had read the book in school, and began to recite a speech from the book. After this happened, Lieutenant Jabati and Corporal Gadafi used emotional arguments to motivate the people in the village to stay there and support the military. Also, Lieutenant showed all the people in the village dead bodies to help
Violet is a very cute, feminine name which fits the character’s role as the femme in the lesbian relationship. One could accentuate the fact that whenever Violet is away from Caesar, she appears to be less feminine. Also, whenever Violet is talking to men, her voice becomes high-pitched which seemingly makes her vulnerable ensuring her to be taken care of. This can be seen in many scenes from the film especially the scene where Caesar opens the briefcase and finds nothing in it except a stack of newspapers. Caesar asks “Where could the money be?” Violet replies with her...
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
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written in third person point of view. It took place in the 1960’s in Maycomb, Alabama. Jean Louise Finch is one of the most appealing and active child I know. Jean Louise Finch is the narrator of To Kill A Mockingbird. She lives with her widowed father Atticus, her brother Jim, and “colored” cook and housekeeper, Calpurnia.
Piaget believed that a child’s development is neither intrinsic (learning based on interest) or extrinsic (learning from an outside force, such as a parent). He believed that a child develops based on his or hers interactions in the environment (Mooney 2000). Piaget created four stages of cognitive development, some of which can be seen in the film “Cheaper by the Dozen”. A few examples of characters that display Piaget’s theory are the twins, who are in the preoperational stage and lack the concept of conservatism, and the mastermind, who is in the concrete operational stage and show's the concept of decentralism. These characters will have Piaget’s theory applied to them in the following paragraphs.
Anthony Doerr’s novel All the Light We Cannot See shows the reader how children would deal with war and how it shaped who they are today. Doerr’s purpose for writing this novel is to highlight how mentally taxing the war was and that there was no permanent escape from the war. Both Marie-Laure and Werner believed they could escape the war both physically and mentally, yet their involvement in it makes it more difficult. Marie-Laure’s fear of her father going to jail shows how she becomes involved in the war. Werner struggled with trying to escape the war through his fascination with radios when it just brought him further into the war. After understanding the effect on certain individuals; the story zooms out showing how the majority
...eople in her life has also shaped her to feel extreme tension for the characters around her. Although it’s very fortunate that an orphan like Jane her self is able to achieve wealth and power without having education or social motivation , Jane also has manners and shows sophistication while remaining penniless and powerless.
...s a moment when she starts to see the true meaning but doesn’t want to accept it at first, which is evident from the groaning and “hiding.” However, at the end of the play and the end of her life, Vivian is ready to accept this truth that she herself is living out the same life as the speakers in Donne’s poems and begins “reaching for the light –“ (Edson 66).
In summary, Vivian Bearing’s different perspectives of life and death in various periods convey the tension between life and death. Vivian’s confidence collapses step by step with the threat of death. She once became scared and just wanted to hide away from the world. However, finally, she accepts her death peacefully rather than frustrated and scared. People do not usually think about death until they get the last moment of their lives. In this play, “Wit” indicates that death is not a fearful thing, but a natural and serious thing. People shall not be afraid of death. Wit inspires audiences to consider the true meaning of life. With the clear organization and successful antithesis, Wit is a great play that not only demonstrates the interesting plots but also inspires us to ponder over the real connection between life and death.
...eceives people on earth, but it’s all out of a place of sorrow. She does it merely to look for her daughter in hopes of finding her.
...nability to acknowledge colour reflects how the scene of murdering of her child is embedded in her psyche.
It started off as a little something to calm her nerves but ended up as something much worse. She started to become numb to the haunted feelings and rage, but the tables turned. The haunted that she would carry with her now followed her like a lost puppy. Everywhere she chose to go everything she decided to do was haunted, but she was numb and unaware and had a false feeling that she was okay. The people around her told her it was okay, and so did the illegal things she was inhaling. The haunted the hurt and pain didn’t bother her as much