Throughout various stories and novels authors reveal important traits of the characters in the text. These character traits are used to help readers better understand the character as a whole, their mood, habits and physical appearance. In “The Ring” by Isak Dinesen, Dinesen reveals an abundant amount of these character traits, especially involving Lise. Lise is a complex character, whose actions show who she really is. The evidence in the story gives details that lead the readers to know that Lise is immature and childish, sheltered, and has changed drastically within the story. The first of the many character traits that Lise possesses is her immaturity and childish demeanor. “It was not a long time since she had played with dolls; as now …show more content…
Lise experiences one sizeable change, she realizes that she is unhappy with her marriage, even though she was once overjoyed by the new marriage. In the beginning of the story she states on page 226 that “she could never have any secret from her husband.” Although, in the conclusion of the story she is untruthful with her husband. Lise encounters a thief, in the instant she believed he would want something valuable. Hence she gave the thief her wedding ring and the wedding ring was lost. She knows this but as her husband asks, “ ‘Do you remember where you had the ring on last?’ he asked. “No,” she answered.” (230). Lise has a major change in the story because her new found distrust for her husband is a symbol of her uneasiness and sadness with her marriage.
Character traits are an important aspect of a story. They give the readers insight into the character, either through direct quotes or inferences. In “The Ring”, these traits are especially influential because they lead the readers to better understand Lise and the all the character’s motives and actions. Lise’s actions and motives depict a childish, sheltered, and changed character from the beginning of the text to the
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In the article Skin Deep written by Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin, they discuss and look deeper into the diverse differences in skin color. Our skin color has developed over the years to be dark enough to prevent the damaging sunlight that has been harming our skin and the nutrient folate that it carries. At the same time out skin is light enough to receive vitamin D.
Elizabeth Fernea entered El Nahra, Iraq as an innocent bystander. However, through her stay in the small Muslim village, she gained cultural insight to be passed on about not only El Nahra, but all foreign culture. As Fernea entered the village, she was viewed with a critical eye, ?It seemed to me that many times the women were talking about me, and not in a particularly friendly manner'; (70). The women of El Nahra could not understand why she was not with her entire family, and just her husband Bob. The women did not recognize her American lifestyle as proper. Conversely, BJ, as named by the village, and Bob did not view the El Nahra lifestyle as particularly proper either. They were viewing each other through their own cultural lenses. However, through their constant interaction, both sides began to recognize some benefits each culture possessed. It takes time, immersed in a particular community to understand the cultural ethos and eventually the community as a whole. Through Elizabeth Fernea?s ethnography on Iraq?s El Nahra village, we learn that all cultures have unique and equally important aspects.
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In "Our Secret" by Susan Griffin, the essay uses fragments throughout the essay to symbolize all the topics and people that are involved. The fragments in the essay tie together insides and outsides, human nature, everything affected by past, secrets, cause and effect, and development with the content. These subjects and the fragments are also similar with her life stories and her interviewees that all go together. The author also uses her own memories mixed in with what she heard from the interviewees. Her recollection of her memory is not fully told, but with missing parts and added feelings. Her interviewee's words are told to her and brought to the paper with added information. She tells throughout the book about these recollections.
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After the Bomb written by Gloria Miklowitz is a thrilling novel that takes place before, during, and after a bomb which supposedly was sent from Russia by accident. L.A. and surrounding cities are all altered by the disastrous happening.
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