Theodore Finch is a teen who can't wait to escape his small town in Indiana. Finch sadly suffers from a severe mental illness. Finch is a scared high school senior with a lot on his plate and him slowly giving up his fight. He has a super dysfunctional family, including a violent father that doesn't live with them anymore and bullying at school. He goes to the bell tower at his school, with suicide intentions, and later sees a girl there. Her name was Violet. Even though he thinks about suicide all the time (we're talking breakfast, lunch, and dinner), he doesn't want to die. Violet was in an accident last year. It was a car crash that killed her sister but didn't really affect her. She only had minor injuries. Ever since that traumatic event, …show more content…
We never get to "meet" Eleanor, who died in a car accident the year before the events described in the book. We know that she and her sister Violet were super close—so close they ran a popular web magazine together. Ryan Cross was a good, easygoing, decent, nice-guy. He was an athlete and vice president of the class and according to Finch, he knew who he was ever since kindergarten, Before the accident, Violet and Ryan were seeing each other. Ryan still has feelings for her but ever since the accident, Violet just isn't looking for anyone to be with. She has too much on her mind and is not ready for …show more content…
He's in a state where everything is just a burr and he hates being awake. His brain won't shut off and he's just waiting for the day where he can just die and leave this world. Violet finds herself balanced on the ledge of the bell tower at her high school. Her sister, Eleanor, had been killed in a car accident just nine months before. Finch, who had believed he was in the bell tower alone, talks Violet off the ledge. The students watching believe it was Violet who saved Finch instead of vice versa. Neither Finch nor Violet tells them any differently. In their US Geography class, everyone was assigned this project to go and wander to three different places in Indiana worth mentioning and give an historical background about it. He later asks her, in class, to work as his partner on a Geography project. That evening Finch reaches out to Violet through Facebook. He sends her a quote by author Virginia Woolf and Violet responds by sending him a quote in return. The two start a tentative friendship and Violet agrees to work as Finch’s partner. their relationship slowly started to develop and they got closer. Since the car accident, Violet has avoided cars and either took her bike or walked every day. Even. If. It. Was. Snowing. There were no exceptions. At all. Violet also became extremely antisocial so even when there was an opportunity for her to go to a party or hangout, she would pass. Her parents always tried to persuade her
Lily traveled all the way up from Sylvan, Georgia to Tiburon, South Carolina without much help at all. That takes a lot of luck, at least some skill. Zach navigates all over South Carolina in his truck on a daily basis throughout the summer to gather honey. They both have skills in finding their way around. Lily's tireless heart is always searching for love from her father, whom she calls T. Ray, no matter how many times he crushes her with his words and actions.
They resided there for ten years, during this time she observed the people of the “hill-region” and she noticed the isolation of the community. (Moss and Wilson 126) In Lenox, Massachusetts, close to where she lived, a sledding accident occurred. Children from the Lenox Academy coasted down the “double ripper” and crashed into a lamp post. One girl was scarred, one crippled, and the other killed. (Moss and Wilson 129) The setting of the novel was in the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. In the novel, the community is isolated from those around them, especially the Frome’s. Towards the end of the novel, Zeena sends Mattie away because her doctor required her to get someone else to work in the house. Because Ethan is in love with her, he insists on driving her to town so she could catch the train. Early in the novel he promised Mattie they could go sledding down Schoolhouse Hill. Mattie and Ethan both agreed they never wanted to leave each other so they launched down the hill in hopes of killing themselves. As a result, Ethan was scarred and Mattie was crippled for
Amos should not have bought Violet for three reasons: She cost a lot, She might not be happy, And she might get hurt.
A few weeks later Sadie has to start school. When she is walking to school she meets a man named Mr. Sparrow. He lives in a cardboard box near the seawall. Sadie worries about him when a flood hits. After the flood, Sadie looks for Mr. Sparrow and his cardboard box
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.
Several Years after their marriage, cousin Mattie Silver is asked to relieve Zeena, who is constantly ill, of her house hold duties. Ethan finds himself falling in love with Mattie, drawn to her youthful energy, as, “ The pure air, and the long summer hours in the open, gave life and elasticity to Mattie.” Ethan is attracted to Mattie because she is the opposite of Zeena, while Mattie is young, happy, healthy, and beautiful like the summer, Zeena is seven years older than Ethan, bitter, ugly and sickly cold like the winter. Zeena’s strong dominating personality undermines Ethan, while Mattie’s feminine, lively youth makes Ethan fell like a “real man.” Ethan and Mattie finally express their feeling for each other while Zeena is visiting the doctor, and are forced to face the painful reality that their dreams of being together can not come true.
In the small, desolate town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, Ethan Frome lives a life of poverty. Not only does he live hopelessly, but “he was a prisoner for life” to the economy (Ammons 2). A young engineer from outside of town narrates the beginning of the story. He develops a curiosity towards Ethan Frome and the smash-up that he hears about in bits and pieces. Later, due to a terrible winter storm that caused the snow itself to seem like “a part of the thickening darkness, to be the winter night itself descending on us layer by layer” (Wharton 20), the narrator is forced to stay the night at Frome’s. As he enters the unfamiliar house, the story flashes back twenty-four years to Ethan Frome’s young life. Living out his life with Zenobia Frome, his hypochondriac of a wife whom he does not love, Ethan has nowhere to turn for a glance at happiness. But when Zenobia’s, or Zeena’s, young cousin, Mattie Silver, comes to care for her, Ethan falls in love with the young aid. Mattie is Ethan’s sole light in life and “she is in contrast to everything in Starkfield; her feelings bubble near the surface” (Bernard 2). All through the novella, the two young lovers hide their feelings towards each other. When they finally let out their true emotions to each other in the end, the consequence is an unforeseen one. Throughout Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton portrays a twisted fairy tale similar to the story of Snow White with the traditional characters, but without a happy ending to show that in a bleak and stark reality, the beautiful and enchanting maiden could become the witch.
Another social matter in which she was concerned about was the treatment of the Jewish. The idea of Hitler wanting to exterminate all Jewish people brought up strong emotions in Eleanor. Her compassion towards the survivors of those concentration camps and gas chambers, made her take part in a memorial service of protest about it. She did what she could to help the survivors of the holocaust escape death, including getting visas for the refugees who managed to get to Spain and Portugal. The issuance of visas to children was another thing that she tried to do to help the younger people escape the violence...
4)The setting is in Ohio in the present times. The story takes place at Melody’s school and her house.
(Fitzgerald 105). She was so confident because she realized, she didn’t need Tom. She had a
The author of the book M.T Anderson made sure Violet's character stood out. Violet represents change, resistance, and rebel. She was a much bigger person than what the feed had to offer and she in the end didn't give in. The feed is what mostly everyone wants to fit in and have the latest stuff. The feed is just like a huge catalog that suggest things that you don’t need but want. For example, with the legions, where people were getting them cosmetically all over. At Links party where Violet couldn't take how people were just ignoring what was happening in their world and having fun by looking over everything that was going wrong. Where her body was self-destructing because of the hacking, due to her feed being installed after her brain was
Most people think of a hero as someone that is perfectly put together; however, Theodore Finch is a hero but has many faults. “All the Bright Places” by Jennifer Niven is an unusual love story between two suicial teen, Violet and Finch. Theodore Finch in “All the Bright Places” plays the unlikey role as the hero, Finch’s qualities of being adventerous, loving, and determined lead him to not only save Violet but also make Violet see the world in a new way.
Eleanor would not quite do anything for her friend. Even though she regarded Catherine as a true friend, Eleanor still puts family loyalty before Catherine even though she disagreed with her father. Nevertheless, both Isabella and Eleanor’s friendships in Northanger
The irony comes into play when the truth starts to unravel and Jack finds out what really happened to him as a child and why he does not know his parents. After some coincidental events, all the main characters end up in the same room. When Lady Bracknell hears Ms. Prism’s (the woman Jack hired as his nieces governess) name she immediately asks to see her. She continues to say that Ms. Prism had wandered off with a baby years ago and asks what came about of that. Ms. Prism continues the dialog to explain how she misplaced a baby that was in her bag at a train station. Jack, thinking he might have been that very baby, retrieves the bag he was found in as an infant in which Ms. Prism identifies by some distinguishing marks to have been her own. Jack realized the woman that had been teaching his niece was his mother. But then Lady Bracknell explained that she was not but Lady Bracknell’s poor sister Mrs. Moncrieff was.
The plot of the novel follows traditional plot guidelines; although there are many small conflicts, there is one central conflict that sets the scene for the novel. The novel is about an embarrassing mismatched couple and their five daughters. The novel begins with Mrs. Bennet, telling her daughters of the importance of marrying well. During this time a wealthy man, Charles Bingley, moves close to Netherfield, where the Bennets’ reside. The Bennet girls struggle to capture his attention, and Jane, who judges no one, is the daughter who manages to win his heart, until Mr. Bingley abruptly leaves town.