How does the author use the interaction between the protagonists and the other characters to explore the central characters journey and what they gain and lose by the end of their story? “Real friends never let go” this was undoubtedly the situation for Brynna Chase, not even her dead best friend Erica Shaw wanted to let her go. After moving to a whole new town Brynna and her family thought that she might be able to move on from that fateful night and that stupid dare which caused her best friend to become lost at sea. But when Brynna receives a tweet from Erica’s old account she is sure that Erica wants revenge, or does she? Hannah Jayne’s The Dare follows Brynna’s journey after losing her best friend. She’s influenced along the way by many …show more content…
The main positive influences were her new friends; especially Evan and Teddy. Evan takes the position of Brynna 's best friend when she moves to Hawthorne High and the two quickly gain trust in one another. Evan choses Brynna to be the first person to ‘come out’ to and in return Brynna tells Evan about Erica and the night she died. However not being completely honest and leaving out the fact that it had been her dare she thought that had gotten her best friend killed. Evans trust in Brynna is tested when ‘Erica’ was listening and decided to hurt Evan and frame Brynna. ‘Who else, Brynna? I told you, just you.’ Evan stared at her, his whole face contorted in pain, surprise and biting anger. The author’s descriptive emotions cause the reader to feel very empathetic to both Evan and Brynna as they know that ‘Erica’ did it and not Brynna but Evan can’t and would never believe her and still got hurt in ‘Erica’s’ twisted games with. Evan did eventually come back to Brynna though, worried about her disappearance and with the help of her other friends kept her alive. Teddy was also a major part of her happiness in this story as he was a ‘romantic interest’ of sorts. Although Brynna switches between wanting to be with him and being too afraid to let someone get too close to her in case ‘Erica’ hurts them. Teddy confuses Brynna’s fear for a disinterest in …show more content…
Evan, Teddy and her other new friends allowed her to experience what it’s like to have close friends that really love and care for her again as she had felt isolated after Erica’s death and turned to drugs and alcohol because of it. They also tested her trust as she didn’t want them to know about Erica’s torment yet she didn’t want to lose them and at one point she does because of Erica beginning to harm them and framing Brynna. But as true friends they came back and evidentially saved her life as although they weren’t the happiest of friends they still cared for her enough to discover her past. Christopher gave a twist to her journey of accepting Erica’s death. He caused her to not feel safe in her own town but because he disguised himself he could make Brynna feel safe and comfortable like she could tell him anything, trusting. Jayne’s use of flashbacks in the book allowed the reader to discover how much Brynna had evolved from her past and how the interactions of people in her past could connect to those she was surrounded by today. Jayne also used similar names for Erica and Evan to symbolise that Evan was Brynna’s new Erica and that she could move on from that horrible night. The use of water also connected past to present as the thing she once loved more than anything was the cause of her best friend’s death and could be the cause of her death. In conclusion I believe Brynna grew as a person throughout her story. Realising
The Arizona atmosphere was visibly different in both literal and nonliteral ways from Kentucky. Taylor’s lifestyle would have been drastically contrasting with how she thrived in her new home of Tucson. Apart from having a night and day experience at maternity, and getting a fresh start at life on her own, Taylor also met a new group of people who changed her in many ways. Lou Ann, who molded her into a better mother, Mattie, who helped her to overcome fears, Esperanza, though she spoke very little, managed to open Taylor’s eyes the horrors of a life she would never have to experience, and finally Turtle, who made Taylor realize what she loved most in life. Pittman, Kentucky did not have any of these individuals to teach the protagonist of this story.
In the high criminal neighborhood where the other Wes lived, people who live there need a positive role model or a mentor to lead them to a better future. Usually the older family members are the person they can look up to. The other Wes’s mother was not there when the other Wes felt perplexed about his future and needed her to support and give him advises. Even though the other Wes’s mother moved around and tried to keep the other Wes from bad influences in the neighborhood, still, the other Wes dropped out of school and ended up in the prison. While the author Wes went to the private school every day with his friend Justin; the other Wes tried to skip school with his friend Woody. Moore says, “Wes had no intention of going to school. He was supposed to meet Woody later – they were going to skip school with some friends, stay at Wes’s house, and have a cookout” (59). This example shows that at the time the other Wes was not interested in school. Because Mary was busy at work, trying to support her son’s education, she had no time and energy to look after the other Wes. For this reason, she did not know how the other Wes was doing at school and had no idea that he was escaping school. She missed the opportunities to intervene in her son’s life and put him on the right track. Moreover, when the author was in the military school, the other Wes was dealing drugs to people in the streets and was already the father of a child. The incident that made the other Wes drop out of school was when he had a conflict with a guy. The other Wes was dating with the girl without knowing that she had a boyfriend. One night, her boyfriend found out her relationship with the other Wes and had a fight with him. During the fight, the other Wes chased the guy and shot him. The guy was injured and the other Wes was arrested
Rachel was Melinda's friend all of middle school but she turned out to be a complete jerk to Melinda. Heather was a fake friend who only stuck by her side until she was accepted in a ¨cool¨ group. David Petrakis is a nerd who is almost in every one of Melinda's classes. They grow close mostly because they both have no friends, but he is a true friend. Towards the end of the group Melinda starts to come out to Rachel about why she called the police, but Rachel just got even more upset. Melinda thankfully realizes how bad of a friend Rachel is on page 198 ¨I don't want to be cool. I want to grab her by the neck and shake her and scream at her to stop treating me like dirt. She didn't even bother to find out the truth – what kind of friend is that? ¨ Melinda gets close to her art teacher. Art is the one class that Melinda enjoys because she gets to be with her new friend Ivy. Ivy and David are the only people Melinda has, but that is enough for her. On the first day of school Melinda recalls being the only person sitting alone on page 134.¨ I see a few friends people I used to think were my friends—but they look away. ¨ Positively Melinda has found the two only true friends in her school and starts to become a more optimistic
Firstly, the authors use the use of protagonists to show how they can present similar ideas in different ways. The two protagonists which the authors present are Keating from Dead Poets Society and McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest. These characters have readers intrigued and on their feet from the beginning. These characters always keep the readers guessing what they’re going to do next for example when Keating says “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” The Protagonists are presented as very different people but are in reality extremely similar and serve the same purpose. The authors present them as
In conclusion, the adults display supremacy various times in the novel, which leads to powerful, strong, and wilful adolescents. The adults maintain control to ensure they acquire what they desire and use the children to obtain it. As the novel progresses, one realizes that from the experiences that are gained, the children become more strong and powerful characters. Altogether, People are constantly manipulating others to reach goals and desires, but one needs to realize that their intentions may not be the other persons.
...family that she grew up in was such a negative environment. It is very possible that she will grow up to be an art teacher. One might think this because she looked up to her art teacher so much and admired her; Ellen’s mind is full of creativity and ideas. When Ellen’s school found out that her dad was abusive to her they put her up at her art teacher’s house. Ellen says “I came a long way to get here but when you think about it really hard you will see that old Starletta came even farther… And all this time I thought I had the hardest row to hoe” Like Ellen did, it is important for everyone to look back into their life and see what they have learned. Doing so cannot change ones past but only add to their future. Ellen will always carry the horrors of her childhood with her but by using all of her assets that she gained throughout the book her future can be enriched.
She befriends Renee and their common interest for Art makes Paloma, in addition to Renee, “[forget] even the very notion of trying to hide who [they] [are]” (Barbery 148). When Paloma stays as a guest in Renee's lodge, Renee reveals to Paloma that "[she] ha[s] found a good hiding place" but however, Paloma does not hide away in front of Renee. Instead, they are vulnerable to each other in light of the way that Art bonds them together. Art touches their inward soul. Paloma sees through the "“intuition of disaster in [Renee’s] heart", which gives her hope— the possibility to “change one’s fate” (Barbery 148). Not similar in age, condition and conditions, the dubious alliance—reinforced by artistic solidarity—bonds their souls. By comforting Renee, Paloma discovers meaning for life in a way that can serve others. Life is no longer like solitary confinement for her because Art impacts Paloma in a way that leads her on a quest to find the meaning of her
Her obsessive desire to belong and integrate into her new school environment soon provoked the various conflicts to arise which had pernicious impacts on herself and those around her. The novel follows fourteen-year-old Avalon as she moves from the country to an urban high school and finds herself in the centre of a brutal, bullying campaign in which she is inundated with loathsome messages from the anonymous students at her school who constantly exhibit hostility towards her as a result of her reputation. Avalon’s hopes of fitting into her new school environment are hindered when she is rejected by the popular girls and in turn, is forced to question and constantly doubt herself as to why she was not integrating with the others at school. This is established when Avalon overheard one of the popular girls say to her other friend that she is completely up herself, which prompted her to question as to why they rejected her and what she had done wrong to them “ It really worried me. I wasn’t sure what reason anyone would have not to like me. I hadn’t done anything wrong - though I felt like everything I did was wrong ”. This quote tells the reader that Avalon’s desire to fit was the sole instigator of her inner conflict due to being rejected by the popular girls. As an aftermath of this conflict, Avalon's behavior begins to change negatively engendering conflict between herself and family due to her behavior changes and hostile attitude she exhibited towards her younger sister, Ruby. McCaffrey establishes the fact that the conflict she had infuriated her to an extent in which she couldn't control her emotions, thus the need to exhibit anger and exasperation towards her family. Furthermore, another deleterious impact which was a result
This anonymous girl is a normal fifteen year old teenager who just wants to be popular and fit in. In this book, she goes through many different so-called friends, or people who she thinks she likes. Many of her friends at first, were just plain ordinary kind of dorky kids and she wanted something new. She discovered a new crowd who she thought she could be popular with, but they only lead her to make the wrong decisions and to ditch the good friends that she had before. They brought her into the seductive world of drugs. She kept all of her secrets in her diary and she never thought to tell anyone. Not only did she hide it from her good friends, but also she hid it from her parents, who...
...and through an unfolding of events display to the reader how their childhoods and families past actions unquestionably, leads to their stance at the end of the novel.
... emotional and mental growth from what happened to her through her artwork. Like Melinda had said in the book, she had gone through different phases in her art pictures from ones with dead, leafless trees to trees with cubism and beautiful leaves and branches. This shows her growth and recovery from what happened that night at the party. In the end, as this relates to Melinda, life is like a tree. You start off a little seed and then become a sprout. You learn from your mistakes and life lessons and begin to grow into a tall, strong, and mighty tree wear no one can harm or stop you from being yourself.
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... each other and ultimately determine the fate of the characters in the story, especially the fate of the Heroine.
Writers have taken the idea of human interaction and used it to their advantage. They let the confrontation of characters bring out their personality and use the human experience of company to pull out major life themes and ideas. This is represented in The Streetcar Named Desire, The Metamorphosis and “Everyday Use”. The constant interactions (or lack thereof) of fictional characters can lead real people to think that life always has to be built upon relationships so they can become who they should be. This is not true because it is who we want ourselves to become that guides our interactions with other
This book, Dare The School Build a New Social Order by George Counts, is an examination of teachers, the Progressive Education Movement, democracy and his idea on how to reform the American economy. The book is divided into 5 different sections. The first section is all about the Progressive Education Movement. Through this, George Counts points out many downsides and weaknesses of this ideal. He also talks about how he wants teachers to lead society instead of following it. In the second section, he examines 10 widespread fallacies. These fallacies were that man is born free, that children are born free, they live in a separate world of their own, education remains unchanged, education should have no bias, the object of education is to produce professors, school is an all-powerful educational agency, ignorance rather than knowledge is the way of wisdom, and education is made to prepare an individual for social change.