Across Five Aprils Character Analysis

In the novel Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin, Liz is mentally shaken by one problem, the fact that she is dead. Along with this one ultimate challenge, she faces many more in Elsewhere while under the pressure and stress of her death. She makes some rash decisions that lead to unintended consequences, and some great choices that helped her out. She also made some friends and met some relatives that greatly had an impact on her. So, Liz grew stronger at working through her death with the help of friends, family, and her own decisions while in Elsewhere.

Taylor comes from a nontraditional family. She was raised by her mother, who worked long hours as a housekeeper to support Taylor and herself. Her father, Foster Greer, left her mother when he found out that her mother was pregnant. Her mother doesn 't mind that Foster left; in fact, she often tells Taylor that "trading Foster for [you] was the best deal this side of the Jackson Purchase." As Taylor matures and is exposed to horrible things that fathers can say and do to children, she feels quite lucky to have grown up without a father. The resiliency of Taylor 's mother and her commitment to Taylor, as well as her indifferent attitude toward men, represent Kingsolver 's feminist

Boom! Everyone is looking around wondering where the shot came from, not knowing what to do, the militiamen and the British Army starting flinging bullets across the field at each other. This book April Morning is a novel by Howard Fast and it takes place during the first shots of the Revolutionary war. It comes from the perspective of a 15-year-old protagonist named Adam Cooper at the battles of Lexington and Concord. In the course of two days, He meets a variety of interesting characters both before the battle has started and during the battle and one character that really stuck out was Solomon Chandler. Solomon was a very interesting character from the beginning, at first he came off as a confident man and we find out

In Across Five Aprils, there are many views on war talked about. People think of war in different ways, even family members think differently than each other. Since this book is Historical Fiction, the views in this book express the ways the author feels, especially on war. In this essay I will explain the author’s emotions and opinions on this topic.

The novel, Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies addresses the importance of life by investigating Jungian beliefs. In the beginning of the novel, Boy Staunton puts a stone inside the snowball which he then throws at Dunstable Ramsay. Dunny who had a feeling that the snowball was coming at him, quickly ducks behind Mrs Dempster who then gets hit on the back of the head. Mrs Dempster who is pregnant gives birth on the scene to a premature baby called Paul Dempster. This defining moment becomes like a snowball effect which causes the character later on in the novel to fight with, as Jung would say, their shadow. Moreover, in the book, Harry Potter, by J.K. Rowling, Harry’s shadow is Voldemort. In every circumstance, these characters confront their

“In June of 1777, we found out that Father was dead” ( Collier and Collier 164). How would people feel if half their family died in a war? They would go through all sorts of emotions and changes, just like Tim throughout the book. Tim is the main character in the book and people see how he sees the good and bad of both the British and the Patriots. The second main character is of course, none other than the telling point master, Sam Meeker! The main plot of the story is the journey of a thirteen year old boy who has to choose either his brother or his own family and the jarring realizations of the Revolutionary War that began in 1775 of April. In the book, My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James and Christopher Collins,

April Raintree a young Metis woman lost within herself. April was born of mixed blood, both her parents Henry and Alice Raintree are Metis, and her little sister Cheryl whom is not much younger than her. Living in Winnipeg MB, they did not have much but they had eachother. At the age of 6 April and Cheryl were taken away from their parents, home, everything that they knew and placed in the foster care system (childrens aid). Sent to a boarding school before they were placed into foster homes, is the beginning of Aprils spirit being torn in two, being a Metis and placed with a white family April begins to question her identity, for years she's lost within herself and takes dramatic measures to hide her true identity.

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, raises many questions from readers and makes us think about what has really caused the narrator to become insane in her story. Due to her husband’s controlling nature as a physician, there have been many moments where he treats her like a child that should be kept away from the outside world, which eventually drove her to insanity. She says, “dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia. But he said I wasn’t able to go, nor able to stand it after I got there; and I did not make out a very good case for myself, for I was

Robert Graves was an English writer who was fought in World War One despite his disagreement with the war in general. When Russell asked him whether he would shoot a group of striking factory workers who were impeding the war effort, Graves said he would, and that his men would obey him and carry out the order. The reasons that Graves had this answer and believed it, despite believing that the war was nonsense was due to the fact he did not believe the factory workers had a right to hamper the war effort because they were avoiding the real fighting of the war. Moreover, the progression of his mental state, coupled with the disrespect he believed the people and the factory workers were showing the war effort also were causes for his answer to

The war what so ever has a major impact on the characters. The characters fear that they would be drafted into the war because they are of that age. Their life isn’t much enjoyable, though they try to make the best out of it, but most of their luxuries and supplies go to the war, “Oh Christ, it’s not made up, What is all this crap about no maids?”(104). The war impacts the characters mentally as well. When Leper joins the army he has a mental breakdown is discharged from the military, and when Gene goes to visit him he wasn’t the same old Leper he was, he had turned into a harsh and cruel person. Finny is impacted in this war conflict majorly as well, because he wants to join the army but he cannot due to his broken leg, so he makes up the story of the war being fake and not real. He keeps telling himself and Gene, that the war is a made up tale by the leaders of the country so they can remain in power and get all the

In the story A Separate Peace John Knowles shows how war impacts everyone despite mere indirect involvement. The people that are fighting in the war are not the only ones that are affected. It also has an impact on their family, friends, neighbors, and those in their communities. As the boys went through school, the pressure of the impending war was starting to have an effect on them. (“How Does War Impact the Lives of Gene, Finny, Leper, and Other Characters throughout A Separate Peace?”)

The Adventure of Augie March is a book I can relate to on my levels. I enjoyed the way you portrayed your characters, Augie's search for his identity, gave visual images, but I was not keen of you putting Georgie into an institution and Rebecca in a nursing home.

Irene Hunt’s Across Five Aprils is about a family struggling through difficult times. Jethro, the main character, has gone through an awful lot for being such a young boy. He has gone through the loss of his siblings to disease and war. He now is understanding more of what war is like because his brothers are fighting thousands of miles away from home. Jethro has been living with the consequences of his brothers actions; which led to an attack on his farm as well as his water supply being compromised. Due to the significant amount of hardship, I believe that the theme is lost of innocence.

The first prompt I chose to write about was number two. Trace the evolution of the protagonist. What obstacles does she/he face and how is her/his character being revealed through these obstacles? Does the character seem to have a difficult of easy time learning and/or adapting? What do you think influence this about the character?

There are many character traits that you could be, for example, positive, negative, sad or mad. You would be pretty bland without them, right? Well in the book The Summer of May, each character has there own unique personality that helps the reader really get to know the character