In the story “First Confession” Jackie is a likeable character. Jackie is a young boy that hates his sister and his grandmother. Even with his mother siding with him, the other members of his family sides with the grandmother. Jackie is a likeable character because he is a gullible character. Jackie falls for the story that the old woman, Ryan, tells him. Ryan told Jackie that she once knew a priest that woke up one night to find a person there wanting to have a confession. When the priest got dressed the man disappeared. Ryan said that the man disappeared because he had made a bad confession. Jackie believes in Ryan’s story as it left “a shocking impression” on him. Because of Ryan’s stories about hell and confessions, it made Jackie “scared to death” of doing a confession. This makes Jackie a likeable character because he gets tricked easily by other people’s story. Jackie believes what Ryan is saying and it makes him scared of going to a confession which portrays him as a vulnerable child. …show more content…
When Jackie goes to the confession he tells the priest everything. Jackie tells the priest that he has sinned. Not leaving out one detail he tells the priest that he tried to kill his grandmother, saying that he hated her so much that “I’d have to kill her.”. He also confesses that he tried to kill his sister Nora too. Seeing the honesty in Jackie and being a child, the priest tells Jackie a story about people killing their grandmothers and how they all said “ ‘Twas never worth it.” In the end, Jackie got away with only 3 Hail Marys. This makes Jackie a likeable character because he is honest. People like the honesty of a child making Jackie a likeable character. Throughout the story Jackie is depicted as a likeable character. His vulnerability to other people 's words and his honesty shows characteristics of a likeable
At first he was really nice, but he was the type of guy that was really shy and kind of depended on friends he already had to spread his reputation. Over time, when he got more and more friends, he became a lot more confident in himself once he got used to the people in the town and the people around him. Even though he got used to the people around him and became a lot more confident, he maintained the same kindness he had earlier in the
When Jackie was young he was accepted a lot but when he became older he was less accepted. He got more hatred, Jackies life became harder and harder as he moved on with his life. Jackie Robinson was a great athlete and a good student also a good personhe was hated a lot but still didn't quit
He has a kind heart and good intentions, but he cannot convey his message properly. Speaks to me: I think the issue of not being able to express thoughts in a proper way is a problem much larger than presented in this book. Many people, including myself, feel a certain way about a subject or individual, but we cannot express how we feel in a manner that properly reflects our feelings. Specifically, many people
Mary told the narrator to come back, if he needed a place to rent. He later rents out a room in Mary’s house, since he cannot return to the Men’s House. One day, when the narrator was walking down the street while eating yam, he noticed an eviction of two old couples. The narrator felt sorry for the couples so he became angry, which made him give a speech. Brother Jack offers a job opportunity in the Brotherhood organization because of the inspirational speech he gave at the eviction of the old couples.
If you do not have integrity then this jacked up thing we call society will change you into someone just like everybody else and will try to get you to change in ways you don’t want to and some people think that they can stay the same person in some places and change in others and still act and talk and be around the same people as before, but they can’t. Jackie’s integrity was important because if he was changed into a bad person and got mad and would lose his temper he would get labeled as “hot headed” or
He sees how they beat people down and how ruthless they can be with him and his newfound friends. In her writing, Carol Plum-Ucci poses the question, “How does judgement of others affect how a person
Yet, Jackie feels that Robert is in a bad place in life and is settling for so much less that his potential. However, Robert has been shot and killed because other drug dealers found out that he has been selling in their area. After Robert has been killed, his mother asked the burger boyz to not come to his funeral. Robert was a very smart and nice person but, he didn’t use his education to get money, he wanted fast money which lead him to get killed.
Finding your purpose in life can be the hardest thing to do for many people. Especially when your entire family is finding the meaning of their own life and creating the world they want for themselves. In the novel, Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of her life as a young black girl growing up with two problems she’s facing. She is living during a time of segregation against black people, and she doesn’t know what her identity is. She finds throughout the story that she has a love for words and writing.
He was sweeping the sidewalk when he became the subject of verbal harassment by a little girl who happened to be his neighbor. Jackie Robinson called out a word at the little girl. Her father stormed out of the house to confront him The girl’s father and Jackie started throwing rocks at each other and got into a huge stone-throwing fight. Fortunately, the girl’s mother told her husband to come back in the house. This incident was like a pattern.
Excessive Pride through The Crucible In the play, The Crucible, everyone holds an excessive amount of pride which is an over exaggerated sense of ones own proper dignity or value. “Dictionary.reference.” This critical play takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. (883) Throughout the story, it indicates what happened during the Salem Witch Trials.
Foreman (Juror 1): He is an assistant football coach at a High School. Elected as the foreman of the jury, he has the responsibility to keep the jury process organized. Although he is not particularly bright, he is dogged. Initially, he struggled to keep up with his authority. Eventually, he managed to weight to his authority as the foreman as well as his opinions.
The grandmother uses Jesus as a scapegoat to show how she is a child of God while the Misfit tells of how he really perceives Jesus and that there is no justification of his actions. In the event of the car accident, the Grandmother was left with a physical crisis that quickly showed as her family was sent off into the woods to be killed one by one. This soon transitioned to a spiritual crisis both between the Grandmother and the Misfit as she uses Jesus's name to try and escape her fate. This spiritual crisis leads the characters to express their personal conception of reality and how they perceive the revelation of the situation that they are in. The Grandmother has a sense that reality should revolve around her and that she should manipulate tools such as religion to benefit her outcome.
First, he ignores the taunts of fans and spectators, who taunt him endlessly like the Nyan Cat played on an endless loop. In one key scene, Jackie’s friend,
One of the main protagonists, Mama, is telling her son the reasons for what she did to help her family’s struggle. She says, “When it gets like that in life-you just got to do something different, push on out and do something bigger....” (588). The character Mama gets a check from the insurance company for $10,000 dollars due to her husband’s death and she doesn't know what to do with it. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Mama is motivated to/by the chance to get her family a house.