Dynamic Character In Gathering Blue

However, when you dissect the characters even further shows like Black-ish, which is about an upper-middle class Black family. The mother, Rainbow (Tracy Ellis Ross) is a doctor and the father, Andre (Anthony Anderson) is an advertising executive. They have 4 children and they live in a white suburban neighborhood. On the surface this show is very progressive, it shows that Black families can be just as successful as a white family. However, even in a such a progressive show there are times when negative stereotypes about Black people still appear; in season 3, episode 17, Rainbow was portrayed as an Angry Black Woman, she went to a doll store looking for a Black doll and finding that the only two dolls that were available were related to slavery she became upset and began screaming and to white viewers watching she would be labeled as an Angry Black Woman (Black-ish- Season 3).

With no one left to help the family, Rasheed decides to give away Aziza to an orphanage, yet again an act of gender biasing. Laila somehow managed to visit her daughter daily, she is relieved that at least her daughter won’t have to stay hungry but is beaten brutally several times by Rasheed for visiting her, still nothing deters her. The story again takes a turn when Tariq returns to Laila, when he visits her house, “she didn’t dare move a muscle. She didn’t dare breathe, or blink even...

How would you feel if you had all the knowledge you ever wanted hidden under your eccentric personality with hardly anyone to share it with? In the book Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, Annabella the dyer experiences this everyday. When Kira, a young girl with extraordinary talent, is singled out to restore a robe of history, she comes pleading to this old, four-syllable woman. Annabella not only helps her with the dyes, but also helps Kira uncover the secrets of her society. Annabella displays her wise, eccentric, and hard-working personality in all of her efforts to aid Kira.

He can also be considered as a major character and the narrator for the whole book. He drives or leads all the readers from the beginning of the story till the end. His special character also brought him a different life experience when compared with the boys at the same age groups. In addition, Reuven also became an example for many teenage children to follow because he knows how to take control of his emotion during puberty. He did not get frustrated when dealing difficult situations, but taking a calm step and decisions.

This tells me that Ally is confident about who she is and how she lives. Shay hurts Ally's feelings so the other kids made fun of Ally as well making Ally upset. When Mr.Daniels asks Ally to write a speech for class president she hesitates. At home, she writes her speech and the next day she goes up to say her speech she can’t read the speech. So she just made it up.

When Kira lost her mother in Gathering Blue, She has lost everything. She thought she had very little time before she either starved to death. Or the Village would condemn he to death because of her disability. She had basically lost all steps of Maslow’s Hierarchy. They had threatened to turn her land into a pen for children.

Mattie deals with death and loss in this book. When People in Mattie’s family died she has to learn to live on her own. This story suggest that you have to suffer to get things you want. In this book Mattie had to lose people for her to become more responsible which allowed her to take over the coffee house on her own.

“Ninos” Analysis “Ninos” is a short story in which, Robert Leo Heilman, the author, presents a deeper look into the life of less fortunate children. Heilman, shares his experience about the young children he reads to at the local Head Start. Heilman claims, “at times it’s painful for me to know these children and care about them knowing that, in the end, they’re someone else’s kids” (Heilman, 186). Published in the late 90’s and early in Heilman’s life, the author focuses on his ability to truly relate to these young children, through a sense of love and communication.

However, she lives as though she is somehow a hybrid and at the same time an African American. It was a major challenge to her as she exemplifies double consciousness. Janie discovers that she is different from others when one of the white children comes across her photo, “So when we looked at the picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn’t anybody left except a real dark little girl with long hair… Dat’s where Ah wuz s’possed to be… so Ah ast, ‘where is me? Ah don’t see me.’

On April 4th of 1928 Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. She was given the name “Maya” by her brother, Bailey. Both Maya and Bailey were sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas after her parents divorced. When Maya went to visit her mother at the age of eight she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend.

"My mom and I got in a fight and she told me she was going to kill me," she recalls. "And I wrapped a belt around my neck and told her I would do it for her. I ended up in a psychiatric hospital and from there I went to foster care." The author appeals to emotion by trying to get as personal as possible as she could to

Two men have the same name, with completely different lives and futures. The Other Wes Moore is about two men with the same name but completely experiences in life. The author Wes goes into military school which changes his life. The “other” Wes stays in the drug business and ends up in prison. The Similarities and Differences pertaining to Family Life and role models of both Moores were described in The Other Wes Moore.

This essay discusses both the author Wes and the other Wes different outcomes as to how they ended up in the future. This was all mostly based on the choices they made in the past , Not only that but the fact that they both missed out on having their fathers in their lives. This comes to show that whether or not you let something affect you it will also affect your future and who you become. The author Wes turned out to be a very successful man and even got married . As to the other Wes who is in prison for the rest of his life only getting to see his kids once in a while behind bars .

The great thing about being on rock bottom is that there is only one way to go - up. In Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, a young girl Kira goes through strategic battles as her unique talent is recognized and as she is placed with a very special responsibility as her conflicts surround her. The characters play a role as they rank in different ranges of Maslow’s Hierarchy; a chart which places human mortality with what they find themselves and are accepted as. Gathering Blue includes dynamic and static characters as they develop new characteristics and unfold who they are. Kira, the main character, is a dynamic character in Gathering Blue.

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry is about a girl named Kira who has a twisted leg. The people in the community she lived in, was about to kick her out of the community. But because she have special talent, they let her stay in the community. The theme of the book is Don’t judge someone on their appearance and the second theme is Don’t underestimate people. The story shows these themes because kira was judged by her twisted leg, but she had a special talent that the community needed.