Epic Detour Character Analysis

In the book, The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen Rosa shows that she is a very helpful person. Rosa was a very sweet girl who just so happened to be in Jessica's math class, even though she was a freshman and Jessica was a Jr. Rosa is a brilliant girl and she loved math and helping Jessica with it. “Hey!” Rosa calls,…… I hobble in and sit in a chair near her. “I am so lost in math.” “I’ll help you!” she says”(136), when Rosa see’s an opportunity to help some she will go right for it help them and she won’t stop till they get a 93% on a test. Rosa only being a student herself takes the people she tutors and shows them a more helpful and easy path when it comes the math school or life in general. Rosa is mainly known to be a

What is foreshadowing? Foreshadowing means caution ahead of time before a certain event in the story (dictionary.com). Foreshadowing is used in most stories to help move along the main idea as well as create a suspenseful plot. In the book Al Capone Does My Shirts there is an abundance of examples of foreshadowing throughout the text. These examples include Moose being warned about the rules from the warden, the introduction of the character Natalie, and Piper causing trouble for Moose.

“The Hero’s Journey” is term for a narrative style that was identified by scholar Joseph Campbell. The narrative pattern would depict a character’s heroic journey, and categorize the character’s experiences into three large sections: departure, which contained the hero’s call to adventure, fulfillment, which consisted of the hero’s initiation, trials, and transformation, and finally the return. The novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan investigates the relationship and actions of four Chinese women and their daughters. The character Lindo Jong’s youth in China exemplifies the three part heroic journey in how she leaves the familiar aspects in her life, faces trials in the home of her betrothed, .....

The Landlady by Roald Dahl is a short story about a young man, called Billy Weaver, who is on a business trip in a little English town called Bath. Unfortunately, he arrives at the wrong place and that might involve getting him into trouble. In Roald Dahl’s short story ‘The Landlady, the author uses foreshadowing, characterisation, and irony to convey the idea that one should not take things as they seem.

First, foreshadowing is a key device in the story, which is a hint or clue about something that will later happen. Maurier foreshadows in the story multiple times, allowing the readers mind to wonder what will occur next. Such as in the beginning of the story, when the birds are soaring over the

The book I am reading is Travel Team, by Mike Lupica. I really have enjoyed this book so far because it’s about the sport I love, which is why I keep reading it. It’s about a kid named Danny Walker who is mainly known for his shortness, but that doesn’t stop him. He may be the tiniest kid on the court, but he plays just as good as the 6 foot post on his team. Danny loves basketball and every time he steps out on that court, he plays with his whole heart. Nobody or nothing can take that away from him. He would do anything to play on the “all-star” basketball traveling team, but his dreams are crushed when he doesn’t make the team because he is supposedly too short.

In the book “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls in a nonfiction book that has a family that gets through tough problems to make better of themselves. First, the main idea and the idea of the whole story was to show how a family through all of their problems persisted. The situations they had been through helped them make a better life later on. If they had not done something to change their lives positively or negatively. Then the problems can cause people to strive better. This was done and that is what Jeannette had done to better herself in the future. So, to tie on to this we have the literary device foreshadowing.

Foreshadowing is used throughout the novel to show that something major is going to happen to someone or something. For example when Candy’s dog got shot by Carlson, that meant that sooner or later Lennie was gonna die. He writes, “A shot sounded in the distance. The men looked quickly at the old man. Every head turned towards him. For a moment he continued to stare at the ceiling. Then he rolled slowly over and faced the wall and lay silent.” (Steinbeck, page 49). Carlson didn’t want that dog in the bunkhouse anymore because the dog was really sick. The dog could barely eat, he stank, he had arthritis, the dog could barely move. He wasn't useful anymore. But at the end, Candy

John Steinbeck in the book, Of Mice and Men, uses this tool in so many key events that happen. From Lennie’s to Curley's Wife's death to the loss and failure of George and Lennie's farm dream, there was countless ways Steinbeck uses foreshadowing. Curly’s Wife’s tragic ending was predicted by the puppy. This was obvious because they both died in the same way, Steinbeck even says how she and the puppy were put next to each other in the hay. (Doc B) Steinbeck wanted the readers to be able to predict what was going to happen. By using all the foreshadowing, he definitely succeeded with this goal. John Steinbeck uses the tool foreshadowing throughout the entire book to allow the reader to predict what's happening next to the characters. The plan going askew, Curley’s Wife’s death, the loss of the farm dream, and Lennie's death are all excellent ways John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in the book Of Mice and Men. (All

Desire is the need for an object, a feeling or a person. One can have a desire for something that is essential for survival, such as water or food, but desire could be used to harm others or oneself. Through A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael’s perspective of desire was altered dramatically. These desires were changed from his surroundings or events that were taking place. In the book, Ishmael was easily manipulated by his desires. As the story progresses, the reader sees that desires become a more important role in Ishmael’s life and it made him from being an innocent child into a bloodthirsty soldier only looking for something to slaughter. From these transitioning desires Ishmael becomes less and less stable, making him easily

As humans, we face many obstacles throughout our lifetime. Some may be minor, while others may be drastic. However, each new obstacle changes us as well as the way we think about life. For better or for worse, these trials help shape who we are today. In the book Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl, Blue van Meer is no stranger to taking tests, whether they’re in school, or in her life. She always faces obstacles head on, dealing with trials such as tragedy, change and competition. From these challenges, Blue learns about dealing with loss from her mother dying young, how to focus on her long term goals from moving all across the country, and how to work hard to get into her dream school, Harvard. Throughout this book, new obstacles

As I drove home, on the same highway I had driven or ridden almost every day my entire life, something about this drive felt different. Maybe it was because that ride connected myself with my work, my friends, my whole life, and I was about to take this drive for the last time. I had just left my best friend, Madison’s house. We spent the entire day hanging out, eating, and losing my pedicure virginity, but avoiding the inevitability that, unlike the previous times we had spent together, we would have to say goodbye. As I was driving, tears streamed down face in a complex mix of sadness and joy. I had been battling with my disease endlessly and finally, I was completing my adventure for the cure.

Throughout history, women of all varieties have been repeatedly tyrannized by their male counterparts, unable to advocate for themselves and misguided to believe that they are to figuratively linger under the thumb of their partner. This notion is one largely illustrated in the film at hand; Gone Girl. Amy is a woman who, throughout her life, abided by her friends, family and even the world to be the person they forged her to be. Growing up, Amy was known to the world as “Amazing Amy”; a character in a book based on Amy that was written by her parents that illustrated the illustrious life of a young woman. The sole difference was; “Amazing Amy” was purely a list of shortcomings Amy has faced in her childhood. “Amazing Amy” attracted audiences

Amy Schumer is a female stand-comedian praised by many for talking a lot about feminism and social injustices in her acts. Throughout college, Schumer studied feminist film theory, and even wrote her college thesis on male gaze. In 2015 she released a much anticipated movie that she had written and starred in. Trainwreck was made with the intention of being a feminist triumph. Amy, played by Amy herself, lived a life of promiscuity with little commitment. She’s sexually liberated, smart, fresh, and a man does not make her life whole. “I have a great job and my apartment is sick,” she says in voiceover while a montage of her life plays in the background. However, as the story progresses we learn that in actuality, her life represents a train

This is the part of his life where he gained immense metal strength and the most important one survival instincts and many other skills like, discipline, decision making and all these added and had made him perfect to climb the Everest. Mallory was a gunner in the trenches north of Armentieres, France. Men were blown apart all around him because of the firing. Many Men died of diseases like tuberculosis and gangrene. Life was very hard in those trenches. One can imagine how hard it would have just to keep oneself alive, when there is firing from all round and also at times there was scarcity of food or water and corpse lying all around. Mallory lost many of his friends in the battle which is clear from the letters he writes to his father and wife. Mallory writes to his father after he survived World War 1 "Life presents itself very much as a gift," he wrote his father from France at the end of 1918. "If I haven't escaped so many chances of death as plenty of others, still it is surprising to find myself a survivor, and it's not a lot I have always wanted. There has been so much to be said for being in the good company of the dead."