The Dog Year The Dog Year, by Ann Wertz Garvin, is a story about Dr. Lucy Peterman, a reconstructive plastic surgeon for women who have breast cancer. She had a good life and very much loved her husband and was expecting their first child. Her good life is seemingly torn away from her when she gets into a car accident where she loses both her husband and her unborn child in one afternoon. Lucy opts not to seek grief counseling and instead turns to kleptomania as a way to try and cope. Her rash of thefts leads her to a suspension at work and, at times, in trouble with the law. She is unwillingly forced into counseling and it is in counseling that her therapist orders her to attend AA meetings. She makes friends along the way from both her therapist’s …show more content…
LiteraryDevices states indirect or implicit characterization “is a more subtle way of introducing the character to the audience. The audience has to deduce for themselves the characteristics of the character by observing his/her thought process, behavior, speech, way of talking, appearance, and way of communication with other characters and also by discerning the response of other characters” (Literary Devices, 2014). Ann Garvin lets us get to know her characters through not only the eyes of others but also through themselves; this is seemingly the indirect way of things. We know that Lucy has a low self-esteem so she often describes herself as ugly or gives us a sense that she feels this way about herself, “She’d never been able to come to terms with the name her mother bestowed upon her. There was nothing luscious about her. One look made it clear. And everyone knew she knew it” (Garvin, 72). On the other hand, others don’t believe her to be ugly at all when we get a look into how Sidney thought of her, “Have you looked at yourself since high school? There’s nothing ugly about you, and I would venture a guess that there never was” (Garvin, 178). Garvin presents what others think of Lucy as far as her personality, specifically through Sara’s thoughts on her, “‘You’re entitled, is what you are,’ Sara said …show more content…
This is done through her dialogue as evident by her speech to her med student about how their patients feel, “’That woman in there knows that she no longer needs to accommodate her breasts when hugging friends, carrying groceries, or feeding a child. Her scars and the sympathetic look in her husband’s eyes will only cement those facts. Some of us know what it’s like to lose their entire world in an afternoon’” (Garvin, 7). A reader can really get the sense of just what kind of pain she is in and can empathize with her. Garvin shows throughout the story just how Lucy feels in her
Dalen Todorov, Period 8 Eng 10 H, Ms. Reid 1 October 2014 ORP 1 Dialectical Journal Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1988 “"Take this baby," she said….. "Where do you want me to take it?"....... ”She looked back at the bar, and then looked at me. "
t Lucy’s Home for Girls is a safe haven for werewolf girls to learn how to change into better humans through a curriculum taught by the home’s nuns. Claudette, a student at St Lucy's Home For Girls, follows the nun’s curriculum closely, but sometimes she strays from it. This short story written by Karen Russell follows three werewolf girls as they learn about and adapt to their new way of living as humans, all of them heading in separate directions. In the beginning of Claudette’s journey, everything is new and different. She shortly learns that hard work is crucial to adapt to her new way of life and that from that point onward the stakes will be high.
An example of the author using indirect characterization is when Hassan is being attacked following the kite-fighting tournament, Amir doesn't take any action to help him because all he is thinking about is the kite, calling it, "my key
Due to Lucy childish innocence she is the perfect character to draw children into the story. Lucy embodies the mannerisms that most well behaved children are expected to have. She does not lie, she forgives others,
Lucy is the most rebellious out of the three, as even her name – the female version of Lucifer, the fallen angel – suggests. She rejects her mother’s attempt to make her the ideal daughter who is ethical, submissive and decent. She claims that she rather be dead than become the echo of her mother, as the fact that she is identical to her mother scares her. Lucy states: “I did not want to be like my mother…. ‘You can run away, but you cannot escape the fact that I am your mother…’”
If the reader did not obtain a glimpse into the character’s
Character is the thing that defines a person. What you will do, what you will say, how you interact with the world. Admittedly, all of us have character. But, the character of Christopher is a very interesting and a complex one. In times, it feels as if he is an alien compared to everyone else.
Stoker uses symbolism and contrast to show the loss of purity and innocence within Lucy. Lucy is always characterized as being soft, sweet, and gentle in her nature.
Everyone needs to find the endurance to express themselves when they go through trauma, and Anderson had Melinda express herself through art, as well as comparing herself to others, and having conflicts with others. “Mr. Freeman: “This has meaning. Pain.” The bell rings.
The narrator points out that he hated being wrong, but still tries to reach out to his sister. When Lucy does not answer, he unfairly imagines her “sulking somewhere” One his way back, he meets Lucy and he only tells her that he had been looking for her instead of apologizing. He does not genuinely ask for forgiveness. When Lucy tells Edmund that the White Witch is evil and untrustworthy, he disregards her opinion and convinces himself that she is
Direct characterization tells the audience what the personality of a character is. It actually tells you why that person is how it is in the story why he is mean or why he is a lonely, caring, loving person. Indirect Characterization means that the author shows thing that reveal the personality of a character and there are five different methods of Indirect characterization. (read*write*think 1) Characterization helps the author to make his characters.
Mark Haddon's prose fiction, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time brings forth the view of a different world and also expands our understanding of human experience. The novel is an autobiographical murder mystery narrated from the perspective of a teenager, Christopher Boone. This text allows the readers to see the life of a young man who is not comfortable with interacting with others in his society. Christopher's autism spectrum disorder (ASD) shapes our understanding of experience. Haddon is able to portray interesting ideas within the text through the narrator, thus inviting us into a different world and allowing us to see a new viewpoint.
Desire is something that is universal in every human, everyone desires something. According to Bennet & Royle, a simple definition of desire is that it has binaries, it is either right/wrong, moral/immoral etc. (207). They also speak about how desire is present in every literary work, whether it be explicit or not (208). So what is Lucy’s desire in Disgrace?
Often times in a communist society, a leader’s use of language can lead to abuse of power. In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the farm leaders, the pigs, use unknown language, invoke scare tactics, and create specific laws, thereby enabling them to control other animals, to suit their greedy desires, and to perform actions outside their realm of power. Because of the pigs’ use of broad language, implementation of scare tactics, and creation and manipulation of laws, they are able to get away with avoiding laws and convincing other animals into believing untrue stories and lies that are beneficial to the pigs. Napoleon, Snowball, and Boxer, George Orwell’s main characters in his novel Animal Farm, illustrate how the misuse of power can lead to
Lucy is the character who has major experience adventures of Narnia and she is the protagonist of the story. Lucy’s characteristics develop through the story. Firstly she was a shy girl and then become brave and courageous girl. Lucy is, at the beginning of the novel, a very shy and fearful character, as seen in the first meeting with the Professor. The Professor’s odd-looking appearance and his “shaggy white hair” that grows over his head and face (Lion 2) frighten Lucy, who seems to be a very shy girl.