Ally Condie's Matchd: Literary Analysis

Reisz’s independent and unconcerned attitude can be seen in most of the major choices Edna makes like moving into her own house, becoming an

The characters lose a part of themselves when they are searching for their true love. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie was arguing with Jodie, while he was dying, about how he never treated her right after being together for 20 years. They revealed many things about themselves during this talk, especially how Jodie was hurt on the inside too. Janie looked at herself and realized this, “The young girl was gone, but handsome woman had taken her place”(108). This quote shows how Janie regained herself after that horrible relationship.

The main characters affected include Curley’s Wife, Crooks, and Lennie. These characters undergo the side effects of the Great Depression each in a different way, but ultimately compare as they become most lonely in the end. Curley’s Wife is just a young lady who had such big plans for her life, only to have them shut down after getting married. Crooks was declared as less of a person because of the way he looked and Lennie was defined as excess baggage. While everyone suffered from loneliness from one time to another during the Great Depression, the groups of people who would become most

While the Yen family dragged down Adeline’s efforts and dreams to create peace within the family, Rex dragged Jeannette’s efforts down. Since Rex was an unstable man who would do anything to gain his children’s respect and support, he tells Jeannette that “I’ll die trying” to quit his drinking problem to

He wondered how much longer he could keep avoiding people, lying to them. How much longer could he keep dodging the inevitable?” Meredith Ward is another person who is affected by her husband’s death. Due to Charlie Ward’s death she starts to feel lonely and empty. The novel reads, “She looked up at her mother’s face and for the first time realized how terribly lonely her mother must be…

(10)" Elizabeth is worried about the public opinion rather than her Husband to be, perhaps the reason why she leaves Mr. Hooper when he refuses to remove the veil. Furthermore, Mr. Hooper tells Elizabeth that his veil is additionally a symbol. Because he chooses to make his secret visible, Mr. Hooper becomes a lonely man. He loses not only his plighted wife but many friends and parishioners who once held him with the utmost

Salinger does a good job of keeping the book and the issues of being a struggling, depressed teen light and humorous. What would be different if Salinger didn’t use so much humor to help make light of Holden’s situation? Holden was depressed the whole entire novel. Women kept rejecting him, nobody respects him, people take advantage of him, his best friend is his sister, and his crush is someone who he wants to talk to all the time but won’t because of the fear of rejection. He also gets really depressed when he sees something sad.

This tension and conflict eventually lead to her own death, as she realises who she is, and with that, realises she can’t live in her society anymore. “She understood what she had meant long ago when she said to Adele Ratignolle that she would give up the unessential, but she would ever sacrifice herself or her children” (Chopin 188). Society would expect her to be who she’s supposed to be, but she doesn’t want to act in that way. It adds a new meaning to the work, as it shows that people are in constant conflict with different parts of their life. They can’t love anyone until they love themselves or figure out who they are.

In Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby,” and “The Hand” by Colette, the protagonists are resigned from their lives. The hand girl, a newlywed wife, is frightened of her husband’s power and afraid of the man that she misguided for love. Desiree marries Armand upon his proposal only to leave him after having a major conflict. However, Desiree and the hand girl only gaines sadness from their marriage. The women’s feelings towards their husband changes across the story as they displays their emotions and actions by facing their obstacles head on.

To emphasize, Heather see this abnormal behaviour when she says, "You don’t like anything. You are the most depressed person I've ever met, and excuse me for saying this, but you are no fun to be around and I think you need professional help" (105). Both Heather and Melinda’s mom complain about her depression and they do not try to help her overcome it. In reality, many teens and adults have depression.

Nao states: “I will write down everything I know about Jiko’s life in Marcel’s book, and when I’m done, I’ll just leave it somewhere, and you will find it!”. In other words, writing deeply affected her life by it being of her great grandmother. Someone who she admired and hoped someone would find out about. This seems as something important to her, writing about her great-grandmother who was the only person that Nao really cared about and was important and interesting enough to write about. She decided to start writing about it because she knew she was going to kill herself and she owed it to Jiko to share her great life story, a memoir of someone she greatly saw as someone special to some special stranger.

Sandra Steffen the ‘Come Summer’ author gets the mind and the heart of the readers. Brings the up and downs, failures, temptation and as well as love. She brings the twist and responsibility of having an identical twin. Laurel’s family carries a big responsibility because of her brain tumor but the thing is that, her own love which is Jack and her child Tommy doesn’t even know a thing about what is happening to her and why did she left without saying a thing. Liza, Laurel’s twin is the one who is given a one last favor by Laurel.

Element of fiction Explanation Supporting quote Setting The book starts of in a bus travelling to the present-day Grand Canyon once Jason, Piper, and Leo arrive they encounter storm spirits with a bounty on their heads. Then, they are transported to a demigod training-camp where they will take on a quest to save Hera, which requires them to travel to Chicago, Quebec, San Francisco and Detroit. The author changes the time setting at some times by using the Memory Moment signpost, reflecting on characters past experiences to contribute to the plot. “She pointed out the open-air dining pavilion that overlooked Long Island Sound.