The book Mosquitoland is about a troublesome young teenage girl who has a lot of family issues and was written by David Arnold. It was written in first person point of view by a sixteen year old named Mary Iris Malone or Mim Malone for short. The book starts off with Mary living with her father and new stepmother after her parent’s divorce. As a teenager, these major life changes do affect your behavior and emotions big time! Shortly after her parents split, Mim finds out that her mother is sick. She leaves her house and heads out for a thrill seeking journey where she encounters new friends, finds love, and explores how the real world works. Reading this story, I could understand exactly how she was feeling because she was basically writing in a journal. Since she was the “author” she would directly characterize what she was doing or how she felt. An example of a direct characterization would be Mary’s main line “I am Mary Iris Malone and I am not okay.” This is stating how she is feeling or what her emotion was at the time. If you actually take the time to read the book, you’d understand what she means by “I am not okay.” …show more content…
An example of indirect characterization would include “...Know yourself. Love yourself. Be a good friend. Be a kind of hope and substance…” This doesn’t exactly tell you about Mim, but it explains what she aspires to be. She wants to be a wise young lady, which the author doesn’t come right out and say it, but he implies that those are her goals. Once again if you read the whole book, you learn that Mary actually achieves her goal and turns out to be a wonderful person who figures out what life is through traveling. Another example would be aquote such as “ Sometimes you walk into a room one person, and when you come out the other side, you’re someone else altogether.” I believe this uncovers or foreshadows that she will change throughout the
I saw Mary Anne as someone who was fascinated with the way, just as anyone can be fascinated with anything, whether it be history, art, or even science. Consequently, she was so interested with
Before she was in the water Mary was on the side of John. But after her baptism and being “reborn,” she joined back with Abigail and the other girl and was seen as a saint again by the other townspeople. Once she joins back with the other girls May regains her power back over the villagers and just shows their ignorance when confronted with power and assumed authority. This scene showed the audience how easily individuals can be made to believe lies because they don't know any better and believe a certain group of people to be smarter than them and are to be
In this evidence, Mary expresses how she’s fed up with the disappointment. But, she also shows
During the middle of the story she began to have a change of heart. She started to hang out with her aunt more and realized it takes a lot of effort. During this time of self discovery she noticed small details about her friends and family. But by the end of the book she starts to see things from others views to give her insight to how others might see things.
Characterization is the process by which reveals the personality of a character. It is revealed through direct characterization and indirect characterization. It is also one writing strategy William Drake Westervelt, the author, of “The Taming of the Sun” uses to develop the central idea of the aforementioned myth. The central idea is Maui after seeing his mother’s unrecompensed work due to the Sun’s fast journey, realizes how regular humans must be faring and decides to tame the Sun. In this myth, Westervelt mostly uses indirect characterization, which shows things that reveal the personality of a character.
In the following paragraphs I will use the main points to present Hurst using indirect characterization in the story “The Scarlet Ibis” throughout 4 quotes and explanations. The thesis states, Hurst uses indirect characterization to teach readers that selfishness can have positive and negative outcomes. Positive outcomes can come from selfishness Brother teaches doodle to walk because he is embarrassed that doodle’s crippled.
In my novel, See You Down the Road, by Kim Ablon Whitney, she uses characterization to describe the main character, Bridget Daugherty. First, the author tells the reader that Bridget is a 16 year old traveler. Bridget being a “traveler” means that she and her family are constantly on the road. They make money by tricking their bosses into giving them money. Next, Kim Ablon Whitney describes Bridget by saying that she is not sure that she wants to marry at sixteen.
shattered. Her first true love Abraham Lincoln the President of the United States was shot in the head and later died. She could not deal with the loss of her children and now her husband. The only way she was happened to cope was to continue to attend séances in hope to talk to her dead love ones. Mary begins to become shopaholic and buy excessive things she did not need.
Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character. There are two types of characterization, direct and indirect. Direct characterization is when the author tells the reader exactly what a character is like. Indirect characterization is when the author gives the reader clues and hints as to what the character is like which enables readers to infer or decide for themselves. In the story, “Harrison Bergeron,” the main character, Harrison, is tyrannical which is visible through the five ways to indirectly characterize, using Harrison’s speech, personal thoughts, appearance, actions, and how other characters feel towards him.
Karla Aleman FCS 14 11/26/2016 A child called “It” Summary Chapter one talks about how he was rescued from his mother with the help of school staff: nurse,teachers, principal, who tells the police about child abuse by his mother. The scar in his abdomen discovered by the nurse which was "the straw that broke the camel's back” and that day he finally felt free. The second chapter talks about the good times when he could feel all the love of his mother towards him, had glorious days of trips to the beach and picnics.
Mary is demonstrating a change in her that the West has made. A change that can never be undone. She is now a fighter and a true western woman who will fight to keep her family and friends safe. The amount of danger no longer matters. Time is a never ending change master always making changes and deciding what will be permanent and what changes that will be short term.
Mary Gordon, a famous author who was born in 1949 in Far Rockaway, New York. She was born into a strict Catholic home by Anna Gagliano and David Gordon (Gordon). In Mary’s younger years she had wanted to be nun, but it all changed after the death of her father David. After David died from heart failure in 1957, Mary’s mother sold the house and took Mary back to live in the house that she has grew up in. They both went to take care of Mary’s grandmother, but not long after the grandmother had passed away Mary’s mother became alcoholic, which lead to Mary being alone most of the time since Mary’s mother’s side of the family never liked her (Gordon).
Once she settled down she acts fast with faking a story by going to the store and coming home to the police. She ends up using the weapon as dinner for the police. The author showed how Mary used cowardice throughout the story through the literary devices of Symbolism, Foreshadowing, and Tone.
Mary goes back and forth between telling her story in present time, to have small informative sections, describing either a person, a place or occasionally a concept. She describes many people vividly, Henry the custodian, and Patty the teacher next door for example. As most authors would she takes small breaks from her regular writing to describe in detail a place, the dock they visited on a field trip, and the cemetery after it snows are two shining examples. The book is clearly intended for an older audience, but the vocabulary is simple, and the plotline is relatively easy to follow. I would definitely advise a friend to read this book, it teaches about patience, love and joy and these things are often forgotten when it comes to
The theme in this book is changes in life appear when you didn 't expect them to. for exe sample when Lily got a baby brother .Or when Joseph fell off the roof and broke his arm Because he wanted to fly. Its ridiculous how for us the only changes are in heart not really in life itself. The girl herself didn 't drive the plot.