Characters Help Establish a Theme
Characters are used to help develop a theme and create a more relatable story. In the book, “Out of the Dust” by Karen Hesse, Billie Jo and her father stay strong through the dust bowl and the death of their family members.Billie Jo and daddy, from “Out of the Dust”, helped to develop the theme that when you’re at the end of the rope, tie a knot and hold on because of how they persevere through their hardships.
Daddy shows persistence in how he never lets his sadness overcome him. First, even though his wife was gone, he never stopped digging the pond. For example in the text it says,” My father spends his time out the side of the house,digging a hole. Forty feet by sixty feet deep.” This shows her father
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For example she stills remains playing the piano. In the text, it says,” I sit at the school piano and make my hands work, in spite of the pain, in spite of the stiffness, and scars.” Billie Jo still continues to follow her passion and work on piano playing no matter how painful it is to her. As much as she refers to her not being able to play because of her burnt hands, deep down, the reason she is scared to play is because it reminds her of her mom. She still makes herself play because she knows it is the one thing she can hang on to. Also it says,” When mom died, I didn’t want to go on, either. I don’t know. I don’t feel the same now, not exactly. Now that i see that one days after another and you’ll get through them one measure at a time.” Most people want to give up when life gets tough, but Billie Jo still remains hopeful and hangs on through the daily struggles of life. She even related her life to the piano because the piano represents hope for her. “One measure at a time” this shows that if music can go one measure by measure then she won’t give up and she will make it through day by day. Billie Jo shows a strong young girl that’s making it through a rough life and she helps to bring encouragement to the
a.) In the 1920’s lots of new things began to hit the market. Commercial radios, sunny hollywood movies, automobiles and airplanes! Aviation began to take flight as the first plane was perfected allowing greater distances to be achieved. Charles A. Lindbergh paved the success of planes with his 33 hour and 39 minute trek across the atlantic ocean.
The very first way the story shows the theme is through character. For example, Doodle's brother renamed him because of his disabilities. “Renaming my brother was perhaps the kindest thing I ever did for him because nobody expects much from someone called Doodle.” (Hurst 464)
Each character is able to contribute to the story in many different ways, emotionally and physically. Even the quietest characters in the book, such as Theresa Cruz build up the story. Dynamic characters like Paul’s Mom add and make the story more enjoyable. Throughout the book characters show their personality by being
She faces powerful adversity as a teenager, which puts her in a hole. She didn’t let that stop her though. This represents how she made the change to want to get better, and developed a self-motivator within
The characters in any story are the main parts of the story that engage the readers with the uniqueness
It was used to radically alter the mood, and to complement the characters. Likewise, the characters of the story were an important part in showing each story's underlying message. Both Harrison Bergeron and There
This line reflects the fact that people who are looked at to have a great life tend to be the ones with depression. Billie is able to perfectly represent so many in society that feel that they are not understood for the sole reason that they have a good life as well as a mental illness. The fact that so many people relate to this lyric is heartbreaking, but unfortunately, that is where society is at this time. In addition to those songs, everything i wanted, is also a huge one that deals with mental health. The song is about a dream that Billie had where she committed suicide and it made her happy because at the time she was in a pretty dark place.
To me the best theme in the story is friendship. I believe that every person needs to show friendship to
One example of this is when Lina, the main character, is being seperated from her father and she starts to draw a map of the places that she was going to pass along to her father. During this event, Lina is going through a very tough time and she strives to find a way to get back to her after. Lina shows hope in this situation by drawing a map which she hopes that would one day reach her father even though she still feels the loss of his absence. Another example of the theme is when Lina is taken from her home and forced to work for the people she hates. Lina takes this
She felt “light and good in the warm sun” (L8). To her young and inexperienced mind, “nothing existed for her but her song,” (L8) which just goes to show how oblivious and careless she is to her surroundings and worlds greater than her own. On the contrary, as she made her way a “mile or more from home,” (L23) she began to hit a turning point. The comfortable world at which she knew is now cracked open and unguarded.
After Ma’s death, Billie Jo couldn’t be around a piano, because she was so emotionally sensitive in that hard time. Billie Jo thought she would never play piano again, but that thought didn’t last long. Finding the Way states, “And I stretch my fingers over the keys, and I play.” Billie Jo became stronger through the adversity. The piano was one of many mountains Billie Jo had to
After her mother dies, she and her father are trying to live with one another and fill in the hole left without Ma. Billie Jo is probably thinking about how similar she and her father are because she desperately misses her mother. She doesn’t miss her mother as if she is going on a trip. She misses her like someone old enough to sense the foreboding sense of death, and who knows her mother will never come back. Billie Jo says, “I think I should give them a rest, let the dust rest, let the world rest.
At fourteen years old, Billie Jo living in Joyce City, Oklahoma with her mother and father during the Great Depression during the 1930’s. Billie Jo and her parents struggled to live their lives during the Great Depression, because The Dust Bowl destroyed many crops, and Billie Jo’s family were farmers. Her father, a wheat farmer, works what’s left of the farm and her mother spends her time cleaning the house. While her mother being pregnant, Billie Jo does her best to make her mother proud. Suddenly a horrific accident happened, Billie Jo’s mother gets burnt really bad due to kerosene left next to the stove, and catching on fire.
This underlying theme significantly contributes to the overall storyline providing a unique characterization to each character, allowing the reader to really experience the character’s emotional development through the novel. The theme of love can be identified from the very beginning of the novel.
All the themes of the novel link together, as family and friends resolve Taylors story arc by giving her a place to belong. Ultimately, the themes of the novel are used in such a way that allows readers to gain a better understanding of the characters. The themes of the novel are themes of the major characters worlds, essentially giving readers a look inside the characters head. Melanie Marchetta applied language techniques to furthermore emphasise the themes of the story. Overall, the authors use of themes created a fictional world full of complex and realistic