Character Analysis

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” Arthur Raddled is thought to be a cruel and evil person; in reality, he is actually a very kind and generous person. His kindness is evident during the fire at Miss Muddies home. “Boo Raddled. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you. ” (Attic’s 96). This dialogue shows that Arthur Raddled is actually a very kind, caring person; he realized hat Scout was cold and he put his own blanket around her to keep her warm.

He generously gave Scout the blanket, knowing she was cold and showing sympathy for Scout, who has even mocked Boo with Gem. This generous nature Arthur Ready Dollops Raymond is also another person who appears to be drunk and is disliked by the community, although in reality all he is drinking from his sack is coca-cola; he is actually a very gentle person, which is evident when he tells Scout, “l try to give ‘me a reason, you see?

Dollops Raymond realizes that the community dislikes and shuns mixed race families, so he fakes being drunk to give Macomb a reason for him marrying a black woman. He realizes that people would be more uncomfortable around him if they thought he was a N-lover, and instead makes them believe he Is married too black woman because he Is drunk. His reason for ‘drinking’ shows that he is gentle with the public, so they aren’t as uncomfortable with his family as they would be if he wasn’t ‘drinking.

Heathcliff arrives in the summer of 1771, a small, withdrawn boy. The old Mr. Earnshaw found him in the streets of Liverpool, and feeling compassion for the dirty, ragged black-haired child, he took him back to Wuthering Heights.

He becomes an adopted member of the Earnshaw family and as they know nothing about him background he is immediately labelled as a gypsy and destined to remain an outsider, in exile from society due to his actions and personality.

Straight away, his actions begin to put him apart from other people. He is a “sullen, patient child; hardened perhaps, to ill treatment”. An example of this is when Hindley throws a rock at Heathcliff, and, instead of crying he receives the blow and gets up again. Hindley sees Heathcliff as a usurper of his father’s affections, and he grows bitter because of this, referring to Heathlcliff as an “imp of Satan”.

Heathcliff let each incident like this pass, and showed no outward emotion towards his abuser. Instead opting to ‘bottle it’ and let his vengeance build up, e.g. “I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it, at last. I hope he will not die before I do”. For Heathcliff, the world becomes an increasing trying place to be in – either to be shrunk back from, or lashed out at.

To cope with the torrent of abuse directed at him from almost everyone he meets, he takes on a ‘devilish’ character. After adopting this role, he uses it to get revenge by making everyone else’s life as difficult as possible.

While Heathcliff is pondering on how to get back at Hindley and the others, he becomes oblivious to any insults or hardship he comes across; allowing it only to stoke the fire of revenge and letting him be secure in the fact that they shall get what is due in time. For example when asked why he should not leave retribution to God, Heathcliff replies “No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall. I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone and I’ll plan it out: while I’m thinking of that, I don’t feel pain.

Although at this point, Heathcliff could be called evil for making people’s lives around him miserable, even Nelly, with her simplistic view of the situation decided that Hindley, because of Frances’ death, had become so malicious that it “was enough to make a fiend of a saint”. This is not enough to let Heathcliff completely off the hook though as Hindley’s actions are partly justified and Heathcliff interprets them differently, as he is quite young (all he sees is the abuse, not the reason why the abuse is given). In this way, Heathcliff’s actions later in the novel are partly down to his naivety/ignorance when confronted with certain situations.

Heathcliff is not especially bright (at least consciously). This means that he sometimes does not take all of the factors of a situation into account when he makes up his mind to do something. Something I think Heathcliff has extreme difficulty in interpreting other people’s actions through their perspectives. For instance when Hindley threw a rock at Heathcliff when he was younger, Heathcliff only saw Hindley as the person who hurt him, not Hindley as an insecure boy who saw his father being taken away from him. Even Catherine did not see or help Heathcliff understand this, she only served as a catalyst that made Heathcliff want to look strong and think of better times when they would be together.

As life at Wuthering Heights was continually wearing him down, Heathcliff’s assumed character began to assert itself even more. The next paragraph illustrates this;

“He had, by that time, lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning.” And also;

“Personal appearance sympathised with mental deterioration; he acquired a slouching gate, and ignoble look”

They serve to make evident that the hard physical labour, combined with the mental anguish Heathcliff is constantly suffering is taking its toll. Heathcliff loses all interest in bettering himself and conforming to established rules of etiquette and society. Instead he becomes withdrawn and so subdued that it seems as though he wakes up only to get the day over with. “He took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintance”.

When Heathcliff returns after running away, his character is more refined, cleaner and less confused. He no longer has mixed emotion and acts as if he has a plan to apply to life and steadily works on each waypoint towards the final goal.

“A half-civilised ferocity lurked yet in the depressed brows, and eyes full of black fire, but it was subdued; and his manner was even dignified, quite divested of roughness though too stern for grace”.

It shows how Heathcliff still has the strong, passionate outward shell. But inwardly he has learned to control how he reacts. The alternate ‘evil’ side has completely taken over, leaving Heathcliff emotionally cold, yet bent on revenge. Only now he is equipped to carry it out using his head rather that his hands. He knows how he is to accomplish it and will stop at nothing to finish what has been started.

It is noticeable that he does not try and hide what he is doing. Instead giving ‘deep’ speeches to anyone who will stand to listen. His craving for revenge is so intense that it seems to ‘leak’ as an aura around his body and disrupt the lives of those who come into contact with him. Has but to speak to cause tempers to flare, emotions to rise, and situations to go to excess.

The realisation that Heathcliff has not changed in his attitude since going away is to late for action to be taken to stop it and the ‘groomed’ version of Heathcliff is described as he was when he first arrived. “An unreclaimed creature, without refinement – without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.”

He bends people towards his will with ease, and before they know it he has coolly, calmly, and collectedly used them for his own purpose and then dropped them with nothing.

Edgar sums up Heathcliff to a poignant sentence; “Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.” And, as Isabella writes after she has eloped with Heathcliff; “Is Mr Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?”.

Isabella does not explain what Heathcliff has been doing, but to constitute the above questions, it cannot have been normal.

Heathcliff’s revenge plan begins to fall into place when he confronts Hindley in his house. Catherine again acts as a catalyst by confining the two to a room and Heathcliff manages to rile Hindley so much that he draws a gun and knife on him. Hindley realises that he has been duped out of his house, his money, and all his possessions and wants to kill Heathcliff for it.

“Oh, damnation! I will have it back; and I’ll have his gold too; and then his blood; and hell shall have his soul! It will be ten times blacker with that guest than it ever was before!”.

Heathcliff must have been pleased to see that Hindley was now suffering in the same way that he had and also that he had mostly accomplished what he came for.

Heathcliff’s effect can also be illustrated by the change in appearance and character of Isabella. When she first eloped with Heathcliff, she was young, na�ve, and very outgoing. When she came back however; “she already partook of the pervading spirit of neglect which encompassed her. Her pretty face was wan and listless; her hair uncurled; some locks hanging lankly down, and some carelessly twisted round her head. Probably she had not touched her dress since yester evening.”

A double side to Heathcliff begins to emerge when Catherine begins to get ill. Edgar hides in his books and studies as anything he does will not help her to recover, while Heathcliff continues his vendetta when he could help Catherine.

The only thing stopping him is Catherine’s love for Edgar.

“The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out, and drank his blood! But, till then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair of his head!”

This shows that although Heathcliff’s ‘darker’ side is plainly visible, he has a set of morals that he stands by. One of them being that any close friends of those who have no revenge due are out of the firing line as far as a vendetta goes.

Heathcliff succeeds in gaining all the material possessions he wants but does not have ‘the icing on the cake’. Because of this, the intensity of his need for more revenge grows exponentially and he becomes even malevolent as he bottles even more anger.

“I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms write, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!”

Catherine remains self-centred and, as a final example, drives Heathcliff insane by refusing him any pity.

Heathcliff finally loses his drive for retribution and lets his true feelings be known. He loves Catherine, and she loves him, but settling both of their scores kept them sharing their final goal – being together.

To conclude, I will decide that Heathcliff is indeed not the Devil, but has had all of the worst coincidences happen to him that lead to him being as unnatural as he is.

An extremely bad childhood, combined with his lack of intelligence and empathy, finally amalgamated with the fact that he has very strong emotions anyway make Heathcliff’s actions easy to understand, yet hard to forgive.

A large number of headstrong characters, isolation, and two sets of conflicting values made distress highly unavoidable.

Therefore Heathcliff is a product of circumstance and misfortune rather than the spawn of the Devil or a wild beast.

The two sons and father live, and they begin to travel the country in hopes Of discovering who or what caused the death of their beloved wife and mother. The eldest son Dean (Jensen Cackles) grows to be the typical macho tough guy, intent on fulfilling his father’s every wish, along with following his footsteps to be an expert in slaying any and all supernatural beings. The youngest son, Sam Oared Padlock) attempts to live the life of a normal teenager, going to law school and having a loving girlfriend whom he hopes to one day marry.

One day their father goes missing on what they refer to as a “hunting trip”, and Dean seeks out Sam at college to come with him and find their father. They then begin a long journey, fighting the supernatural and helping others along the way with the help of a family friend named Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver), searching for the demon who killed their mother. The character portrayed by Jarred Padlock, Sam Winchester, stands out the most in regards to having a disorder.

He appears to be a paranoid schizophrenic, displaying many symptoms over a period of a few years. After leaving to help his brother find their father, his girlfriend soon dies a similar death to that of his mother, or so he believes, as he begins to experience illustrations that he refers to as ‘Visions”. Later in the first season, he convinces himself that he must go through ‘trials”, and at one point believes that he must give up his life to demons that are after him in order to save his brother and a group of strangers.

This could be another delusion of grandeur, as well as a sign of depression (the need to commit suicide) which is an early warning sign of schizophrenia. Later on in season two after finding their father, all three of the Winchester men are in a car wreck that leaves Dean and their father John in critical condition. After his father passes from his fatal wounds and his brother lives, Sam believes that his father sold his soul to a demon in exchange for his brother to live. As the series progresses, Sam becomes more and more socially withdrawn, another early sign of schizophrenia.

His brother becomes his only constant interaction with people. Often in the show he is seen drinking to excess, becoming drunk and sometimes passing out. In many different episodes he stays awake, passing off on sleep to read more on the demons he believes are after him and his rather, occasionally going off on his own to find enemies and kill them. A red flag warning sign of schizophrenia is extreme reaction to criticism, which Sam often experiences, particularly in regard to his father.

In an early episode, Dean and Sam fight about carrying on the family business, as Sam believes it isn’t their responsibility and that their father consumed their life with that nonsense rather than allowing them to live normal lives. Dean then tells Sam how he is a coward and selfish, and Sam goes off into a rage, furious at the words of his brother. Whenever he is reprimanded or insulted in the show, he often goes off by himself in a state of anger, sometimes resorting to drinking as a means of getting his mind off of the problem.

Sam also experiences suspiciousness that comes with his hallucinations/delusions. In a later episode he hallucinates that his brother is insulting him and telling him how Sam how he hates him along with blaming him for their father’s death, but then after coming back to reality he sees that his brother didn’t actually say these things, although he carries the suspicion that he truly feels that way bout him. The most apparent sign of schizophrenia in Sam appears to be his lack of emotion and having a flat expressionless gaze in the later seasons.

He becomes detached to his brother, as nearing the last few seasons they have had problems and gone their separate ways many times. He develops resentment towards Dean, still holding on to his dream of living a normal life, so when they do finally come back together he states that it will only be for that time being until the problem at hand is solved. Although they end up tying with one another, the anger Sam holds inside himself is apparent.

She leaves her husband with her neighbor Mr.. Sanguine, which may be the reason for Harpoon’s turn of events. Briefly describe the character and his or her relations with other characters (a solid paragraph or two). This is a more detailed factual description of your chosen character. You may combine your own factual description with quotations from the text. Give page numbers. When Sorry is first introduced she was said to have a “sweet voice raised in song” (15). Readers are seemingly given an image of her being a sweet and loving wife and mother..

But things go terribly wrong once she no longer sings (16). It’s also evident that Sorry was very vulnerable. She was so tired of being left home while her husband told fictional stories that Mr.. Cantata’s criticisms of Raised soon enveloped her heart like the darkness of Chatham- Shut. It may be Mr.. Cantata’s statement, “what’s the use of stories that aren’t true? That finally got to the lonely Sorry (20). Sorry was a ticking time bomb that blew up. It’s almost to be expected seeing as her family was the only happy one in a sad city.

Even love for her son couldn’t get her to stay. Although, just as things had turned around for Rasher and Harmon, Sorry had realized her mistake. Ironically, she described Mr.. Sanguine the same as the narrator had described Chatham-Shut. Lover, mother, and wife, Sorry as a full package. Luckily, she was able to see the light of the day, instead of the darkness of the night. Explain why you find the character interesting, and discuss how the character affects your understanding of the novel (a solid paragraph or two).

Sorry is a very minor character whom only appears in the beginning and the end of the story. The best thing about Sorry is that her small part had a huge impact on the way the story went. First, lets observe the way she left her husband. She simply asked him to look for some socks that their son Harmon may have lost, and in that instance she disappeared. Her leaving with the stairs neighbor was very contradictory with her character. Readers can only sympathize with the openwork Rasher and their precious son Harmon.

Rasher was so distraught over his wife leaving him that only after taking out his anger by smashing every clock in their home, he loses his ability to tell stories. The plot thickens as he no longer wants to tell stories and is visited by the Water Genie to have his story line disconnected. Moving over to Harmon, he was so heartbroken that he couldn’t concentrate on anything more than 1 1 minutes; this was the Same time that his mother left them (1 1 o’clock). All of these these are significant. Had it not been Corpora’s choice to leave her family for boring old Mr..

Sanguine, neither Hardbound nor Rasher would have helped save Kahn. It was her choice that led to Rasher’s choice to no longer tell stories. It was her choice that caused Harmon to take If’s tool hostage to get to the Walrus and keep his father’s storytelling abilities. Corpora’s choice kept Harmon from focusing on his first wish that would have kept him from ever going into Gulp City. Corpora’s choice led them both into gulp City. Corpora’s choice helped the sad city remember it’s name. Basically, without Sorry, no one would ever know about the sea of Stories.

The personality of Old Man Warner is constructed over the community’s unwillingness to abandon traditions at all costs. Shirley Jackson portrays Old Man Warner as an individual who has traditions instilled in him to a fault. Throughout the story, Old Man Warner is constantly at odds with the younger community members who start questioning the point of such a lottery. Jackson reveals through Old Man Warner’s personality that he is deeply traditional, resistant to change and is at times illogical and/or delusional.

Jackson’s description of the setting in “The Lottery” shows a town that relies heavily on the custom of having a yearly lottery. The quote: “black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town” (Jackson 391) shows that Old Man Warner has been raised into believing that the lottery has a significant role in society. The town still dons the same box it has and is reluctant to change the box in fear of upsetting anyone. A prime example of this is: “Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, however, nobody wanted to upset tradition as was represented by the black box” (Jackson 391). This again shows how the past has affected the town’s beliefs, consequently having a major impact on Old Man Warner’s personality.

Another personality trait of Old Man Warner is that he is illogical and/or delusional at times. Jackson shows this with Old Man Warner’s responses to the younger villagers wanting to abandon the lottery. A quote that demonstrates is when “Mr. Adams said to Old Man Warner, who stood next to him, that over in the north village they’re talking of giving up the lottery” (Jackson 393). An equally important quote is also, Old Man Warner’s response “pack of crazy fools” (Jackson 393). This shows his inability to function rationally and reveals how deeply rooted not only Old Man Warner is but the entire community. Another piece of strong evidence suggests Old Man Warner was delusional is his full belief that the lottery had a direct effect on the villager’s lives.

Additionally, Jackson shows how in-depth Old Man Warner’s reliance on old deeply rooted traditions is to a fault. Jackson demonstrates this by displaying his fears of abandoning the lottery. Jackson shows extensively that Old Man Warner is afraid of change by the quotes he makes in “The Lottery”. An excellent example of his fear of change is the quote: “There has always been a lottery” (Jackson 393). Another equally important example is his quote: “The lottery in June, corn be heavy soon” (Jackson 393). The author demonstrated by Old Man Warner that a community is so enthralled with traditions that they refuse to change regardless of logic and or reason.

Jackson with the setting of the story was able to demonstrate not only how Old Man Warner was, but how the older community in the village was. The village had a common theme of fear of change and a community stuck in the past. The quotes from Old Man Warner indicate that he is stuck in an illogical past where he is resistant to change regardless of the outcomes. Jackson demonstrated the personality of Old Man Warner in an exceptional way. “The Lottery” is an exciting work of literature overall, with deep undertones.

To help you, my dear clan, learn the importance of not letting your personal flaws be the reason for your downfall, I must tell you about our former clansman, Okonkwo. I watched as his weaknesses and pride brought him down to the point of suicide, which is the escape of cowards. He killed himself because he felt like he had nothing left to live for. Instead of facing a new, changed life in Umuofia, he escaped by taking his own. Before his downward spiral, Okonkwo was known as a self-determined and hard-working man who worked hard to earn many titles amongst our clan.

Listen as I explain Okonkwo’s character. Okonkwo’s father was Unoka, who was loved by all amongst the clan. “He was tall but very thin and had a slight stoop. He wore a haggard and mournful look except when he was drinking or playing on his flute” (4). Unoka was lazy and had many debts that he didn’t pay off yet he was loved. Okonkwo grew up observing his dad mettle through life by living off others. “But Unoka was such a man that he always succeeded in borrowing more, and piling up debts” (5).

Okonkwo watched his father be pitied because he couldn’t feed his wives or children. At his death, Unoka had no titles and he was still greatly in debt. “Any wonder then that his son Okonkwo was ashamed of him? ” (7) Due to his father’s example, Okonkwo knew he wanted to achieve great things and he was determined he would become the opposite of his father. This aspect of Okonkwo’s character leads him to success. Okonkwo succeeded materially in our clan. One particular point of recognition happened when he fought Amanlize the Cat.

Amanlize the Cat had not been defeated in seven years, and so when Okonkwo defeated him at the young age of eighteen he became well known throughout our nine villages. Okonkwo continued to grow into a great man. “He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look…. When he walked his heels hardly touched the ground and he seemed to walk on springs” (3). With his hard work he earned three wives, found financial security, ran a successful yam farm, produced multiple children, built several huts, and received many titles.

Unfortunately, as sometimes happens with great men, Okonkwo had flaws. He had a temper, no self-control, he was over confidant, and he beat his poor wives. His most serious flaw was his pride. Just as he’d hoped, Okonkwo became the total opposite of his dad who had been a lazy debtor. His dad had also been a peace loving and kind man who was loved by all in our villages and Okonkwo could not say the same. An instance where Okonkwo let his pride cloud his judgment is when he participated in the killing of Ikemefuna, a boy he was raising as his own son. Okonkwo thought of Ikemefuna as the perfect son.

Okonkwo liked that his biological son Nwoye and Ikemefuna were getting along because he was afraid of Nwoye’s lack of manliness. Okonkwo felt that Nwoye hanging around Ikemefuna would make him more of a man. Trouble arose when the Oracle in his village decided that Ikemefuna had to die because he was interfering with Okonkwo and his oldest son, Nwoye’s, relationship. Okonkwo was warned in advanced not to participate in the killing of Ikemefuna, but he did anyway because he was afraid of what the other men in the tribe would think of him if he didn’t participate.

Okonkwo was too worried that he would be viewed as weak. His pride drove him to help kill a boy he loved as a son and this greatly harmed his relationship with Nwoye. Okonkwo was also too worried about Nwoye becoming “womanly” like his father, Unoka, and he didn’t realize how he was hurting his family with his violent and stubborn nature. Later on there was an instance when Okonkwo’s carelessness leads him to accidently kill a woman from our village.

The custom in our village is to exile a man for seven years for such a crime and therefore Okonkwo went to his mother’s village, Mbanta. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled the others” (106). After seven long years of exile in his mother’s village, Okonkwo returned to his village eager to start his life by building more huts and showing his wealth. When Okonkwo came back to Umuofia he expected his wealth to place him in the same circumstances as before his exile. “The clan had undergone such profound change during his exile that it was barley recognizable” (150). You see, the missionaries had come into the church and attracted many of our people to it.

This changed our clan remarkable with all the new people. “He knew that he had lost his place among the nine masked spirits who administered justice in the clan” (140). In addition to the new religion that is to this day so different and odd to us, they built a government. In his pride, Okonkwo figured that he could go to war with the new white people, but this turned out to be harder than he expected. Once he went to war he kept being defeated and eventually Okonkwo’s anger got the best of him and he actually killed another man. It was useless.

Okonkwo’s machete descended twice and the man’s head lay beside his uniformed body” (168). Okonkwo felt worthless, like his life meant nothing any more. Instead of facing the new changes in his clan, he went the cowardly way out through suicide. This man of our clan who had worked hard to become great in order to overcome the shame from his childhood and who had built wealth in our village allowed his pride to be his ruin. What Okonkwo did to end his own life was incredibly selfish and he took the coward’s way out.

He killed others in his violent temper, he killed a boy who was like a son to him, and in the end, he killed himself. The only last noble thing Okonkwo did was try and stand up to fight and save our clan from being taken over by the white people. Okonkwo was a fighter and a warrior, but in the end everything he worked for was meaningless. Heed my warnings. Learn from your past to improve your future, but don’t allow your past to cloud your judgment and make you too prideful about your own negative qualities.

Main Character She is the main character of this story, because the whole story is centered around her and her journey with the secondary character, Roger, after he tries to steal her purse. Physical Description Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is a large african american woman with dark skin and hair. Slung across her shoulder is a very large purse in which she carries everything she would ever need. Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones by Isabelle Pozas 8-1 …

Round This character is a round character because the author tells us quite about the type of person she is through her actions, like how she told Roger to go wash his face and how she wanted to help him instead of turn him in to the police; we find out that she is very kindhearted. We find out a lot about the house where she lives, the type of food she eats, and how she had some sort of troubled past as a young person. … Static She character is a static character because her personality does not change very much throughout the story.

Her goal to teach Roger a lesson and help him become a better person is in place the entire story. … Protagonist Thank You, Ma’am Character Analysis Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is the protagonist of the story because the whole story is about her, and although it is told in third person, it sort of tells the story from her perspective. She did not react the way I was expecting her to react when Roger tried to steal her purse; instead of turning him in to the police, she genuinely tried to help him.

This character also had a troubled life as a young person, and she did not want Roger to make the same mistakes. This character intrigues me because… Emotional Description This character has a very kind heart. She does not want to turn Roger in, but she actually wants to help him and prevent him from making the same mistakes she did. She is very trusting with Roger when she leaves him alone in the room with her purse. This character was very generous to Roger, and she did not expect anything in retur