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character traits in stories Essay Examples

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Which Character of ‘The Crucible’ Would You Play? (396 words, 1 pages)

Year 10 Drama The Crucible I have selected Abigail as the character who I would play. Abigail is a seventeen year old who has been caught attempting witch craft with her cousin and her friends. She is being questioned by her Uncle Paris who saw her doing witch craft in ... Read More

The Portrayal of Characters of John Edgar’s Widemans Essay Our Time (414 words, 1 pages)

The hardest habit to break, since it was the habit of a lifetime, would be listening to myself listen to him. That habit would destroy any chance of seeing my brother on his terms and seeing him in his terms, learning his terms, seemed the whole point of learning his ... Read More

The Character of John in John Updikes “A&P” (660 words, 1 pages)

In John Updikes "AP", Sammy makes a hasty, reasonable decision to quit his job. Sammy is a cashier at the AP, a local grocery store. He works there to please his parents and does not see any excitement or joy out of working there. One day, three girls wearing swimsuits ... Read More

A Story of a Moment I’ll Never Forget With My Friend Eldon (975 words, 2 pages)

A Moment Ill Never Forget My life changed during the summer when I was ten years old. Even though it has been eight years ago, I will always remember my third year on the swim team. I had always done well, but could never manage to finish first. Every swim ... Read More

A Review of an Investigative Story Involving Officer John Gale (814 words, 1 pages)

Officer John Gale It was Tuesday morning the sun was just on the brink of shinning on the great beautiful city of Miami. Sitting in his car, Officer John Gale was sipping his early morning coffee, getting ready for a long day ahead. Gale was tall, by his appearance he ... Read More

A Reasearch on Character Development into Schools Incorportation into Five Websites (1215 words, 2 pages)

I chose to research the following five websites that all have to do with incorporating Character Development into schools because I am planning on observing this topic in our classroom report. The first website I researched was Character Counts! Their website, www.charactercounts.org, is dedicated to helping schools incorporate their character ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character Edmund in King Lear by William Shakespeare (1807 words, 5 pages)

Kenneth Jones Professor Bailey English 2322 May 28, 2000 A Look at Shakespeares Edmund In King Lear, the villainous but intelligent Edmund, with more than a brief examination into his character, has understandable motivations outside of the base purposes with which he might at first be credited. Edmund is a ... Read More

A Not Lonely and Eventful Christmas Time Story (422 words, 1 pages)

A holiday story This is a story about what I thought was going to be a lonely and uneventful Christmas holiday time. I was planning to have a very quiet holiday season because my wife and youngest son were going to be in South America for the Christmas season. My ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1134 words, 2 pages)

Mrs. Edna Pontellier is a woman without an identity, and a woman without any fidelity to either her relationships or her ideals. This, of course, means that she has not successfully completed Erikson's fifth stage of psychosocial development, the stage of identity versus identity confusion. Edna is a grown woman ... Read More

An Analysis of the Characters, Setting, and Background of the Movie The Mummy (1172 words, 2 pages)

The movie 'The Mummy' was created, it seems, almost purely based on stereotypes sacrificing both historical accuracy and entertainment value. Set in ancient and 1920's Egypt, two time period that, no doubt, bring many vivid images to mind. However, the majority of those images are skewed in someway, and, unfortunately, ... Read More

The Fate of the Grandmother in Flannery O’Connor’s Story A Good Man Is Hard to Find (564 words, 1 pages)

A Good Man is Hard to Findby Flannery OConnor What happens to the grandmother in the story? The grandmother is at a very different point from the beginning of the story, A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery OConnor than at the end, not just in terms of ... Read More

Evil Mother Figure in D. H. Lawrence’s Short Story The Rocking-Horse Winner (1978 words, 2 pages)

"The Rocking Horse Winner" is the story of a boy's gift for picking the winners in horse races. An omniscient narrator relates the tale of a boy whose family is always short of money. His mother is incapable of showing love and is obsessed with the status that material wealth ... Read More

The Story of Ermalinda During the Large Outmigration From Poland to United States (1062 words, 2 pages)

During the time when there was a large outmigration from Portugal to the United States, Ermalinda was just 6 years old. She always remembered herself preparing to leave for her new life, she would sit in a chair for hours and just stare at the mountain peaks which descended steeply ... Read More

The Important Values in a Person With Good Character (1265 words, 2 pages)

A Dreamland It Would Be My grandmother once told me that a person who has character is a person who not only thinks well of others, but of themselves as well. She also told me that such a person is not afraid to stand up for their beliefs. I still ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character Nora in a Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen (927 words, 2 pages)

Nora At the beginning of the play, Nora, who in A Dolls House is the female protagonist, is portrayed like a doll, hence the title of the play. Her husband, Torvald, talks to her like a little girl, using terms such as little lark or little squirrel or his song ... Read More

A Comparison of the Attitudes of Godfrey and Silas in Nancy Lammeter’s Story (680 words, 1 pages)

Godfrey and Silas were both self-imposed loners. Godfrey had to keep his first wife a secret from everybody, especially Nancy Lammeter. This meant that he had to keep more than a polite distance away from her. His brother, the theif and all around scoundrel blackmailed poor Godfrey to keep his ... Read More

A Character Comparison of Harold Krebs and Bartleby, the Scrivener (875 words, 1 pages)

A Character Comparison of Harold Krebs and Bartleby, the Scrivener Earnest Hemingways Soldiers Home and Herman Melvilles Bartleby, the Scrivener are both short stories written about characters who have problems dealing with or being a part of society. Harold Krebs in Soldiers Home and Bartleby in Bartleby, the Scrivener have ... Read More

Holden’s Depiction as a Character in Denial in J.D Salinger’s Catcher (970 words, 2 pages)

In J.D. Salingers Catcher in the Rye, Holden is a character in denial. He greatly dislikes phonies, and even though he too carries the characteristics of a phony, he refuses to admit to himself that he is a phony as well as the rest of them. In Holdens point of ... Read More

A Dynamic Character in a Company of Laughing Faces (475 words, 1 pages)

A Dynamic Character in A Company of Laughing Faces In the short story A Company of Laughing Faces by Nadine Gordimer, a dynamic character by the name of Kathy Hack is introduced to the reader. Kathy is a lonely girl lost in the years of her adolescence, not knowing exactly ... Read More

The Story of a Boy Named Sue (1298 words, 2 pages)

A Boy Named Sue By, Chris A boy named Sue can be summed up by the title alone, but it can be dissected much deeper to find a much more metaphorical meaning. The poem starts out discussing how a boy at the age of three became fatherless when his dad ... Read More

Differentiation of Characters and Actors In “Six Characters in Search of an Author” (361 words, 1 pages)

In Six Characters in Search of an Author, Luigi Pirandello demonstrates how he took advantage of classical drama by creating the difference between the characters and actors in the play. Pirandello uses many staging approaches and techniques to merge drama and theater, into real life, while featuring the shortcomings of ... Read More

Fabian and a Ring – a Short Story (2435 words, 4 pages)

Oranges, Disney World, and hurricanes- the first three things to come to Fabians mind when he thought of the most boring place to grow up- southern Florida. Lets face it, Florida can collectively be summed up as Home to the Happiest Place on Earth. Those Disney jerk-offs had commercialized their ... Read More

A Story of Greed, the Three Beggars and the Lottery Ticket (709 words, 2 pages)

The Winning Lottery Ticket Life of the three beggers. It is the year 2000 and the powerball is up to a whopping 105 million dollars. So the three friendly beggers Adam, Matt, and Ian decide they want buy a powerball ticket but have no money. Matt, the brain of the ... Read More

My Reaction on The Life Story of Harriet Jacobs That Really Affected My Feelings (288 words, 1 pages)

Harriet Jacobs was born into a family of African American slaves. Unlike Frederick Douglass, she was not taken away from her parents when she was born. Her parents tried to make their home as normal as possible. They succeeded for a long period of time. Harriet didn't know that she ... Read More

An Analysis of The Traits Possessed by The Characters in “1984” by George Orwell (912 words, 2 pages)

1984 by George Orwell Character sketch by Jeffrey Bowerman. The two main characters in 1984 are Winston Smith and Julia. Winston has his beliefs. It is very hard to make him believe in someone else's ideas or lies. He is a little paranoid about people watching him. In the story ... Read More

A Review of the Dialogues and Jake’s Character in the Book “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway (379 words, 2 pages)

The remarkable thing about the book was its liberal use of dialogue and how Hemingway used it to carry the reader through the book. There was no plot in the book in the sense that there was no twists, intrigue, or goals for any of the characters and the dialogue ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront (1215 words, 2 pages)

The novel, Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bront, takes place in northern England in an isolated, rural area. The main characters involved are residents of two opposite households Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. These two families are different in numerous aspects of their personalities and lifestyles. It is centered on ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Sethe in the Beloved by Toni Morrison (686 words, 1 pages)

Why Sethes children werent hers "It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim of a slave". These are the words that Toni Morrison used to describe the actions of the central character within the novel, Beloved. That character, Sethe, is presented as a former ... Read More

An Analysis of the Character of Wexford in Peace Breaks Out by John Knowles (1088 words, 3 pages)

Essay 2 Wexford (A Portrait of Evil) The character Wexford of the book Peace Breaks Out, is by no question an atypical adolescent. He is different than the rest of his peers, Wexford is an evil villain. But, as well as being evil he is also extremely bright, he goes ... Read More

An Analysis of Collaborative Literature in the Story of Xweltem (1706 words, 3 pages)

Critical Book Review INTRODUCTION You Are Asked To Witness is a very well written and laid out piece of collaborative literature. The style is free flowing and it has excellent continuity even though it was written by multiple authors. I like how the book starts with the first contact with ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013