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The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeannette Walls. The whole memoir is aboit a sort of dysfunctional family, the parents being sort of reckless and fearless. They are only known as 'Mom' and 'Dad.' In page nine, the mother mentions about how 'you can't live in fear for something as basic as fire.' Though it does not really show much, it does show how the mother want her children to not live with fear, but to be fearless. Her father also metions, in the same page, that you should face down on your enemy. The main character, Jeannette, writes her memories from her childhood. 'Mom' was a bit careless, leaving Jeannette on her own since the age of three. She recalls about that time when she was three when she could "...hear Mom in the next room singing while she worked on one of her paintings. Juju, our black mutt, was watching me. I stabbed one of the hot dogs with a fork.." The mother left the child on her own at the age of three, Jeannette having to cook hot dogs or food on her own while her mother was off working on a painting and such.
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Reading 'It,' I noticed it had a lot of connection to the gate icon relate over time. Mostly because the story takes place in different times in the 1900s that had similar events with 'It' just like Georgie did in the first chapter of 'It.' Like, for example, the death of Stanley Uris. "The bathroom was lit by fluorescent tubes. It was very bright. There were no shadows, You could see everything, whether you wanted or not..." (Page 33) Though it's not much, Stanley was found by his wife, dead on the bathtub, with 'IT' imprinted on the wall with his own blood. Pretty gruesome. How does this relate? It's like Gerogie's death, involving It and involving a gruesome death. Another example is when the clown's "...arm tightened, and Hagarty heard ribs splinter. Ade shrieked." (21). Just like Stanley and Georgie, Adrian or Ade, died due to 'It.' Though these three take place in the same town, Derry, they take place at different times.
An important scene in the story is when the 'problem' was first introduced. It started when George got killed by this mysterious creature. "'Everything down here floats,' that chuckling, rotten voice whispered, and suddenly there was a ripping noise and a flairing sheet of agony, and George Denbrough knew no more." This scence is where it shows us the malicious intentions behind 'It.' The character, George, acts in despair and screams before getting killed. "Dave Gardener was the first to get there, and although he arrived only forty-five seconds after the first scream, George Denbrough was already dead." The plot structure starts around the Rising Action, when 'It' was introduced. I found this scence disturbing and sad because an innocent child got killed by an evil thing with atrocious intentions in the town of Derry.
The main conflict in the story is 'It.' The novel does not specify on how the 'problem' started, it just started in the town Derry, Maine. This problem is not an important event because 'It' is the antagonist of the story. 'It' is a creature that kills for it's pleasure. 'It' affects its victims, killing and murdering them. The characters in the story... it does not really affect them until they get assaulted by 'It,' since Pennywise just pops up and takes his victim's life. So the characters do not do anything about the conflict. They've just seen it. They don't even know what 'It' or Pennywise the Dancing Clown is. The conflict is external because 'It' is affecting many characters, killing and murdering them. The quote "'The guy in the clown suit," Christ Urwin stuttered, and shivered. 'The guy with the balloons.'"(12). Basically proving that they fear 'It.' They're scared of him. Another piece of evidence is when "The left side of George's slicker was now bright red. Blood flowed into the stormdrain from the tattered hole where the left arm had been." George didn't see his death coming. He did not expect his death to come.
'It' is a horror novel by Stephen King. The main characters in the story so far are George Denbrough, and an unknown form that is in a form of a clown known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown or 'It.' George is one of the protagonists in the story while Pennywise is the antagonist of the story. Pennywise or 'It' is the antagonist because he killed George. This is shown when the clown "...seized his arm. And George saw the clown's face change. What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams..."(10). This shows that 'It' is antagonist because he grabbed George to his ultimate death. George on the other hand is the protagonist of the novel because he was just an innocent boy, really. This is shown when George loses his newspaper boat and fell down the drain, only to be held out by Pennywise. "He reached forward... and then drew his hand reluctantly back. "I'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers...""
The main conflict in the Hunger Games is President Snow when he threatened Katniss that he's going to kill everyone dear to her, like Gale. The conflict started when President Snow dropped a surprise visit at Katniss. He threatened to kill Gale if Katniss couldn't convince the President that she was head over heels for Peeta (she doesn't convince him in the end). He also threatened to kill everyone dear to her if any uprisings start in the districts. Katniss reacts terrified, worried that she won't convince him. "...and the terror of being unable to satisfy President Snow's demands." (page 49). The conflict is mostly internal because Katniss is the one who has to deal out this problem and convince President Snow that her love for Peeta is real. "I was supposed to fix things on this tour. Make everyone who had doubted believe I acted out of love. Calm things down. But obviously, all I've done today is get three people killed, and now everyone in the square will be punished." (page 65.)
I'm reading the book, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. So far, I noticed that the main characters are Katniss Evergreen, Peeta Mellark, Haymitch Abernathy, Effie Trinket and President Snow. Katniss and Peeta are the main characters, the tributes of the story, the so called lovers of the story. They're important because they're the winners of the annual Hunger Games, and are tributes of the 75th anniversary of The Hunger Games, also known as the third Quarter Quell. Haymitch is the mentor of Katniss and Peeta, he mentored them for the Hunger Games and also for the third Quarter Quell. President Snow is main character and is important because he's the one behind the Hunger Games and he threatened to kill everyone dear to Katniss as well. Effie plays an important role as well because like Haymitch, she's the mentor of Katniss and Peeta, but she's also the hostess of the Hunger Games. Katniss is... how can I describe her... she cares a ton about her friends and family as in said in Chapter two, ""Please don't hurt Gale," I whisper. "He's just my friend. He's been my friend for years." I haven't really seen any change in her personality throughout the first and second book. Katniss seemed to only stay the same, except for the fact that the Hunger Games traumatized her. President Snow is a sneaky rat. How? In chapter two page 29, he says ""Convince me," he says. He drops the napkin and retrieves his book. I don't watch him as he heads for the door, so I flinch when he whispers in my ear. "By the way, I know about the kiss.""
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