Most Interesting Character in "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

[The most interesting character in the story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" is Misfit. The way he talks, specifically with the grandmother makes him seem sane and capable of communicating.] Here is an example "'I know you're a good man. You don't look a bit like you have common blood. I know you must come from nice people.' 'Yes mam,' he said, 'finest people in the world.' When he smiled he showed a row of strong white teeth. 'God never made a finer woman than my mother and my daddy's heart was pure gold.'" This is just one of the many conversations he has with the grandmother, and in it he shows he recognizes his parents were good people. Yet, in the story he is portrayed as an insane murderer, which is proved in the story when he commands his two friends to go and kill the family and then he kills the grandmother. The end of the story when he kills the grandmother is very interesting. "'Why you're one of my babies, you're one of my own children!' She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her three times through the chest." Is the Misfit really her child? That alone would make him the most interesting character, but he stands out even more with everything else going on with him. That is why I believe the Misfit is the most interesting character in the story.

What have I enjoyed about the interview process of the Oral History Project

I enjoyed the interview process of our Oral History Project more than I thought I would have. At no time during the interview was I bored. Dr. Neealapu's story was very fascinating and inspiring. During the interview I was in charge of my groups audio and video, so I was able to give my full attention to Dr. Neelapu when I wasn't checking to make sure it was still recording. Dr. Neelapu's answers to the questions we wrote were very professional, I thought it was very cool that a medical professional was giving us his time and answering our questions honestly.

The interview portion of the process was definitely my favorite part, but I also really enjoyed working on transcripting the interview onto a doc. Hearing the interview over again helped me notice things that I didn't during the interview. It wasn't extremely difficult and I found myself pretty good at sitting down and focusing on making sure my part got done. I also really appreciated that for the most part my group did a great job at getting done all the work we needed to get done. Overall, I really enjoyed the interview process, especially the actual interview.

Why did Marjane's grandmother yell at her?

The reason behind Marjane's grandmother yelling at her is very simple and justified. On pages 285-286 Marjane sees guardians of the revolution coming for a raid and realizes she is breaking their rules by wearing makeup. She doesn't want to get in trouble so she finds an innocent man on the street and tells the guardians of the revolution that he was being indecent to her. They take that man away and probably hurt him badly, but Marjane is safe and goes along with her life. She tells her grandmother about this thinking what she did was hilarious and her grandmother becomes furious because Marjane's uncle and grandfather fought to defend innocent people and gave their lives for it. It is obvious that it is certainly justified for anyone, especially her grandmother to be upset with her because what she did was cowardly and horrible. Luckily she realizes that what she did was bad and she promised herself she would never do anything to make her grandmother yell at her again.

Why did Marjane's parents send her to Europe? - Persepolis

Marjane's parents sent her to Europe for many reasons, I think they made the right decision. I believe the main reason they sent her to Austria was because she could still leave and continue her education. Their home was not a place where someone could learn and thrive, since they were constantly under fear of and being bombed. Her parents wanted to get her away from this, so they made the hard decision to send her to Austria, where she could attend a French school. Although Marjane's didn't always make the smartest decisions, she obviously turned out to be very successful. This might have not happened if her parents did not make the decision to get her out of Iran. It was very difficult for her at first, but I think she eventually started to feel more confortable towards the end of our reading.

Favorite and Leasst Favorite Book

My favorite book would have to be The Odyssey. I found this book very interesting because of the many developed characters that we got to know over the book. There were too many to count, and some of them were not introduced very well, but most of them were. I also enjoy reading about mythology, especially Greek. My least favorite book would be The Great Gatsby. I did not dislike this book, it was just my least favorite out of the ones we read. The writing was not always easy to understand and the main plot did not interest me that much.

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Jay Gatsby ruined whatever chances he might have had with Daisy by forcing her to do what he said. They could have run off together and live their lives somewhere else, but Gatsby needed her to tell Nick that she never loved him. He needed things to be like what they were 5 years ago, but that was impossible to do. He claimed that he did everything for her, he bought this nice house, nice clothes and everything else for her. He wanted to live with her in that house and that was the way it had to be.  His high expectations of her caused her to drift apart from him. He was his own downfall.

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Jay Gatsby the main character and the Protagonist of The Great Gatsby changes a lot over the book. The changes to him are caused by the people around him and the conflicts related between each other. Gatsby who is hopeful at the beginning of the story wishes to repeat something that happened 5 years ago. To do this he must get back together with Daisy, who is his lover, but Daisy married another man. She wants to run away with him and be free, but Gatsby wants her to tell her husband that she doesn't and has never loved him. Doing this he asks too much of her, which ends up ruining their relationship. "I wouldn't' ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past." This is Nick telling Gatsby that he is asking too much of her and that things can't be exactly th same as they were 5 years ago. Gatsby starts to become impatient with Daisy, but still continues to believe that she will leave Tom and things will be exactly the same again. This does not happen and Gatsby actions lead to him being killed.