How is Catherine unique? In the book, Rules by Cynthia Lord, Catherine was the main character who faced many challenges throughout the book. She has a mom who does not really understand her problems. Her dad does not really play a big role in the story. These challenges often include his little brother, David, messing up things. Furthermore, she has shown many different traits in the story that helped this story be so interesting. 2 main character traits that she showed in the story are protective and sensitive. First of all, Catherine is protective towards her little brother, David. She does not let anyone make fun of him, especially Ryan. On page 31 it says, “David waves out of the car window. ‘Hi Ryan!’ ‘Don’t say ‘hi’ to him.’ I tell David.” After the event where Ryan has made fun of David on the bus, Catherine has been really protective when Ryan was around David. In her mind, she is thinking that Ryan will make fun of David again. It is shown that Ryan bullies David again, on page 108, “But when David opens the wrapper, there’s nothing inside. He …show more content…
She is protective towards her brother. She has never let Ryan get away with teasing David. On the other hand, Ryan never learns to not make fun of David in front of Catherine. Even though David embarrasses Catherine, she loves David. She shows the true responsibility of an older sibling. She is also very sensitive because she get angry and sad really quickly. When Jason’s mother yelled at her, she said she had to use all of her strength to not cry. If a strong person was in her position I believe this person would not even be close to crying. All in all, I think that Catherine was a great character made by Cynthia Lord. I hope to see more of these type of stories from Cynthia Lord. Catherine is a truly nice character. Catherine is just like a person I know called Samantha. She was my neighbor and she was really sensitive and protective of her
In chapter 6 David said to the inspector: “but Sophie isn 't really different-not in any other way” (55). He also said: “Sophie 's my friend, my best friend” (56). This shows how much David cares for Sophie. He is aware that he is in trouble, and could be more punished by defending her, yet he still defended Sophie. He cared for her even though she did not fit the true image.
She uses Catherine’s rules as interesting chapter titles; she uses one font so the reader can “see” how Jason talks; she uses a different font for Catherine’s
“The Pye nightmare was destined to become entangled with the Morrison Dream” (7) When an individual doesn’t accept past experiences and lives with resentment instead of moving forward it could cause negative behaviors towards their relationships with others and ultimately limiting perceptions of what is truly happening. In the novel Crow Lake by Mary Lawson, Kate’s choice to constantly resent past experiences and not live with acceptance causes her to have a negative behavior towards her relationship with others, limiting her perceptions and making her believe her opinions were always true. In the novel Kate’s older brother Matt, unlike Kate, accepts his life and has no resentment. While Kate is living a life full of resentment and isn’t
She found any excuse to punish Dave, while favoring her other children, and her punishments grew more demoralizing the older he got. Initially, she would slap him, smash his face into the mirror and make him repeat “I’m a bad boy!” or require him to search for hours for an item she had “lost.” But with time, her cruelty grew to include denying him food for days on end, making him sleep on a cot in the basement, forcing him to wear the same unwashed shirt and pants to school every day for three years, and referring to him only as ‘the boy’ or
Meantime David’s mother became unhappy. She would argue with David’s dad all the time. His mother stopped wearing her dresses and doing her make up all nice. Davids mother became super violent towards David. As a result of Davids mother being unhappy she would hit and slap David.
To Adam, Catherine has no faults, making what happens next all the more surprising to him. “Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren’t sure of yourself?”(69) After the burden of pregnancy is lifted off of Catherine, she plans to leave, as she only uses Adam until she is well again. When Adam pleads with her to stay, she shoots him, and leaves him to raise their twin
She does not want limitations. Her independent character is shown from her relationship with men. In the novel, Brett is always the central character, surrounded by Jake,
This is a foreseeable effect of their chosen lines of work. The reporter and politician re-ignite their romance nearly every time they meet. even once David has three children and his law office he is still not satisfied, leading him to have an affair with Anne on his boat. During these affairs David rarely thinks about the possible repercussions. Irene always seems like an afterthought although she constantly supports David and his decisions.
‘This poor child will most likely have a serious heart defect. A fatal one. I’m trying to spare us all terrible grief’”(18). This quote is ironic, as David makes a fast decision to spare his wife, Norah, grief by giving her more grief with the lie he told her.
David was a journalist and the people at the fair really didn’t treat David right. They treated him as if he wasn’t important. David’s reaction to this was to act rudely to others but David knew that it wasn’t intentional toward him and that he needed to realize that.
Her behavior raises cause for great concern. Pamela also has a hard time understanding when her actions are wrong and she blames others around her. From talking with her, she thinks that everyone is against her and that is not so. She is often paranoid and I think that is a result of being mentally unstable. Damien and David love their mom.
The character development of Maria Theresa arguably has the most growth of any of the other characters. She starts out, the youngest, the baby of the family, someone whose whole life is spent looking up on others that are older, bigger, wiser than she is. She really becomes her own when the revolution gets introduced. Minerva and Mate are the most rebellious. We get to see her point of view from different perspectives, she writes in the journal form.
She is competitive, especially when playing soccer. She gave Max and the Hubermann’s an outstanding Christmas by bringing snow into the basement and building a snowman. She also finds lovely gifts to give Max when he was sick. For those reasons, she is thoughtful. By teaching herself to read in the middle of the night with Hans shows her determination and ambition.
Ever since the feisty assistant district attorney, Rebecca Jennings, entered the Cedar Cove landscape near the end of the show’s second season, I was captivated by the actress who breathed life into her. While I often found myself rolling my eyes disdainfully at the audacious Miss Jennings and once in while yelling out in frustration at her antics, the way in which the actress Cindy Busby depicted her added coveted drama and offbeat humor to the story. Furthermore, when she roomed with two other girls during season three, she was typically the prominent one due to her characteristic pessimism, her workaholic tendencies, and her pragmatic articulation. Recently, I had the opportunity to catch up with Cindy, and she granted me an especially
She is an English nurse who fell in love with Frederic Henry. She is exceptionally beautiful. At the beginning of the novel Catherine`s grief for her dead fiance changed her thoughts about war. When she meets Frederic Henry she gives herself freely to him. During the novel, we get to know that Catherine is very afraid of the rain, but why?