Character Analysis: The Ned Pepper Gang

This shows louie’s determination for freedom. Louie was willing to kill the bird even though it would’nt of gotten him actually free from the camp it would let him be free from the torture and the fear of death the bird made him endure during his time at the

Mattie one day came across Chaney, and she attempts to wound him. But, she is dragged away by him and Cogburn is ordered to leave, if he wanted her to be kept alive. After going through much trouble, La Boeuf is killed after saving Mattie, and Chaney is killed by Mattie. Cogburn and Mattie return back home, with Mattie suffering some wounds from the wilderness. Cogburn later dies and Mattie is left reflecting over his

Her new proprietor instantly assaulted her and fathered her single youngster, George, who went through his existence with the tag "Chicken George", due to his doled out obligations of watching out for his lord's cockfighting winged animals. Chicken George then married a lady name, Matilda. Later on, George understands why his mother told him to not trust screwy white because of the issue between James and Tom Moore. For example, Moore denied Squire James to purchase George, which irritates Chicken George so he decided to find a gun to kill Tom Moore. However, his mother stopped him and told him that Tom Moore is his biological

I nominate Dr. Nick Lynchard because he’s a very influential teacher and cares deeply about his students. When I tool Psy 101 with Dr. Lynchard he spoke about more than just his subject matter and focused on teaching us things about academia that nobody else does at this level. I’ve never been concerned about how my outward appearance or the way I carried myself would matter in meeting people or getting accepted into better colleges. He taught me about how to get in to graduate school and the politics behind that and what I could expect. He put great stress on the factors of cinching down and doing well in classes that I had little or no interest in and to fully submerge myself in the life on the fields I am interested well before I’m actually

By the way, he is dressed Mattie cannot understand how this is the man she has heard so much about. When she later goes to his house to discuss the details of what she want him for she is quite shocked by the state of his house. She thinks that by how messy and carelessly he dresses and by the disorganization of his house that he will not be able to help him out on her quest. But as the night goes one Rooster proves himself to be the violent man that the stories make him out to be when he kills the rat in his house. When he is in the process of killing the rat he is sarcastic and rowdy towards Mattie showing that all the stories about him are true (Portis 64-67).

Bird shot Hobbs in the stomach area, which is the main cause for Roy Hobbs to disappear and to leave his old life. The decision to cheat on Iris with another female was a symbol for bad luck, which ended up putting him in the hospital, and it New York for 16 years. Hobbs meets a woman named Memo, after joining the Knights. This lady is, in a way, a second Harriet Bird. Both of them wear black and work for Gus Sands.

Perry described seeing a “golden bird” in his hard times, which he described as a golden parrot that “gently lifted him, enfolded him, and winged him away to ‘paradise’” (93). This bird is portrayed as a savior-like figure to Perry, implying his longing for someone to look up to and be understood as he grew up, which would later lead to his admiration of Dick as someone who would listen to him. This inclusion of symbolism is significant because it presents a vulnerable, child-like characteristic of Perry, mirroring his traumatic past, and emphasizes his portrayal of Perry as a man who felt genuine remorse and disgust when committing the murders. It also contributes to the mood of sympathy because Perry’s softness and vulnerability led him to be meekly pressured by Dick to invade the Clutters’ home and eventually commit their murder. This results in apprehensiveness by the audience about the Perry's execution and emphasizes Capote’s message as it evokes a perspective against capital punishment.

The name may not be very fitting for him, but the officers chose that nickname because it didn’t have a negative connotation which would help them avoid getting beaten. He was a sadist, which is a person who derives pleasure from others' pain or humiliation. The Bird would often find the most miniscule reasons to abuse the officers. For example, Louie was simply existing when The Bird came up to him and accused him of doing something he didn’t even do. The Bird proceeded to attack him.

Birdie is not an easy read, an unexpected fact, considering the woman who penned it, Tracey Lindberg, is a lawyer and professor by trade. The difficulty in reading the novel comes not only from its harrowing subject matter but also from the way the story is told. It’s non-linear and jumps back and forth from the present to the past. At the start of each chapter are poems, which often transform characters into animals, such as Bernice Meetos/Birdie who longs to return to the tree, Pimatisewin. The story doesn’t entirely belong to Bernice however, as the chapters tell the story of Beatrice from the voice of five different women- her cousin, aunt, mother, landlord and herself.

The novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, brushes upon various problems that each character endures during their lifetime. Although these issues vary from each chapter, a few issues tend to correlate with one another. In the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, the chapter “Good-bye, My Love” conveys the idea that desires are conflicting and often obscure your psyche. Whereas “The Gold Cure” transmits the idea that a consistent life is most desirable because change is feared.

" The meanest one is Rooster Cogburn. He is a pitiless man, dough tough, and fear doesn't enter into his thinking. He loves to pull corks"(21). The sheriff is one of the people in town who thinks this of Rooster. Some fear him because of his criminal past, and he has also been the marshals for years.

Louie didn’t want the Bird to see him in pain because he wanted to take control and turn the power around. He needed to be resilient and stay mentally strong. Later, for stealing, the Bird had made every man in the camp punch Louie and a few others in the

This trait serves as a conflict in their journey because Rooster doesn’t think that Mattie could survive through the journey. This is illustrated when Rooster and LaBoeuf try to leave Mattie before the journey. Also

He married and was trying to move past his experiences as a POW. However, nightmares and flashbacks of The Bird haunted him. They made him focus on revenge and anger. One night while sleeping, he had a vision that he was strangling The Bird, but it turned out to the his pregnant wife. This PTSD caused Louie to become divorced.

In the movie True Grit (1969), Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) depicts the negative effects of violence when he fails to notice blood on his corn cakes or when he kills a young boy whose name he can’t remember without any emotion. This shows Roosters lack of concern for violence since he has seen and caused so much bloodshed. Violence is shown as a normal part of life in this film and Rooster seems to be used to this fact. When Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) notices the blood on the corn cakes and Rooster continues to eat them, Ignoring the blood, it is made clear that he has become indifferent to violence and bloodshed. As the two prepare a fire on their first night seeking to avenge the death of Mattie's father, Rooster hands her a corn cakes and she takes one bite and notices that they are covered in blood.