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...points to most help! thanks!!? Can you please proofread my essay for me? I would’ve done it but I’ve got 3 more essays to complete by tonight. So, can you please check for grammatical errors and please try to spice up the content. If you feel the need to change anything then please feel free to add/delete anything. Also, one more thing, can you rephrase my first paragraph so it’s more interesting. Thanks a lot!
This is what the essay is about:
Writers often explore a particular character's struggle to maintain personal integrity despite overwhelming obstacles. Use examples of Jensine from "The Pearls," and the boy from "The Glass of Milk" to show the changes each character goes through. Then write the first draft of your essay, explaining why you think each character did or did not successfully retain integrity. Make sure to provide supporting material from each story for your opinion
In the short stories “The Pearl” and “The Glass of Milk,” both protagonists struggle to maintain personal integrity despite overwhelming obstacles. Both of these characters changed in the middle of the story to overcome their needs. In “The Pearl,” Jensine changes for a certain purpose, while the boy in “The Glass of Milk,” changes his character in order to prevent his own starvation. Even though both characters have to change themselves to survive, they also both emerge at the end with their integrity intact.
Jensine, the main character in “The Pearl,” struggles to modify her behavior as she tries to teach her husband to be frightened when it is appropriate. During the story, Jensine’s feelings toward her husband change. When they are first married, “the match s a love affair” (1067), but Jensine’s “feelings for him intensif[y] into… a deep moral indignation” (1068). She gets worried, because her husband is not a brave person; she has to work hard to change herself in order to change her husband’s thoughts. First, she “tr[ies] to scare him with the possibility of losing her” (1069). This method is unsuccessful when she sees that he is “enchanted at the change of the demure maiden into a Valkyrie” (1069). She continues to take advantage of every opportunity to ignite him with fear. When Jensine’s pearls are returned from the shoemaker who fixes them, her husband asks her to count them to be sure that none were stolen. Even though she desperately wants to check them as well, she purposely does not, so that her husband will worry and maybe even fear that some were stolen. When she does this, Jensine sees that she has finally gotten her husband to fear, and she regains her integrity as “she [sits] by his side, a triumphator” (1072) gloating over her victory.
In the other story, “The Glass of Milk”, the male protagonist is forced by his overwhelming hunger to change his ways and become more humble. The main character struggles to maintain his personal integrity by never taking any food or accepting any other offers of help, even though he hasn’t eaten for three days and three nights. When a sailor asks him if he is hungry, “there is a brief silence during which the youth seem to be thinking,” (1154) but the boy replies that he isn’t hungry. He is “ashamed that he seem to need charity” (1154) even though the truth is that he truly does need charity. He begins to change when he sees how easily another beggar gets free food, just by admitting that he needs help. However, he again refuses charity when a man offers, “‘If you need it, I could lend you about forty cents’…The boy thank him for his offer with an anguished smile” (1156) but walks away without taking the money that he desperately needs for food. Nevertheless, the author in the story does change his character due to his internal conflict. His hunger reaches an extreme; he realizes that he cannot hold on to his integrity and satisfy his hunger, so he decides to get food even though he knows that he does not have money to pay for the food. He plans to tell the person from whom he takes the food, “Sir, I was hungry, and I can't pay…Do what you want” (1156). He chooses to lose his integrity in return for food that will keep him alive, but he is actually able to keep his integrity when the waitress gives him more food than he orders and allows him to cry and then leave without paying.
Both Jensine and the starving boy change in the middle of the story. Jensine is able to change herself and her husband in a way that allows her to keep her reputation intact. The other boy also keeps his integrity, ironically being able to keep it even after he chooses to give it up. Even though they are changing for different reasons – one is working for her own gain, the other is simply trying to survive – they both face the same conflict between fulfillment and personal integrity.
This is what the essay is about:
Writers often explore a particular character's struggle to maintain personal integrity despite overwhelming obstacles. Use examples of Jensine from "The Pearls," and the boy from "The Glass of Milk" to show the changes each character goes through. Then write the first draft of your essay, explaining why you think each character did or did not successfully retain integrity. Make sure to provide supporting material from each story for your opinion
In the short stories “The Pearl” and “The Glass of Milk,” both protagonists struggle to maintain personal integrity despite overwhelming obstacles. Both of these characters changed in the middle of the story to overcome their needs. In “The Pearl,” Jensine changes for a certain purpose, while the boy in “The Glass of Milk,” changes his character in order to prevent his own starvation. Even though both characters have to change themselves to survive, they also both emerge at the end with their integrity intact.
Jensine, the main character in “The Pearl,” struggles to modify her behavior as she tries to teach her husband to be frightened when it is appropriate. During the story, Jensine’s feelings toward her husband change. When they are first married, “the match s a love affair” (1067), but Jensine’s “feelings for him intensif[y] into… a deep moral indignation” (1068). She gets worried, because her husband is not a brave person; she has to work hard to change herself in order to change her husband’s thoughts. First, she “tr[ies] to scare him with the possibility of losing her” (1069). This method is unsuccessful when she sees that he is “enchanted at the change of the demure maiden into a Valkyrie” (1069). She continues to take advantage of every opportunity to ignite him with fear. When Jensine’s pearls are returned from the shoemaker who fixes them, her husband asks her to count them to be sure that none were stolen. Even though she desperately wants to check them as well, she purposely does not, so that her husband will worry and maybe even fear that some were stolen. When she does this, Jensine sees that she has finally gotten her husband to fear, and she regains her integrity as “she [sits] by his side, a triumphator” (1072) gloating over her victory.
In the other story, “The Glass of Milk”, the male protagonist is forced by his overwhelming hunger to change his ways and become more humble. The main character struggles to maintain his personal integrity by never taking any food or accepting any other offers of help, even though he hasn’t eaten for three days and three nights. When a sailor asks him if he is hungry, “there is a brief silence during which the youth seem
Both Jensine and the starving boy change in the middle of the story. Jensine is able to change herself and her husband in a way that allows her to keep her reputation intact. The other boy also keeps his integrity, ironically being able to keep it even after he chooses to give it up. Even though they are changing for different reasons – one is working for her own gain, the other is simply trying to survive – they both face the same conflict between fulfillment and personal integrity.