In most stories, the protagonist goes through a series of changes; in other words, the protagonist is dynamic. In Bread Givers, how has Sara changed? What has she learned about herself or the world around her that invited, inspired, or forced this change?
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Throughout many novels, there are often a few characters who go through changes. In the bread givers, Sara has changed into a different person who is more independent and confident. The people around her inspired her to do this. There are people who have jobs and are not as poor, this made Sara want to be like them and become " a person". She also wanted to become more educated, knowing it can get anyone alot farther in life. At times throughout this novel, it seems as if father is still living in the old world. Sara noticed this and knew she had to make a difference and become a new person living in the new world. There are many different factors that influenced Saras change as a character for the better.
Sara is a special character that grows just like any character in any book would. She has lived with a man like her father for too many years for her not to want to break away from him. In many ways you can argue that her father was one of the people that inspired her to become a "person". Sara is strong minded and has a strong longing to be this person that everyone else can be. She has seen her father drive away people her sisters have loved and does no want this to happen to her. Being with a man like father for so long makes Sara seem like she is on the edge of a breakdown. Sara is shown to be an independent person from her father when she finally decides to run away. Because of what she has seen from her father she has become stronger than ever to decide to do something about not having control over her own life.
Sara is able to go through the changes she has gone through because of her courage, strong willingness, and her observations. She has been observer her family for her entire life, and she sees a pattern through their lives, which is caused by Father, and these observations forced and inspired her to change. She does not want to be anything like her sisters, because they were all weak and obeyed anything their cruel father told them to do, even if it changed their lives for the worse (which happened for all of her sisters). Sara wants to break this repetition for herself. People could say she is doing it for selfish reasons because of this, but she is not. She is only allowing her self a real future, and the only one keeping her back is Father. The more things he does to her, her mother, and her sisters, the more she wants to change. She learns that in the real world, you need a job, an education, and person hood to make it in America, and Father will not allow any of these. So, with him doing this, he is just pushing her to do it. So, her true inspiration for change is the way her family acted around her, which opened her eyes to the truth.
Sara has changed in the story Bread Givers because Sara has realized that in order to have a good life and not have an unhappy, chosen life she had to leave father and become self-independent. After experiencing all of her older sisters having their lives chosen by father and become married to men arranged by father and ending up unhappy Sara realizes that the only way she can become happy is to become independent of any of father’s choices as seen in the book. Father’s arguing and preaching to her made her become irritated and when father angrily preaches to her that she shouldn’t make exemptions with the price of the food and she should sell rice for 12 cents rather than 10 cents she makes a large decision to leave his guidance. When Sara arrives in New York she struggles to find a decent or average apartment and learns that she needs her family’s support in order to survive by herself. She learns that in order to make a good amount of money she should work and become educated to become a teacher, instead of working as an ironer in a laundry. She learns of the hardships of the world around her such as food, shelter, money, education and she learns that in order to overcome these hardships and seek a self-independent life she has to become a teacher.
In Bread Givers, Sara has changed for the better. She realizes that the old tradition that her father is living by is not helping her family in anyway. Sara not only speaks out against her father, but also runs away to live a better, fulfilled life in the new world. After seeing her sisters misery with their new husbands Father picked out for them, Sara is determined to never get Father's opinion about her lover when the time comes. She wants independence and wants to be an American who has freedom of speech, which she did not always get when she lived with her mother and father. Sara was sick of always doing what Father told her to do, so by running off she hopes to not only find wealth, but to live a life style of a true American citizen.
In novels the characters usually go through some kind of change. Those characters are dynamic characters. In Bread Givers, Sara is a dynamic character. One major change that Sara goes through is when she stands up to father. None of her sisters were brave enough to stand up to father. I believe that this change was inspired by the way father acts around his family. He preaches at them all of the time and he preaches to his family about their faults. Eventually Sara couldn't stand it anymore and she changed and stood up to father.
In Bread Givers, Sara is a dynamic protagonist. This means that she has changed throughout the course of the story. The obvious way that she has changed throughout the story is maturing. She grows older and becomes more independant as she finds her own home and starts making her own money. She finds the courage to escape her father's grasps and run away from home. Sara's goal throughout the novel is to become an independent person. She dynamically changes into a self-supporting woman in Bread Givers.
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