Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Lately I have been reading one of the books that I have always read when I had gotten the chance, Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I would not say that Captain Ahab is my favorite character but there is a characteristic that he has that I admire. After getting his leg bitten off by the great white whale and he wanted revenge by killing him. But coming out of that revenge he had the desire to get what he wanted and he kept at it and never gave up. All in all, Moby Dick is an irresistible book and I just can not seem to get enough of it.  Another fact about my love for the book is that is my childhood favorite because my Mom used to read it to me and my sisters. I had also seen the Hallmark movie with Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab and I used to watch that movie alot as well. In general, Moby Dick is a book that I could read over and over again and just never get enough.

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Abner from Barn Burning

I had recently read Barn Burning in our recent pod and I was observing a certain character in particular. His name was Abner Snopes. We all know that most men with families show love and compassion towards their families, but Abner was more forceful and harsh towards them. He would often yell orders at them and treat them like dirt. Another fact about the character I had stumbled upon was that he had a criminal like nature. In the war, he would often steal Confederate's horses and then one day he was caught and shot in the leg. In general, the character is a really negative one. He is jealous and violent. When I read short stories or stories in general, I hardly find any characters that I disliked even if they were the bad characters. But after reading Barn Burning and seeing how Abner is, there is one character that I had highly disliked.

While reading The Great Gatsby, I have been introduced to so many amazing characters and have gotten to know them for who they are. Out of all the characters in the story, I would like to be Jay Gatsby. The reason being why I would want to be him is because he has a mindset on a dream that he sought to fulfill. He had fallen in love with Daisy Buchanan a long time ago before he had left and when they reunited, the mindset goal he had was to win her over. Sadly the unthinkable happened to him to which being with her was truly short lived. I also have to mention a couple facts of him being my favorite character. One of them is that he went from being the son of poor farmers to being a rich man (rags to riches vision of the American Dream that we all want). Another fact is that he just has a mysterious side that pulls you in in a way and makes you wonder more about him and read on to the end of the book.