a character of a short story

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The Scholarship Jacket
Who is Martha? She is the main character in Marta Salinas’ short story “The Scholarship Jacket” a young person who encounters challenges in life due to her impoverished and discriminated backgrounds. Martha is an intelligent girl as portrayed with her class performance. Despite their family being agile, they were committed to school studies because of lack of financial support to have them participate in sports. Martha eventually comes out as a courageous and a determined individual used by Marta Salinas to portray the role of teachers and guardians in safeguarding the values of education in the society.
In spite of being challenged by her physicality Martha carries on her duties courageously in the struggle of fulfilling her dreams. According to Martha, a fourteen-year-old girl in the eighth grade is expected to have various body features that define a growing girl influenced by the adolescence stage. Unfortunately for her things are different, Salinas in her story writes “Another hour of sweating in basketball and displaying my toothpick legs was coming up” (343). Despite the challenge she perceives to encounter with her peers’ point of view on her physicality she still portrays courage when she plays basketball. However, she was still one of the favorites for her coach Thompson. Additionally, Marta Salinas depict Martha as a determined young person. Even though she comes from a low-income background, her determination is unwearied.

Marta and her siblings believe their only way for a single moment of shining as a school student is through academics. Therefore, she cultivates all her energies into her class work to emerge as a class valedictorian.
Apart from that, Marta Salinas invest in Martha to let the readers understand the role of teachers in the value of education. Despite being an instructor to the students and training them how to keep up with their studies acquiring the necessary knowledge, it is also important for the teachers to ethically appreciate the value of education. However, this is not the case with Mr. Boone who prefers Joann to Martha for “The Scholarship Jacket.” As Martha eavesdrop their conversation with Mr. Schmidt, she realizes that Mr. Boone racially wants Joann to win because of her father being a member of the board and the richest person in town (Salinas 344). On the contrary, Mr. Schmidt depicts the real ethical demands for a teacher in safeguarding the value of education as she holds that Martha was the best. Therefore, as a teacher, people have the responsibility of instituting the cost of education in the societal moralities.
In summary, Martha is a courageous and determined individual that Marta Salinas uses in her short story “The Scholarship Jacket” to portray the value of education and how parents and teachers can institute it in the society. Martha remains focused and determined to seek for the mediation to have her win her schooling dream, “The Scholarship Jacket.” Marta Salinas achieve her mission of portraying the responsibility of teachers in upholding the education value. Therefore, regardless of the ethnic, racial, and financial backgrounds education should be valued as an equalizing measure of all the societal difference between individuals.
Work Cited
Salinas, Marta. “The Scholarship Jacket”. John Langan, 5th ed., Townsend Press, West Berlin, N.J., 2008, pp. 343-346,.
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I intend to write about Martha, the main character in “The Scholarship Jacket” a short story written by Marta Salinas.
Thesis statement
Martha eventually comes out as a courageous and a determined individual used by Marta Salinas to portray the role of teachers and guardians in safeguarding the values of education in the society.