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Devante Wrenn Professor Kirk English 1003 17 November 2015 Martha. In this book Larson describes Martha Dodd as an open girl. He displays her as a rounded and dynamic character. By doing this she had started off as a quiet character who sat behind her dad most of the time in her life. She isn’t talked about much in the beginning of the book. Then when they get to Germany she starts to talk and ask the Germans questions. She starts to become curious about the place she is at and she gets around a lot. Then Larson leaves her are out for a while and brings her back up in part three. In part three says “she possessed instant cachet and in short order found herself sought after by men of all ranks, ages, and nationalities. She considered herself to be free to behave as she wished and disclose or not disclose the legal reality of her marriage (113)”. This shows how Martha became unleashed by her dad’s hands and she went out to explore all the things about men. She didn’t care who it was and she did whatever she did. Larson doesn’t mention much in his own words about Martha but he gives a sketch of what she is like.
Breanna Roper Professor Kirk English 1003 17 November 2015
Martha Dodd In Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts", the daughter of William Dodd, Martha is portrayed as someone who is very in control of her life, and seems to know what she wants. She is spontaneous and explores new people quite often. She is free spirited; constantly doing whatever she pleases without consideration for its repercussions, as she was definitely someone who adored love. Larson describes her as having "a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and these had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young" (23). Although she does enjoy romantic happenings, in no way does that define her, as Larson conveys. Martha could be interpreted as someone who has a bit of an obsession with men, if one does not read more into the things that she does. When reading into her, one may discover that Martha just wants to experience love as much as possible.
Hunter Hebert Professor Kirk English 1003 17 November 2015 Martha Dodd Character Sketch In Erik Larson’s, In the Garden of Beasts, we are introduced to Martha Dodd, daughter of American Ambassador, William Dodd. Upon arrival to Germany, Martha’s fascination with life and scenery immediately begins to show. She finds beauty in little details of the city and finds herself becoming quite the socialite. Along with her bubbly personality, she also attracts the attention of men in the city of Berlin. As Larson states, “She had a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and these had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young” (23). Martha becomes very caught up in the pampered, popular lifestyle of Berlin and her obliviousness shows when she fails to see the acts of the Nazi regime for the crime and murder that they are.
Peter Cote Professor Kirk English 1003 17 November 2015 Martha Dodd Character Sketch Martha is seen from Larson as a person who loves to get around with men. Larson shows that Martha has “a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and these had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young” (23). She has a wide curiosity about men. She likes the thought of people knowing that she has slept with high ranking officials. Larson provides evidence to this by saying that she “loved being known as the woman who slept with the devil”(119). Another thing Larson points out is Martha always seeing the good in everything. Evidence to this is shown when Larson explains Martha is “committed to seeing the best in the Nazi revolution” (179). She loves Berlin and does not want to look at the bad side of it. She sees occurrences of bad things happening as “isolated occurrences.” Martha is seen through Larson as a young girl looking for the best in everything who loves attention and romance, but she does not want to have only one guy.
Aidan Bish Professor Kirk SWU English 17 November 2015
Martha Dodd Character Sketch Martha Dodd is depicted as flitting in love, dynamic socially, and with a curious and active mind. Martha leaves her home and husband in America to join her father at the embassy in Berlin for “adventure...”. She has numerous engagements, affairs, and flings throughout her time in both America and Germany, with men as important as high ranking Nazis and Carl Sandburg. In Germany, she weaves herself quickly into the fabric of Berlin’s social scene, even becoming part of a regular meeting of journalists and others that attracts much interest and attention. A man named “Putzi”, a demandingly charming Nazi official, even introduces her to Hitler with hope that he would settle down with a partner in his life. She is described as engaging, intelligent, and beautiful; one man’s writing called her a “temptress”. Martha has dreams of becoming a writer, and so all of her journal entries have a hopeful romantic quality to them. Her general emotions seem inconsistent but generally passionate and always accompanied by a desire to be well perceived.
Carter Groomes Professor Kirk English 1003 17 November 2015 In the book "In the Garden of Beast", the author Erik Larson presents the character Martha Dodd as a quiet,content, but she finds time to express herself once her father breaks the news that they are moving to Germany. Once arriving in Germany she is easily welcomed by many guys, some of which have power in the Nazi army.Martha sleeps around with many of those guys but still does not find her husband because she soley does not want one. She always talks about wanting to be a writer some day, so she keeps a journal of her everyday encounters. She is very optimistic in life, so she can not see all the bad that Hitler is wanting to do to the country. She keeps herself blind to all of it.
Trevor Porter Professor Kirk English 1003 17, November 2015
Martha Dodd Character Sketch Larson Introduces the reader to the great ambassador's daughter, Martha Dodd. She is very spontaneous and compulsive in nature and takes an interest in the scenery of Berlin immediately.Over the course of the novel we learn more about her social life. In general she is a very sociable person, she seems to also have a fixation of love. Larson describes her as, “...a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner".(23) This reinforces the fact the she, in personality, is open to anyone willing to show her affection.
Gabrielle Tallman Professor Kirk ENG 1003 17 November 2015 Martha Character Sketch Martha Dodd is one of the main characters in Erik Larson's, "In The Garden Of Beasts." She moves to Germany because of her dad's new job as ambassador. Surprisingly, she falls in love with the culture, but even more, German boys. She says herself, "I was slightly anti-Semitic in this sense: I accepted the attitude that Jews were not as physically attractive as Gentiles and were less socially desirable." Others in her family were more cautious on their views and felt for the persecution of the smart, religious group, but Martha Dodd was not at all. Most would describe her as an extrovert, flirtatious, and care-free. She had a youthfulness nature in that politics did not interest her in the least and somehow in a room full of politicians, everyone was focused on her.
Logan Radwanski Professor Kirk English 1003 17 November 2015 Martha Character Sketch Martha Dodd as described by Larson appear wise “ She was five feet three inches tall, blonde, with blue eyes, and a large smile. She had a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young. ” (23) The daughter of Ambassador Dodd of Berlin, the word to overall describe her would be a social butterfly as Larson describes her when she starts to settle into Berlin, “With the help of Sigrid Schultz and Quentin Reynolds, Martha inserted herself readily into the social fabric of Berlin…became a regular at a nightly gathering of twenty or so correspondents” (70) With a optimistic view of the Germany starting from her first night “I felt the press had badly maligned the country and I wanted to proclaim the warmth and friendless of the people, the soft summer night with its fragrance of trees and flowers, the serenity of the trees.” (50) She only very slowly will realize the darkness of the country that is brooding in the shadows but mostly will turn a blind eye to the violence she witnesses as she doesn’t want it to tarnish her cheery view of the country.
Anna Newton Professor Kirk English 1003 16 November 2015 In The Garden of Beasts: Character Sketch Martha Dodd is the daughter of William Dodd, the United States’ Ambassador to Germany. She is very adventurous, confident, and head- strong. Having the desire to be in Berlin for the spontaneous ride, she threw herself into the party scene. Martha “slept around” and with some very important people, which made her reputation not so good. She was infatuated by Hitler, until she met him and said “that Hitler was not an attractive man” (161). It is hard to deceiver what kind of character Martha is, because the book is not finished yet. I would like to think that she is a round character, who is changed and affected by the actions in Germany that are about to come.
Austin Bennett Professor Kirk English 1003 17 November 2015 Martha Dodd Character Sketch Martha Dodd is displayed as a girl who makes her rounds with men. "In April 1930, when she was only twenty-one years old, she became engages to an English professor at Ohio State University Named Royall Henderson Snow. By June the engagement had been cancelled."(23). She is Dodd's pride, and always has been. Martha tends to be an optimist in general. She finds pleasure in the little things in life that she sees, particularly in Berlin. Martha is 5 foot 3 with blonde hair and blue eyes. She tends to attract the attention of multiple men and does not want just one of them.
Kaylee Young Professor Kirk English 1003 17 November 2015 Martha Character Sketch In The Garden of Beasts, the character Martha Dodd is introduced, the daughter of Ambassador Dodd. Martha is seen as a very optimistic person. Every time someone would tell her of violence and misfortune among Germany, she would not believe them. She said every time she looked around outside everything seemed good, somewhat perfect. She wanted life to be good, she did not want to worry about drama, and even if there was she would ignore it and pretend like life was perfect. Martha also, is prone to falling for every guy she meets. She would like one guy then then the next day she would be fascinated with another.
Devante Wrenn
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English 1003
17 November 2015
Martha.
In this book Larson describes Martha Dodd as an open girl. He displays her as a rounded and dynamic character. By doing this she had started off as a quiet character who sat behind her dad most of the time in her life. She isn’t talked about much in the beginning of the book. Then when they get to Germany she starts to talk and ask the Germans questions. She starts to become curious about the place she is at and she gets around a lot. Then Larson leaves her are out for a while and brings her back up in part three. In part three says “she possessed instant cachet and in short order found herself sought after by men of all ranks, ages, and nationalities. She considered herself to be free to behave as she wished and disclose or not disclose the legal reality of her marriage (113)”. This shows how Martha became unleashed by her dad’s hands and she went out to explore all the things about men. She didn’t care who it was and she did whatever she did. Larson doesn’t mention much in his own words about Martha but he gives a sketch of what she is like.
Breanna Roper
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English 1003
17 November 2015
Martha Dodd
In Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts", the daughter of William Dodd, Martha is portrayed as someone who is very in control of her life, and seems to know what she wants. She is spontaneous and explores new people quite often. She is free spirited; constantly doing whatever she pleases without consideration for its repercussions, as she was definitely someone who adored love. Larson describes her as having "a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and these had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young" (23). Although she does enjoy romantic happenings, in no way does that define her, as Larson conveys. Martha could be interpreted as someone who has a bit of an obsession with men, if one does not read more into the things that she does. When reading into her, one may discover that Martha just wants to experience love as much as possible.
Hunter Hebert
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English 1003
17 November 2015
Martha Dodd Character Sketch
In Erik Larson’s, In the Garden of Beasts, we are introduced to Martha Dodd, daughter of American Ambassador, William Dodd. Upon arrival to Germany, Martha’s fascination with life and scenery immediately begins to show. She finds beauty in little details of the city and finds herself becoming quite the socialite. Along with her bubbly personality, she also attracts the attention of men in the city of Berlin. As Larson states, “She had a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and these had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young” (23). Martha becomes very caught up in the pampered, popular lifestyle of Berlin and her obliviousness shows when she fails to see the acts of the Nazi regime for the crime and murder that they are.
Peter Cote
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English 1003
17 November 2015
Martha Dodd Character Sketch
Martha is seen from Larson as a person who loves to get around with men. Larson shows that Martha has “a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and these had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young” (23). She has a wide curiosity about men. She likes the thought of people knowing that she has slept with high ranking officials. Larson provides evidence to this by saying that she “loved being known as the woman who slept with the devil”(119). Another thing Larson points out is Martha always seeing the good in everything. Evidence to this is shown when Larson explains Martha is “committed to seeing the best in the Nazi revolution” (179). She loves Berlin and does not want to look at the bad side of it. She sees occurrences of bad things happening as “isolated occurrences.” Martha is seen through Larson as a young girl looking for the best in everything who loves attention and romance, but she does not want to have only one guy.
Aidan Bish
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SWU English
17 November 2015
Martha Dodd Character Sketch
Martha Dodd is depicted as flitting in love, dynamic socially, and with a curious and active mind. Martha leaves her home and husband in America to join her father at the embassy in Berlin for “adventure...”. She has numerous engagements, affairs, and flings throughout her time in both America and Germany, with men as important as high ranking Nazis and Carl Sandburg. In Germany, she weaves herself quickly into the fabric of Berlin’s social scene, even becoming part of a regular meeting of journalists and others that attracts much interest and attention. A man named “Putzi”, a demandingly charming Nazi official, even introduces her to Hitler with hope that he would settle down with a partner in his life. She is described as engaging, intelligent, and beautiful; one man’s writing called her a “temptress”. Martha has dreams of becoming a writer, and so all of her journal entries have a hopeful romantic quality to them. Her general emotions seem inconsistent but generally passionate and always accompanied by a desire to be well perceived.
Carter Groomes
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English 1003
17 November 2015
In the book "In the Garden of Beast", the author Erik Larson presents the character Martha Dodd as a quiet,content, but she finds time to express herself once her father breaks the news that they are moving to Germany. Once arriving in Germany she is easily welcomed by many guys, some of which have power in the Nazi army.Martha sleeps around with many of those guys but still does not find her husband because she soley does not want one. She always talks about wanting to be a writer some day, so she keeps a journal of her everyday encounters. She is very optimistic in life, so she can not see all the bad that Hitler is wanting to do to the country. She keeps herself blind to all of it.
Trevor Porter
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English 1003
17, November 2015
Martha Dodd Character Sketch
Larson Introduces the reader to the great ambassador's daughter, Martha Dodd. She is very spontaneous and compulsive in nature and takes an interest in the scenery of Berlin immediately.Over the course of the novel we learn more about her social life. In general she is a very sociable person, she seems to also have a fixation of love. Larson describes her as, “...a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner".(23) This reinforces the fact the she, in personality, is open to anyone willing to show her affection.
Gabrielle Tallman
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ENG 1003
17 November 2015
Martha Character Sketch
Martha Dodd is one of the main characters in Erik Larson's, "In The Garden Of Beasts." She moves to Germany because of her dad's new job as ambassador. Surprisingly, she falls in love with the culture, but even more, German boys. She says herself, "I was slightly anti-Semitic in this sense: I accepted the attitude that Jews were not as physically attractive as Gentiles and were less socially desirable." Others in her family were more cautious on their views and felt for the persecution of the smart, religious group, but Martha Dodd was not at all. Most would describe her as an extrovert, flirtatious, and care-free. She had a youthfulness nature in that politics did not interest her in the least and somehow in a room full of politicians, everyone was focused on her.
Logan Radwanski
ReplyDeleteProfessor Kirk
English 1003
17 November 2015
Martha Character Sketch
Martha Dodd as described by Larson appear wise “ She was five feet three inches tall, blonde, with blue eyes, and a large smile. She had a romantic imagination and a flirtatious manner, and had inflamed the passions of many men, both young and not so young. ” (23) The daughter of Ambassador Dodd of Berlin, the word to overall describe her would be a social butterfly as Larson describes her when she starts to settle into Berlin, “With the help of Sigrid Schultz and Quentin Reynolds, Martha inserted herself readily into the social fabric of Berlin…became a regular at a nightly gathering of twenty or so correspondents” (70) With a optimistic view of the Germany starting from her first night “I felt the press had badly maligned the country and I wanted to proclaim the warmth and friendless of the people, the soft summer night with its fragrance of trees and flowers, the serenity of the trees.” (50) She only very slowly will realize the darkness of the country that is brooding in the shadows but mostly will turn a blind eye to the violence she witnesses as she doesn’t want it to tarnish her cheery view of the country.
Anna Newton
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English 1003
16 November 2015
In The Garden of Beasts: Character Sketch
Martha Dodd is the daughter of William Dodd, the United States’ Ambassador to Germany. She is very adventurous, confident, and head- strong. Having the desire to be in Berlin for the spontaneous ride, she threw herself into the party scene. Martha “slept around” and with some very important people, which made her reputation not so good. She was infatuated by Hitler, until she met him and said “that Hitler was not an attractive man” (161). It is hard to deceiver what kind of character Martha is, because the book is not finished yet. I would like to think that she is a round character, who is changed and affected by the actions in Germany that are about to come.
Austin Bennett
ReplyDeleteProfessor Kirk
English 1003
17 November 2015
Martha Dodd Character Sketch
Martha Dodd is displayed as a girl who makes her rounds with men. "In April 1930, when she was only twenty-one years old, she became engages to an English professor at Ohio State University Named Royall Henderson Snow. By June the engagement had been cancelled."(23). She is Dodd's pride, and always has been. Martha tends to be an optimist in general. She finds pleasure in the little things in life that she sees, particularly in Berlin. Martha is 5 foot 3 with blonde hair and blue eyes. She tends to attract the attention of multiple men and does not want just one of them.
Kaylee Young
ReplyDeleteProfessor Kirk
English 1003
17 November 2015
Martha Character Sketch
In The Garden of Beasts, the character Martha Dodd is introduced, the daughter of Ambassador Dodd. Martha is seen as a very optimistic person. Every time someone would tell her of violence and misfortune among Germany, she would not believe them. She said every time she looked around outside everything seemed good, somewhat perfect. She wanted life to be good, she did not want to worry about drama, and even if there was she would ignore it and pretend like life was perfect. Martha also, is prone to falling for every guy she meets. She would like one guy then then the next day she would be fascinated with another.