Television Show Character bio Thirteen from show "House"

Thirteen is a character on the hit television show “House,” she is one of many doctors temporarily hired by House with the intention of gradually screening them out. Her real name is Dr. Remy Hadley, she is called Thirteen because all the candidates were originally given numbers. She is around 25 or 26 years old, born on March 10, 1984 in New York City. She has long wavy brown hair and blue eyes. Often seen as mysterious too many people. One of the things which originally made Thirteen interesting to House was the sheer limited amount of information she gives out about herself, so he began trying to find out as much as he possibly could. In one episode she got distracted and failed to give a patient his pills, resulting in both his death and the death of his service dog, who ate the pills off the floor. House fired the rest of her team, but kept her, arguing that she would never make such a mistake again. In another episode he figured out that she is the only one on the team who drinks decaffeinated coffee, and he replaced all her coffee with regular. Thirteen then had an overreaction to her resulting clumsiness, and House found out from her, that her mother died of Huntington's chorea, a hereditary disease with the early symptom of physical clumsiness. Thirteen did not deal well with the knowledge that she might have Huntington's at all. She refused to get tested by anyone, and when House tested her without her knowledge in the episode called "You Don't Want to Know," she refused to look at the results. She believed that by not knowing, she was giving herself the courage to do things she would never have been able to do otherwise. However in the episode titled "Wilson's Heart," the death of Amber, another young female physician, led her to self-test. The result was positive: she has Huntington's just like her mother had, turns out it was genetic after all. In "Lucky Thirteen," Thirteen is on a destructive downward spiral. Confirming that she’s bisexual, she's found partying with a girl whose name she doesn't know. The girl begins to have seizures, and so Thirteen has the girl brought to Princeton-Plainsboro. During this episode, Dr.Cuddy demands that Thirteen take a drug test after finding her giving herself fluids via an IV to deal with her hangover. House saves her from having to take the drug test, but fires her instead. By the end of the show, Thirteen is rehired by House who was only toying with her emotions. The episode closes with Thirteen continuing with her destructive habits and partying with another woman. In the latest episode with Thirteen titled “Help Me”, she requests to leave for personal reasons. There’s a scene in this episode where she is seen holding a drink and her hand is violently shaking. Indicating that Thirteens disease of Huntington’s is slowly effecting her motor skills as it progresses.

Premise for the film "With out"

After viewing the film “Without” I have came to conclude that this film could have a variety of different premises. I would say one of which could be blind trust leads to destruction, because the family left the house with that teenage girl trusting her to do everything proper and to take care of the old man. However, she abused their trust by doing things that were inappropriate. Another premise could be how great love defies even death, because the main character was sort of mourning over how her friend committed suicide because she was unhappy. Still, beyond those two premises I’ve came up with I would say many scenes in this film raised a number of questions too me that were left a little bit unanswered. For example, the scene where the main character has her male friend over and they drink, and he starts putting moves on her but she kicks him out. Then there was the other guy that she went on a date with that was apparently going out with the girl who worked at the coffee shop. On top of the old videos the main character had with her friend on her phone, when she was commenting on how she loved her breasts. I found myself asking was this girl lesbian or straight? how did the girl from the coffee shop know she went on a date with that guy? who was the other guy that came over that night and put moves on her? There was also a scene where she looked in the mirror and saw a strange scar on her back. Which had me asking myself how did she get that scar? One scene that really got my mind altered was when she had the dream of the old man being perfectly normal and eating breakfast when she woke up. Regardless of all of these unanswered questions I still found the film to be quite enjoyable and it did have some meaning about love and death. I noticed that the main characters attitude and mood changed drastically after she had visited the mother of her friend that had committed suicide. Shortly afterward, she is confronted by the girl from the coffee shop and slightly beaten. Then soon after that the family returns home outraged by the minor things the main character forgot to do. I can definitely understand at the end why she just starts bawling, all of these instances combined I think would be overwhelming for anyone. From seeing the mother of her dead friend, too being nearly attacked by someone she barely knows, then getting an unpleasant lecture from the family’s house she was watching. Despite all of these things I personally think that she was just conflicted without love, whether she was lesbian with that girl who committed suicide or not. She in my opinion felt that no one would fill the void of that girl she was close with that killed herself. Great love can defy even death.

Blog: Why a hero should have a character arc to be compelling.

I would have to say I agree with Volger on this statement for a variety of different reasons. One of which is because a good hero with in a story must be compelling to the audience as a whole. Whether it be the readers of a novel or the viewers of a film. For example, in the film “Seven” Morgan Freeman’s character of Detective Somerset evoked a lot of interest. Mostly because of his philosophy on life; on how it is a cruel world we live in. He could even be seen as a mentor that was evolved into a hero; when he try’s to reconcile with Detective Mills on why he shouldn’t kill Jon Doe for killing his wife. I think another contributing factor in making a hero compelling is showing that they have weaknesses just like anyone else. This way they are seen more like normal people; because the audience can relate to them more. For example, in Erin Brockovich, she was a single mom of two children who was jobless. Yet, she turns out to be the hero by the end of the film, when she takes down that company for poisoning water. I believe this lets audiences know that heros can be anyone, even the most unlikely people like a single out of job mom. Each one of these characters mentioned also have mentors that help them a long their journey. Erin Brockovich has her boss Ed Masry helping her battle out the company that is polluting the water. Detective Mills has Detective Somerset to guide him in catching the seven deadly sin serial killer Jon Doe. I feel that both Erin and Mills were very hard headed about thinks, whereas their mentors weren’t. Regardless, I feel that Erin was more successful with abiding by Ed Masry’s advice than Mills was to Somerset. Mills refused to listen to Somerset out of anger because Doe had murdered his wife. I believe the mentors to these heroes are another special factor in making heroes more compelling. Because, whether it be in a film or in a novel every hero has some sort of guide to achieve their goal. Someone who teaches them significant ways to obtain it. Though a lot tend to succeed like Erin Brockovich did, some still manage to be unsuccessful. I feel that Detective Mills would have been the better person if he hadn’t done what Doe wanted him to do in killing him. Applying the sin of wrath; instead of listening to Detective Somerset’s advice. Still whether the heroes succeed in obtaining their goals are not; they should always be compelling to the audience. Because if they weren’t they wouldn’t be able to relate to it or like it as much. Which is why in my opinion the main character should always have a mentor and decent background that provides him or her with foundation. No one would be intrigued in a character who is dull and doesn’t have a character arc take place.