In the goddess of yesterday how has anaxandras character developed from the beggining to the end of the story?

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Answer 1

She changes dramatically throughout the novel. She changes status several times. From princess to slave, to princess, to slave, etc. She learns how to make friends and enemies. She learns who she really is--her authentic self--versus the masks and charades she plays.

Anaxandra is the only daughter of the chieftain of a small, unnamed island in the Aegean Sea. When she is just six years old, she is taken as a hostage by Nicander, king of Siphnos. She ends up being companion and friend to his crippled daughter Callisto. Six years later, Siphnos is raided by pirates, and Anaxandra is the only survivor. When Menelaus, king of Sparta, stops his fleet of ships at Siphnos to investigate, Anaxandra lies to save herself. She takes on the identity of the dead princess Callisto. Menelaus takes her home with him to his palace, where she befriends his children, in particular his daughter Hermoine and his baby son Pleis. But she is also terrified by his wife Helen, who knows the truth, that Anaxandra is not Callisto. When Helen runs off with her lover, Prince Paris of Troy, and determines to bring her two younger children along, Anaxandra disguises herself and goes in Hermoine's place, to save her friend, and protect Pleis. She manages to get herself and the baby safely to Troy -- where a great war is about to begin, and they are in more danger then ever before. In Troy Anaxandra struggles with what to do as the war begins and she is determined to continue to protect the baby as well as her hidden identity.
Rebecca Herman, Resident Scholar

Amazon.com
The dramatic and bloody siege of Troy is one of the oldest and best of human stories, and in Goddess of Yesterday Caroline Cooney tells it afresh through the eyes of Anaxander, the daughter of the king of a tiny Greek island. As a child she is taken as a hostage to the island of King Nicander. When she is 13, marauding pirates sack the palace, killing everyone but her. Anaxander frightens them off by pretending to be the goddess Medusa, with the help of an octopus as a hairdo. When she is rescued by the ships of King Menalaus, she assumes the identity of a princess, Nicander's daughter, and becomes a royal guest. When Menalaus's cold and vain wife, Helen, runs off to Troy with her lover, Paris, Anaxander goes along to protect Helen's baby son. Within the walls of Troy, she is torn with conflicting loyalties as the bronze-clad warriors of Menalaus land their ships on the plains below the city and war is imminent.
The characters of the Iliad come vividly alive in this action-filled novel: the shallow and amoral Paris, the wailing prophetess Cassandra in her tower prison, and especially Hector, a big, straight-talking sweetheart. Fans of Cooney's contemporary novels like The Face on the Milk Carton will find this story of ancient Greece every bit as irresistible. (Ages 12 and older) --Patty Campbell

From Publishers Weekly
Cooney (The Ransom of Mercy Carter; The Face on the Milk Carton) turns her considerable talent to a classical subject the prelude to the Trojan War. The cherished daughter of the chief of a tiny, nameless island in the Aegean, Anaxandra is taken as hostage by King Nicander, and brought to his home as companion to his daughter Callisto. When pirates attack Nicander's island, Anaxandra the lone survivor is taken in by King Menelaus of Sparta, who believes she is the Princess Callisto. In the court of Menelaus and his gorgeous but cruel wife, Helen, Anaxandra has a heart-poundingly immediate view of the shocking events set in motion when Paris, a handsome prince of Troy, comes to pay a visit. Spirited off to Troy itself in place of Helen's daughter Hermione, Anaxandra plays a small but crucial role in the first few days of an epic war and makes peace, at last, with her stolen identity. Cooney's trademark staccato narrative style gives the proceedings a breathless urgency, and if her telling lacks the grandeur of AdŠle Geras's Troy, for example, her gift for adopting the voices of adolescent girls results in a compulsively readable story and may well lead readers to other Greek myths. Ages 12-up.
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Cooney, Caroline B.
GODDESS OF YESTERDAY
New York : Delacorte Press, 2002.
IL 5-8, RL 4.8
ISBN 0385900511
(2 booktalks)

Booktalk #1
Siphnos is bathed in blood and fire. Once again my home has been snatched from me. If not for my goddess, I too would be part of that blood bath. My goddess gave me courage to jump from the cliff into the water. She gave me will and strength to snatch an octopus from the sea and plant it firmly on my head and the voice to shout into the winds, “I am Medusa! Look upon me and die!” This curse struck terror in the bloodthirsty pirates and they left my desolate island home. What will become of an orphan on an island where nothing lives? Has my goddess given me a blessing or a curse?
Prepared by: Samantha McManus for South Carolina Junior Book Award 2005

Booktalk #2

Goddess of Yesterday is the story of Anaxandra who lives on an island in the Aegean Sea. When she is six years old, she is taken by a king from a neighboring island. Her job is to be a companion to his daughter Princess Callisto. Six years later when Anaxandra is twelve, she is the sole survivor of the island after pirates attack she island where she has been living. A group of ships led by Menelaus, king of Sparta, comes to investigate. Anaxandra decides to impersonate Princess Callisto in order to avoid being taken as a slave. Menelaus is kind to Anaxandra, but his wife Helen is self-centered and suspicious of this red-headed child that her husband brought home. Read Goddess of Yesterday to find out how Anaxandra becomes involved in a war between two countries, to discover if Anaxandra is able to keep her true identity a secret, and whether Anaxandra ever finds a place she can call home. (Karen Williamson, [e-mail], Pickens High School, Pickens, South Carolina)

Answer 2

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In the goddess of yesterday how has anaxandras character developed from the beggining to the end of the story?
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Answer 3

Goddess Of Yesterday

Answer 4

well theres no one way how to create a story line. What I usually do is pick a few interesting ideas, play around with them and find some that work well together. Just remember when you're creating the plot, try and make it fit well with the characters and it should come together with a great ending, with a real wow! Im not sure what genre you're doing but im doing fantasy. Use your imagination and write something you'll be interested in yourself, once you start with a great plot, you become part of yourself, good luck and I wish u the best