What are the character traits of Digory in The Magician's Nephew?

Digory is bold, curious, stubborn, and rash. He also has a healthy skepticism. These are the traits that drive the story. Digory also has some softer traits, such as love for his mother, sorrow that she is dying, and a sense of honor and respect for authority.

We see Digory's boldness and curiosity when he urges Polly to help him explore the attic and to use it to get down into the abandoned house. These traits, plus his rashness, come up again when the children get into the Wood Between the Worlds. Digory wants to explore the other worlds the pools lead to. Polly, who is more cautious, has to be convinced to do this. (Digory is stubborn during their many little fights.) Then, when Polly finally does agree, Digory almost charges off to another pool without marking the one that they needed to go back by. This would have left them lost in other worlds forever.

These same traits of Digory's come up again when the children discover the bell and hammer, with its warning rhyme, in the ruined palace in Charn. Digory is curious and wants to ring the bell. Polly tries to stop him, but being stubborn, bold, and rash, he wrestles with her and rings it anyway. This is what awakens the evil Empress Jadis, releasing her on London and eventually, on Narnia.

Digory's boldness and stubbornness come in handy later, when he must approach Jadis on her rearing horse in order to grab her ankle and put on the ring so as to get her out of London.

Digory is skeptical enough not to just believe anything that he is told. For example, when Uncle Andrew is telling Digory that as a magician, he (Uncle Andrew) is above the ordinary moral rules, adding, "Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny," Digory realizes that Uncle Andrew simply means he should be able to do whatever he wants. He recognizes this same attitude later in Jadis. It is Digory's skepticism (and his loyalty to Polly) that later help him to resist Jadis when she tempts him in the hilltop garden.

These traits of being curious, stubborn, bold, and skeptical are exactly what make Digory such a good researcher and philosopher in later years, when he grows up to be "Professor Kirk."

Despite being somewhat rebellious, Digory has been well brought-up and he has a soft heart. Thus, he loves his mother and keeps trying to save her. He keeps his promise to Aslan, and though not impressed by just any adult (such as Uncle Andrew), he is able to submit to the authority and goodness of Aslan, recognizing that Aslan is worthy of his service. After meeting Aslan, Digory will carry the lion's influence with him all his life.

Is there a word/phrase for "unperformant"?

As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...

A man has a garden measuring 84 meters by 56 meters. He divides it into the minimum number of square plots. What is the length of the square plots?

We wish to divide this man's garden into the minimum number of square plots possible. A square has all four sides with the same length.Our garden is a rectangle, so the answer is clearly not 1 square plot. If we choose the wrong length for our squares, we may end up with missing holes or we may not be able to fit our squares inside the garden. So we have 84 meters in one direction and 56 meters in the other direction. When we start dividing the garden in square plots, we are "filling" those lengths in their respective directions. At each direction, there must be an integer number of squares (otherwise, we get holes or we leave the garden), so that all the square plots fill up the garden nicely. Thus, our job here is to find the greatest common divisor of 84 and 56. For this, we prime factor both of them: `56 = 2*2*2*7` `84 = 2*2*3*7` We can see that the prime factors and multiplicities in common are `2*2*7 = 28` . This is the desired length of the square plots. If you wi...

nouns - what do you call the person who passes the trophies to the prize giver/presenter?

The person who gives out the trophies to the winners are called award presenters. So what do u call the person who passes the trophies to the presenter? Thanks!

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