Many people have learned about the Holocaust throughout the years, but learning about it from a primary source is a whole different experience. A scary journey that turned out to be the Holocaust has been told by two individuals that survived. These two stories tell the reader what life was like and what they went through. Even though the conditions were terrible, both Eli and Lina were able to survive and break away through fear, horrendous experiences, and hope that lead them to surviving and leaving people they cared about behind.
In the document, “Be down with the Brown” by Elizabeth Martinez; A cofounder of the institute for Multiracial Justice in San Francisco. Martinez, wrote the this document do to the protest by Chicanos and Chicanas against the racial educational system. The protest consisted of the students walking out of classes, also known as “blowouts.” For the Chicanos/Chicanas, the educational system did nothing in order to give them the quality education they deserved.
Ellie Wiesel, the author of Night, writes a highly graphic and realistic account of living in the middle of the Holocaust. Wiesel goes into much detail during many instances about holocaust life, luring the reader into his hell. During his life within the Holocaust, Wiesel witnesses a child being hung, the sacrificing of a truckload of children in a fiery ditch, people being shot, his own father being beaten by other prisoners, a son beating his father for bread, prisoners eating their own waste to survive, and many other inconceivable acts. In Night, the prisoners are stripped of almost everything that makes them human. At the end of the novel, Ellie looked at himself in the mirror after many years of being a prisoner; “I saw a corpse”,
Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, author of the article, “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum”, conducted an experiment that followed one student over a twenty-one month period, through three separate college classes to record his behavioral changes in response to each of the class’s differences in their writing expectations. The purpose was to provide both student and professor a better understanding of the difficulties a student faces while adjusting to the different social and academic settings of each class. McCarthy chose to enter her study without any sort of hypothesis, therefore allowing herself an opportunity to better understand how each writing assignment related to the class specifically and “what
The picture book “Lois Dreamed” by Kara Stewart, in my opinion it is suitable for publication. I think it has elements of empowerment that are strong enough to make it into a book. First to little girls, as the author explained, her influence comes from her aunt Lois Epps Jones, who became a nurse after she took the risk of leaving the Indian community by herself “[…] without a husband or family, to begin a career.” In other words, she could represent autonomy to all the little girls who happen to stumble upon this book.
Finding your purpose in life can be the hardest thing to do for many people. Especially when your entire family is finding the meaning of their own life and creating the world they want for themselves. In the novel, Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson tells the story of her life as a young black girl growing up with two problems she’s facing. She is living during a time of segregation against black people, and she doesn’t know what her identity is. She finds throughout the story that she has a love for words and writing.
In the article “Be Down with the Brown” by Elizabeth Martinez gives a good understanding and purpose to the readers to acknowledge the injustice and brutality that was happening. On March 1968 many Chicanos and Chicanas decided to go out and strike In the streets of Los Angeles. Over 10,000 were out protesting for the affirmation of their cultural values and better educational changes and as well as the racism. Chicanos and Chicanas took pride in making a change and making their voices heard by walking out of their school’s premises. They knew that by walking out would bring the attention since the schools will be loosing $17.20 or more for each unexcused absence per day.
What would you do if your dreams were shattered by the weight of societal expectations? Within the pages of the captivating novel, “Love Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed”, a profound exploration of identity, love, and personal agency unfolds. At the heart of this novel stand two interesting characters, Maya Aziz and Phil Hernandez. Maya is a courageous Muslim girl, with Indian heritage, who finds herself residing in a predominately white community, where her parent's traditional values clash with her inside-burning desire for self-independence and self-expression. Similarly, Phil Hernandez, a young man of white descent has his own internal struggles, attempting to do his personal ambitions without publicity, to avoid humiliation or embarrassment.
With that concluding, Jackie is a huge role model that is part of both the book and the
The movie ever so often showed Jackie's wife, but she was a piece of symbolism for Jackie. She supported him while he chased his dream and made him believe that he can make it through anything that happens.
On the other hand, a young girl, Jazz Jennings, has been transitioning male to a female and has the support from her friends and family which helps her to be herself and what she aspires to be. Although her journey isn’t perfect, Jazz writes a nonfiction book, Being Jazz, to develop her message using pathos and ethos throughout the text to encourage young teens, or anyone, to love who they are and build more self confidence. Jazz uses vast amounts of pathos throughout her
In the novel Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler describes a dream in an early chapter that connects with the later narrative. At first glance, the dream mentioned in chapter 1 seems of no crucial significance, but as the reader progresses through the novel it becomes evident that this dream foreshadows many future events. Several aspects of the dream resurface later in the story, which helps make sense of the dream and the main character herself. The dream starts off with Lauren, the protagonist in the story, flying towards the hallway from her room.
In the short story "Dancer" by Vickie Sears, the protagonist Clarissa demonstrates how being around the right people can influence one's perception of the world. Throughout the story, Clarissa exudes confidence and can reconnect with a culture she had once lost, thanks to the guidance of the right people. Clarissa regains her self-confidence by being around the right people. Before unveiling her past traumatic experiences, she seemed full of anger and sadness (Sears, 1).
Jane Dailey’s “Sex, Segregation, and the Scared after Brown”, published in The Journal of American History, couples religion, sex, and the struggles of segregation during the civil rights movement. More specifically, Dailey addresses the language of “miscegenation”; asserting that religion was a vessel utilized by both sides of the segregation argument (Dailey 122). For the believing Christian, segregation of races was of “cosmological significance. The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education sparked much controversy in the religious word, mainly with those who supported segregation.
“I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move” written by Louise Erdrich focuses on a child and a grandfather horrifically observing a flood consuming their entire village and the surrounding trees, obliterating the nests of the herons that had lived there. In the future they remember back to the day when they started cleaning up after the flood, when they notice the herons without their habitat “dancing” in the sky. According to the poet’s biographical context, many of the poems the poet had wrote themselves were a metaphor. There could be many viable explanations and themes to this fascinating poem, and the main literary devices that constitute this poem are imagery, personification, and a metaphor.
