Nicholas Lemann begins his book “Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War” with the 1873 Colfax, Louisiana massacre where a White League militia comprised of former Confederate soldiers killed black Republican voters. The Colfax massacre was perhaps the bloodiest event of Reconstruction. Lemann views this event as a startup of what would happen later in Mississippi if Federal troops did not defend black voters. Lemann blames Ulysses S. Grant’s Secretary of War, William W. Belknap, for not stopping the White Line activity in Louisiana and Mississippi. Grant had worked hard to stop the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1870s with Congress passing legislation and Federal troops putting down Klan activity.
Harlan Ellison uses many literary devices in the science fiction short story “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” (1934) to exhibit how the government has too much control over the society and must be overthrown. The story takes place around the year “2389” (Ellison) in a society run by a totalitarian government that relies solely on order and being on time. The protagonist and lone rebeller, Harlequin, pulls many shenanigans in an attempt to set back the society and disrupt the order. The Ticktockman, the antagonist dictator, uses his excess power to take down the Harlequin and destroy his identity.
In Chapter 9-14 Holden Caulfield leaves Penecy Prep and heads to New York City. Where he will stay for a couple days before winter vacation starts and he will head home. Delaying breaking the news to his family he got kicked out of school for as long as possible. These chapters are where Holden’s loneliness becomes abundantly clear. The reader is subjected to many long rants by Holden about the company he wants, though he attempts to settle several times.
This targets the desire of the Ticktockman to control a certain order. Also, by beginning in the middle, the reader is lead to question who the Harlequin really is because there is less information about him, yet he is still illustrated as an individual. By having multiple digressions, the story is organized similar to a poem. Ellison uses specific examples of imagery, diction, and characterization to illustrate the importance of reform in society. Ellison used imagery to display the Harlequins rebellion as well as the societies actions and thoughts.
No second chance by Harlan Coben is a book about Dr. Marc Seidman who has been shot twice, his wife has been murdered, and his six-month-old daughter has been kidnapped. When he gets the ransom note-he knows he has only one chance to get this right. But there is nowhere he can turn and no one he can trust. There will always be bad but, it’s up to us to see the good even if we are surrounded by bad.
In “Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman,” Harlan Ellison depicts the differences between an authoritarian ruler and a constructive revolutionist in a dystopian society. The Ticktockman, who controls the timeframe of all civilians who prevail in the city, is challenged by the perilous and advancing viewpoints of an insurgent named the Harlequin. This character, identified as a revolutionary, attempts to transfigure the city towards freedom, yet struggles to overthrow the leader and thus conforms to the society enforced by the Ticktockman. Through his use of repetitive diction, allusions, characterization, organization, and syntax, Harlan Ellison conveys the inevitability of conforming to a society imposed by a powerful, authoritarian regime.
Ray Bradbury is one of the most widely known science fiction authors of all time. Many of his works revolve around the central ideas of technology, dystopias, and censorship. Some of his most famous pieces, such as Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, were written and published in the 1950’s during the climax of Cold War hysteria. During this time, the United States government censored books and other literature to calm the public and eliminate pro-communist writings. This time period not only shaped who Bradbury was, but it also deeply influenced his stories.
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). During the Salem witch trials of 1692, the Bible was the main focus of everyday life. Each line in this holy book was followed down to the word. In that time, people only believed the truth when it agreed with the bible.
Humans are born to be afraid. A feeling of fear is only natural for humans to feel; it is a part of who we are. However, it can be more than just a feeling. Fear can be a weakness in humans even though it is only our natural instinct for survival. Sometimes, fear is so powerful that it can blur our rationality and dominate how we think and what we do.
Shawn Jande Ms. Clancy American Literature B3 15 November 2015 The Crucible Analytical Essay Imagine, being accused of a crime you didn’t commit by your neighbors and friends out of jealousy, and desire. This is what many people in the town of Salem had to go through during the time of the Salem Witch Trials. People's motives such as: gaining and maintaining power, and aspirations for what other people had caused them to make irrational, and atrocious decisions. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, desire and power drive characters to create chaos in the community.
The last artifact I analyzed was the 2012 film of Sinister. It follows Ellison 's family as he moves into the house where a crime scene took place. As he is moving in, a local officer is not very fond of him and his work. After that, Ellison goes into the attic, and find a singular box on its own in the room, with films of the murders that took place, as they are, or seem to be cursed objects. And after reviewing the film, he starts asking all sorts of questions, like, "why would you film this?"
Henry David Thoreau wrote the famous letter “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” while doing his time in jail for not paying his poll tax in protest against slavery and the Mexican War. Thoreau was an outspoken critic against social issues he didn’t believe in. His letter has made a big influence on many other civil rights activists. In his letter, Thoreau used many different rhetorical strategies including pathos, as well as usages of logos and diction in order to achieve his purpose in persuading his audience that the government shouldn’t intervene. Thoreau’s use of pathos was seen greatly throughout his writing.
Readers could get his shame and anger from his choice of words “shocked” and “horror”. His tone made readers feel his emotion while reading the excerpt, thereby achieved his purpose of moving the readers. In conclusion, Malcolm X used two powerful techniques, hyperbole and tone, to express himself and impress the readers. He made me believe that “Ten guards and the warden couldn’t have torn me out of those books”(X,33).
There has been little investigation of the influence society has on science fiction as a genre. However, previous research, using various methodologies, has indicated a significant relationship between science fiction and society, but much of the research focuses on the inverse of my research question: how science fiction has influenced society, instead of how society influences science fiction. Within that relationship, several different aspects of science fiction have been studied, so they are included here for context. Previous Research: Because most of the current research in the field discusses the inverse relationship, I will briefly describe it here. Science fiction has long been known as a genre of prophecy.
Year 7 shouldn’t be the first year of high school because year 7s might not be confident to be in high school. Its better to wait another year so that they can get more confedent and they might not be ready to be in high school with all the older kids. They might not be able to do the work that has been set for and the school would have to make the work easier for year 7s and they shouldn’t have to do that just for one year. Year 7s might get scared or bullied in high school. If you send your kid to high school in year 7 they might be scared to be around the year 12s and other year levels, it wouldn’t be a fair to send a year 7 to school because they wouldn’t feel confedent about themselves because they would be the youngest, in high school they are youngest but if they were still in primary
