Victor Rios, author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Youths grew up in Oakland, California. During his childhood there he had an experience that made him return to Oakland to question and study the current issues that the youth’s their face. At the age of 14 he had joined a gang, he did this mostly for protection from other gangs and threats in the area, and during his time in the gang he met another kid named “smiley,” nicknamed because of his knack to smile during every situation, good or bad. Rios would become good friends with him, and even steal a car for him to use as a home at one point when he was kicked out of his own home. Although this would eventually lead to one of his first encounters with bad police officers, as he was severely beaten for what he had done.
The novel A Separate Peace written by John Knowles exhibits a unique friendship between two teenagers, Phineas and Gene Forrester which takes a turn for the worst to turn into a silent one sided war of jealousy that ends in regret. The film created by Peter Yates is a good attempt at exhibiting the same storyline as the novel, but falls short of the clarity displaying major differences which makes the understanding of the storyline difficult and less enjoyable. Two major points affecting the storyline by setting and plot event include the chapter in which Phineas passes away, along with the part where he is taken to the infirmary which results in major differences in the film. The film and novel both display the same content, but they also share some differences in the setting which make the feelings of one hard to analyze.
In chapter 1 starts by mentioning about a documentary called “Harvest of Shame” this did not only open the audience eye on how food is produced and grown in the United States, but also the condition of the worker work in and how hunger is such a big deal. The document had a sequel called “Migrant.” “Migrant” talked about the abuse labor in Florida in the citrus groves. This bad press made those companies want to fix their problem and fix their working conditions. Well that’s what they said but it really took two years to make these changes because they were being threaten to being boycotted for there labor situation.
In “a summer life”, by Gary Soto he shifts from fraudulent excitement to shameful remorse by using biblical allusions, diction, and tone devices proving that immature memories hold more shame when reexamined after maturing. Throughout Soto`s piece he uses biblical references to describe the feeling of sinning. Within the first paragraph Soto tell us that as a young child he was “holy in almost every bone” recognizing his ebullient childhood. Continuing through the story he expressed that his desires came from “God howling in the plumbing” as he laid up under the house.
In The First Betrayal Josan, a man who works in a lighthouse finds himself in the midst of a violent storm. Consequently the disheartening storm threatens to destroy the light in the tower, causing the ships to crash into the rocks. In the passage- The First Betrayal, Patricia Bray’s use of harsh diction and vivid imagery creates a mood of suspense. For instance, the author’s use of word choice illustrates a tone of fear.
In the book A Map of Betrayal, Ha Jin ultimately suggests that the individual is more important than the collective. Jin uses the story of a spy, named Gary, who is betrayed to help get his point across. In the end, Gary is betrayed by China; this results in his literary death. Jin uses Gary’s literal death as a representation of a existential death resulting from valuing the collective society of China above the individual of Gary.
In Just Mercy, author Bryan Stevenson recounts his time as a lawyer in Alabama during a time when the reality of racism in America was being seen for what it truly is; unjust and unfair. One of the connections Stevenson draws is that of slavery and the ties it has to today’s criminal justice system. In a study by the National Academic Press, it was estimated that in 1972, 161 U.S. residents were incarcerated in prisons/jails per 100,000 population; by 2007, that rate had more than quintupled to a peak of 767 per 100,000 (Jeremy Travis, 2014, p.33). In 2014, when Stevenson’s memoir was published, the number of those incarcerated estimated around 1.56 million— 58 percent of those identified as either Latino or Black (Carson, 2014).
Guilt is a funny concept, that has a different affects on different people. Guilt can cause some to confess and it releases the burden, but for those who take long to confess, it can turn into a negative reaction that can cripple your emotions. A Separate Peace is set in a boarding school in New England. Gene, a main character, is an incisive introvert whose best friend, Phineas, is a handsome athlete. When an accident occurs over the Summer, that leaves Gene and Finny hurt in some way, what comes next could take a toll on their friendship.
Vengeance has been an ongoing problem for many centuries. In the long run, with the new generation, they have been following the same pattern to get revenge, without knowing the reasons why. If no one is willing to stop and think it over, to evaluate if it’s worth the risk, then the act of vengeance will be ongoing at the cost of many lives. Many people do not realize that having to avenge the death of a loved one will take so much time and patience in their lives. In the short story, “An Act of Vengeance,” by Isabel Allende, the issue involves a young girl who gets raped by Tadeo Cespedes, whom also killed her father on the same day.
Pride is deceptive and destructive. The Hebrew verb ga ·'áh means "to become high; Up”. How does this relate to Macbeth? Macbeth was full of egotism and arrogance. He felt superior to everyone else.
The patterns of trust and subsequent betrayal found in the Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, serve to teach lessons about what it was like for African Americans in post-slavery America, when the book is set. The Invisible Man trusts easily and naively. Yet, despite working hard, he is betrayed by the institutions and people he looks up to as role models as they exploit his expectations for their own agenda. Overall, there are four strong examples of those taking advantage and hurting the Invisible Man. With each incident, he learns a lesson about how blatantly the black population is disregarded, along with being given an object that represents the underlying racism found in a society.
Though the movie “Mutiny on the Bounty” focused on the abuse of Captain William Bligh towards his crew members, there is another untold story that is equally as fascinating. The voyage to the island Tahiti was for the sole purpose of the acquiring the breadfruit. Upon arriving onto the gorgeous Hawaii like tropical island the men were greeted by rows of charming Tahitian women. Long raven hair up to their hips and chains of exotic blossoms barely covering their bosoms, the men were enchanted. The relationship the crew members shared with Tahitian women were for the most part pleasant.
Analysis of revenge in great expectations Revenge was a dynamic storytelling tool that was incorporated well by Charles Dickens in his novel Great Expectations. Revenge was instrumental in the overarching plot and was a large motivation in a lot of the character’s actions and events leading up to Pip’s expectations and even after. These events impacted Pip positively and negatively and allowed moral growth in Pip and progressed the plot. It all began with Magwitch who was betrayed by his partner in crime, Compeyson, and wants revenge for it.
Because honor is obtained by taking something away from someone, one way to get honor is by dishonoring someone else. We see this when Agamemnon tells Achilles to give him Briseis if he wants him to give up Chryseis. Agamemnon says, “But if they give me nothing I will take a prize myself — your own, or Ajax’ or Odysseus’ prize” (Book 1, line 161). Agamemnon expects to be given someone else’s prize or honor in return for giving up his own honor, Chryseis. Honor can also be given up in return for ransom.
When it seems that someone is betraying the other, that very person might believe that they are in fact being loyal. In many of the situations that happened in the book, when someone was betrayed, there was often an opposite perspective which thought they were in fact being loyal to that person. When Najwa was betrayed by her family and forced to marry a complete stranger, her family believed that they were being loyal to her virtue and the culture’s traditions where she could have a safe, prosperous life with a man who could support her. When Suleiman betrayed his family thus betraying the dissidents, he felt he was being loyal to the family’s views unaware he was giving them up over to the government. The betrayal of people are sometimes given with the gift of loyalty.
