Caycee Cunningham is a typical 8th grade student in Pleasant Grove, Utah. She grew dreadlocks as a part of, as she explains, her spiritual journey in her Hindu beliefs (Kelley, 2015). She says that it is representative of her turning over a new leave and chapter in her life. Her mother received a call one day from the principle of the middle school saying that her daughter’s hair is against the schools dress code. Her mother believes that it is a racial problem, because there are other students at the school of other races, with the same hair style.
The assigned reading for chapter 6, Testimony by Sonny Singh is a firsthand account of the author as he fell victim to the prejudice towards certain racial and ethnic groups that followed the events of September 11,2001. Sonny Singh belongs to an ethnic group called Sikhs which are very identifiable because of their appearances. Most Sikh men wear a turban and have beards. This is a religious requirement for them and they consider it a matter of faith and prestige. In this article, the author has mentioned various instances where he has faced prejudice by strangers even years after the 9/11 attack and how it affects his everyday life as an educator and musician.
She is protective towards her brother. She has never let Ryan get away with teasing David. On the other hand, Ryan never learns to not make fun of David in front of Catherine. Even though David embarrasses Catherine, she loves David. She shows the true responsibility of an older sibling.
She also discovers that Abby Lynn never really was any better or worse than her. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, and they both have their own struggles. Before it is too late, she makes up with Jesse Wade for being upset with him, and unlike Abby Lynn, she gets her satisfaction by raising others up even when they did nothing but put her
She also shares information about her father, specifically stating that at first she didn’t know everything he was up to. She goes into depth about what his beliefs were to share what his as well as what her life was like. Lastly,
(Kathy) been a Muslim for fifteen years and they still said this to her … This was actually the command her mother had given her last time Kathy had visited: ‘Take that thing off your head,’ she’d said. ‘Go out and have a good time’ (Eggers, 57). The evidence from the text indicates how Kathy had to struggle with expressing her religion (in the hijab), to someone of great importance in her life, her quarrelsome mother. Eggers uses Kathy’s experience with her mother as pathos so the reader can feel sympathy for Kathy’s struggle to stand for what religion she practiced.
She notices how they interact with one another, and even participate in their cultural activities, such as going to their Market and seeing what everyone has to give. She is written as a very quiet and subordinate character, especially towards her husband. In her prologues, she tells of how she sees herself as an accessory to him, or a placeholder. Therefore, she is often afraid to speak or stand up to him. At one point in the story, however, she informs Nathan that the Congolese people are just like them, but with different lifestyles.
As a Muslim, Kathy constantly wears her hijab since it is a practice. One day before the hurricane, Kathy was on the street, and “a girl of about fifteen was crouched behind Kathy, her arm raised, about to yank the hijab off Kathy’s head” (Eggers 46). At the thought of a teenager trying to pull off her hijab, she was furious because she was judged and made fun of being a Muslim. Her freedom of believing in any religion was being taken away from her. Instead of losing her dignity, she “cocked her head.
"I am committed to engaging in dialogue with appropriate colleagues at Wheaton toward the goal of reaching reconciliation so that I may continue to live out my vocation as a Christian scholar and teacher with my faculty colleagues and my remarkable students," she said. Hawkins posted two photos of herself in a hijab on Facebook, along with detailed posts of why she sticks to wearing it all the time during the Advent and her views on religion. "As part of my Advent Worship, I will wear the hijab to work at Wheaton College, to play in Chi-town, in the airport and on the airplane to my home state that initiated one of the first anti-Sharia laws (read: unconstitutional and Islamophobic), and at church." About a week ago, she had posted on her Facebook page that she will wear a hijab in support of Muslims who are looked upon suspiciously since Paris and San Bernardino massacres.
As described early on, she is cast aside, abused and acknowledgedly self destructive which the story serves to amplify through usage of religious and sensatory symbolism. To commence, it is important to recognize the narrator’s character and how she is portrayed as nothing more than an annoying, rebellious, trouble seeking, unpassionate girl. She has been described this way to the point where she herself lives up to the label, dealing with the repercussions from her family. Prime example of this observation would be when she was ridiculed for not being feminine like the other girls, “...my sisters laughed and called me Bull Hands with their cute water like voices.” From this point on, she refused to try these activities and instead decided to accept her label as fact and limit herself.
In the article “Meet The Girl Who Dreams of Becoming The First Muslim Hijabi Ballerina” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/first-muslim-hijabi-ballerina_us_56b20645e4b08069c7a58991, Stephanie Kurlow, a Muslim teenager, aspires to become a professional ballerina. Beginning at age two, Stephanie has been practicing ballet in Australia. However, after she became Muslim, she stopped doing ballet due to no ballet school allowing her to wear a hijab to class. These ballet schools that have rejected Stephanie are her agents of socialization. These rejections might have influenced Stephanie to want to establish a performing arts academy for children and adolescents of varying religions, races, and backgrounds.
Maybe they’ll say you exceeded all expectations.” This is persuading the audience into thinking that even considering buying the hijab is completely absurd. It’s stating that people will talk about you and it is not in a good way, if people see a Middle Eastern women playing sports people will get shocked and they will not talk highly about the
Because of this, I suffered from “identity jet lag”; and I always questioned where I belonged. My first stigma to my identity wasn’t from the outside world, but from the people who looked like me; Muslim/Arab women are often discouraged from following their passions, and told to follow a more traditional role. But as I grew older, I recognized
She uses sinful characters that have fallen out the God’s grace to get her message that one’s outward appearance does not matter to God, what matters is that a person has God living internally in their heart.
Marjane cropped herself out of the class photo to show that she doesn’t want to be a part of the regime nor accept the principles of it. It would be hard for the reader to notice that Marjane isn’t in the class photo if the reader wasn’t informed and this is due to the lack of visual distinction between them, which emphasizes the oppression of women. The fashion statement in Iran creates a confusion for Marjane, who lives in a modern family but is restricted by the rules introduced by the government. She has the choice of wearing anything she wants in her home, but when she’s at school she is once again restricted by the veil and her religion. When Marjane is in Vienna, she changes from a conformist that she needs to be in Iran to an individual that she is allowed to be in Vienna.
