"Crossing the Swamp," a poem by Mary Oliver, confesses a struggle through "pathless, seamless, peerless mud" to a triumphant solitary victory in a "breathing palace of leaves. " Oliver's affair with the "black, slack earthsoup" is demonstrated as she faces her long coming combat against herself. Throughout this free verse poem, the wild spirit of the author is sensed in this flexible writing style. While Oliver's indecisiveness is obvious throughout the text, it is physically obvious in the shape of the poem itself.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird justice is not similarly achieved. In contrast to Abernathy, those who were most entitled to justice in To Kill
In Unbroken Part IV, the Japanese guards, everyday would try and make their POWs feel “invisible” but the POWs resisted, demonstrating resilience multiple times. In this part of the book Unbroken it is about Louie and many other POWs who are held captive in prison camps. In these camps the POWs are abused and humiliated daily by the Japanese guards. But this story is not only about how the Japanese dehumanized the POWs, it is also about how the POWs fought back to try and regain their dignity and themselves.
Hitler and his Nazis were not the only ones accountable for the death of six million Jews, bystanders are also responsible. This is one of the themes explored in the memoir, Night by Eliezer Wiesel, which tells of the horrific experiences he went through as a Jew during the Holocaust. He does this by sharing his struggles Wiesel hopes to encourage his audience by recounting the lessons he learned during the darkest days of his life to avoid being bystanders by observing, speaking out, and not conforming. When a person is observant they are able to sense changes in advance even when based on the most minute of details.
Forced into Submission Brent Staples is living his life in constant worry and fear. Due to his tall and threatening appearance, people are often uncomfortable around him. And even though he means no harm, he leaves others terror-stricken. He could easily startle someone into attack mode. Resulting in him being forced into an obedient, unassertive lifestyle.
In 2003, the nonfiction author Jon Krakauer published his book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. Motivated to expand the typically Islam-focused understanding of religious extremism that dominated the U.S. after 9/11, Under the Banner of Heaven addresses fundamentalism and the violence that often accompanies it in a totally different context – the Mormon faith. Krakauer tells in parallel the history of Joseph Smith and the founding of his church, and of the modern-day extremist offshoots that embrace Mormon beliefs but do not belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). By juxtaposing the brutal double murder committed by the fundamentalist Lafferty brothers in 1984 with the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre
In the book The Seventh Most Important Thing, the author wants me to feel like there is more to people than their reputation, also relating to not judging a book by its cover. The author shows this by letting the reader have an inside scoop on the life of Arthur Owens, criminal. The author wants to show that there is more to a criminal like Arthur Owens than his mugshot. In this book, Arthur is released from Juvie, with no sentence except for working for the man he threw a brick, at for a total of 120 hours. Throughout this book we learn that Arthur misses his father, who recently passed away, to the point where he threw a brick at Mr. Hampton also known as the junk man.
He contends that capital punishment violates human rights, does not deter crime effectively, and is often used as a tool of revenge rather than justice. "Walter's case taught me that the death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, do we deserve to kill" (Stevenson 313). This quote challenges readers to consider the moral weight of such an irreversible act and reflect on our social responsibility and complicity in administering the ultimate punishment.
Trauma’s Effect on Identity Life experiences such as trauma shape and reshape people into their individual identities. Things such as faith, mannerisms, and general world views are all affected by a unique human experience on earth. This development of an individual is unveiled in Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night. Through this novel, he details his experience in a concentration camp during WWII and thoroughly showcases how such agonizing life events affected him, which he usually describes through metaphorical light and dark and his development/loss of faith through this part of his life. In later speeches Eliezer makes, he explains his opinions on indifference in our world as worse than evil and some basic research of trauma responses in humans
12 Years A Slave 12 years of slave.png Twelve years a slave is written by Solomon Northup based on his true story fighting for his survival and freedom. He was abducted, abused and his identity and dignity was taken away from him. Northup was a free black man from upstate New York. In march 1834 the Northup’s family moved to Saratoga Springs of New York. He worked as a violinist and lived with his wife and two kids.
In Eve Bunting’s children’s book “Terrible Things” the story uses an allegory to display animals as different groups like Jews, Queers, Jehova Witnesses, etc. The short story is based off of the behaviors of these groups and how they acted towards each other during the Holocaust. Standing by while their peers, fellow citizens were being taken to camps or killed. Because of this behavior, many of the citizens didn’t have anyone when it was their time to be killed or taken, like in the ending of the short story. In the infographic “Anne Frank House” it talks about the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party.
Why do people in this world need to get revenge? In the novel The Executioner by Jay Bennett the theme is most likely that revenge is not the best answer to your problems. In this novel the main character Raymond, also known as the executioner dies in a car crash that should have never happened. One of his friends in the car was drunk and distracted Raymond while he was driving, and he swerved off the road.
Stephanie Herrick Ordinary Men Analysis HST 369 February 22, 2017 Many men avoided WWII by joining the Order Police. These ‘policemen’ were sent to Poland, or the Soviet side of Poland to maintain order. There were thousands of men who were not wanting to enlist into the military to be on the front lines, thus deciding to join the police. The policemen had two ‘decrees’ to keep up with, it was described in the book Ordinary Men written by Christopher Browning, the commissar order; which involved for on-the-spot execution of any communist suspect of being an anti-German.
In the American society, metaphors are an increasingly common literary device used to illustrate and reinforce challenging teachings. Before a child even learns about literary devices, they are exposed to a variety of metaphors through their daily encounters with others and the modern pop culture. Metaphors have the potential to be beneficial for society; however, they can simultaneously be detrimental to its growth, especially when misinterpreted and used in a derogatory fashion. Rita Mae Brown, an American writer and activist, discloses the meaning and importance of language through a powerful metaphor with the potential to be misinterpreted: “Language is the road map of culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”
Jane Austen i think is one of the best authors of all time. She has wrote many influential books. These books have been rewritten and made into movies over the years. Jane Austen was an English novelist. She wrote romantic fiction novels.
