Alexa Harlem Mrs. Mercer College Writing - 4 11 September 2015 Question #1 The Other Wes Moore is a novel that uses the structure informative and narrative which provides information about the characters throughout the book and tells the story. This informative and narrative structure contributes to the overall effect of the book because Wes Moore the author explains how the two Wes Moore’s lives changed into completely different paths. One Wes went to military school and the other stayed home and dealt drugs. One wes kills a police officer and is arrested and the other one visits him in prison.
Jacob Riis in “How the Other Half Lives” is about the squalor that characterizes New York City’s working class immigrant neighborhoods. He describes deplorable conditions of these immigrants by providing specific examples, relaying them through quotation and images alike. Riis comments on the injustices that the residents of the tenements faced on a regular basis. So, with his attention to detail, Riis provided the contemporary reader with unsettling images of the poor and marginalized along with a few examples of the benefits of reform and reorganization in the poorer communities, to the benefit of residents. Another observer, Richard T. Ely, in “Pullman: A Social Study” writes about the community of Pullman, Illinois located in the suburbs of Chicago.
Another known muckraker Jacob Riis published his book,“ How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York.” This book consolidated content with photographs to deliver a genuinely aggravating photo of the living states of the poor in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His book prompted to apartments being torn down and upgrades being made to the range including the working of sewers and the usage of garbage collection. Jacob Riis attacked the miseries of the poor who suffered the degradation of living in miserable slum areas without a proper water supply. He worked not only for the abolition of rear tenements but for playgrounds for children, for small parks, for the abolition of child labor (231).
Jacob has arrested, and his parents begin working with Defense Lawyer Johnathan Klein in an attempt to build a case for Jacob’s innocence. Although they make bail and Jacob can return home while awaiting his trial, their lives have been turned upside-down by the “stain of a murder accusation”. They are social outcasts, and details continue to arise that make it difficult for the Barber’s to not question their own son’s innocence. Throughout this section, Landay’s character descriptions center primarily on the emotional toll experienced by the family.
Jacob Riis’ How The Other Half Lives; Studies Among the Tenements of New York is arranged with an introduction to the book along with twenty-two chapters. Jacob Riis’ purpose of the book was to bring awareness to ‘how the other half lives’ which is those in poverty. During the time Riis was writing this book, he had put himself in the position of a poor person to experience firsthand of what is it actually like to live in poverty. The major predicament was the high levels of crime and the conditions of the tenements and how owners of tenements would treat those in poverty, typically those who were not white in race. While living in tenements and experiencing the hardships of poverty, Riis’ explains how unsanitary and dangerous the living
Defending Jacob, by William Landay, displays the setting in of time. Jacob Barber, a ninth grader, accused of murdering a fellow classmate, is pronounced not guilty when another man confesses. The family goes to Jamaica, where Jacob meets a girl he likes, but one day she goes missing. Despite the reports saying she drowned, the coincidence takes over his mother Laurie’s mind, doubt crashing over her like waves. Landay uses connotation and ambiguity to demonstrate how fear and doubt can drive a person to take shocking actions.
“(page 49). This shows that Jeremy feels at least some compassion for Stacey and his well being and that he cares enough about the situation to even want to know more about it. Furthermore, this displays just how supportive Jeremy is as he does not remain silent when he realizes that his race is the cause of the torment towards the Logan children and how he remains to follow his new acquaintances even if it means that he is forcibly loathed by others in the process. Once again, in the novel, Jeremy gives a thoughtful apology by giving a gift when he realizes that he was wrong for not standing up for Cassie when she had been forced to apologize for an incident not being her fault by Jeremy father, Mr. Simms. According to the text, “Jeremy, who had heard, flushed a deep red and quickly handed Mama a small burlap bag.
Jacob was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome at the tender age of one. In order to combat this disease Jacob needed a life-saving transplant and with no family matches the family turned to NMDP to find him a donor. Through the NMDP registry Jacob was able to find a donor that saved his life. Since his transplant Jacob has been thriving and doing very well but in order to continue to keep doing well Jacob must stay near the transplant center in Boston which is hundreds of miles away from the family’s home in Maine. Life in Boston was a lot more expensive than they had anticipated and it was made even more difficult because Jacob’s mom Jeana, needed to reduce the amount of hours she worked in order to care for
Jacob Riis was a social reformer who wrote a novel “How the Other Half Lives.” This novel was about the poverty of Lower East Side of New York. After writing this novel views about New York completely changed. Jacob himself knew how it felt to all of these poor people he wrote about because he himself was homeless, and starving all the time. At one point he considering suicide because of the awful living conditions of the city.
Mystery and Crime is so impactful because of the perspective of the narrator. They take the readers on a journey throughout the twists and turns through the certain parts of the big picture that the readers are allowed to see. Novels both read in class and out of class this year showed many different aspects of the genre. The books Defending Jacob and The Stranger Beside Me have many differences and parallels as shown by the relationships of the narrators, the information that the narrator's reveal , and how information is presented throughout the novel.
This can be seen as an effort made by Eldon to redeem himself and repair their relationship. However, he undermines this effort by sneaking alcohol in a thermos despite his promise to remain sober. Franklin's statement suggests that he feels rejected, lost, and betrayed by Eldon's actions. This reveals that alcoholism and Eldon’s inability to keep his promises continues to be a barrier in their relationship as it reflects a deeper sense of mistrust and disappointment between father and son.
"A Daughter of Han written by Ida Pruitt revealed what life was like for a Chinese woman in the 19th century. It allowed us to follow an ordinary woman's life story during the end of the Qing Dynasty. Our main character, Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai, lived a full and difficult life. In her time, she gave birth and buried children, she worked as a maid, she begged for money and food to raise her children, she sold her daughter for she could not afford to feed her, and she felt fortunate for being able to age with her family close to her. As the story unfolded, we learned more about the culture and the traditions at the time from Ning Lao T'ai-t'ai's view.
He couldn’t take it anymore and murdered them both. During Jacob’s trial, his mom’s best friend testified that she would talk about how much she hated him and wished that he’d never been born. His home life was dreadful and he cut himself daily to release the pain. “When things got hard I cut on myself and it made me feel better. I got this huge ball of, I couldn’t even name the emotion, it was just chaos inside and cutting would be the only way to release it”, says Jacob (“FRONTLINE”).
Hour of Freedom “The Story of an Hour” is a short story written by Kate Chopin. It details a wife named Mrs. Louise Mallard, who struggles with a heart condition. After learning of her husband, Brentley Mallard’s death in a railroad accident, Mrs. Mallard deals with grief in many stages. Chopin incorporates many literary devices throughout “The Story of an Hour,” but imagery is the most evident.
The story of an Hour Critical Analysis through a Psychological Perspective using both Freud and Lacan’s theory approach. In the beginning of the story, the Chopin informs the audience of Mrs. Mallard serious heart condition. Her friends and family were worried how to break the news to her of her husband’s death. After giving it much thought Mrs. Mallard was given the news as gently as possible of her husband’s death.
