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Slavery a world history
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Synopsis: In this chapter the protagonist, Mary Anne Bell, comes to be with her boyfriend Mark Fossie during war. When she first comes over she is a very innocent girl, but at the end of the chapter she is violent and addicted to war. Figurative Language: #1- (simile)“And over the next two weeks they stuck together like a pair of high school steadies.”
In his essay “The Battle for My Body” Richard Rhodes relives the two of the most difficult years of his childhood, the period during which he lived with his father and his stepmother, Anne. She was a selfish and sadistic woman and as Rhodes says, “we never did call her Mother…” (45). Anne made it her mission to abuse Rhodes and his brother and she employed a variety of methods to do so: she beat them, she fed them spoiled foods, and she refused to let them used the bathroom at night. The boys, too young fight back, had no choice but to suffer. The first method Anne used to abuse the boys was to beat them viciously if they broke a house rule.
In the year 1861 the Civil war started. The Confederates and The Union fought, thousands of men and women died and America was torn in two. The Girl in Blue, by Ann Rinaldi takes place in 1861 when a girl by the name of Sarah Louisa Wheelock runs away from home, disguises herself as a man and joins the Flint Union Grays, a regiment that becomes a part of the 2nd Michigan Infantry. Sarah wanted to help the Union, however women were not allowed to fight, only become nurses, so Sarah disguises herself and goes by the name Neddy Compton. Throughout the book Sarah is constantly battling with herself, trying not to be found out to be a girl until the unexpected happened.
The History of Mary Prince, related by herself, chronicles the life of Mary Prince and her journey through slavery. Mary was born in 1788 at Brackish-Pond Bermuda, and lived until the early 1830s where she passed in England. This autobiography, first published in 1831 in London, illustrates the brutality, heartbreak, and hardships of not only Mary Prince’s experiences in slavery, but also shines light on the tragic culture of slavery in general. The stomach-turning honesty of this text was not a call for violent revolution, but was meant to reform the opinions of men and women who naïvely believed that “slaves don’t want to get out of slavery” (pg. 38). More specifically, in The History of Mary Prince she does not forcefully demand the instantaneous
The Character of Lily Melissa Owens in Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees The novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd tells a story about a 14-year old Lily Melissa Owens. Lily is a white girl growing up in 1964 South Carolina in the midst of a period of segregation. When first introduced into the novel, the reader learns all of the troubles of Lily's life - being abused and mistreated by her father, being treated as if she wasn't a little girl, and being left with the burden of killing her mother. After running away from her father with Rosaleen, her black nanny, Lily comes to realize qualities about herself she had never noticed.
A coward is a person who is so scared of others that they do not take responsibility for their actions therefore they often get innocent people in trouble. In Arthur Miller’s retelling of the Salem Witch Trials entitled The Crucible, the character of Mary Warren is the quintessential coward. She is one of the many girls who accuse others of being witches, though she knows it is wrong, she continues to cover up her faults with lies. Mary Warren finally accuses John Proctor of witchcraft in Act IV because she is a coward and does not want to take the blame for the hysteria she has helped to create. In Act IV Mary Warren is afraid of Abigail, so she points the finger at John Proctor to keep Abby from accusing her of being a witch who is very vulnerable and easily persuaded.
As one of the classic television shows of all time, Gilligan’s Island will forever ask the question, “Mary Ann or Ginger?” Mary Ann Summers, the down-to-Earth farm girl from Kansas, and Ginger Grant, the show-stopping movie star from Hollywood, were two of seven people who became stranded on an uncharted island after embarking on a three hour tour. Mary Ann is short and greatly tanned, and Ginger is tall and has a lighter complexion. They seemed as different as two girls could be. However, if one evaluates their personalities a little deeper, it is simple to examine the numerous similarities between them.
Let us begin with George, Celia’s understandably treacherous slave lover, and his unreasonable demands that set Celia’s case into motion. George’s actions are an example of the common frustration and desperation of slave men who had no control over the sexual abuse of their loved ones by white masters (McLaurin 139-140). His was a reaction to a smoldering attack upon his masculinity, an attack that was a direct result of the dehumanization upon which slavery rested. Because the South was a slave society, this master-slave relationship structure echoed throughout every other aspect of southern life (Faragher, 204 & 215). In Celia’s case, we see this truth through Virginia and Mary Newsom’s position of powerlessness.
Mary Prince was an enslaved woman who was born in Bermuda in 1788. She was forced to work on various plantations in the Caribbean where she endured many forms of abuse, including physical, sexual, and emotional, by her masters. In 1828, Prince was taken to England by her final master, John Wood, where she worked as a domestic servant. During her time in England, she became involved in the anti-slavery movement and began to share her story with abolitionists. In 1831, she published a narrative of her life, entitled "The History of Mary Prince", where she vividly describes the horrors of slavery and the inhumane treatment of enslaved people.
In The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Wesley tries to save Buttercup first from her captors and then her husband. He does this after supposedly dying because he believes he loves Buttercup and wants to make sure she lives. Both loyalty and endurance are very evident and important to the story and character development. These qualities are responsible for many scenarios and traits throughout the story and characters. Endurance is one of the most importants traits in The Princess Bride.
The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass shows the imbalance of power between slaves and their masters. In his book, Douglass proves that slavery is a destructive force not only to the slaves, but also for the slaveholders. “Poison of the irresponsible power” that masters have upon their slaves that are dehumanizing and shameless, have changed the masters themselves and their morality(Douglass 39). This amount of power and control in contact with one man breaks the kindest heart and the purest thoughts turning the person evil and corrupt. Douglass uses flashbacks that illustrate the emotions that declare the negative effects of slavery.
In life, humans have many different traits that describes themself. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass shows life a slave in the nineteenth century. In the story, Douglass brings us back in time to show his experiences of the hypocrisy of human nature. Disputes with Douglass and his masters are seen throughout the story showing both the good and bad traits of human nature. American literature of the nineteenth century reveals that human nature embodies contrasting traits such as love and cruelty through the uses of literary devices.
Mary internalizes her own oppression by projecting it onto the woman she perceives behind the wallpaper, leading her to take extreme measures to ensure that John does not trap her again, exclaiming that she has “got out at last.” (Stetson, 10). This can be inferred as escaping the cycle of overruling and silencing. Collectively, her obsession with the wallpaper embodies her desire to get away from the gender norms that she is forced into and escape her inequitable lifestyle. “And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"
Frederick Douglass’s narrative provides a first hand experience into the imbalance of power between a slave and a slaveholder and the negative effects it has on them both. Douglass proves that slavery destroys not only the slave, but the slaveholder as well by saying that this “poison of irresponsible power” has a dehumanizing effect on the slaveholder’s morals and beliefs (Douglass 40). This intense amount of power breaks the kindest heart and changes the slaveholder into a heartless demon (Douglass 40). Yet these are not the only ways that Douglass proves what ill effect slavery has on the slaveholder. Douglass also uses deep characterization, emotional appeal, and religion to present the negative effects of slavery.
Sexist Young Goodman Brown In reading this classic tale from 1853 which was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, I became intrigued first by the theme of the 1800’s with shadowy undertones of biblical evilness. Although, in reviewing the story further I noticed a certain distinctive trends of old world flare that was unmistakable. These tones are of sexism which sadly marked the time period historically to such extent in which the structured confinements of gender responsibilities. Hawthorne orchestrates the underpinning of chauvinism within the very first paragraph “put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife.