Asian Americans came to America with hopes and dreams of a better life in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Ronald Takaki's book, “Strangers From a Different Shore,” he mainly focuses on Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Indian, Korean, and Southeast Asian immigrants. The mass Asian immigration began due to the desire for cheap labor. Plantation owners needed more workers in Hawaii, while labor demands in the mainland came from industrialization and railroad work. As a result, many Asians came to America for the better life and began looking for jobs.
The Analysis of the Stranger, John Wilson in The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson Heroes in literary works were once referred to as the "rebel"; however, the rebel has been replaced by the "stranger" in recent literature. In Lois Simmie's The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson, the novel centers on the title character who is alienated, disaffected and an outsider. The author’s depiction of the central character of Wilson as a stranger engages the reader in a different way, by having the reader want to know more about this mysterious and striking figure.
In a world such in the book, it does not surprise me to see people increasingly guarded about who they surround themselves with and trust, but because of selfless acts showing care and concern for someone other than themselves shows other people that you are
Stranger Things introduces a plethora of characters but focusses on the main characters Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Will. They fit into the ‘under-dog’ archetype which allows the viewer to empathise with the main characters as they are relatable and endearing. Likewise Jasper Jones introduces a character that falls under the ‘under-dog’ archetype, who is Charlie, which the reader can also relate to. Whereas Jasper is represented as the ‘scapegoat’ character type, since little is known about him, the audience is interested in this character. Likewise, Stranger Things introduces Eleven, who is also a mysterious character that the audience knows very little about.
Kio stark talks about the benefits of talking to strangers and the different way to talk to strangers, Starks example was when talking about a family member, her dad, and when people ask her about them she explains to them that he died when she was younger. From this personal information strangers will also relate with a similar experience, this causing the connection she wants us all to make with strangers,
Today, relationships are considered to be verbal person to person interactions. Everybody needs to have these social interactions with other people. These verbal interactions create an exchange of ideas between people. This exchange of ideas allows for our society to grow and prosper. Without these interactions our society would move towards the Fahrenheit society.
Just because someone is uniquely different from another doesn’t always make them an outsider, and just develops them as a character or it is what they choose, like
The theme of this book is that the right thing to do is not always rewarding for you, but the punishment is not always worse than the sheer guilt of doing something wrong. There are multiple characters in the book that can relate to this theme, “Only it wasn’t home. It was a building I didn’t recognize, with a family that was a group of strangers. My room wasn’t my room, and my bed wasn't my bed, because I wasn't me. I was someone else, a stranger who my parents didn’t know.
One of these social types is call the stranger which represent a certain social type. Simmel conceptualize the stranger as not wanderer comes today and goes tomorrow rather than person who comes today and stays tomorrow. But what does that mean? There are few components that make up a stranger. The first one is being is that the stranger is a member of the system but is not strongly attach to that system.
Analysis Of The Theme in Wonder Kindness is crucial in the world today. To be kind to someone means acting in a benevolent, helpful, and loving manner. Just small acts of kindness can make a day and night difference. Putting a smile on someone’s face can make his/her day a lot better. People can see kindness everywhere in the world around them, and many novels today are trying to spread this message of kindness.
When looking at friendship in regards to a community an apparent quality that makes a community function is friendship. Both Aristotle and Kant make important points that are essential to what can make a community driven towards the common good. The common good is going too held up in most cases in the framework of a community by Aristotle’s utility friendship; the next two forms of friendship that are encountered quite regularly are Kant’s forms of friendship of need and taste. Between these three types of friendship one should be able to relate to an acquaintance type of relationship. These friendships resemble many of our interactions that we have with people consistently especially in this culture we are subject to on a regular basis.
Some people never know what is going on in another person’s life. Talking to them would just let them know that they are not alone in this world. Sometimes coming out of your comfort zone will benefit you as well, they might become a really good friend to you and also make you like you did something right. These act of kindness
Response to the discussion of Camus’s context (The Stranger) During the interactive oral, the class explored the elements portrayed by Camus, which opened my eyes to the reliability of the author and the importance of static characters, that must be understood in order to understand the themes of the novel. The reliability of the author, Meursault, was debated according to what the person felt affected the author’s reliability. Though I understand the concept of the ethnic divide between the French people and the Arabs, that this created separation into social class, it came to my interest that this concept could affect the author 's reliability.
The Stranger by Albert Camus follows the daily life of Meursault, a French-Algerian that embodies Camus’ philosophical views of absurdum. Meursault’s life is a simple one; at first glance, he is like any other working, middle class man. However, through the first person narration, we gain insight into his unconventional thought process. He does not place value on anything, including, possessions, love and ambition. Nevertheless, he is content with his life.
I also expected to see a lot more people being to themselves during the first observation rather than more people interacting with one another since it was during the day time on a Monday- a time when many individuals’ busy schedules include class, homework, and work. However, I was not surprised that there was a lot of social interaction during the second interaction because it was at a time and location where the restaurants and bars elicit such interactions. Out of all of the social interactions that I witnessed, I particularly enjoyed seeing the interaction between the construction workers and the students. This was evidence that we as humans are still willing to share in social interactions with those who are not in our exclusive communities. It was also evidence that people with likely different social networks will intermingle, maybe even interlinking their social networks at some point.
