Throughout the book, Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson, it discusses the adventures and mishaps of a young girl named Isabel, struggling to gain her freedom with her sister, Ruth. In the beginning of the story, Isabel and her sister are forced to leave to New York after their old owner died to live with their new, selfish owners, Mr. and Mrs. Lockton. When Isabel hears the news about the start of a riot from the British colonies trying to attain their freedom from her new friend, Curzon, she begins to spy and give details about Mr. Lockton's plans and schemes. Eventually, Ruth gets taken away from their home after a series of on and off ilnesses, and Mrs. Lockton realizes that Isabel has been giving information to the Patriots, their enemy,
Madam Lockton and Isabelle from the book Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson are two very different people, but they also have similarities. Madam Lockton is known as a rude stingy selfish woman, treated very well. Isabelle Is a selfless nice humble girl. This story takes place in 1776 in New York when slaves were abused during the revolutionary war.
In Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson reveals dehumanization in many forms, but they all end up having the same strong effect on Isabel. In this scene, Curzon is trying to show Isabel how cruel this world can be by using her own scenarios and how people have treated her. “You are a small black girl, Country,” he said bitterly. “You are a slave, not a person” (41). This quote is clearly portraying dehumanization.
Broken Chain by Gary Soto is one of the two stories that I picked, the other being Seventh Grade still by Gary Soto have lots of differences and lots of similarities you notice only when you compare them. Both Broken Chain and Seventh grade have many thing alike, even though they are two unique stories. Both have the main characters ,Victor and Alfonso, who want to impress a girl they know and like. But still they run into some hard times trying. They embarrass themselves in the process too.
Culpability enters Adah, Leah, Rachel, Orleanna, and Ruth May; leaves Ruth May, Adah, Leah, Rachel; and continues to linger in Orleanna. Comparable to the opening scene, the ending scene of Barbra Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible is a continuation of the first scene in the point of view of the deceased Ruth May Price instead of the mother Orleanna. Orleanna and her three other daughters “have come to say good-bye to Ruth May [and] wish to find her grave”(539)
In her book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, Alice Goffman provides a detailed account of the six years she spent living in and observing a poor, predominantly African American neighborhood in Philadelphia. This community, which she refers to as “6th Street,” directly experienced the immediate effects of mass incarceration in the United States. Thus, that reality caused 6th Street residents to shape their actions, socialization, customs and norms to avoid the police while simultaneously maintaining behaviors––that would otherwise be considered criminal––to survive in a rough and unforgiving environment. To further explore and to try to understand the conditions 6th Street inhabitants faced, Goffman conducted ethnographical research
The speaker’s grandmother is originally presented in a way that causes the ending to be a surprise, saying, “Her apron flapping in a breeze, her hair mussed, and said, ‘Let me help you’” (21-22). The imagery of the apron blowing in the wind characterizes her as calm, and when she offers to help her grandson, she seems to be caring and helpful. Once she punches the speaker, this description of her changes entirely from one of serenity and care to a sarcastic description with much more meaning than before. The fact that the grandmother handles her grandson’s behavior in this witty, decisive way raises the possibility that this behavior is very common and she has grown accustomed to handling it in a way that she deems to be effective; however, it is clearly an ineffective method, evidenced by the continued behavior that causes her to punish the speaker in this manner in the first place.
Many aspects of Chains, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, appeal to me. For instance the detailed writing and vivid imagery in the scene when Isabel was branded was really intense. For instance on page 148 the author wrote, “The glowing iron streaked in front of my face like a comet. The crowed roared.” I thought that me and Isabel are really alike example is, (We both blow up when we get mad, we stand up for ourselves, we sometimes have self control).
In 1973, Clifford Geertz- an American anthropologist- authored The Interpretation of Cultures, in which he defines culture as a context that behaviors and processes can be described from. His work, particularly this one, has come to be fundamental in the anthropological field, especially for symbolic anthropology-study of the role of symbols in a society- and an understanding of “thick description”-human behavior described such that it has meaning to an outsider of the community it originated. Alice Goffman is an American sociologist and ethnographer widely-known for her work, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (2015). In this work, she relays how for her undergraduate and doctoral research project, she immersed herself in a predominately African-American community of Philadelphia as a white, privileged woman. Goffman goes on the explain how the frequent policing and incarceration of young, black men from this neighborhood affects the entire community and even affected Goffman herself.
There are many actions steps I could take as social worker to try to address racism. According to the Cycle of Liberation Model by Bobbie Harro (2013), social change involves getting ready by gaining knowledge, reaching out to those with different and similar views and experiences, building community, and organizing. The first action step would be to get ready by educating myself more about racism and the different racial groups it affects. I would gain more knowledge of how racism is woven into our institution and perpetuated in our culture. For example, examining how the criminal justice system discriminates against minority groups by giving them longer sentences for similar crimes committed by the dominant group.
Book Review: On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City Jaleesa Reed University of Georgia Book Review: On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is a fascinating ethnography that seeks to expose and unpack the everyday lives of African American men living in Philadelphia. The author, Alice Goffman, examines the lives of these men who are “on the run” not only from the laws that seek to restrict their lives, but also from their own identities that have become synonymous with outstanding warrants, prison time, and running. Like ethnographers before her, Goffman immerses herself in the lives of her informants. Her study reveals the oppressive nature of neoliberal America and urges
The short story of Eudora Welty, A Worn Path, is a story of an elderly woman, Phoenix Jackson, who faces many obstacles and handles them calmly and collectively, despite her age, for her grandson, who many years ago swallowed lye by accident and now needs a dose of medicine periodically to live, which is where Jackson is traveling to. Eudora Welty uses characterization within her story to show the readers how old Jackson is, who should, by society’s standards, be decrepit and weak, but shines through that a conquers obstacles with her wit and courage. For example, the narrator of the story depicts Jackson as old, fragile, and small, but then through her actions, shows the reader that she is a force to be reckoned with. As spoken by the narrator,
I have chosen Andromeda-also know as The Chained Woman as my constellation. I chose Andromeda as my constellation because it sounded interesting. When I read the name, it just caught my attention, I wanted to know why this constellation was called The Chained Woman. I wanted to know the story behind it and find out who this woman was. Some information about The Chained Woman is that she is located in the northern sky.
She has learned that lying is her weapon and her untruthfulness makes her the person she is and shows the growth of a vigorous character. She experiences the power to kill anyone off such as framing Elizabeth for the voodoo doll of herself which had a needle through it. She had also accused 40 more women she hated in the village “I saw Goody sibber with the Devil!... I saw Goody hawkins with the devil!... I saw Goody booth with the Devil!”(Miller 51).
Not every child has the same privileges. Take the shorts stories ‘Broken Chain’ and ‘The Jacket’ by Gary Soto for example. The short story, ‘The Jacket’ is about a kid who gets an ugly jacket and has to learn to accept it. The other short story, ‘Broken Chain’ is about a kid who is about to go biking with a girl, but his cheap bike breaks.
