'The Contender' By Robert Lipsyte
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Alfred would first
Elijah Anderson, a Yale professor, developed the concept or theory entitled the “code of the street” which explains the reasoning for high rates of street violence among African-American juveniles in a Philadelphia community. The “code of the street” is the way of life for many living in poverty-stricken communities which attempt to regulate behaviors. Anderson observed that juveniles in inner-city neighborhoods who are exposed to racial discrimination, economic disadvantages and alienation from mainstream society may lead violent behavior. The strain, social learning, and labeling theories are all directly related to Anderson’s work.
In Pat Conroy’s book, “The Lords of Discipline”, the main character often expresses his attitude toward the Institution. In one paragraph, Will expresses a particularly negative attitude. Will’s attitude in the passage is disappointed and even a little bit rebellious. The reason why Will is disappointed is because the Institutes’s plebe system was “destroying the ability or the desire of the freshmen to use the word I.”
In Nothing But the Truth there is one thing that stood out to me throughout the entire book. The whole book is full of lies. Philip Malloy tells lies about everything and to everyone. He lies to his parents, the principal, and even to a reporter that is interviewing him. Throughout the book we continue to see the lies play out until the very end of the book when Philip finally decides to tell the truth.
As Alfred looks up, he sees George standing behind him. “He saw before him a kind of motionless shadow with arms crossed on its breast and two burning eyes that possessed all the ferocity of a tiger”. This is epic irony, because George is now in the power position over Alfred. George is filled with anger and wants to tear Alfred into pieces. Much like how masters
Mood In The Contender Robert Lipsyte creates an exciting and suspenseful mood in The Contender when Donatelli stops Alfred’s fight to send him downstairs, to get a mouthpiece. “Better go downstairs [...] it’s time you were fitted for that custom-made mouthpiece” (pg. 147) this is a really exciting moment because, not only does it mean Alfred is finally going to get his own mouthpiece, fitted to his mouth, but it also means Alfred is going to fight, a real fight! On page 108, I found that Robert did a bit of foreshadowing, leading up to this special moment by writing “When you’re ready for your first fight, I’ll make you a custom-fitted one” these couple of words stuck in Alfred’s head and pushed him even harder because until he can fight,
Alfred had chosen the family path, he had gotten married to the love of his, and he had a daughter along with it. But with being married, and having two brothers switching between their lives usually does cause complications. When Fallon had lived with Alfred’s wife, he was always angry and emotionally detached from Alfred’s wife because he didn’t love her. This causes many problems between Alfred and his wife, disrupting the normally joyful atmosphere. Alfred’s wife and daughter both symbolize the joys that make up one of the Borden brother’s life, although joy is generally thought as a happy emotion, it still needs another part to make it
Lying to people can be risky. In the short story “ The Challenge,” by Gary Soto, Jose learns how difficult it can be to get away with a lie. There is a new girl at school that Jose wants to impress. He wants to get to know her. He makes up scenarios in his head, one of them being that he lies about knowing how to play racquetball.
Donatelli insists that “(Everybody wants to be the champion. That’s not enough.)”. He is trying to show how that if Alfred want to be a great fighter he will have to not just want to be great he will have to work for it. Donatelli need to have Alfred be determined to work hard and never give up. He needs to know that he is not wasting his time.
She feels ashamed that she allowed that to happen even though there was nothing she could do. Disappointed that she cheated on her “boyfriend” August who was never actually more than a friend and that she was never able to reunite with her father. In the end she wasn’t able to make it on to the lifeboat with her child. She floats in the ocean becoming one with with the “shame (that was) all around me now.” (606) Finally Alfred describes “fear is hunter” (33) (609) due to the fact that Alfred would like to do daring and bold things but fear always holds him back.
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