This paragraph Louie lays in his cell and did nothing and but the guard still beat him and just was being rude making him feel attacked and afraid and alone. “One day louie and phil looked up to see angry faces pressed into their cell windows, shouting. Rocks flew in. more men came, screaming,spitting on the captives hurling sticks. Louie balled up on the floor.
This part in the book reminds me of a movie called A Time to Kill about a ten-year-old black girl who gets brutalized and raped by two rednecks. The two rednecks followed the girl when she was walking home from getting groceries for her
They made some rude answer to the sentinel.” “The wrongs and insults, which the people had been suffering for many months, now rekindled them into rage. They threw snow-balls and lumps of ice at the soldiers. As the tumult grew louder, it reached the ears of Captain Preston, the officer of the day.” “ They marched across the street, forcing their way roughly through the crowd, and pricking the towns-people with their bayonets.”
Anna Mow once said, “’Peace is an attitude, the kind that doesn’t create dissension. We create hostility when we turn away from what the other person is saying instead of listening to understand. The primary task is to perceive the perspective of those who differ with us’” (Long 146). Anna Mow covers a great point.
Miller may seem to be foil characters and Miller is higher up in the social class, yet they both have a similar say in society due to their race and are not afraid to share their strong opinions about the conflict. Miller strongly believes that fighting would only be “throwing [their] lives away (183)” while Josh disagrees because he believes in revenge. Both of these controversial opinions have a role in the riot that breaks out, and their determination is demonstrated by their lasting opinions. Moreover, they both don’t get a strong say in society due to their race; Josh states, “A w'ite man kin do w'at he wants ter a nigger” (74).
Most eminent is the situation between Crooks, the stable buck, and Curley’s wife. After being foully spoken to by the farmhands and Crooks, Curley’s wife verbally attacks the only person considered below her, Crooks: “‘Listen, N***er,’ she said. ‘You know what I can do to you if you open your trap” (Steinbeck 78). Despite the abolishment of slavery occurring years ago, Curley’s wife calls Crooks a slave without a second thought at how he feels. Steinbeck’s carefully-selected words reveal how tough life was during the Great Depression with the distinct separation of social-classes.
The external and internal conflict in this passage is put in picture by Scout and Jem. They portray Mrs.Henry Lafayette Dubose as someone that is hard to please. Scout said “Jem and I hated her. If she was on the porch when we passed, we would raked by her wrathful gaze... we could do nothing to please her.
In the the mother slaps Connie across the face and leaves the room. This was not just any slap, this slap was meant as way of saying “I hate you”, but just strengthens the feeling for hate in the
After Scout and Jem ask about Dolphus Raymond a white man who is attracted to African-American women they ask Calpurnia, their babysitter what a “mixed child” is. “‘What’s a mixed child?’ ‘half white, half colored’ … ‘They don’t belong … Colored folks won’t have em … White folks won’t have em’” (161).
The testimonies reveal how deep-rooted the racism within Maycomb runs, as it is present even in court rulings and how casually present it is. The court is taking place, and the order of prosecutor’s witnesses who are: Mr. Heck Tate, the sheriff; Mr. Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father; and Mayella Ewell, the one who is accusing Tom Robinson of raping her. When it’s Mr. Ewell’s turn to speak, he does so with many racial slurs and slang embedded in his accusations. When relaying what he saw to the jury, he points at Tom and yells “―I seen that black n*gger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” Mr. Ewell, who, although, has never been a part of a court case or viewed one, doesn’t truly care, or notice, that so far into the formal case, not one person has used racial slang to talk about Tom, and uses the term n*gger quite casually.
Literary Essay I read the fiction novel, The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies. This book is told from the point of view of third person limited. Although this is told from third person limited, it’s being told my two people named Evan and Jessie. Evan and Jessie are siblings and each of them is an expert at different things, such as Jessie is good at math and school work while Evan is good with relationships with people. Evan figures out that his sister is skipping and grade and will be in the same class as him.
Harper Lee is trying to explain that a lot of whites didn't realize how bad the colored people had it in the South. Therefore, Mrs. Merriweather is a hypocrite because of her opinion about the blacks in the South and blacks in
After watching her father fight hard for a case he was bound to loose, hearing all the mean names her family and Tom was called and hearing the news of Tom’s death she began to understand the reality of racism. “Just what I said. Grandma says it's bad enough he lets you all run wild, but now he's turned out a nigger-lover we'll never be able to walk the streets of Maycomb agin. He's ruinin' the family, that's what he's doin'.” (Lee, 110)
Raymond Carver’s short story “Popular Mechanics” was written in the minimalist style, but that didn’t stop him from using rich and full uses of imagery, symbolism and irony. Carver begins the story up by giving details on the weather outside than slowly comparing it to the drama going on inside his story. By using a mix of imagery and symbolism, the day gets darker as well as the story and gives off a feeling of melancholy. Though the communication is brief, Carver makes every word said important and meaningful. He uses irony throughout the entirety of “Popular Mechanics” and gets the purpose of the writing across while still adding emotion to the argument.
Have you ever thought about the phrase “American History” and wondered the real stories that occurred in an individual from the past? Several other citizens of America have, too. The simple answer to the meaning of the title “American History” written by Judith Ortiz Cofer purports that said story illustrates the history of an American citizen and revolves around a significant event from the past. However, the overall message become larger than the straightforward idea. While educating readers on the time placed during President Kennedy's death in 1963, the author illustrates the struggling truth behind the story of an average young individual American immigrant girl in a plethora of ways.
