In this chapter we get introduced to Peter Jenkins and get know what he is doing. It takes place sometime during Peter’s journey. Tommy, Doc, and several other men in a country store in a giant blizzard first confront Peter. Tommy and the doc ask him what the devil he is doing hiking across America and Peter tells them that he is doing it to get to know the country. Tommy offers Peter to come to his house for some food, but Peter rejects. Peter calls for his dog Cooper. A thin farmer gives Peter five dollars in case he needed it. Peter and Cooper then leave the store and go into the giant blizzard. Peter then tells us how Cooper saved him one time before the walk. Peter and Cooper were hiking along an eleven-mile alternate training route when Cooper killed a snake that would probably have bitten Peter. We then get introduced to some of Peter’s background. This so-called “Walk Across America” was something that was brewing in Peter’s mind for a long time. Peter tells us that he grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. This is a town of about 60,000 with manicured homes and country clubs. It’s high level of income and social status made Peter think that he had to attend Yale or Harvard. In Greenwich, you were considered a greaser if you drove a Corvette or had a Harley Davidson motorcycle. Most people drove Country Squire Wagons or BMW’s. Peter’s problem, according to him, was that he thought that all towns in America were like Greenwich. Peter tells us that he suffers from hollowness deep inside him that does not go away. It comes back after beer, booze, or drugs wear off from a party. It didn’t go away after he skied in a chalet in Stowe, Vermont. A revival of Woodstock, which took place during the summer of his senior year in high school didn’t bring any relief either. College and being by himself made the hollowness intensify. Peter himself began to wonder what he…
A passage from the book showing her bravery is read: Mary struck out, stamping on the man’s instep, using her elbows as weapons, twisting hard and fast out of his grasp. Hid face loomed indistinctly in the gray mist, and she attacked again, landing a hard punch on his nose. This passage is detecting her bravery when she is beating up the man who harassing her. If there was anyone else on her spot, she would simply ran away.…
Also, in the movie, Alice Paul is seen marching with other women wearing a graduation gown, this is historically accurate. Marchers who received a higher education wore graduation gowns to the parade. According to the transcript of “Conversations with Alice Paul,” Paul earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In the movie, women are grouped by occupation; nurses, farmers, homemakers, doctors and pharmacists, actresses, librarians, college graduates in academic gowns. In reference to image 3 this is historically accurate. In the image, a group of women can be seen wearing graduation gowns, and behind them there are nurses wearing their uniforms. Many marcher were ridiculed, jostled, and assaulted by men in the sidelines. As stated in the official program, the people were urged to “march in a spirit of protest against the present political organization of society, from which women are excluded.” Not only women responded to this call for protest, men were at the protest too. Men can be seen marching with women in image…
Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Alice Paul the leader of the NWP and she lead the Women’s Suffrage Act. She was willing to die in order for the women to get the vote. The women used many methods to try to win the fight, they picketed in front of the white house at one point. Every day they would go out with flags and banners and stand at the gate. One day the police showed up accused them for obstructing traffic and arrested them. In the parade they had floats and banners, lines upon lines of women walking and protesting against the law. When the parade was almost over the crowd had come into the middle of it and attacked the women. This showed that they would rather die than live…
“Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” written by Alice Walker, is a gentle and easy to understand story. It is not that the story is a boring and no highlight. When reading the book, it’s like I am hearing my friend’s story.…
This group began with a soft approach but soon became violent ,and threatening, where people were arrested and thrown in jail. Wilson was disappointed and very mad at first, but soon became surprised that they would go to such crazy extremities such as going on hunger strikes while being force fed by police. In 1918 Wilson gave a speech that endorsed the ideas of women’s rights to vote. Woodrow joined his daughter in the supporting the rights of women. Finally in 1920 the nineteenth amendment was ratified.…
The National Woman’s Party was formed in 1916 by american women. This movement was branched off from the Congressional Union, The National Woman's Party, like the Congressional Union, was controlled by Alice Paul, a activist in rights for women, used publicity to target the Democrat party to gain publicity. This created many conflict between authority and protestors but was fought for a good cause for women's rights.…
The women’s movement’s greatest accomplishment was the passage of the 19th amendment allowing women to vote. This victory also lead to changed perceptions of women as intellectual beings and individual from their male relations, a victory in and of itself. Leading up to the passage of the 19th amendment, protests and demonstrations by suffragettes were common. One of the best examples of effective protesting were the Silent Sentinels lead by Alice Paul, a prominent suffragette. These women protested outside of the White House for two and a half years until the 19th amendment was passed. This was not the only protest that helped the cause. Many women were imprisoned for the demonstrations so they took their ideals to prison. Suffragettes would…
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns were the two leaders of the NWP (National Woman's Party). The two women are an inspiration to others. They stood up for how they felt, and were not going to let anyone get in their way. They felt so strongly about women's rights that they got other women involved. These women went out in crowds and handed fliers to strangers, they held a parade the day of President Wilson's inauguration. They did not care whom they angered or how far they had to go to get what they wanted.…
2. Alvord organizes her essay in the form of a short story that is able to keep the reader…
A second method the women used to gain suffrage was that they stood outside of the White House gates and held flags and banner with messages asking about liberty and how long they would have to wait for freedom. Alice Paul even read parts of President Wilson’s speeches about democracy for everyone and then burned them saying that they actually meant nothing if women didn’t have voting rights here in the United States. The suffragists were bringing attention to why they should have the right to vote and how if the President thinks everyone in Germany should have democracy then everyone in the U.S. should be included in government as well. A third tactic used to gain suffrage was going on hunger strike to gain sympathy from the citizens so they would support women’s suffrage. When Miss Paul stopped eating the President sent a doctor in to try and prove she was insane for being suicidal and for threatening the president. Alice Paul outsmarted the doctor by saying she was not protesting the President, but the position and was not suicidal for starving herself but was just willing to die for her cause. Not being able to declare her insane the prison decided to force feed her. As a result, Paul wrote a note to the other women telling of how they forced a tube down her throat and poured food down the tube to her…
In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” Mama, the narrator of the story, is rather distant with her daughter Dee and dreams about reconciling with her on a television show. Specifically, she imagines Dee expressing gratitude for all that she has done for her, while embracing her (Mama) “with tears in her eyes (Walker 315).” It is obvious that Mama doesn’t understand her daughter’s life choice to adopt an African lifestyle and feels that Dee is rejecting her origins and family. Furthermore, the reader can see that Mama has a troublesome relationship with Dee by the amount of tension between them. This strained relationship becomes clear when Dee “went to the trunk at the foot of (Mama’s) bed and started rifling through it (Walker 320).” The narrator…
An individual can lose all sense of self when denied the basic connections that life provides. In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” a young woman named Dee struggles to find her foundation. Unfortunately, her identity begins to disintegrate as a result of her isolation. Through the utilization of character development, Alice Walker illustrates Dee’s distinct inability to connect with the people around her.…
over themselves but their right as inhabitants of the United States. They decided not to…
spirit, and an ultimate fear of failure that seems to reflect something personal. Set in a…