Preview

Conflict Connector: Harriet Versus Laws In Society

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
842 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Conflict Connector: Harriet Versus Laws In Society
Conflict Connector
Harriet versus Emily;
Harriet is the sister of Emily who had made a child, which had some sort of deviation. Harriet thought she could save her child’s life after losing three before by making an attempt to ask her sister to swap the babies (Harriet’s and Emily’s) in order to get a certificate. “It would be only for a day or two; just while I could get the certificate,’ Aunt Harriet went doggedly on. ‘You are my sister Emily…and the only person in the world who can help me keep my baby,’… “In all my life I have never heard anything so outrageous… suggesting that I should enter into an immoral, a criminal conspiracy to… I think you must be mad, Harriet. To think that I should lend…” (Pg.28)

Mentalist (fiction), this scenario
…show more content…
“It would be only for a day or two; just while I could get the certificate,’ Aunt Harriet went doggedly on. ‘You are my sister Emily…and the only person in the world who can help me keep my baby,’… ‘In all my life I have never heard anything so outrageous… suggesting that I should enter into an immoral, a criminal conspiracy to… I think you must be mad, Harriet. To think that I should lend…” (Pg.28)
In real life, I would compare this situation to the rules and regulations of the Licensing Department in which a person can acquire their driver’s permit. Due to persons not wanting to do the regulation or drivers test for some reason of the sort they would pay money to obtain it rather than go through the correct
…show more content…
Example, Tom and Mary lived in a village and never had any interactions with one another. Due to Mary’s facial expression Tom perceived Mary to be someone not approachable to talk to. One day David revealed to Tom his interest in Mary, however due to Tom’s perception of her advised David not to bother with Mary because she does not speak to anyone. A year David decided to disregard Tom’s advice and speak to Mary.To his surprise she was quite pleasant and far from the description that Tom had

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Rose For Emily

    • 756 Words
    • 4 Pages

    5. Describe Emily’s relationship with her father. What details in the story support your view? How does…

    • 756 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    6.03 Calorimetry Lab

    • 1068 Words
    • 5 Pages

    This buffering ability is achieved via the equilibrium between the acid and its conjugated base in the reaction.…

    • 1068 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Harriet Jacobs waited until it was late at night before she decided to sneak away from the plantation house.. Her family members were very afraid for her . They felt that she would be caught , then they found that one of the white neighbors would hide Harriet. She was locked in a small chamber above the white neighbor’s bed chamber for the several months after that . Flint looked for her intensily. Harriet was then taken to a new hiding place in the swamp. Then to another hiding place, in a small space hidden between the ceiling and roof in her grandmother’s old shed . Harriet becomes very sickin the winter but she recovers. She spent seven years hidden away in the small space with only room to crawl.…

    • 462 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    When I hear the word slavery, the only thing that comes to my head is cruelty. I could not even imagine how a human can threat another one like animals, as if they were and inferior or less because of the skin color. The idea of being able to read a book that was written by someone that lived during this years of brutality amazed me. Harriet Jacobs was taught how to read and write by her mothers mistress, this was not common for many of the slaves, and it is the reason why she used the name “Linda” to talk about herself during her stories, because if by any chance her master knew that she could read and write, she would have had the punishment of being whipped and put in jail. During the first chapters of her book we could notice that not all her years as a slave were miserable. In fact the first six years of her life were happy, because she didn’t know she was a slave, once she grew up her innocence started to fade, her days started to turn dark and sad. As described in her book the living conditions were like hell on earth. Slavery not only affected the slaves, it also completely destroyed moral…

    • 1236 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    “Assess the significance of the Truman Doctrine for the origins and development of the cold war”…

    • 1137 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    Harriet Jacobs is the author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. During the civil war, when she published it, Harriet had to have her character as another name, so that there was no chance of her getting caught since Dr. Flint was still after her. Before she helped any other slaves, even her self, she does every thing she can just to help her children first. Harriet knew that the only way to let slaves know all that she went through in her experiences was to write an autobiography. Jacobs didn't think that the book was enough, so besides the job of taking care of her children, she also helped slaves by starting organizations.…

    • 1048 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in 1813 near Edenton, North Carolina. She enjoyed a relatively happy family life until she was six years old, when her mother died. Jacobs’s mistress, Margaret Horniblow, took her in and cared for her, teaching her to read, write, and sew. When Horniblow died, she willed the twelve-year-old Jacobs to her niece, and Jacobs’s life soon took a dramatic turn for the worse. Her new mistress’s father, Dr. James Norcom (“Dr. Flint” in Incidents), subjected Jacobs to aggressive and unrelenting sexual harassment.…

    • 934 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    An Analysis of “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself” by Harriet A. Jacobs, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, and London, England, 2009; Introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin…

    • 571 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Emily is a lonely, obstinate and abnormal woman. She is hard to accept those who she loved leave her, like her father and the labor. She even killed Homer Barron, kept his body in the room and slept with the body every night—just because Homer Barron didn’t want marry her. By…

    • 639 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Slaves, male and female, were subjected to similar hardships. Both searched for freedom and had dedication to help free others. The narratives of Harriet Jacobs, “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” and Frederick Douglass’, “In the Life of Frederick Douglass” portrayed two very different accounts. The narratives detail what living a slave’s life entailed. However, Jacobs’ emotional memories and obstacles of being a female slave make a stronger connection to the reader who is capable of feeling her emotions through the intense words she wrote.…

    • 832 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    “The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead” (Power 1), Aristotle knew the importance of education; especially literacy. Literacy is what stood between the slaves and the slaves owners. However, some of the enslaved were fortunate enough to possess more intelligence than their owners knew. Harriet Jacobs is one of the few that shared the knowledge of literacy and she knew the power that this held. She used this as her driving force to push through all of the hardships a slave had to endure on a daily basis. Jacobs account in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl truly depict the power of literacy.…

    • 886 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Romantics were inspiring people who brought about ideas that were maybe idealized but never brought about before them due to the Puritan ideals getting in the way. We as the readers see imagination, intuition, idealism, inspiration, and individuality from the authors of the Romantic period. The story, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs displays a major innovation that occurred during the Romantic period. Women according to the Puritans were inferior to man and never had much of a say. Through Harriet Jacobs writing she made herself equal to man. She told the world exactly what happened to her and didn't look back. She expressed to women all over the world that if you want something, you have to…

    • 818 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The people of the town noticed the obvious lack of independence in Miss Emily’s life before her father passed. “We remembered all the young men that her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.” After the death of her father, she was faced with the reality of needing to carry responsibility for her own life. Miss Emily, finally free of her tormentous girlhood, suddenly became able to make choices for herself. Even with questionable acts, this character further demonstrated her independence by taking…

    • 750 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    5. What is the conflict in this story? If Miss Emily is the protagonist, who is the antagonist?…

    • 317 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”, each character has their own differences and similarities. But the major changes shown in the film, are between the characters of Gatsby and Nick. The film’s take on these two characters stays within the style of the book, but some information about them are seen to be excluded in the film. Through the directing style of Baz Luhrmann, both Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby are not portrayed in full as F. Scott Fitzgerald had written them as, even though they do share some traits with their counterparts.…

    • 872 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays

Related Topics