Sometimes in literature authors display underlying themes or messages. This is shown in Night by ellie wiesel and his appalling experience. In this essay we will idetntify and elaborate on these instances exhibited throughout novel. One theme displayed by wiesel is hope. This is shown by Ellie himself,ellie always had hope that he might get saved, which contibuted to his survival.…
In 2010, Laura Hillenbrand released a brilliant tribute to a resilient national hero, Louis “Louie” Zamperini, whose story was not widely known at the time. Fast forward four years and this tribute, Unbroken, has been made into a major motion picture and the remarkable story of the Olympian-turned-soldier has reached the masses. In the book Unbroken, which I read shortly after it was released, Hillenbrand chronicles Zamperini’s epic and, at times, terrifying odyssey. Raised in California, he was the son of Italian immigrants.…
In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy’s friend, Johnny, is shown as a brave and positive person through is actions and his speech. Foremost, Johnny helps Ponyboy rescue kids from a burning church. When Ponyboy is reading the newspaper after the incident, he says, “... Johnny and I risked our lives saving those little kids…” (Hinton PDF 90).…
World War I….. The war that was said to end all wars. Wrong, that not only wasn’t the last war on this earth but it was followed by an even more devastating war, World War II. As the history books have shown World War II not only brought countless countries into the fight but it also brought countless young men from every side into a war for the ages.…
Throughout the tragic novel Into the Wild, author Jon Krakauer provides an in depth analysis of the life and lonely death of Christopher McCandless. McCandless was a young man straight out of college, looking to find himself while hitchhiking alone in the bush of Alaska. Unfortunately for Chris his well anticipated venture turned fatal after a hundred some days alone in the wilderness. Jon Krakauer uses rhetorical methods for the duration of the book, which allows him to speak of Chris’s life with a sense of certainty. The reader thus trusts Krakauer’s narrative and somewhat understands why a man like Chris could head into unknown territory without a second thought. The author shows his qualification for writing about Chris by making comparisons with his own life and interviewing those close to Chris…
Just Mercy is a book written by Bryan Stevenson about his career as a lawyer fighting for justice of the wrongly convicted. While Stevenson went to law school at Harvard University, he interned at Southern Prisoners Defense Committee. After his first encounter with a death row inmate named Henry, he found that he loves fighting for justice for people that are on the death row. Although, Stevenson has represented many different people on the death row, his main focus was on Walter McMillan, a black man who was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death.…
He has just escaped from a mental institution after a short stint, nearly kills a man and always hallucinating about frightening experiences. Frank is a huge black man, who must walk without shoe and in fear of being arrested for vagrancy. Frank fears that he may be sent back to a mental hospital or jail for roaming. He is a man with nothing to do and therefore a potential culprit for any police officer. Morrison lets her readers understand anxiety with unresolved contradictions and persistence ideologies.…
Many towns have started to put a public curfew affecting minors, normally around 10 pm. In the Outsiders by S.E. Hinton there is no curfew, would it have been helpful to the characters? Would it have affected them? Despite popular belief, some believe that there should be no curfew, and it may have helped the characters. Some people believe that there should be a curfew for minors.…
A three-hundred-year history of slavery in America led to a psychological oppression of black people in America, which still exists today. Toni Morrison decides not to delineate how white dominance has affected African-Americans culturally yet she challenges American standards of white beauty and how that beauty is socially constructed within our culture. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison uses society’s image of beauty to demonstrate how the value of black beauty is diminished by racial prejudices and dilemmas through the lives of Pecola Breedlove, Claudia and Freida MacTeer, whose young minds were affected by this internalized idea that the color of your skin determined how perfect or worthy you were seen, not to yourself and on the inside, but…
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut is a futuristic short story set in 2081 where new constitutional amendments made everyone equal. Attractive people are forced to wear ugly masks, the strong have to wear weights around their necks and the intelligent people have to listen to an annoying noise from their ears which stop them from thinking. George and Hazel are married, but George is very smart so has to dealt with the deafening noise whenever he thinks too much. They have a son together who got arrested for trying to overthrow the government. The whole story takes place in front of a tv that Hazel and George are watching dancers. Suddenly Harrison takes over the camera from the dancers and tries to show the world the great beauty of human…
The book I read is Hunger Games Catching Fire. The author is Suzanne Collins, the genre of the book is Science Fiction. Catching Fire takes place in a futuristic community that is divided into Districts. District 12 is the one the main character Katniss Everdeen lives in. Katniss is a brave girl who is in her late teens. An example of Katniss being brave is when she crawls under an electric fence to get food for her friend Gale’s family. Kaniss is also very caring. Katniss shows an example of caring when Gale gets whipped and she carries him back to her house so his mom can treat his wounds. The conflict is external and it is person versus society. The conflict is when they are in the arena for the battle and Katniss and Peeta have to fight…
The Gift of Fear 1. The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Decker related to our class in the number of ways. Clearly this story showed a breach in Civil Inattention. Civil Inattention is an acknowledgment of others without imposing on them or being noticed (Week 3 Lecture). The young man in the story breached this by committing Stranger Intervention.…
On May 28, 2011 Jonathan Franzen published the story “like is for cowards. Go for what hurts.” in the New York Times. In the story Franzen claims that people are more connected and infatuated with technology than they are with the real world. Since technology takes ups a majority of our lives it effects our ability to create relationships and to love others. Franzen states that technology has advanced so much, most people have no desire to go out in the real world and connect with others. Phones now days are made to give us everything that we ask for without ever letting us down. Social media sites such as face book, Instagram, and twitter allow people to hide behind technology and still become likable. Franzen believes the goal of technology is to replace the real world indefinitely.…
Why do they make differences between books and movies? This is shown in almost any movie made from a book such as STAND BY ME. They do this to sift out unimportant scenes and mak you think things about characters that you might not otherwise think. They have differences between the book movies to change how you think. There are many differences between the book and the movie such as things characters did being changed and scenes being taken out to change how you think about the characters.…
In some cases, people don’t succeed, In the novel_The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, everyone is unfair to the black society and they get treated very unfairly. Skeeter is very upset with the way the maids are treated, because of that, she succeeded and made a change. In the novel_The Help, by Kathryn Stockett, characters show that people can grow and change by taking risks individually and as a society. She broke two cycles by helping various people overcome fears and by going against society by being friends/friendly with the maids.…