Imitation Of Life Sparknotes

In the Douglas Sirk’s film version of Imitation of Life, Sarah Jane rejects her own family. She goes great length to disguise her mixed race. Not only does she rejects the herself but she rejects the people who love her. She struggled with her identity and effort to fit in. In the film everyone fits in, but she the outlier in the film, In school she was bullied for her race which caused her to not claim she was black. She faces identity problems as a kid which eventually led to the action she takes in her adult life. Sarah goes through phases of life trying to identify with something she not. Sarah Jane and Antigone suffers from what they suppose is injustice in their lives though they confront their problem differently. Sarah Jane run and hide from her problem and creates a new identity. Antigone takes the more courageous action and take a stand for what she perceives as justice and morally correct.
He focus mainly on what is just and unjust and he suggest that watching and sitting back and allowing something unjust to happen is equally as bad as carrying out the unjust action personally “ Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” ( 314) Thoreau frowns upon the occurrence of a government at all, but also knows that humanity has not yet reached a point where they could survive without one. He believes the government should listen to the citizens. Thoreau insist to not leave the authority and power in the hands of the minority, but rather to take personal action against injustice, and not settle for majority opinion and jeopardize your ideas because it it not majority beliefs. “ A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even the minority then; but it is irresistible when it is clogs by its whole weight.”