Chapter 1: Igniting the Flames Drip… drip… In the shadow of the moonlit night, the crimson red dropped from the stick and onto the wooden ground next to Celia’s feet. Breathing heavily, the slave looked down at the husk of what was her Master and rapist: Robert Newsom.…
-Jasper tells him this is not where they're going and keep walking. Charlie tells us that Jasper has a bad reputation in their town, because of his skin colour he is severely blamed and mistreated.…
In our lives, we all have secret places that allow us to hide parts of our lives which we want to keep hidden from the world. A place where we can feel safe, alone, or a mixture of both. In the novel Jasper Jones, the author, Craig Silvey, attempts to bring forward this idea: he uncovers the hidden truth about the places we keep secret in our own lives. By revealing Jasper Jones’ secret place and disclosing additional information about Jasper by doing so, Craig Silvey depicts how Jasper’s secret place sheds light on his life especially his outcast position in society and his life living in the enclave. Jasper is born an outcast and the outcast mentality has become a major part of who he is.…
Jasper Jones is technically good in that it has a message and themes and all that. But the deeper meaning is so close to the surface that a five-year-old could tell you what Craig Silvey is really trying to say. So I guess it’s not really a “deeper” meaning at all, more like a “surface meaning.” As suggested by my “better” title, Silvey was very obviously inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird. It sometimes seemed like he was writing it as TKAM fanfiction with a bunch of major changes and twists, and before he knew it he had a novel, so he decided to go ahead and publish for real.…
The second major chapter in the book was “Fear”. In the 2nd chapter of Disinherited, Thurman takes up the issue of fear. In his 1940’s context, he is speaking about Jim Crow segregation. He argues that segregation is a form of organized violence against the soul of the disinherited. This also has a connection back to Jesus where he was in the segregated minority. People have always lived under the culture of fear, and it characterizes our American culture today. In our society fear is everything, left fears right, rich fears poor, human beings fear the things they don’t understand. As readers it really seems apparent that Thurman is pointing out his own connection to his theme. That he too is apart of the disinherited, and that his own point…
People have fears for many things from spiders to clowns. Due to the attacks on September 11, 2001, many Americans can now add another fear to that list. Something that was considered to be a convenience since it’s invention is now something people are replacing with long drives in their personal vehicles, buses and train rides for long distances. In some of these cases, one also goes…
Fear is an emotion experienced when a person senses danger and feels the need to deal with it inside his or her mind. Sal’s fear is always about what is going to happen next. She was afraid of a lot of things such as accidents, pregnant women, and cancer. First, she was afraid of accidents because her uncle died when a tractor flipped over on him. From the book “I prayed that we would not be in an accident (I was terrified of cars and buses)”(Creech 7). In this sentence Sal is describes that her fear is from accidents. Sal was afraid of pregnant women because they remind her of the incident that happened to her mother. When her mother was eight months pregnant, Sal fell from the branches of a tree. She broke her leg, and fell unconscious. Sal's mother found her, carried her home, and rushed her to the hospital to be fitted in a cast.…
The opening line of Jasper Jones, “Jasper has come to my window”, captures the attention…
No one really knows the cause of war. Is it human nature? Why would people fight against their own? People are just trying to survive together, yet there is no peace. Society takes war for granted and does not understand the causes for it. Lord of the Flies helps spell out the main causes or ideas for war in our society, from the perspective of young children. The story of the boys on the island help the reader understand how fear affects every aspect of the boy’s actions. Fear is one of the main causes for war and humanity has no way of obliterating this emotion because of the human nature to defend beliefs and survive.…
a.i Boo Radley is a man who is feared by the society even though he has done nothing wrong…
A child learns so much from interacting with its surroundings. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jeremy Finch does a whole lot of learning. Jem and Scout witness some of the evils of man and learn important lessons from them. However, Jem understands most of the events going on around him than his younger sibling Scout. From roughly the age of 10 through 13 we see how much Jeremy (Jem) Finch has evolved from the point-of-view of his little sister, Jean-Louise (Scout) Finch, which gives an exceptional perspective on his growth.…
In the philosophical novel “The Stranger”, written by Albert Camus, the story ended with Meursault’s last thoughts. He thinks, “For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate” (Camus 123). The question is: Why does Meursault hope for this? Why does Camus end the novel at this point? And who is the “Stranger” and why?…
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was first performed in New York City in 1962. The play stunned and pleased American audiences, seemed to provide a vital insight into American life. The country was coming out of the 1950s, when Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower was a conservative, well-loved president and television shows like Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best were popular. The importance of a happy family was emphasized by both politicians and popular culture. Many Americans considered success to be measured by having one's own house, car, kids, and dog. By all shallow measures, the 1950s were a stable, productive time for the United States of America. And yet, these shallow measures and the trappings of success often hid real problems, which will eventually crop up in any human community. It is this raw, human truth beneath the phony exterior that Edward Albee attempts to reveal in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.…
* Paragraph 1 - Jasper Jones is seen as a bit of an outcast but in the end he is innocent…
Several themes in The Stranger serve as the foundation to the novel. Detachment, the first theme, is evident through Meursault’s overall attitude, Salamano’s situation, and Meursault’s desire to bury his mother without seeing her body. Meursault detached himself from the rest of “normal” society, doing what he pleases and not expressing any empathy toward his mother’s death. Salamano felt detached after his dog ran away, even though he treated him poorly. The second theme is violence. Occurring throughout the novel, almost every scene depicted some sort of violent action. Salamano beating and cursing out his dog, Raymond beating up his girlfriend, the story with the Czechoslovakian, the newspaper, and the scene with the Arab were all violent acts.…
