A Summary Of Miriam ToewsA Complicated Kindness

The value of participating in life, and society is particularly important and plays a major role in one’s health, and mental state. The two novels from our class display a clear image of the pain and agony you feel after being rejected, and looked upon differently. Stephen Chbosky’s, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, we witness how characters in both novels try to participate in life, and just want to be accepted like everybody else. However, they all encountered problems as the society refuses to accept them for who they are. They are either picked on or completely disowned and forced to stay away from civilization, and as a result, their mental state begins to decline, which leads to consequences. These consequences

The book goes through Jeannette’s life exposing the mistakes she, her siblings, and her parents made to become the family they were. As her life grows older, Jeannette finds herself in more responsible positions in the world, with editing school newspapers, to writing columns in a small New York newspaper outlet. Her troubles have raised the issue of stereotyping, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Due to her status in her childhood, it was not hard for her to fit in with the other members of the poor community. “Dinitia explained that I was with her and that I was good people. The women looked at one another and shrugged.” (Walls 191) The quote talks about how members of the black community in Welch accepted Jeannette to go swimming with them in the morning hours before the white people went in the afternoon. The people who knew Dinita, Jeannette’s friend, knew that Dinita was trustworthy, and let Jeannette pass. This relates to the thesis because it shows how she was accepted amongst the people who were

The novel, “Jesus and the Disinherited” speaks to the plight of the men and women who stand with their backs against the wall. The wall of oppression, the poor and disinherited that the author, Howard Thurman is witness to in his own time through black lives in America during the 1930’s. Thurman’s interpretation of Jesus as a poor Palestinian Jew, the disinherited population of his own time introduces the subject matter of the book which then moves to identifying the three hounds of hell, fear, deception and hate that continue to plague the disinherited today. According to Thurman, the great equalizer of mankind is identified in the religion of Jesus. The solution, love of God, self and neighbor. Sharing the lessons of Jesus, that transcend time and location bringing the love and hope of Jesus Christ to the disinherited, and anyone else willing to follow Christ is Thurman’s ultimate

For winter the mayor is moving the deprived off the streets and into the hospital. “The New York Civil Liberties Union is watchful. They question whether the rights of these people who live in our parks and doorways are being violated by involuntary hospitalization.” “I think the mayor’s notation is humane, but I fear it is something else as well. Raw humanity offends our sensibilities. We want to protect ourselves from an awareness of rags with voices that make no sense and scream forth in inarticulate rage. We do not wish to be reminded of the tentative state of our own well-being and sanity. And so, the troublesome presence is removed from the awareness of the electorate.” She agrees with the mayor, but sees a fault; we just want the poor out of the way, out of the streets. We want to get them out of our sight so that can stop bothering

Its crazy to think that our world keeps changing with a blink of a eye as our world keeps evolving to the new everyday. We never settle down with what we have while we continue to strive for the new and the best. In one of the passages, What Happens When Your Hood Is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express?, Smith tells her side on how the evolving and futuristic world we live in changes the community she was raised in, moving many of her dearest friends and neighbors from the area. The higher class decided to take the land and create it the new, elegant living community, disregarding many of the working class and lower class are residents who live here. Smith calls it Gentrification, which is an economic issue that attacks the working,

Each Amish province is completely independent and lives by its own set of unwritten rules or Ordnung. The Old Order Amish are the most rigorous of them all. One way that the Old Order Amish punish members who have been disobedient to the community and God is by shunning. Shunning is defined as “to avoid somebody or something intentionally” (Shun, 2007). Shunning is not meant to injure an individual, but merely to wound them. It is an attempt for redemption. If an individual repents they will be allowed back into the patronage. It is only in extreme cases where an individual continuously breaks the rules where they may be permanently shunned. There are usually a very low percentage of Amish who are excommunicated. Because the community is so closely netted, shunning has proven to be a great form of social control.

Instead of expecting others to change, we should look critically at ourselves and make changes accordingly. Lin in Anne Jew’s “Everyone Talked Loudly in Chinatown” and Sandra in Connie Gault’s “The Man Who Followed His Hand” are both self-centered and narrow minded. They assume that their thoughts are right and feel isolated from their own community. Choosing to ignore the risks and problems surrounding them; only distances them further from the ones they love along with solving their complications in being secluded.

Acceptance and security. These are the two things that every human being wants. How they gain those two things varies from person to person.But most of us are privileged enough to not worry about these two very important necessities.However there are people in the world who are not so lucky. Those are the people who are failed to be understood by the rest of the world. However a lot of us are asleep to those people and their problems.Sometimes it takes a piece of art or literature to wake us up to those problems and a piece of literature that can do that is the novel written by S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders.In her novel Hinton, writes about two socioeconomic classes, the greasers and the Socs, who live their lives on the two ends of social status, near-poverty and full on rich, respectively.The cloak of money shields both sides to understand the others problems and the society is unable to take off the cloak as well. The novel is also a good eye-opener to how social,emotional,and economic forces can shape a person’s life and how if one can truly understand a person for what they are the world might just be a better place.

Citizens of Pleasantville have certain knowledge about themselves and society, but because there is no exposure to differing ideas, individuals are stuck with the same opportunities and values. A specific example of this includes the community’s view on gender roles: men hold power as the head of society and women stay at home to cook and clean. There are no opportunities to change this structure, as the communication of ideas is restricted to what is known and not to anything new. The town leadership fears a true deviation from the accepted social order, and as a result, the citizens of Pleasantville conform to this system to prevent conflict. While this lifestyle provides harmony and order, conformity actually limits society from growing and enhancing. On the other hand, when individuals start voicing out their opinions, new ideas challenge the false peace that society had in their conformity. After Bud and Mary Sue introduce different and rather contradictory ideas, like sex, color, and individuality, people start pursuing their own passions as individuals, rather than as a whole society. With all these changes, individuals burst into color when choosing to leave “pleasant” behind for the freedom to express personal

While the city had its positive attributes, sometimes the young people get wrapped up in the negative aspects of the city. George also realizes that New York is a place where people, especially young people, restrict themselves.

Many people believe that that the motivation of the Christian church is to radically “change the world”. However, through his book To Change The World, James Davison Hunter explains how this common believe is a misconception. Rather, he shows readers that, from a sociological perspective, while Christians thrive in many areas of life by reaching others individually, they fundamentally components of creating cultural change.

In a world that does not know the Gospel anymore, we must indulge in it, and love our fellow community though they may not share similar values, but find balancing in still remaining in our own values. Though many of times we find ourselves in opposition of the majority of the world, we must exude Christ love onto others as He does to us unconditionally. The author addresses ways in which we are able to live out our faith and still find a place within our community though they may not share similar values.

The pressure of conformity affects individual expression and varies in degrees in which it impacts an individual’s life. Regardless of time period, conformity is able to force individualists to abide by the social standards inculcated into society and deemphasize the importance behind individualism. In the 1920s, New York City adopted a structure parallel to conformity in its figurative hierarchy after the grief and devastation of World War I. With fear of the unknown, a reestablishment of tradition and routine followed, including an adaptation to the use of silences. The individuals with class and power used silence as a vehicle to conform and unify but, free-willed individuals gave another purpose to silence. It became a tool to express

There once was a blonde-haired woman, two blue beautiful eyes, alluring, genuine however agile, and wry women who lived in the colossal New York City, her name is Ceres. In the time period of the New York she lives in is that everybody is under the climate, better believe it, they talk and have companions, yet fundamentally, everybody is only a tiny bit discouraged, however nothing rationally unfortunate, yet that is for the general population who work each day and make or attempt to bring home the bacon. A portion of the subjects can be milder in how much weight and stress they can take so they wind up detesting high-class residents, even the white-collar class. What transpires, to wind up this way? Overall, I will disclose to you they began

Growing up in a tight box that I always had to try to fit into, I never knew any different. The expectations, the standards, the cruel words and the harsh stares. Being an outcast amongst others or being verbally battered for reasons I could never fully understand. These were all aspects that were prevalent in my life because I was the Pastor’s daughter, and they were problems I had always viewed as a normality.