Analysis Of The Book ' The Many Faces Of James Hook '

From “Inside Rikers”, written by Jennifer Wynn, Wynn shares the lives from the “world’s largest penal colony” the inmates from Rikers Island. She really humanizes criminals by giving them faces and names because she does what most American are unwilling to do because they are afraid, that is forgiving people and giving them second chances. She really does see the good in the hearts of some staunch criminals. At the same time, she is a clear sighted humanist on how hard it is to leave the criminal lifestyle. Drawing all the difficulties and complications that our society has placed in the way of the newly released inmate. Not to mention the persuasions of the criminal lifestyle itself. The first chapter is Welcome to the Rock, where Wynn introduces the narratives of Angel, Kenny, Charlie, Alfonso, and Benjamin. Chapter two is titled, From the Belly of the Beast to New York Streets where both Frank and Mike are introduced here. In Chapter Three, the Captain and Harry tell the stories of Keepers Of The Kept, Convicted At Birth with Rico, Napoleon, Hilton, and James in Chapter 4.

Instead of a hook he now had a light saver for a hand. Captain Hook would not let Peter take any Jedis. Luke skywalker would train Hook but hook thought he could handle it on his own. Yoda made Hook train with Luke. Of course han solo was there with chewy but they were just sitting around like losers. I still can't believe Peter Pan and star wars came together in one story that’s crazy, at least that’s what I think, yet again frozen and star wars came together in someone else's story. Well lets get back to the story, han solo and chewy were helping make some sandwiches for Luke and Hook. Hook was grateful even though chewy ate most of the sandwiches.

Relationship to meaning: - Death, as the narrator, gives us an insight into the events surrounding Liesel that otherwise would not have been known. Also Death explains definitions, events, and other items of note.

The book Black Hearts opened my eyes to how leadership from a single Officer can have a grappling effect on such a wide range of soldiers from the lowest of ranks. One of the best takeaways from Black Hearts is to never do anything: illegal, unethical, or immoral. Although this is a easy statement to repeat, Black Hearts demonstrates the difficulties that lie behind these words. It has also painted a picture of how leadership can topple extremely quickly from a top down view. The Army is portrayed in a bad light throughout the book relentlessly. This is due to the concentration of poor leadership of the 1-502nd Regiment (Referred to as “First Strike”), a battalion of the 101st Airborne Division.

Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are two remarkably different characters. In the beginning of the novel, they’re known only as the murders of the Clutter family, but Truman Capote tells their life stories in such a way that they become more than that. Even though these two men are basically introduced as murderers, they quickly become relatable and interesting characters. So much is learned about their feelings and lives that one can not help but almost look past their reckless ways. Both of these men have unique character traits that amalgamate in an intriguing way. Throughout In Cold Blood, Capote includes many instances that show how Dick and Perry, when combined, make the perfect murderer.

In “Great Expectations,” Pat Mora's essay on the stereotypical sexualization of Latina women, she states, “We often are too busy playing the game of Great Expectations”.(Mora.162) Oftentimes, society places the greatest expectations on women's outside appearance. Women are often categorized as either skinny, fat, plain, or beautiful regardless of how graceful they are on the inside. Knowing they will be categorized, puts an unrealistic pressure on them to look a certain way. Hooters is one such example of a company using subtle marketing to put unfair expectations on the appearance of women.

Life involves many hardships that may seem impossible to overcome, but with the right amount of strength, one can move beyond the wall of struggle, pain, hate, depression, and any set back. Many can relate to the events in this book because it was written by a normal person, living a normal life, who faced many problems just like any human being, yet, these struggles relate just as much to various theories. Some experiences in Buck come from the negative representation of woman, oppression of Malo, Amina, and Uzi, and Afrocentricity of Chaka. By observing this, M.K. Asante’s book, Buck, can be viewed through a Feminism, Marxism, and New Historicism theoretical lens.

The family has always been a unit that calls for the belonging of the kin. It calls for more than blood relations, but also a relation with ancestry, history, ethnic origins, etc. It serves as the most basic political unit that many can relate too, however, the term family carries a more diverse and complex role that is seen to evolve throughout the years. With the modernization of the human civilization leads to an evolution of thought, morality, and ideology. What was once the idealized nuclear family, is now criticized by many modern day thinkers as it invokes a heteronormative that oppresses any other forms of family and sexual relationships. This concept can be seen in the given article by Bell Hooks. In Hooks’ document, she talks about the racist oppression of sexist domination towards back women. There is a focus on black women in reference to their place in the community, the home, and the home to which they are serving to (Hooks, 1990). Her views show the heavy responsibilities of black women as it reflects their privileges and lifestyle. The second document by Michelle Owen examines the normalization of queer as seen in the Canadian Legal Landscape, assimilation debates, and works to that aim to break the heteronormative family lifestyle (2001).

Hispanics, mostly Mexicans, are not being treated equally because of their different culture and lifestyle and people need to treat them fairly and enforce laws against discrimination. In the book, Crossing the Wire, Hobbs displays what a Mexican has to go through when they are crossing the border to the United States for a good cause. Hispanics have been discriminated ever since the Mexicans gained independence in 1821 from Spain. In recent years African Americans have been receiving the most attention in America because of so much racial discrimination, but they are not the only big race being discriminated. Mexicans are getting just as much hate. This problem is going to continue because the Mexican population in the United States is rapidly growing. Humans need to figure out a solution to stop this hatred, so all races can unite with each other. If we unite we can try to agree with each other on things and make the earth a better place to live.

As for Captain Hook, most of his character flaws were centered around Tick-Tock the crocodile, who swallowed his hand and has been following him ever since in an attempt to devour the rest of Hook. In Peter Pan (2003) Hook’s fear of Tick-Tock is nearly inescapable and haunts him throughout the movie, reappearing each time he fails to kill Peter Pan. Comparable Christopher Columbus’s has an evident fear of the Spanish monarchy halting his voyages, leading him to lie and stall in his entries when he mentions his search for gold. Columbus even goes far enough to contain an entire filler paragraph to make himself appear productive in his voyage to discover riches, although all he has found is inhabited islands. Furthermore, Hook holds a deep-rooted rage against Peter and becomes enraged and frustrated when he finds out that his attempts to kill peter were unsuccessful and Peter is in fact, alive and well. This anger and frustration mirrors that of Columbus when a group of Arawak people refused to trade with Columbus and his men, “At one part of the island he got into a fight with Indians who refused to trade as many bows and arrows as he and his men

The best way to get a four spot on the Billboard Hot 100, is by rapping about something everyone will go through, a heartbreak. That is what Kanye West did in “Heartless,” a song about a heartbreak he went through with former fiancee Alexis Phifer. The song debuted as a single but was later put on his 808s & Heartbreaks album. The song explains nearly everything about his relationship. They both made mistakes, but she’d act as if hers were minor. That is why he states, “I’m gonna take of tonight.” He emphasizes the word tonight, to prove he is exhausted and wants to be taken seriously. But he then argues himself by asking why they always end up late night on the phone. Which proves who is the intended audience. Simply, anyone that has gone through something similar, sometimes ends up on the phone with them late night with remorse. West’s tone in is angry in this song. He was tired of his ex-fiancee, who left him at his lowest point. When his mother had passed away just months before he was finished working on this album. Both of the women that he loved the most have left his life, in an instant. Kanye just began working on his music as a way to overlook the trials set ahead of him. He released this song and it was only the second time he used auto tune. Apparently auto tune can get you a 5x platinum record, mind that’s five million sales.

Bell Hooks is an American author as well as a feminist and Parker J. Palmer is also an author. They were introduced as the “dream team come true.” For the most part, they both share the same opinions on the matters they talked about. They talked about a lot of different topics like feminism and patriarchy, diversity, and the term “wholeness.” It is difficult for me to right this paper because I do not really have an opinion on this and I felt like the dialogue was all over the place. However, it seemed to really relate to what we have been doing lately in class. Like the article we read in class (April 20th) about white privilege. White people do not really notice or understand what the people of color go through. Also in the Johnson chapter, “God Acting Womanish” because being a man is the norm and if you aren’t, you are outside of that norm.

Both Coraline and Peter and Wendy contain strong protagonists, equally balanced out by very strong antagonists. The villains of these stories, the Other Mother and Captain Hook respectively, both have a lasting impact on those who hear their stories. When I was four years old, I had a Captain Hook costume, complete with a plastic hook to fit over my hand. I wore that costume endlessly, especially when I was just playing around the house. Even at such a young age, I knew what I was supposed to be representing. Captain Hook was a coward, but a diabolical coward at that. And while I did not understand the depth of his character then, he was a key figure in my imaginative play. Though I did not read Coraline as a child, her experience finding the door immediately stirred up memories from

My hopes in The Girl that Played with Fire, are equal to or higher than my hopes were for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The beginning of this book hasn’t necessarily brought as much mystery to the text as the first book did, but it is just the beginning of the novel. There have been different items throughout the book that may have been simple items to some, but as I read I tried to pick apart the meaning and importance of them being in the book.

Throughout the childhood of David Small, he had to face with difficult realities. These difficulties came from many sources: his family, his illness, his society, … However, David still managed to survived through. All of the struggles are depicted successfully in Stitches which are overwhelmed with silences and secrets via an interesting form of literature: comic book.