Analysis Of The Cripple Of Inishmaan

Kurt Vonnegut’s unique story “Harrison Bergeron,” displays a theme which is a warning about the dangers of equality, which is equality is a hindrance to an individual’s success and society’s success, but this hindrance is ironically, unequal. In the story, Harrison and his bride are arrested for their unwillingness and inability to stay within the bounds of equality enforced by the Handicapper General. Equality hinders the success of an individual like the weights hinder the beauty and grace of the ballerinas in the story. Equality doesn’t promote everyone to be equally better, but to be unequally worse. Handicaps are no use in ensuring equality, because one’s strengths will always shine through, such as Harrison’s strength and wit, or the

The story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and the short film 2081 directed by Chandler Tuttle have many similarities and differences. Both the story and the short film are about a boy named Harrison Bergeron who escaped from jail and ran off to a theater. He ended up in jail for tearing off his handicaps in public. In their community, people have handicaps in order to be equal in every way. In the short film, Hazel and George Bergeron, Harrison’s parents, switched roles. Harrison also put a bomb under the theater where the ballerinas were performing. Harrison was not even wearing glasses, a red nose, he did not have bad teeth, he even had all his hair and his eyebrows. In these stories people start to realize that the equality they've always wanted is dangerous and in some ways torture.

In the story H.G. Wells illustrates the difficulties with foreigners by creating a world inhabited with blind people, that Nunez with sight randomly bumps into. The fact that he puts a person, who values the sight so much into a world where it does not exit, makes it hard for Nunez to adapt to their country. Nunez also gets easily misunderstood because he has such strong beliefs for a thing, the blind citizens cannot understand. Nunez sacrifices his need for being loved and in return he keeps his sanity. This story illustrates relations between people in general, and not necessarily confined to people of different

During the story, the author shared many political views. “Political Angles” of How to Read Literature Like a Professor it addresses the world’s realities of social and political problems. This shares similar ideas from Harrison Bergeron. For example, in Harrison Bergeron, it starts out by stating the 212th, 213th, and 214th amendments of the Constitution that made the society equal. It continues with having a Handicapper General acting in the role of the president of the United States. The Handicapper General put handicap devices on

She takes a comical approach when examining the idea of the word “cripple” when giving her experiences throughout the paper. In the very first paragraph of the essay Mairs says, “… landing fully clothed on the toilet seat with my legs splayed in front of me: the old beetle-on-it’s-back routine” (page 1). Society has put a negative connotation behind the word “cripple.” It largely comes off as an offense towards someone with a physical incapability, however Mairs has embraced the word because it is “straightforward and precise” (Mairs page 1). She outcasts herself from the rest of society in that she finds other words: “disabled”, handicapped”, and especially “differently abled” slightly offensive because they take away from her humanity. In other words, these works make her feel like she is not accepted like the rest of the fully, physically functioning people in society because people feel that they must baby those who are handicapped as though they are not able to do any simple task.

The book, Mean Little deaf Queer, a memoir, by Terry Galloway, is a powerful autobiography that gives insights about her life. Not only has she coped with a disability, but she also had to deal with being queer and overcoming the many obstacles of accepting this reality. Terry Galloway, grew up viewing herself as an outsider because of the responses she received from other individuals as her body transformed. She proclaimed herself as a child freak from the moment her body began to change, and when her hearing was diminishing and her hallucinations became a frequent occurrence, she would address her fury and discontent with her hearing aids and thick round glasses. Nevertheless, the moment she feigned her own drowning at a summer camp for crippled children, she knew she had discovered a new passion. Her hardships were overlooked and renovated into a love for theater and speech that would not only defy her reality, but that would surpass her expectations.

Cripple Nancy Mairs, a woman with multiple sclerosis wrote Cripple to express the feelings she has towards people labeling her, and how she can only be the one to label herself as a “cripple”. In the passage, she claims that even though she --or anyone-- is crippled, they are still the same person. Nancy Mairs presents herself as a brave woman by expressing the confidence she has in herself, having a direct frank tone, and going through every obstacle in her path. The confidence she has conveys that as long as she’s content and happy, other’s opinions do not matter. Creating this brave face to achieve one’s happiness without looking back.

Even though how they use to treat them back then when the story was written,the discrimination of the theme throughout the book,because it illustrated the injustice inflicted upon the moment in the story the discrimination of people with mental and physical disabilities. To prove the discrimination is that some of them have either one hand or a bad back that can't be fixed. Curley's wife is not to do anything because she is married to curley the boss's son that she can only talk to. So there are some examples of the discrimination in the book.

Would it not be great, if the world had no faults? If everyone was born healthy, with no disabilities? Sadly, this not our reality. Life is a like a snow globe; sometimes it gets turned upside down. Sometimes it is beautiful, but it is fragile. James Hurst, the author of the short story, “The Scarlet Ibis”, reveals this reality by creating a character who is disabled. He characterizes Doodle by using diction and figurative language to describe him as sickly, abnormal, and fragile.

The author does an excellent job writing about disabilities, getting bullied for being different, and most importantly, overcoming the bullying. The main character Auggie knew that giving up home schooling and starting 5th grade would mean getting stared at and teased for his severe facial deformity. The kids pointed, laughed, looked away, teased, but eventually, they began to see Auggie as a boy with a great sense of humor who was smart and not so different from many of them.

The government forced the people to have handicaps for the very same reason that firefighters in Fahrenheit 451 burned books; to make sure everybody was equal so that the people are happy. “If I tried to get away with it,” said George, “then other people’d get

Vonnegut's, short story, “Harrison Bergeron”, portrays Harrison as a considerate, ignored hero but also an outsider, standing up for the people’s and his rights. Vonnegut made it clear that Harrison’s appearance and beliefs are portrayed negatively to others, while the equipment used on him and others, but also the responses from him and to the handicap generals, ballerinas, and news reporters have made them get a wrong

Nancy Mairs’ memoir, “On Being a Cripple”, reveals that she made several discoveries about her life from her experiences as a cripple, but the one that caught my attention was her discovery on behavior, which she shares around the halfway point of her work. She begins by looking back on a moment when her mother criticizes Mairs for being selfish and exclaims that people sacrifice for her because of her condition (93). In this reflection, Mairs makes it extremely clear to her reader that the outburst ultimately sprouted her fear that people only pretend to like her because she is a cripple. In fact, she literally writes, “But at the time, as the words thudded home, I felt my first fear, suddenly realized” (93), showing her reader exactly

Although not a thematic stereotype reinforced throughout this whole film, it is typical of a disabled character to be represented as a victim or object of violence (Safran, 2000). At the climax of the film, Gilbert’s overwhelming frustration and anger of his life situation overflows into a violent episode directed at Arnie. On occasions throughout the film, Arnie is portrayed as an innocent a victim or object of violence from his

Saramago’s novel clearly illustrates themes that describe the importance of the awareness of others, in terms of feeling oppressed by fear, lack of trust, dehumanization, and segregation. He describes in full detail the importance of the government’s involvement in the lives of the blind victims, which allows