Analysis Of The Pink Hat

When kids are younger, they are told that being different is good. And it is, sometimes. A lot of people are different. But, at other times, being different can limit your chances. This is shown in the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian. This novel is about a boy named Junior that is different than the rest of his peers. He is the only Indian going to an all white school. Some of his experiences there show that being different isn’t all that good, sometimes. The book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, and the article, “Adding a Disability Perspective When Reading Adolescent Literature” both portray how being different can limit someone’s chances and opportunities.

The only way this novel should be used in curriculum is to teach about privilege and how it can have a positive impact on very few individuals, but an extremely negative impact on far more. Kerouac uses characterization, a specific style and tone, and structure to show how Sal lives his life as a privileged white male in the late 1940s. Each of these topics help to prove how his privilege becomes ignorance, and how he glorifies the unfair lives of the less fortunate and those of color. The story is very unique and helps to provide insight on these topics, but often does so in an unsuitable way. Overall, this novel portrays privilege in a way that exposes how it can cause the romanticization of the unfair and impoverished life of those who are oppressed or a

Naturally, the narrator feels the pressure of being a minority. At first, he wants to be like everyone else, to be a part of white society. Then, he realizes that such society is not what he imagines it to be. As a result, he wants to reconnect with his family, this time appreciating them as his own. Nevertheless, the narrator is afraid of what his father

Oftentimes, in the public, people have to be “normal” to be successful and accepted. Author William Saroyan believes that society steers people to be conformed and fit in, but he wants people to be able to be diverse. In the short story “Gaston,” Saroyan shows that carving a unique path can turn out to be erroneous. Through symbolism and contrast, Saroyan conveys the theme that society does not always accept people’s differences.

In the novel House of the Scorpions by Nancy Farmer, the memoir, Where Am I Wearing by Kelsey Timmerman, and the short story The Scholarship Jacket by Martha Salinas, the common theme is that a person is always a person, no matter their wealth, their skin color, or even their birth circumstances. In the House of the Scorpions, an instance that shows this is when Matt finally listens to what all of his friends have been telling him, about how he is not inferior to them. Another example that accentuates the theme from Where Am I Wearing is where the reader learns about the terrible conditions Bangladeshi workers have to suffer through. A final example of the theme in The Scholarship Jacket is when Martha is denied the jacket because she’s poor and Mexican. A common theme similarly found in The House of the Scorpions by Nancy Farmer, The Scholarship Jacket by Martha Salinas, and Where Am I Wearing by Kelsey Timmerman is that everyone is human, no matter their financial status, ethnicity, not to mention circumstances of birth, and all deserve to be treated the same.

The characters not only have to be challenged with the grayness of the world, but the confrontation with the adult world. In The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian, Junior is studying his textbooks in class. Though as he reads, he soon discovers that the textbook he is reading out of is the same textbook his mother read out of. This makes Junior question what the adult life may hold for him. He thinks that if the school cannot simply update their textbooks, the how successful can he, and Indian boy, be? He is confronted with the idea that the adult world does not only not hold much hope, but not much opportunity. He also believes he will never be what his heart truly desires; that his unknown talents will become unnoticed much like his mother and his fathers. They, his parents, never pursued their dreams to work on their aspirations. He is confronted with the idea that the adult world holds no value. In a different sense, Holden, from the novel The Catcher in the Rye, is conflicted with the adult world because he believes all adults are phonies. He compiles this perception that all adults are the same worthless phonies that only care about themselves. He is not fond of the realization that he, too, soon will be an adult which makes him a phony as well.

Throughout the novel many problems occur. Some of the main problems are racial and equality issues. Events in this book show how prejudice and intolerance can ruin numerous friendships and change lives.

Sandberg’s grandmother served as an example that break the stereotypes that showed women as the unimportant, worthless and weakest gender. Her grandmother, who was also called “Girlie”, was born in a poor family which needed more support that’s why she dropped the high school and started working. No one in the community interested whether the woman got an education or not, however boy’s education was the family’s only chance to give financial suppor. When she got married and her husband was having troubles at work as their paint business was struggling, she jumped in and took some of the hard steps and helped to save the family from financial ruin. She also sold knockoff watches to support the clinic where she was treated and she ended up with profit margin that Apple would envy. These examples put together all the images that show the real power of women, their abilities and flexibility to overcome different

In the essay, Shelby gives emotional notification that when a black person achieve higher class than the others he will be viewed as different and they will look at him as if he had betrayed the race. The author shows that black people were stereotyped as lazy and that they didn’t care and they try to get away from such stereotype, but if they do that and go to higher class other blacks will think that they have betrayed the race so they are caught in this circle. Shelby also try to show, by using pathos, that black people are all in the same boat and they all have to do the same thing to be accepted by other blacks so when one become different by achieving higher class it will be hard for them to be accepted by black people. Shelby is trying to show that people will not only use colors to distinct others, but their class and achievement as

In today 's society, equality is a big deal, with many people still fighting for their rights. People all over the world are still being discriminated against, a topic that is not uncommon for a vast amount of dystopian novels. In fact, it 's a very common theme for multiple dystopian pieces. Scott Westerfeld 's Uglies, Joelle Charbonneau 's The Testing, Liam Hughes ' The Social Classes, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 's Harrison Bergeron, and Wes Ball 's interpretation of The Maze Runner all have social discrimination integrated into their story lines. Despite the many problems in dystopian societies, authors also present the classic hero that rises above those issues and works to rebuild their government or community. However, a hero isn 't just born, they 're made through a series of events such as problems with social class discrimination.

She makes it clear that although we say that our society has come far from the old forms of discrimination we have not truly ended racial caste in America and that we have merely redesigned it. Looking at racial inequality from a Marxist lens, race is used to oppress individuals in order to capitalize on wealth. Furthermore, Marxism looks at race as a byproduct of the human desire for lucrativeness. In other words, certain groups want to accumulate as much wealth and material, and in order for them to do that they need to mitigate competition. Competition is reduced through oppressive tactics, certain groups of individuals establish themselves as the essential subject whilst making everyone else around them as the inessential object. By identifying a separation factor, like skin color, one group can thus establish itself as the subject while establishing the other as the object. Tying this back to the play, we can see the correlation between white people and supremacy, and black people and inferiority. Color Blindness comes from a lack of awareness of racial privilege conferred by Whiteness. Due to the fact that White individuals have never encountered difficulty pertaining to issues of race, they are unable to sympathize and acknowledge that the condition exists. Rebecca, as

It is tragic to think about we do not want to be unique in ourselves and keep chasing to be like others. We like to be beautiful like others, smart like others and so on. In this literature, the government sets the handicaps for people to end chasing each other not to be inferior. It could be a brilliant idea but as readers, we could notice the adverse side of being equal. The characters are equally living.

Take time to think about people that had changed the world. Changed the way that their own race would have stopped segregation. When Barack Obama became the president of the United States. Since African Americans were treated differently, he proved many people wrong on how intelligent and powerful he got and helped his country succeed. A big problem for the character in “Prejudice” is that she would try to have friends but always get in trouble by the parents because they do not want their children to be friends with a black child, but worst of all, the teacher would be more racist than anyone else in her classes. As for the characters in “Major Differences” the character is sort of comparing and contrasting the two races that somehow meet together in something. In both sources “Major Differences” by Sara Holbrook and “Prejudice, a Learning Behavior,” the authors show that

Another conflict that deeply affected the narrator was racism. Characterizing people for the color of their skin was very common during this time. The narrator has a difficult time finding his own identity because of the fact he is living in a society that is accepting to racism. The narrator travels throughout different communities trying to find the correct answer on how blacks should behave. He sees in Liberty Paints that the whites for mixing the paint and racial makeup for work heavily depend on blacks. The factory denies dependence and the narrator ends up stifled. The narrator goes searching to find a group that fights for equality and he finds a group called the Brotherhood. The Brotherhood just uses him for a project. He then realizes

The book’s character’s main problem is finding individuality in racism. For the duration of the book, the narrator is constantly fighting racism and stereotypes. Ellison put many examples in the book to help show the character’s fight to be seen equal. Ellison shows that, through the character himself, that you can not tell people who to be. However, Ellison throws curves at the narrator that challenges