Chika It Is The Work Of Evil Summary

A personal ethos is another factor used in Chisholm speech, to convey women who have been discriminated of their gender. There has been unprecedented prejudice that tends to be ignored from people, since every time we think about prejudice we think about the black community. But that 's not the case, Chisholm confirms with her own personal experience that women, in general, are being prejudices in politics. Chisholm claims that “as a black person, I am no stranger to race prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black”(Chisholm, 149). Her history as an African American woman, Congresswoman makes her claim, and for the courage, she took in entering the presidential nomination in the Democratic party in 1972, the speech she has to introduce makes it believable and gives credibility to the reader.

The people dehumanize and devalue her as they show her how she is a burden to the able-bodied. For instance, she ceases from being “her” and becomes “it.” The narrator explains that “it saddened [my mother] to have given birth to an item such as myself” (263). Because of the unfair treatment that the society imposes

Similarly, I have personally experienced situations where there have been really rude people in public who are completely racist that as soon as they see a child or teenager that is Mexican they tend to automatically assume they have parents who are wet backs or they themselves are wetbacks as well. I find problematic how not many women of color speak up of the things that bother them which really doesn’t help do anything to fix the problem in society. It is also problematic because many women of color just build up anger over what they go through which can lead to bad things at times such as violence. My thoughts on this text is that if women of color who experience racism gathered as well with women of other races who aren’t racist gathered to do something about this dilemma the world would be so much different and also the way children from other people should be taught to talk about others with respect and not assume things about them without knowing who in reality they are. This text compares to other texts we have read and talked about in class because it focused on how women of color are always brought them and the ones who go through the racism more often that other women and whites

Revenge is often a prominent element present in numerous plots. Characters like Heathcliff or Chillingworth have sought retribution in the strongest ways against those who have wronged them. In Rudolfo Anaya’s novel Bless Me Ultima the concept of revenge also plays a hefty role. Through the eyes of Antonio, a young boy who starts making inquiries about the world, the audience can make a connection between the forces of good and evil. In order to show that life is more complicated than the two categories, Anaya uses the contrasts of the characters Ultima and Tenorio in a battle of revenge to show that the line between good and evil does not always exist.

Angie Thomas’ novel The Hate U Give is the story of a teenage girl facing racism in the world around her. Starr Carter lives in Garden Heights, a neighborhood filled with gangs, when one of her best friends Khalil is shot by the police, she is quick to know he had been killed because of the racism that exists in our world. Throughout the novel, Starr is constantly trying to show the world why Khalil died in order to get justice for his death. She does not believe he deserved to die or the cop who shot Khalil deserves to walk free of the crime he committed. Through different characters, the author is able to convey the message of one should not form opinions on someone or something based on stereotypes. Throughout the novel, some characters struggle with judging people before they know their past. Angie Thomas is able to get this across to readers not only through Starr, but also characters such as her father Maverick, her friends from school, and even Officer Cruise, the officer who killed Khalil.

A Chicana woman is a person of Mexican origin. Activist Cecilia Caballero falls into this category. Through a website that she cofounded, Chincana M(other)work, author Caballero writes to spread social justice to mothers who are minorities including Mexican women who are treated unlike white mothers. Caballero has good intentions when arguing how life is different being a brown mother by sharing a personal story and using emotional appeals, which in return makes her writing effective for her target audience. However, her writing would not be effective for other audiences outside the echo chamber because she fails to recognize other people’s point of views and circumstances, which ultimately would have made her writing stronger by appealing to a larger audience.

Prejudice can manifest itself in many different ways, sometimes in the least likely of them. We often assume that the people we place our trust and faith in are free of prejudice, but this is not always true. We can observe this in real life and literature, as seen through the short story “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker. This story, about a young girl learning to understand the nature of prejudice and trust, introduces an important theme; that when we encounter prejudice, we should fight for what we believe. This theme is explored through Rosaura’s interaction with her mother, Luciana’s cousin and Senora Ines. These three characters lead Rosaura to question her beliefs, but nonetheless encourage her to to challenge any prejudice directed

Sister Clara’s mistreatment by the rest of society’s comments and conclusions reveals their unsophisticated and brute views on African Americans. In the story, Sister Clara is introduced as a mysterious but constant individual with an unclear background, which makes people start jumping into spontaneous and untruthful assumptions. For example, as the women enters the church, people visualize “jungle orgies” and are reminded of “anarchists looting and raping”(Walker par. 2). The undocumented comments from the civilians exemplifies the tendency for people in the society to fall into the common and discriminative stereotypes when dealing with African Americans. The citizens’ primitive comments are a big influence in Sister Clara’s alienation which highlights the very ordinary and barbarian conclusions in the society given to black and unwealthy woman. Furthermore, as white citizens observe the old woman sitting down in the church, they start to envisage that she is an evil influence and they “[see] the beginning of the end of the sanctuary” due to the presence of a black woman (Par. 2). This evidence proposes that even though the church integrants know nothing about the old woman’s background or morality, they quickly jump into the common and primitive

In relation to stereotyping and prejudice, racism in effect is defined as the discrimination of a certain group of people as perceived by another group of people (Khan, Saera R. et al.). In Staples article, the issue surrounding stereotyping is brought forth in relation to the resulting prejudice and consequently racism as witnessed on Staples relations with the predominantly white community. “My first victim was a woman – white, well dressed, probably in her early twenties. I came upon her late one evening on a deserted street in Hyde Park, a relatively affluent neighborhood in an otherwise mean, impoverished section of Chicago” (staples). Staples statement suggests that the white woman is his victim even though we are quite sure that he is an innocent African American intellectual man. It can then, be argued that, through the constant stereotypes that Staples interacts with, prejudice makes him believe that he is wrong to be walking on the same street as the white woman.

It goes to show how, with her purity and simple innocence, these racially-biased words are detrimental and especially confusing to a young girl like Ortiz. In an article talking about racism, gender studies, and young children, it simply states, “In essence, it provides the conceptual framework which not only guides the way people think about themselves and others but also, in turn, comes to influence and shape their actions and behavior. It can, therefore, be said to have a formative power in the way it can literally ‘form’ and shape individual and collective identities.” (Connolly 2) This is supportive to the claim that when adults act with racism and other discriminatory actions, they interfere with a child’s upward

Shirley Jackson’s “The Possibility of Evil” is a short story that starts out with an innocent old lady, Miss Strangeworth. Then, when the story progresses, Jackson tells us that she is not the nicest old lady. She also tells us that she does not want to mind her own business. She starts writing mean and evil letters to the townspeople. The letters consist of rumors that she has imagined and she is very mean about telling the people what she has made up. She ends up paying for the evil she has done at the end by losing her roses, which were very important to her. The irony is Miss Strangeworth wants to write evil letters to the townspeople, but instead causes the evil. The theme of “The Possibility of Evil” is evil can arise in any person

Prejudice is a serious concern in her work. In most of her works, complicated relationships develop between individuals prejudiced against each other for reasons of race or gender.

“The people who commit terror against innocents do it for the same purpose. Some people say well they do it to prove a political point. Then why go after little girls or innocent people standing at a bus stop in Britain or in Madrid?” (Couric, n.d.). She also sees elements of the racism she experienced as a child persisting in the views some people hold toward other cultures and their ability to handle democracy. After pointing out that the segregation she experienced growing up in the South was rooted in the supposed inferiority of one race to the other and left her feeling consistently underestimated, she goes on to say, “When I look around the world and I hear people say, ‘Well, you know, they`re just not ready for democracy,’ it really does resonate or I hear echoes of, well, you know, ‘Blacks are kind of childlike. They really can`t handle the vote. Or they really can`t take care of themselves,’ it really does roil me. It makes me so angry because I think there are those echoes of what people once thought about black Americans” (Couric, n.d.). The experiences in Condoleezza’s youth affected her perception in such a way that it permitted her to construct a world view in which she can easily identify with the minority or the oppressed. Her previous experiences gave her a strong

Back in September 1957, a picture was captured of a Elizabeth Eckford, she is a young African American girl walking past Little Rock Central High School, being constantly abused with racist comments while her friend, Hazel Bryan, follows behind her. Since then, our society has made some process with race relations and incidents like this are diminishing. Furthermore, Elizabeth possessed a lot of courage to tolerate an angry crowd when they are constantly yelling and bullying her at a young age. Although part of the angry crowd, Hazel Bryan cannot be held accountable for expressing any intentional hatred; she’s too young to understand what the right choice is and is influenced by those around her. The author of “Two Women of Little Rock” David Margolick explains he only wants to help the situation and help the racist identify what they are doing and how cruel they are being. Treating people badly or unfairly because of their race is a terrible, and it is impossible to put up with acts of hatred. When a community of people in the world ignore racially charged crimes it appears as if they are supporting acts of prejudice.

She calls out to them and invites them to let their fears be overpowered by the anger that is there in every woman against their different battles and struggles they all have faced.She invites them to embrace and shield the anger and frustration of their fellow sisters of Color and distinctive orientations instead of rejecting them in favor of maintaining the suffocating caricature of unison. Unity that comes out of acceptance of each other’s dissimilarities and finding oneness not despite but in full recognition of the various individual differences is what the women need to be able to gain equality in society, to have equal respect and rights that Man have while also maintaining their own self defined identity irrespective of the sex considered to be dominant in the patriarchy.