Episode Of The Beverly Hillbillies Analysis

The hillbillies are the most stereotyped of the rednecks. Television depicts the hillbillies as primarily being incestuous, no teeth, gun shooting, and trashy yard people. Most people in today’s time believe that

The Southern portion of the United States ranging from the East Coast to Texas is commonly referred to as the South. Two different versions of this area exist. One is the true South that anyone who drives through states like Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi will see. The other South is a popularized depiction of this region. Hollywood has played a part in constructing this version of the South by creating countless movies that have depicted a stereotyped South fixated on the Antebellum Era. The 2002 movie “Sweet Home Alabama” poetries Southerners that are trying to preserve the way of life that existed before the Civil War.

In the first chapter of this novel, we get introduced to the protagonist and narrator of the novel, Holden Caufield, from a rest home in which he has been sent for therapy. He refuses to talk about his early life, although he does explain that his older brother “D.B” sold out to writing for Hollywood. His story and breakdown begins in the school of Pencey Prep, a boarding school set in Pennsylvania. The setting for the early chapters in the narration is his "terrible" school, to which he describes the atmosphere to be “as cold as the December air on Thomsen Hill”. Holden’s student career at Pencey Prep has been destroyed by his refusal to apply himself. We know this after Holden explains he failed four of his five subjects, passing only English. Due to his lack of effort and determination, he was forbidden to return to the school after the term. The Saturday before Christmas vacation began, Holden overlooked the football field, where Pencey usually

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, all the literary features are established making this novel very worthy to read. This excerpt is from chapter three of the novel. It is the evening after Scout’s first day of school, and Scout seeks for help from Calpurnia, and Atticus. Scout questions the need to return back to school to Atticus, as she does not accept Miss.Caroline’s perspective on Scout having to stop reading at home.With the use of imagery and the characterization of Atticus, this excerpt proves that family with always educate you, and spoil you with

The multidimensional expression “hillbilly” carries different cultural significances throughout the book Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance. First, Vance utilizes the term “hillbilly” to refer to the working class white Americans of Scots-Irish descent who have no college degree (3). Second, Vance uses the term hillbilly to refer to a group of people from a specific geographic area, namely the area of the Appalachian Mountains. According to Vance, the area stretches from Alabama to Georgia in the South to Ohio to parts of New York in the north (4). Third, hillbilly indicates the way of life, behavior, or identity of the people of Greater Appalachia.

The coming of age phase in a young person’s life is a transitional phase which prompts the idea of individualism, decision making, acceptance, moral challenges, disappointment, and individual needs. These years are essential for the overall learning and growing-up part of someone’s life. Coming of age characteristics transpired in the novel The Catcher in the Rye and The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian pertain to, but do not exclude, the acceptance of the complexities and “grayness” of the world, confrontation with the adult world, and the individual needs and desires vs. external pressures/expectations/norms. In both novels, young boys are faced with tough choices that will later help them in the overall transition from

The lost of innocence can totally change the way people view the world. A person who illustrates this can be found in J.D. Salinger’s novel, the Catcher in the Rye. The story happened during the 1950s, in a small town in Pennsylvania called Agerstown. A teenage boy named Holden, who witnesses the death of his older brother Allie when he was only 13 years old. Then consequently, he blames himself all his life for the death of Allie. As time went by he starts to search for a sense of innocence that was lost in the beginning of the novel. Throughout the course of the novel, the author conveys that Holden is continually stuck in between childhood and adulthood. The author uses Holden’s struggle to convey that in reality often times people who

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J.D. Salinger that occurs around the 1950s. The story’s protagonist and narrator is Holden Caulfield, a seventeen year old white male, who journeys to various places as he mourns over the death of his little brother, Allie. As a white male in a capitalist society, he has tremendous amounts of privileges that allow him to get. However, as the novel progresses, Holden describes his society as a place where honored human qualities are suppressed and capitalist ideals are embraced. Throughout the novel, we see that capitalism, “the social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned”, destroys the overall society for Holden and his generation (Rand).

According to the TV program Beverly Hillbillies season 1 episode 2, I agree with the viewpoint of Michelle Dean that this program exploits hillbilly, redneck, and white trash stereotypes. In this TV drama, it depicts a story of a family who comes from the rural area in America and moves to the Beverly hill, which is known as the wealthy neighborhood, and something that the urban people think funny and silly happened to them. One of the most impressive plots is that, in this play, it present those who are called the hillbillies as rude, dumb people that lack education. For example, they don't know how to use a stove, and have no idea about what is a refrigerator, and even regard a flamingo as a big chicken, which exaggeratively stereotyped the

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is novel told through the eyes of Jean Louise Finch, AKA Scout. This young girl is forced to stick close to her father and older brother as the stark reality of some people’s prejudice and ignorance is thrust upon her. These events give Scout a new perspective on those around her and a new respect for the ways others choose to live their lives. Harper Lee uses many different techniques to convey the emotions and occurrences throughout Scout’s life and the most prevalent of those is flashbacks. They’re used to build a mood, provide background info and show the resolution.

I feel like in these few chapters they all have different opinions on certain things. Like Sadie doesn’t go on the marches because maybe she doesn’t believe in them but Bessie she agrees with them. Their brothers were quite active in the protests, I mean they had the right to. Later on in the story I see more and more how Bessie and Sadie were such caring people. They had helped people through the depression by giving them what they had and just wanted to help, the most inspiring thing is when the woman didn’t want her baby and then Bessie stepped up to take the baby but at last minute she didn’t want to give it up She still cared for the baby girl and knew her for a while, she called Bessie her other mother.

“The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” was a television show set in the early 1990s. It was written by Mattie Caruther and directed by Jeff Pollack. Pollack was also a producer for the show. It tells the story of Will Smith, who is sent to live with his wealthy family aunt, uncle and other relatives. Specifically sent to live in Bel-Air, California, Will’s mother sends him there because of the trouble he experienced living back home in Philadelphia.

I watched an episode of the Dr. Phil show. This episode was about a woman named Heather who claims that her husband of two years, Anthony, is physically and verbally abusive and says she fears that one day, he could seriously hurt or kill her. She says that he has punched her, bitten her, slammed her into walls, pushed her to the ground and, most recently, she claims he tried to blind her by putting rubbing alcohol in her contact lens case. Anthony denies the allegation and any allegation of physical abuse. Dr. Phil, the psychologist, does an intervention with all of the parties who are involved to attempt to get some clarity to the volatile relationship between the husband and wife. Dr. Phil attempts to dig into the thought process of the

I have never listened to an audio as clear and realistic as the episode This American Life Episode 562: “The Problem We All Live with, Part 1.” This episode focuses on a controversial problem that we’re all facing in the United States. It makes me think if we should have a specific name for it, probably one like; Education Inequality. Education is a very important privilege that we should all support, and take advantage of, but certain people think very differently and try to close doors for those who work hard for it. It is impressive how 3 years ago the district in Missouri decided that area school districts cannot reject transfer students from the Normandy Schools. It is even more impressive to know that some parents don’t want to accept

I would like to explore the Andy Griffith Show starring Andy Griffith, which aired from 1960-1968 and ran for 249 episodes. The show is set in the small sleepy township of Mayberry, North Carolina with the key character being the Sheriff and Justice of the Peace Andy Taylor. I am interested in how the show uses homespun humor and back wood antics to quite often drive home a message about the social issues during that time period. I’m particularly interested in the episode titled “Ellie For Council” when Ellie Walker announced she would be running for councilman. I'm intrigued by the nature of the genders, how they turned on each other and the array of sexual stereotypes displayed by both genders. The primary theory that I would like to link