Guilt And Shame By Bernhard Schlink

The Catcher in the Rye is one of J. D. Salinger's world-famous books about the disgruntled youth. Holden Caulfield is the main character and he is a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through the challenges of growing up, Holden separates the “phony” aspects of society, and the “phonies” themselves. Some of these “phony” people in his life are the headmaster whose friendliness depends on the wealth of the parents, and his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. This book deals with the complex issues of identity, belonging, connection, and alienation. Holden senses these feelings most of the time and is guilty about many things in

Morality in its basic definition, is the knowledge between what is right and what is wrong. In Joan Didion’s essay, “On Morality,” she uses examples to show how morality is used to justify actions and decisions by people. She explains that morality can have a profound effect on the decisions that people chose to make. I think that morality is an idea that is different for every individual based on morals and background.

Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther was an astounding book. Granted, it was a bit depressing, but it was a great book because I could relate so closely to the author. The trial of a loved one going through cancer is something I can relate to. Fortunately, my story turns out a little bit better than Johnny’s did.

Guilt is like a sickness. If you don’t get medicine, no matter how much you wait it out, the sickness is staying with you. No matter how much time passes, if you don’t deal with your guilt, it will stick with you and never go away. The main character in Marigolds by Eugenia Collier ruins an elderly woman's beautiful marigolds because of her own issues. The main character in The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst leaves his handicapped brother alone in the woods and comes back to find that he’s dead. Lastly, the main character in The Cat’s In The Cradle never takes part in his son’s childhood and comes to realize his boy is just like him when he gets older. These three pieces all show a coexisting theme of how guilt sticks around forever if you don’t deal with it.

Guilt is an unhappy feeling that you have done something wrong or think that you have done something wrong. It is a powerful emotion that can drive people the rest of their life to make up for what they did. In the novel, Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, many characters feel like they must make up for past wrong doings because they feel guilty. These characters include Julia, Genevieve and Edouard. All of these characters are motivated to fix the injustices of the Holocaust.

In today's society, you are judged by the clothes you wear, the house you live in, the car you drive, and other materialistic items. Regardless of whether you are a adult or a child, envying those with more is human nature. A less fortunate person will always feel inferior to those with more because they feel they are being judged. Rick Bragg, having to earn his way into the middle class, envied those who were born into rich families. He then soon realized it was an achievement on his part by having to work for what he now has: justification.

One main theme present in the work "The Scarlet Lette" is that of sin and guilt. Nathaniel Hawthorne attempts to show how guilt can be a form of everlasting punishment. The book represents sin and guilt through symbolism and character development. In his novel, "The Scarlet Letter", Nathaniel Hawthorne explains how the punishment of guilt causes the most suffering among those affected.

The most stressful time is when you are in a court room. When people are in a court room they are very tense because there is a case they have to talk about. The foreman in this book is a very just man, and he doesn’t want people to get into fights. I think Reginald Rose wrote this book because he wants us to stay calm even when we are in stressful times to not make things worse. He wanted people to have justice when others are wronged. Also, he wanted people to think of their wrongdoings, and make a change about it.

If the identity ‘of being a Nazi’ is subtracted from the identity of the German occupiers, the young reader is likely to perceive ‘Germanness’ as an intrinsic predisposition towards ‘evilness’. What is more, when the responsibility for these atrocities is put on monsters and other metaphysical creatures and the author fails to point out that it was ordinary people who carried out actions of extreme violence, much like the people that the reader interacts with in their everyday life, the young reader’s understanding of the matter is put in a seriously wrong perspective.

Frequently, inferior choices lead to others, like a domino knock over. Whereas,a smidgen can repent and try to repair the chaos. Most construct excuses that aren’t valid to creep around and become the term ‘let off the hook.’ Specifically, only you can stop that domino effect of the events you’re causing. It is periodically acceptable to be immoral or unethical, for not the whole lot of you is black and white, and no person is perfect.

Schlink portrays Michael’s attempt to alleviate both Hanna’s and his own feelings of guilt sourced from their relationship and Hanna’s involvement in the crime in the quote, “She knew what she had done to people in the camp…she dealt with it intensively during her last years in prison” pg 211, Chapter 11, Part 3. The idea of being unable to escape the guilt of your past is shown by Schlink through the increasing negative consequences of Michael and Hanna’s relationship that result from the setting of post-war Germany.

The film centers on a sexual relationship between Hanna Schmitz, a woman in her mid-30s, and Michael, a boy of 15 years. The film begins in 1995 Berlin, then flashes back to another year in 1958 on a day when young Michael is found sick and feverish in the street and taken back to Hanna 's apartment to be cared for. After he recovers, he returns to the apartment building to deliver a bouquet of flowers to Hanna at her apartment and thanks her. She is matter of fact with him, but asks him to escort her to work. However, when she catches him spying on her as she dresses, he runs away in shame. When he returns to apologize a few days later, Hanna quickly seduces Michael, and the two characters begin a relationship that last only for a summer. Michael begins regularly to visit Hanna at her apartment where they have sex. Hanna mentally dominates Michael and controls the relationship. Michael falls in love with Hanna, but the emotional attachment is not reciprocated. Upon Hanna’s request, Michael begins to read aloud to her on each of his visits with the rewards of sex. He returns to her every day after school, rejecting the clear interest of girls his own age. In fact, and all their days together are obsessed with sex. Hanna makes little pretense of genuinely loving Michael, who she calls "kid," and although Michael has a helpless crush on Hanna, it should not be confused with love. He is swept away by the discovery of his own sexuality. Then one day Hanna simply disappears, and

Bernard Roth, a Professor at the d. school in California, has an impressively valid outlook as to why all reasons given are bullshit. Roth provides numerous examples of people who use regularly use excuses to manage everyday life; however, he also plays the devil’s advocate when stating that excuses may help you in the current situation but will it assist you at all in the long run? In the second chapter of his book, Roth classifies the use of excuses into several categories; ethically, logically, and emotionally. Although I understand Roth’s beliefs, there are multiple areas I fundamentally disagree with. Such as, some excuses must be explained no matter what the circumstances were since the reasoning is important. Roth would rebuttal by saying reasons have no meaning which in turn goes back to having no excuses. Utilizing an abundance of forms of thinking, is Roth’s strategy when emphasizing his point. He explains to every student the three possible rationalizations for excuses. Once again, he suggests every excuse is bullshit, and has no place in an individual’s life. Excuses ultimately hamper an individual’s ability to reach for his or her dreams. Bernard Roth, author of, “The Achievement Habit, stop wishing, start doing and take control of your life” effectively uses Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle in chapter two, his argument contains ethos, pathos, and logos to authenticate the thought that the reasons are bullshit.

Disgrace is a novel set in post-apartheid (racial segregation) South Africa written by J M Coetzee which was published in 1999.Apartheid was a social and political system in South Africa where people were divided according to their races. The system was ruled by the whites who treated the Blacks like untouchables and the rules were made clear to keep the blacks of Africa separated from the Whites.Thus, the Blacks had the desire to be treated equally and respectfully and the Apartheid system came to an end in 1994 in South Africa. The novel is about the violence and attacks taking place in Africa during this time.Also, the ultimate victim in most attacks are the women who are left to suffer and no one comes forward to help them. This essay examines the condition of women in Post Apartheid South Africa by taking the case of Soraya, Melanie and Lucy and critiques the way female characters have been represented from a male writer’s point of view and also examines why no female character has been given a voice. The story is about David who is a fifty two year old Professor of English Literature at a University in Cape Town; the

Disgrace as a novel explores colonialism and its aftermath by approaching various issues and themes, and some major ones are of body politics and the differences in experiences of the ‘post-colonizer’ and ‘post-colonized’. In this paper I will be looking at prospective analogies; the female body being a territory for colonial and post-colonial conquest and also the protagonist Lurie himself being symbolic of the colonial enterprise whose power exists in residual.