In Hate List, Jessica’s feelings of lack of control over her social life are masked by her confident public persona. What Jessica desires is to be in control and she sees an opportunity to achieve this within the popular group of Garvin High School. Jessica earns her position within her clique by being demanding. She scrutinizes students at school, and her dominant demeanor gives her control over the behaviour of her peers. Although Jessica plays her part exceptionally well, Valerie is able to see through the facade. During a conversation between Jessica and Val, Val gets a glimpse into Jessica’s private persona saying, “The confidence was gone, the superiority was missing - all replaced by this weird vulnerability that didn’t look right on her,” (Brown 215). When Jessica’s public persona is stripped away, she is vulnerable. What Jessica desires is control, and without it she feels just as insignificant as those she picks on. By developing a public persona of a confident teenager, Jessica hides her own insecurities, and controls the lives of people around her. Both Alex and Jessica desire a sense of control in their lives, so they create a confident, outspoken public persona that allows them to achieve their desire. Without their public persona, both Alex and Jessica are just as vulnerable as those they appear to have control over. By using her judicial persona at home as well as at work, Alex is able to gain a false sense of control over Josie which should satisfy her
The Shadow of Hate helps illustrate the evergoing history of racism that is portrayed within the United States. It emphasizes that since the beginning of United States history to the present day, racism still remains a critical topic that many individuals need to be informed about. While this film talks about racism in the United States as a whole, it goes deeper in pinpointing specific racial groups that received the cruelest treatment throughout U.S. history. Once finishing the film, I found myself mesmerized by the fascinating stories and clear depiction on how the severity of racism has had an impact on the past as well as how it will influence the future. It truly shows that racism is still prominent in society, considering people from the past condoned to this type of behavior. When finding the points made throughout the film, I was able to categorize them and look at them through all three sociological perspectives- the interactionist, the functionalist, and the conflict paradigms-to understand the deeper meaning behind them.
Throughout life, people face many dilemmas, when they overcome these obstacles they portray part of their personality. This is seen in the novel Hate List, as Valerie is being judged, tormented, and degraded by people in her town after the shooting in Galvin High. She is determined to put the past behind her and learn new traits about herself she never knew of. A theme that is shown in the novel Hate List, written by Jennifer Brown is, a person’s emotions and thoughts can be faltered depending on how they respond to the conflict they have come across. In the novel, Hate List, after the shooting Valerie Leftman felt overwhelmed she wanted to forget the shooting and help others by painting and speaking her emotions.
In the book The Hate List by Jennifer Brown, the story is told from the point of view of Valerie Leftman, the girlfriend of Nick Levil. Nick shot multiple people in their school and injured more. Valerie unknowingly helped him create the list of victims. I think the book could have been as interesting if it was told from the point of view of Ginny Baker. Ginny Baker was shot by Nick in the face. She had to have multiple plastic surgeries to reconstruct something that even remotely resembled a face. “’I can’t sit here without thinking about… about…’ she sucked in a breath and then let it out with a stream an anguish that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. ‘Why did they let her come back?’” (Brown 69). Ginny is traumatized by the
Confucius once explain that, "An Oppressive government is to be feared more than a tiger". Ideally, a political system that has been formed on hatred and torment is a system that will be feared enough to be followed, but not forever. George Orwell 's 1984 was published in 1949 during the heated conflict of Word War II and consists of a government known as the Party which symbolizes the totalitarian governments of the war. This fictional novel depicts Orwell 's hypothesis of what the world would eventually be like if the totalitarianistic governments of his time we 're not abolished. The novel itself does not clarify the fall of the hate-driven Party, but the appendix describes the eventual death of this government. Much like Nazi Germany and Communist Russia of World War II, the Party is fictional proof that a government developed off of hate and fear would become painfully immoral and inhumane but would never infinitely survive.
The author of Hate List, Jennifer Brown, used many interesting writing techniques to add a unique touch to the novel. The novel is about a girl named Valerie Leftman who must deal with the aftermath of a school shooting that her boyfriend, Nick Vel, caused. Before the shooting occurred Nick and Valerie had a list of people they hated called the Hate List. Unfortunately, this was the list that Nick used that day to pick his victims. Although she wasn’t the one pulling the trigger, Valerie had some contribution to the shooting due to the list. This causes her to have grudges going back to school and trying to fit in with the crowd.
The title is significant to the plot for a number of reasons. For example, at the beginning of the book an article from the ¨GARVIN COUNTY SUN-TRIBUNE¨ this article explained what happened May 8th, 2008. May 8th, 2008, was the day Nick Levil decided to shoot people who were written down on a list… The ¨Hate List.¨ The ¨Hate List¨ was a list Valerie Leftman began to make in a red spiral notebook, all about the things she hated. People, food, places, objects, weather… In chapter 10 Valerie meets the ¨staff physiatrist at Garvin General.¨ (Dr. Dently) She is then forced to answer questions in order for Dr. Dently to evaluate her. After questioning Valerie is forcefully placed into a wheelchair and taken up to the
The theme hate is present in all the stories that we read this semester. Every story has an overwhelming amount of hatred, all hatred of another race. There is no other reason for the hatred other than the race they are. The goal they have is to mock or hurt or kill the others for being exactly who they are, and they can’t help it. I will talk about all the stories we learned about in this class and how this theme made it the book that it is.
After reading The Hate U Give, my eyes were opened to the struggles that people face in “ghettos”. Before reading this book, I never thought how awful it can be to be stuck there and not be a part of the gangs, drugs, and crime. Starr is stuck in Garden Heights even though she frowns upon all of the shady dealings that occur around her. I know many people that look at residents of not-so-nice neighborhoods and automatically assume that they are just another gangbanging “hood rat” (a term I’m heard a lot). I know many people who do not act and despise people that act in such a manner and this book showed me how they deal with these stereotypes put on them.
Have you ever encountered a racist person? Well in the book "The Hate U Give” is about racial profiling and shows police brutality, which has been happening recently. The author of the book, Angie Thomas, shows occasions in her book that relate to real life events. In her book, the main character, Starr, deals with the loss of her 2 friends, one of whom dies due to police brutality. This essay will show how literary elements such as dialogue, conflict, and symbolism are used to explore the theme of racism.
“My Life After Hate” by Arno Michaels is a phenomenal book that portrays the journey of a lost,rebellious teen into a guilty,respectful man. The story of Arno Michaels exemplifies a honest, explicit story of transformation with the discovery of basic human goodness.In this biography, readers are able to feel the emotions of what it takes to completely turn your life around from racist skin head to loving father. Readers get a clear look into Arno’s reflection of his dreadful past with all the hateful and immoral crimes he committed. One can see that it was not an easy thing to do, and
“If I quit being a skinhead, I have nothing. I am nothing. ”(The Seven-Stage Hate Model: The Psychopathology of Hate Groups 2003) Hate groups, something even more vicious than gangs, are not motivated over money or goods but motivated by hate. There is one other thing that differentiates gangs and hate groups, hate group’s recruiting can rely on children. If they can influence one child into a hate group, that child can influence many others into what almost seems like a gaping black hole.
Gibbs gave the world a new perspective on Jessica Lynch, a view of the Jessica no one knew, the private version, the one that was hidden away from years of being in the service, the version of herself that was reserved only for her family and friends. The world met the real Jessica Lynch through this article. The author tried to make Lynch by originally calling her Jessica, and then shifting her name to Jessi, giving her a more human aspect.
She had been inside her room by then, for three months” (Findley 76). This is clear evidence that Jessica has isolated herself for prolonged periods of time. These periods of isolation, have caused various issues within social situations, since she does not know how to properly react. Extreme mental and physical isolation has various consequences on one’s mental health that it expressed through their thoughts and behaviours throughout both pieces of literature. It is clear that Jessica is unable to function within society. To be considered able to function and contribute to society as an individual, one has to be able to communicate to others. However, Jessica is unable to do so and Hooker learns this through a conversation he has in town:
The criminological theory that makes the principal thought out of the "High Tech Crime Operations" abhorrence program is the rational choice theory, and all the more completely the general deterrence theory. For this situation, the rational choice theory can be utilized for the repugnance program to lessen malefaction and in addition add to the program's adequacy. As indicated by Siegel (2015), the rational choice theory is built up on the origination that people can predicate their choice on sane estimation, along these lines demonstration objectively when choosing to increase either for benefit or delight. On the off chance that the advantage is far more prominent, along these lines the apparent hazard is small, the likelihood of conferring
•I don’t let someone else dictate my relationships. Most people are actively involved or interested in having or maintaining a romantic relationship. I date until I find a partner worth investing my time, energy, and effort into. I don’t entertain a partner who belittles me, disrespects me, or attempts to control every aspect of the relationship. I don’t have enough time to be dealing with the kind of people who try to confine my life or control me in any way, shape or form. I don’t stay in toxic relationships. The law of attraction usually means that strong, independent people should flock with other strong, independent people. However, sometimes I find myself with other people who are dissatisfied, petty, angry, or just generally toxic. I never let the toxic actions of another person affect me — whether they’re a random coworker or a close friend. Hanging around in a toxic friendship or relationship is never a good thing and is something I strongly avoid.