Human Dignity In The Butterfly Circus And The Butterfly Circus

The author also effectively supports his thesis through pathos. To evoke strong emotion in his readers, Jones appeals to the audience’s feeling of vulnerability in their youth. Recognizing that during adolescence most people feel powerless, he tells engaging stories of his own and his son’s rise to power through comic books to give the audience something to connect to. As these stories are told, readers reminisce about those days, and feel joy in knowing that there was a happy ending. The feelings created make the audience look positively at the essay and relate to it.

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.

Circus performers are people of great courage. They have to make a living out of entertaining people that pay good money to watch them and want to get their money's worth. They have a lot of pressure from that, as well as peer pressure from their fellow performers. Not only do they have pressure from that, they have to worry about the very acts being preformed from playing with swords and fire to hanging from a wire hundreds of feet in the air. If their not focused on what they are doing, they can be killed in a instant.

One’s behaviour can have an substantial impact on a society's outcome. There is a common notion that humans are nurtured to be peaceful and civil. However this belief is contradicted by the action of the boys, in William Golding’s, “Lord of the Flies”. A group of schoolboys are abruptly thrown out of their controlled and civil circumstances into an inhabited tropical island in the middle of the Pacific. The novel is Golding’s attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature, by using symbolism to delineate this theme. Golding’s extensive use of symbolism, such as the conch, the signal fire and the painted faces helps demonstrates the defects of society. These symbols are used by Golding to illuminate the subsequent effects on the boys’ behaviour, which undoubtedly illustrates the defects of human nature on society.

In our society, people are often cruel to one another in the want for personal gain, but this is restrained to mere social interactions and online in our industrial world. However, when we are separated from civilized society and the pressures that it places upon us, we are quick to turn to savage, cruel behavior to survive. Golding understood this idea, that we are only civilized when others are watching, and showed the possibility for even the purest to become affected by societal pressures in his novel, the Lord of the Flies. In order to show the role of cruelty in shaping the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding uses character archetypes, the idea of cosmic irony, and extended symbolism to highlight the inherent flaws of human nature and the potential for even the purest individuals to turn to cruel ways due to societal pressures.

The main themes of this book is not to far from the reality of every persons life. Not everyone has to live in a tyranny and fight for freedom to live but the fact is you still need to fight for something. Life is filled with struggles and that goes to different extents for different people. For the sisters in, In The Time of The Butterflies they had to go through an extreme part of their lives together and ended up not coming out the same. They were dependent on each other yet they were independent at the same time. The main theme I picked up from this book was the faith they had. The faith they had with each other, the faith they had to survive but most importantly the faith they had for themselves. They had faith as independent woman

Throughout the story there is circus imagery, which is significant to the story in several ways. A circus is commonly known for being the entertainment for a large group of people and is also characterized by a variety of acts and events designed to arouse the awe and fascination of the crowds. The young African-American men in the story are forced to participate in a variety of events designed for the sole purpose of entertaining the crowd of white men. This is effective because it is very compelling in the way whites used to treat blacks. They looked at them such as "circus animals" and felt empowered to do whatever they wanted, making them look like clowns.

This includes one’s looks, voice, or strength. To symbol all of these qualities, the story introduces the ballerina. Vonnegut says, “She must have been extraordinarily beautiful because the mask she wore was hideous. It was easy to see that she was the strongest and most graceful of all the dancers for her handicap bags were as big as those worn by two hundred pound men” (Vonnegut 3). This proves that the ballerina must hide her strength and beauty so she can be the average dancer. By being forced to hide these qualities, her rights are limited and she loses her freedoms. The government also thinks one's voice can be competitive, like the ballerinas. “She had to apologize for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use” (Vonnegut, 3). Both of these quotes show that the ballerina was once seen as a beautiful, intimidating strong woman, now, she is an average girl, the same as anyone

The themes of this story have negative influences on the reader. The first theme that is most prominent in the story is the danger of total equality. In the story it explains how the ballerinas have these weights on while there dancing and even have masks. Then people who has a higher intelligence have to wear an earpiece that sends out some sort of sharp noise every twenty seconds or so to stir their thoughts. But then Harrison on the other hand has to wear wavy glasses to blur his vision and that gives him massive headaches. And he wears a tremendous pair of earphones and carries three-hundred pounds. This creates the mood of a nightmare because people who are ‘above average’ get penalized and the people who have to wear them get extremely annoyed.

I really enjoyed going to the circus as a child but, I never knew how it was planned out. After reading my novel I’m surprised at how many problems a circus faces, even though it’s such an exciting place.

“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut is a short story about Hazel, George and their son Harrison, and how the society they live in impacts their live. It explores satire, symbolism and what it truly means to be equal, and is aimed towards the general public as a message about how society could evolve into a dystopia. The theme is how true equality is found in rights and social justice, not in removing personal attributes and qualities like beauty, strength and intelligence. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s use of symbolism effectively reinforces the main idea of the story. Throughout the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, ballerinas along with their masks were used as a symbols.

   In Liliana Heker’s story, "The Stolen Party," the young child Rosaura is hurt because she is a victim of a class structure which keeps the rich on the top and people like her and her mother at the bottom of society. By the end of the story Rosaura will have learned a very important lesson in class structure which, because it is so traumatic for her, she will carry with her for the rest of her life.

The life of a circus animal is hard and demanding. It is not an acceptable way of life for an animal. Circuses would quickly lose their appeal if the public were more aware of their mistreatments of these animals. Many circuses do not have much money and as a result the animals suffer from inadequate care. These animals spend most of their time in small cages used for transportation. The Animal Welfare Act provides cage requirements, but many circuses fail to follow this law. Even the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus was cited for 65 violations over a two-year period according to Florence Lambert. When traveling, animals spend hours, even days between sites in confinement..

Animals have been a main focus in circus performances around the world for many centuries; however, in recent history, there have been far more regulations put on the use of these creatures, stemming mainly from how they are treated by both their trainers and the circus as a whole. Whether it be on the federal or local and state-level, there has been a definite increase in the questionable legality of America’s circus industry due to the neglect and abuse of the participating animals, courts’ decisions highlighting the true importance of the issue. These rulings make one ask the question: What types of regulations could be put in place in all circuses to ensure that the animals involved are not abused in the process? In the end, many

You are casually taking a stroll near a bridge on a bright sunny day and you happen to stop to take in the gentle breeze and soak in the sun. To your right a middle aged man hops over the railing of the bridge and is now standing on the edge. You faint and you never find out the faith of the man. Not knowing what has happened to the man on the ledge, is how we’re left feeling at the end of Death and the Maiden, we’re left guessing at what has happened to Roberto and the state of mind that Paulina is left in. To figure out what Ariel Dorfman wants us to believe, it is important to look at Theatre of Cruelty and the ghosts of our past. Examined more closely, Paulina seems to be imagining Roberto’s presence in the concert hall.