John Jurgensen’s article asks us an interesting question: how many TV series can our brains take? As television series expand to grandiose levels, it gets harder to follow what is happening: who people are, and what their place in the overall story is hard to follow for a large number of viewers. Jurgensen attempts to address this within his article, and it has some interesting points.
Heckling has transformed Emma through a new set of social values, a new medium and a different context. She shows the changed ideologies and values by transforming the provincial setting of Highbury and upper class (gentry) systems whereby wealth, property and status govern strict codes of behaviour and social relationships to a microcosm of modern Beverly Hills. In Emma, marriage is a social custom and expectation acting as a medium for security, financial assets, wealth and social status. Class systems made social interaction and experience limited with rank giving rise to insensitive, arrogant and pompous individuals like Emma and Cher.
Jack’s main goal wasn’t to get the boys rescued, it was to get the boys fed. All Jack wanted to boys to do was hunt. The group finally decided to put Jack in charge of hunting, since he had a strong opinion about it. Jack also felt that their should be no rules set on the island. Without rules, Jack wanted to have all the power and control over the boys. When Jack wasn’t voted leader, he became more and more vicious throughout the book toward the other boys. Jack wanted to feel like he had authority and control, and when he didn’t he ended up being very mean to the
With leaving the men, Jack created a space for him to find himself and to be who he has always wanted to be. Jack was so overworked while helping the men that he couldn’t function through life normally. Jack did his time with the men, he was too stressed to help efficiently, and he deserves the option to chase
In The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger captures struggle of Holden Caulfield with the fight between adolescence and adulthood. The story is told from the perspective of Holden Caulfield, who can be described as a rude, stubborn, not very intelligent and negative. Through the novel we see the world in Holden's eyes and his perspective because of the noel being written in first-person singular. The author also uses sentences nd the way they are written to express Holden as a person. The short sentences show anger and resentment for different things and the fragment sentences and incomplete sentences show adolescent and intelligent. Imagery is used to further promote the sensory experience for the reader. In the novel Catcher in The Rye, S.D. Salinger uses Holden's point-of-view, sentence structure and imagery to help the reader understand Holden as a person.
Once Jack becomes obsessed with his desire for power, he becomes uncivilized and immoral. This is conveyed when Jack brutally shouts to the littluns, it would “serve you right if something did get you” (83). Jack used his power in this situation to convince the littluns that they would be safe from the beast if they followed him. If Jack would have been less focused on power, and acted more as a true leader he would have comforted the young boys rather than screamed at them. In like manner, Jack uses his control to order the others to roll the boulder at Piggy. Jack could have invited Piggy into his shelter, but instead orders his death. Jack does this because of the rivalry that grew between the two of them. The rivalry caused Jack to do a corrupt act, all in the name of beating Piggy. If Jack could have gained control of this corruption, he would have realized that he could have used his power to save a life instead of taking one. Finally, Jack forces the group to divide at a time when they need to unite. Since Jack wanted to have power and not be under the rule of anyone else, he left the group and convinced others to side with him. Instead of staying and and assisting the group, he dissociates with them which consequently leads to even more of a haywire society. If Jack was able to gain control of his desire for power, and
Then I wondered why would Jack be trying to protect Lori Chang and luckily this was also brought up in our discussion. Reading the story, the first time, I didn’t pay much attention to Jacks
Jack explicitly attempts to overthrow Ralph as chief. Although Ralph successfully defends himself against Jack 's attack by calling the other boys ' attention to Jack 's shortsightedness and cowardice, Jack is resolved that he will take control. Jack 's refusal to accept the other boys ' decision serves as a reminder that Jack is still a child who considers life on the island as a game; he assumes the position that, if he cannot set the rules of the game, he refuses to play at all. This decision provokes the subsequent events of the chapter, which focus on Jack 's rejection not only of Ralph 's authority but of the entire pseudo-democracy on the island that had conferred authority on
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.” By B.R. Ambedkar who is a jurist, economist, and a Politician. People do many things to fit in with the cool friend group and in society. Why do people treat each other the way people do, why do people most of the time have more than one identity, and why do people want to change their identities.
Could you imagine living in a place that was always divided, and the blame for problems always being thrown around everywhere? The Outsiders, a novel by S. E. Hinton is the story of two groups of people: The Socs, which is short for Socials, and the Greasers. In the story both of the groups are surrounded in conflict between each other and soon leads to many bad decisions made by the groups. The character who is telling the story is a Greaser named Ponyboy whose life is very challenging as he goes through the rivalry between his gang and the Socs. Both groups face life and death situations as they encounter many battles between each other, while one or the other always end up on the top. In the novel, The Outsiders, the Socials are the cause for all the brawls and hostile attitude between each other.
Harper Lee shows us how broken or “fallen” the adult world really is in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The adults in the novel are responsible for their children and how they grow up, so they have to change to make a better future for them. Unfortunately, most of the adults in Lee’s novel continue on with their discriminatory and unruly behaviour and proceed to teach their children the same unjust and immoral ways of life they were taught. Lee feels that if adults continue to be closed-minded to new, better ways of life, to keep demonstrating racism and unfairness, and to keep teaching their children to have certain views for certain people such as women or “negroes”, then nothing is going to change and the new generation will be just as broken as the adults.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, was written in 1960’s based upon themes from 1930’s about racist and prejudice people. This relevant novel, despite its age still is associated with the English curriculum in contemporary Australian schools.
Accomplishment is measured in a variety of ways. It can be achieved through a game won, a skill mastered, or a lesson learned; it involves any sort of success, and it results in growth. In The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, Holden embodies an anxious, confused teenager who can’t figure out what his future will hold – usually stories like this involve some sort of growth, and result in a coming of age. Ironically, Holden’s only purpose is to resist maturity; throughout the book he grows and changes minimally, as a result of little to no success. Stuck in the middle of innocence and maturity, he is not able to apply himself to accomplish anything. In The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger employs stagnant symbols and the “Comin’ Thro’ the
To Kill a Mockingbird barely held my interest in part 1. I believe part 1 contained lots of facts and little action. The story in part 1 contained background knowledge of the town, families and characters. It is necessary to know all of that information, however background knowledge for 150 pages really discourages me from wanting to continue reading a book. I personally like a storyline that is presented in a series of books. While reading a series of books you are able to learn background, character and setting information as the series continues.