Jasper Jones Attitudes

In the first thirteen pages, the readers are formally introduced to three major characters of the book: Charlie Bucktin, Jasper Jones and Laura Wishart; Jasper Jones and Charlie Bucktin are both starting adolescents, Charlie is very naive and fairly innocent to the world around him, whereas, Jasper Jones is very much aware of the cruelness of the world around him and is, in some ways, a lot more mature than Charlie. The book is written in Charlie’s perspective, on page 30, (lines 20-21) Charlie says “everything has been rocked with such rigour and tumult. Everything has been uprooted and broken.” The quote itself shows that Charlie has been relatively

It is a natural part of human nature to long for the feeling of belonging, even if it means following a corrupt and unjust social regime. Craig Silvey weaves this idea into the novel Jasper Jones, in which the “half-caste” deuteragonist and protagonist Charlie Bucktin discover the death of the shire president’s daughter, Laura Wishart, and work together to find the culprit as to avoid the inevitable scapegoating of Jasper for this crime. Silvey’s implementation of the historical setting of the 1960’s introduces the themes of fear, racism within a social regime and scapegoating; these ideas relate to the racism present in Australia at the time, due to the reign of the White Australia Policy and the effect of the Vietnam War. By integrating these key ideas into the story of Jasper’s experiences with scapegoating, Silvey reflects on real-life examples of racism present in Australia during the 1960’s, as well as other developing nations, and how the need to impress others is the major drive for the wider

In Alexie’s story, the feeling of guilt and sympathy is overwhelming. In today’s society, a number of people still make assumptions about an individual’s characteristics based on their appearance, whether it is about their skin tone, clothing, or even hairstyle. Although some may be in situation similar to that of the 7-11 worker. “‘Can I help you?’ the 7-11 clerk asked me loudly, searching for some response that would reassure him that I wasn’t an armed robber” (183). The clerk is purely worried for the safety of

“The white man blamed who he wanted to when he wanted. One colored looked just like another. They would blame him. And Amber. Even many colored would not believe him if he said he’d chased the Devil himself. He would accept the consequences, he decided. He would lie on the matter if need be. Just so she’d be spared.”

William Gay’s short story, “The Paperhanger” does an outstanding job illustrating how social class, judgement, and deception effect the modern world. Today’s society relies on social class and appearances to gain opinions, which directly affects how people interact and treat with one another. Subsequently, this puts people at risk for deception because things are not always as they seem. While someone with a high social stature may appear honest and hardworking on the outside, their inner personality traits may be very different. On the other hand, someone who seems poor and nasty on the outside may loyal and hardworking on the inside. William Gay demonstrates the themes of social inequality, judgement, and deception through his characters’ interactions with one another. While each character in the story are equally important, some characters tend to think they are more important than others. This leads to social strife, inaccurate judgements, and cruel malicious deception.

Many times in society, people tend to create different stereotypes or view people as “different” or “unusual”. People are constantly judging before considering facts and other valuable information. Sadly, most victims that are being judged are wrongly convicted. The idea of judging and characterizing a person by how he/she looks, seems to be typical and common. Very few people in today’s day and age take the time to discover the true qualities of a person who may be convicted and is either behind bars or being judged for things they have never done. Sometimes, the people who are being as weird, inferior or irrelevant tend to become extremely important and even influential in books, movies and real life. Similarly, in Harper Lee’s novel, To

Statistics Canada estimates racialized groups will make up a third of Canada’s population by 2031; that is one in every three Canadians (Block & Galabuzi, 2011). With a number being estimated like that, racial discrimination should have been ended a long time ago; that is 1/3 of our future society being discriminated against! Racial discrimination negatively impacted people all over the world, and this is unfortunately true for today as well. Race is based on what we can see; someone’s physical appearance. Inequality between the races become prevalent when people are being treated differently purely due to which race they identify with. Over the years, problems with races and inequality seemed to have decreased rapidly, but has it really? Racial inequality has become prevalent today unfortunately, and it is not being talked about. We are just letting this ‘slip through the cracks’ instead of fighting for the rights of true, unbiased, equality between the races. Although racial discrimination is a sad reality in both Canada and the United States, it is statistically worse (more prevalent) in the United States. This paper will explain the unemployment rates in Canada and the United States between men and women, ‘resume white-washing’, and the wage gap between men and women, and the wage gap between Caucasians and the Visible Minority. It will also explain how your skin colour could negatively affect you in your own career just because of others bias’, whether conscious or

Bromley’s choice to use real-life situations serves as an excellent means of showing the ordinary occurrences in our day to day life that demonstrate the ways in which hierarchies of power affect our lives in ways we do not realize. She continues by bringing in the reader to the understanding of the belief that these everyday oppressions are acceptable as they are perpetrated by the people who possess “(…) the power to determine “normal”” (Bromley 2012). When Bromley brings

Often people question who they really are, this identity crisis can be confusing because no one is ever born perfect, instead we strive to live up to the standards believed to be ideal. However, the inflence others put upon ourselves can persuade us to forget the genuine intents we may have potentially leading living a lie. Many fall victim to regret from being mislead by people who mindlessly obey those who are deemed superior in the eyes of society. By analyzing the similarities and differences, Brother Dear and On Boy Trouble characterize the importance of having the courage to express ourselves in order to challenge the narrow views isolating each person into a basic set of traits and attributes. The works of Bernice Friesen and Margaret

Patton Oswalt's essay, “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to F%@k Up” (2016), argues that the freedom to make a mistake without having it affect the reputation of one’s peer group is integral to the improvement of humanity. Through excess use of repetition, Oswalt exhausts the reader through his provision of numerous present day and past examples of minorities making mistakes, having their peer group suffer from stereotyping as a result. By tiring the reader with similar examples phrased in similar fashions, Oswalt stresses the notion that it always has been and forever will be ridiculous and ignorant to make assumptions about entire groups of people, as a single individual never characterizes the masses, in order to evoke possible change. Oswalt

Multitudes of individuals’ are convinced of the idea that the world is a minor step away from achieving equality for all. Unfortunately, individuals often overlook various occurrences of inequitable treatment in their own lives; due to their modernized outlook on fairness, as well as what the term “being fair” truly stands for in society. Throughout the social justice unit, several short stories as well as seminars in particular have created a substantial impact on my perspective towards the contentious topic. These distinct works corroborate the adverse reality of the fact that oppressing others due to eminence as well as stereotypical views often generates prejudicial treatment towards the subjected individuals. The theme established is clearly illustrated throughout three specific pieces discussed in class, which includes the war/dictatorship seminar, the women’s equality seminar, as well as the short story “Harrison Bergeron”.

Our social world, with its rules, practices, and assignments of prestige and power, is not fixed (….) By writing and speaking against them, we may hope to contribute to a better, fairer world (Delgado et al. 3)

“He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face” Mr. Hooper earns himself a spot as an outcast in society after his newly worn black veil creates uneasiness among townspeople. Hooper’s new appearance is not up to par to with the standard of a gentleman's’ appearance. Therefore, opinions amongst townspeople take a drastic turn, and become grim and unpleasant. It is evident that the standards in society have a great effect on people. They can make people behave in many different ways. For some, this may turn them to become rebellious. For others, they alter their personalities, or even resort to isolating themselves. That is, society can transform the process of how we think and the decisions we fabricate.

The way of thinking and the lifestyle people live is greatly influenced by the place they were raised or the environment they live in. People feel like they are forced to think just like the people around them. If the society a person resides in has a high standard of living, the person is forced to have his/her high standard of living or else he/she will be ignored in the public eye, or even in their own family. There have been many novels written about how when a person moves into a new environment it influences’ the way they think and the feel like they aren’t normal so they cope and adjust to fit the standard of the people around them, which sometimes

Since we were little,  we have been  taught how to write in a “standard” form. In “standard” form we were told not to use any personal experience and or any kind of opinion. Standard written English refers to the preferred form of English which is written according to prescriptive authorities, in relation to writing rules means it needs to be professional and acceptance to the academic world, associated with publishing houses and schools. If we do use any of these, the writing won’t be standard any more, it will look very unprofessional and informal. We are introduced to standard form of writing in high school because those are some of  the most