Rape In The Roundhouse By Louise Erdrich

An emphasis on family is one of the central facets of Native American culture. There is a sense of community between Native American. Louise Erdrich, a Chippewa Indian herself, writes a gripping bildungsroman about a thirteen year old boy named Joe who experiences all forms of family on the Native American Reserve where he lives. He learns to deal with the challenges of a blood family, witnesses toxic family relationships, and experiences a family-like love from the members of the community. In her book, The Round House, Louise Erdrich depicts three definitions of the word family and shows how these relationships affect Joe’s development into an adult.

In today’s economy, it is a hard fact that many women will have to enter the workforce. In her article for The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t have it All”, Anne-Marie Slaughter examines the difficulties faced by women who either have children or would someday like to do so. Having given up on the task of holding a high powered government position while being the mother of a teenager, her kairotic moment, the author discusses the changes that would be necessary in order for women to find a real work-life balance. Although Slaughter 's target audience is primarily women who seek high powered positions, the article contains ample information that should appeal to both men who seek to balance the needs of a growing family with their work responsibilities, as well as workplace policy makers who could help usher in the necessary changes. Her goal in sharing her experiences is to argue that women can succeed at the very top level of their organizations, “But not today, not with the way America’s economy and society are currently structured” (Slaughter).

In the article, “The Torture Myth,” Anne Applebaum explores the controversial topic of torture practices, focused primarily in The United States. The article was published on January 12, 2005, inspired by the dramatic increase of tensions between terrorist organizations and The United States. Applebaum explores three equality titillating concepts within the article. Applebaum's questions the actual effectiveness of using torture as a means of obtaining valuable information in urgent times. Applebaum explores the ways in which she feels that the United States’ torture policy ultimately produces negative effects upon the country. Applebaum's final question is if torture is not optimally successful, why so much of society believes it

In poems such as “The Victims”, “The Unborn”, and “The Clasp”, Sharon Olds demonstrates her ability to portray real life problems through generalized speech to show family problems that lead to unhappiness. Throughout these poems, she makes the reader empathize with her and feel as if the poem is speaking directly to them instead of it being just the situations that she has gone through. In order to achieve this, Olds uses an honest tone to portray her common theme of pain by aloneness, abuse and loss.

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Automobiles are such a significant part of our culture today and have been for the past century as a whole. From the big screen to the pages of a book they can play seemingly important roles that cannot be ignored. Often times these vehicles can assume almost human like characteristics which can cause you, the viewer/reader, to develop a relationship with these inanimate objects whether they are the new, beautiful and sleek sports car or the old, ratty and beat-up truck. In Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible” there are many occurrences in which the state of repair that the Olds is in gives you the sense that it closely represents Lyman’s current feelings towards his brother and how these feelings change and evolve throughout the length of the story.

Bailey, Beth. Sex in the Heartland. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Every day I go on TV, there is at least one story or more relating to rape, assault towards woman, and of course violence. It is getting repetitive; as a result, more and more people are starting to brush it off their shoulders like a dust. Within rape culture, there is controversy on which it is to blame. The writers Walter Moseley and Rae Gomes write an article about the remedies for rape culture “Ten Things to End Rape Culture” and how it can create an atmosphere that enable both sexes to change for the better. In “Masculinity Is More Than a Mask”, Christina Hoff Sommers discusses the relationship between violence and masculinity when she critiques and analyzes a documentary based on the biological side of masculinity.

He explains how the mall obtains many of the visitors attention very quickly, which results in them remaining inside the mall for a much longer time than they planned to (Guterson 87). Guterson calls the mall “menacing” until he understands that it is only just a normal mall, the only difference from a smaller sized mall is that it has a lot extra to offer everyone. (Guterson

"Rape Fantasies" by Margaret Atwood is a comedic approach to a very serious, concerning topic. I believe what all of the fantasies discussed have in common is that the perpetrator seems to be mindless, sensitive, and easily manipulated to produce the outcome the fantasizer is desiring. Estelle also seems to be sympathetic towards her "rapists." I also noticed she seems to very degrading to herself and personal appearance of both her and the "rapists." For example, Atwood describes her rapist: "not only is he ugly, you know, with a sort of puffy nothing face, like those fellows you have to talk to in the bank when your accountʼs overdrawn—of course I donʼt mean theyʼre all like that—but heʼs absolutely covered in pimples" (Atwood). In some of

Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas manages primitive and present day societies, investigating different ways they sort out their social life through particular ways to deal with customs, earth, dirt, contamination and pollution. Partiality towards primitive societies as substandard can be ascribed to past methodologies, managing regular examples among them as opposed to their social structures. The beginning perspectives that primitive societies show trepidation and absence of comprehension since they need to manage the promptness of their surroundings have been disposed of. Through their way to deal with cleanliness and contamination, both outside and inner group structures are inspected. Most societies have method for insurance of their social

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, is a selection of fairytales which have been re-written by Angela Carter to place them in the modern day. Carter has taken seven fairytales whose “latent content” she says were “violently sexual”, (qtd by Robin Sheets, “Pornography Fairy Tales and Feminism” 642). The stories include a variation of classics fairytales such as “Bluebeard”, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Little Red Riding Hood” with sometimes more than one version of the same original tale, for example “Wolf-Alice” and “The Company of Wolves”. In re-writing these fairy tales Carter has given the new versions a specifically sexual content and focuses on the female protagonist,

Patriotism towards one’s home is the lie that resulted in the murder of over 17 million soldiers during World War one. The Great War was said to be the “the war to end all wars” but instead lead to mass slaughter. Many of us still dignify the war in glory and honour, however, in the eyes of the soldiers, war was never about glorifying, but to its absurdity, it was about promising death to those who took the chance.

Remember those times when your parents said to never talk to strangers? And because you were a good daughter or son, you obeyed what they said. However, what happens when you’re older and talk to strangers that are adults, expecting them to be mature and filled with righteous behavior, and figure out that you were wrong and now find yourself abducted from everything that you ever knew. Some people experience this trauma and never make it out to tell their tale, while others’ do, the story of Elisabeth Fritzl and Room are great examples of the latter.

In the world of literature and poetry, it’s typically not hard to find something written about a hero, or something heroic, like an epic. Epics are long poems, typically told orally in ancient times, about the adventures of a hero or heroine and their deeds. The Iliad should immediately come to the mind of any student proficient in western literature. Nonetheless, the themes and archetypes of these works known as epics are so well-known, that they are even parodied, take completely out of context, and pasted on the wall for laughs. One of the most recognized parodies of this kind would be Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock.