Reality In Spike Jonze's The Circle

The theme of The Outsiders is that everyone can rise above what others expect from them. This is relevant throughout the book when Johnny and Ponyboy save the kids from the burning church, when Randy doesn't want to fight or hate the Greasers anymore, and when Johnny stands up for Cherry and Marcia.

As the story comes to an end, Dee proves to her family that she has moved on from her background. Social movement has affected her by putting her past and ethnicity behind her. Dee lives a life where Mama and her younger sister Maggie do not take part in. Moreover, Dee and her family, Mama and Maggie, could not get along. In that story, Alice Walker's message alerts us that social movement can negatively affect a person, as they can be embosomed by a new culture

She had to go through all of that stuff because her father was a drug dealer. This theme is important to this story because when she tried to visit her dad in the prison. The guards had told her that her father was nothing but a piece of “sh**” and he won’t never get out to provide for his family. She also had to sell her body to get money to put on her father’s books to try to get him out. She said in the book that even though she is by herself, her father always told her that she should be strong because she is just like her mother. The theme made this book more enjoyable to read because it always came with surprises and you never wanted to put it down cause you always wanted to wonder where Winter was going to end

She moves out as a result of her husband abusive character. She tries to get accepted into the society that already has a misconception about her. That she is promiscuous. She was raped by her teacher, which is the reason of her early teen pregnancy. The society judges her as having no morals without the knowledge that her early pregnancy was as a result of the conflict that was directed toward her.

In the beginning of the story you start to get the feeling that the narrator views her daughter Dee as the person she always wanted to be but couldn’t. The narrator often contrasts her physical body to her daughters, and also her intelligence. She looks at Dee as the future she can never have. Towards the end of the starts to see her daughter as the future she no longer wants to live in. Dee views herself as someone who is better than her family. She believes she’s the future that got

The theme shows the challenges and the choices that she had to make along the way. The ill treatment from the people that she encountered made it even rougher for her given her old

The loss of her family plantation marks a loss in the Old Southern ideals she grew up with and results in her desperately holding onto her beauty, which is ever fading. The suicide of her husband has a lasting impact on her outlook on life as she places the blame on herself, which causes her to become reluctant about letting go and

She gained high standards and her educational opportunity came with a cost, she lost her perception of heritage, background, and identity. Dee has no deep regard of anything about her background. Maggie, in a different manner, knows no other life but he one she is living. Having no educational opportunity and knowing the bare minimum of reading. Alice walker does this on purpose to show a comparison. While Maggie’s is being mentally harmed by the lack of education. Dee journey on receiving a better education has led her to isolate away from her

She is isolated from any outside influence by the location of her ranch. She is also isolated in another sense by her husband. She tries to show an interest in the daily happenings with the ranch business but is met by condescension from her husband. She is shown no real attention or appreciation by her husband and this lack of notice puts her in a position of feeling unimportant. Then, these circumstances coupled with the fact that she has no children place her in position of feeling as if she has no real purpose.

As the professor of psychology, Susan Krauss Whitbourne states, “A strong identity emerges not only from this conscious contemplation of your life's purpose but also from successfully resolving the developmental challenges that characterize the previous childhood years" (Whitbourne p.1). It is through these developments, a person is able to know their ability and analyze the path of which they take, creating a sense of purpose. In Everyday Use, we are presented with the choice of our characters to find one's self and the introduction of the quilts, that must be given to one of the daughters. Unlike Maggie who is able to create the 'hype-e-nation', Dee is an isolate being of whom “had a style of her own: and knew what style was” (Walker p.2), Dee was also educated at a school in “Augusta”(Walker p.2). From a young age, Dee was different, such when she was “standing off under the sweet gum tree” (Walker p.2) off to the side while Maggie was in the mother's arms and burnt during the fire. It is seen that the more educated Dee becomes about the outside world, she slowly separating not only from her family but from her true sense of self. As the mother discuss, “[Dee] use to read to us without pity; forcing words, lie, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice” (Walker p.2). With knowledge comes the

After reading Turn of the Screw, I found the experience and life of Miles and Flora very interesting because they were different from the other children and the situations they got into were absurd. In my opinion I believe the ghosts were real because the behaviors that the children exhibited were abnormal and strange. For example when Miles went outside the mansion at night, it was strange that he was not afraid to go out alone at night and his only response when the governess asked him to tell her the truth was that he wanted to show how naughty he could be. A strange situation that happens with Flora is how she sings the song to Miss Jessel, but when the governess confronts her and tries to make her admit she sees someone she refuses. Overall,

This leads the reader to assume that this story is not at all fiction, however based exactly on what she went through. When the reader assumes this, the book takes on a realistic quality, helping the reader relate it to his or her own life. This method of realism is quite effective throughout the book, when the name Wal-Mart comes up in the story, it brings the reader into the story as that name is popular nationwide, and because it is real. After all, who has not been to Wal-Mart?

Most of the time Mae is found at The Circle campus what she considers and on multiple occasions called “Utopia”. On some occasion Mae does leave the The Circle’s campus and goes home to visit her mom and dad. These trips are the only real glimpse we see of the world outside the Circle. As well it gave us the introduction of Mae’s ex-boyfriend Mercer. He is the only character throughout the whole book who opposes the Circle’s increasing foothold in society. The Circle’s obsession for transparency through social media and the internet clashes with Mercer’s lack of usage of the internet.

In “The Year of The Yuppie”, Yuppies are described as people who subscribe to the new idea of becoming young upwardly mobile urban citizens. They subscribe to the lifestyle of new, the lifestyle of success. They do so at the expense of having a family or a large home; however, they have agency. In “The Circle”, we see a society that is forced into the new lifestyle of being monitored all the time, without agency or consent. Much like in the Yuppie culture where not having

The company gives an advertisement for “registered nurses, credentialed teachers, and a few other skilled professionals who would be willing to move to Olivar and work for room and board.” (120) While many, like Lauren's stepmother Cory, see this as a solution to their problems and rush to apply, others are wary. Lauren thinks that the salaries offered would not be enough for the employees to live on and that they would end up in debt slavery – “That's an old company-town trick – get people into debt, hang on to them, and work them harder.” (121) – and her father calls the concept “half antebellum revival and half science fiction.” (122) This being a common trope in science fiction is referenced in the novel in what Allen calls a “metatextual moment.” (1357)