Similarities Between Ma Joad And Tom Jod In Carl Sandburg's The People

In Ray Bradbury’s fictional novel about the horrifying future, he discusses topics that, politically and socially, can relate to Judith Ortiz Cofer’s short story; The Paterson Public Library. These two pertain to each other because both Bradbury’s and Cofer’s characters are afraid of situations that involve books. Though they do compare in many ways, there are also differences between the stories.

For example, when King says “When you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society”, he is portraying how racial injustice is constantly sinking America and its citizens into dangerous circumstances. His main goal here is to convince the Clergymen to see into the eyes of a African American and get a real sense of oppression they felt at the time, often at the expense of white entitlement. King demonstrates his ability to inspire his fellow civil rights activists, raise empathy in the hearts of white conservatives, and create passion in the minds of the eight Clergymen to which the letter is directed. While King uses this metaphor to make one of the stronger points in his argument, it is clear that within it he is appealing to pathos or the reader’s own sensibilities. The images of black men suffering at the hands of the lynch mobs are so strong and vivid that they cannot help but provoke a sense of empathy and shock over such conditions. In addition, he does a wonderful job describing the atrocities of racism and prejudice in his description of fellow black men being smothered in an “airtight cage of poverty”. To the reader, this brings to mind the thought of being constrained within a way of life that is inescapable because of racism. Furthermore, as

In describing the land, Steinbeck is showing humanity is continuously immersed in a struggle of good versus evil; he suggests “the way in which this sense of opposed absolutes rises from deep within man, representing something profound and inevitable in human consciousness” (Owens).

Cullen utilizes imagery throughout the poem, to illuminate the racism African Americans endured and impact racism carries. The speaker in the poem is an eight year old in Baltimore. In the first stanza, Cullen describes the child as “heart-filled, head-filled with glee.” This image portrays the speaker as innocent and joyful. Then the speaker notices a boy staring at him, the speaker believes there’s little difference between them, that the kid “was no whit bigger.” The speaker gets a rude awakening after the boy “poked out his tongue.” A seemingly playful meaningless gesture is met with the boy calling the speaker “N****r.” Cullen contrasts these two experiences because it depicts how racism comes out of nowhere and effects those you wouldn’t expect. The last stanza, the speaker “saw the whole Baltimore. The image of seeing is not just visual, but a metaphor for the loss of innocence where the speaker now is exposed to the hate. Cullen masterfully uses imagery so that readers understand the incredible impact that words have, especially when used for hate.

In this speech, the narrator gives an emotional message about dispossession. Not only does he discuss dispossession, but he also talks about the crowd following the law and needing to organize a leader. It was brought up due to a couple being evicted out of their apartment. This speech was a success because his words had a powerful effect on the audience and caused them to become angry. In addition, the narrator got the crowd to do what he wanted them to which was take back the belongings of the couple being evicted back into their apartment. In order for a speech to be effective, it must have a large impact on the people listening. He used an emotional appeal that made this speech the most effective and allowed for the crowd to actually listen. When ranting about the couple to the audience, the narrator states, “Should two old folks live in such junk, cooped up in a filthy room? It’s a great danger, a fire hazard! Old cracked dishes and broken-down chairs. Yes, yes, yes! Look at that old woman, somebody’s mother, somebody’s grandmother, maybe” (277). He is appealing to the crowd’s emotions in order for them to feel bad for the couple and have a strong feeling of displeasure at the occurrence. The narrator succeeded in doing so because the people were outraged and returned the couple’s belongings back into her home. The narrator says, “Look at them, not a shack to pray in or an alley to sing the blues! They’re facing a gun and we’re facing it with them. They don’t want the world, but only Jesus” (279). Furthermore, he used an emotional appeal to rile up the crowd. It was an effective speech for that reason. The narrator’s words were able to have an influence on the audience. Also, the eviction speech was a success because Brother Jack was very pleased with it and invited the narrator to join the Brotherhood. Evidently, it has been expressed that the eviction speech was most effective

Trying to prove that he has just as much understanding on the matter of injustice and racial discrimination, if not extra. King then appeals to emotion or pathos by explaining the sufferings; his community has passed through. He says, “When you has seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim.”, moreover, “when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, and even kill your black brothers and sisters.” In this sentence, he is exercising subversive words like “vicious mobs” an affinity such as “lynch your mothers and fathers." Through practicing this kind of vocabulary and sentence construction King is making them envision and feel what he had seen his family and friends go through in difficult times. Throughout the entire paragraph that uses this kind of sentence structure and vivid imagery, the readers begin to feel King’s position, pain, and struggles he had to go through. It is an impassioned paragraph that uses

King is able to unify the protesters, encourage them to rise up together, and defeat the atrocity of racism by alluding to their anguish through personification and imagery. For example, King recognizes that “the nation is sick”(King 2). King assigns human qualities to the nation in order to comment on the offenses committed against the African Americans by the people of the nation. These offenses remind the audience of their common struggle and unify them. In doing so, King reveals that this is an issue but it can be resolved and the audience can heal the nation as they would a human being. Imagery in King’s speech also develops the intensity of the distress African Americans face. To illustrate, King describes “thirteen hundred of God’s children here suffering, sometimes going hungry, going through dark and dreary nights” (King 4). This gut-wrenching image causes the audience to feel immense sorrow and anguish for the African Americans depicted. These emotions are uniform in every member of the audience and thus unites them on an emotional level. A pathetic appeal is integrated into King’s argument to stop this pain and

For example, O’Brien starts the story off writing, “One morning in late July, while we were out on patrol near LZ Gator, Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen got into a fistfight.” This exhibits that the passage is written in an omniscient point of view. The author then explains how after Dave Jensen left Strunk in a splint and covered in gauze, “Jensen couldn’t relax. Like fighting two wars he said.” The anger and fear of Jensen can be compared to that of the writer of the poem. In the end, Jensen breaks his own nose and goes to Strunk to ask him if everything was square between them. Strunk responded by saying things were already square. This shows that Dave had been eating himself up inside over nothing. Although the passage is written from an omniscient perspective instead of first person, it also creates the central idea that building up anger and fear can lead to awful

“I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look—wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there,” a quote said by Tom Joad from John Steinbeck’s novel Grapes of Wrath. Written during the great depression, John Steinbeck depicts a Oklahoma family traveling to California for work after losing their farm. The main character Tom Joad is first seen as caring only for himself and his family. By the ending the novel Tom has grown from caring about himself to caring and seeing the whole world as his family.

The poem lacks many of the inclinations that Koch discusses in Chapter Three. O’Hara almost puts away all personification and lies to make sure that everyone pays more attention to the emotion. He uses these emotions to ensure the

We all may be free, but many of us still feel as though we are trapped due to our history, with all the experiences and things our families had to go through and puts a big influence on even people today, especially back then since the world was evolving from cruel events in history. The comparison of the Harlem Renaissance and the Postmodernism is that they both have many poems and stories that show examples of symbolism and imagery. In the poems that show symbolism and imagery are “If we must die” by Claude Mckay, “I, Too” by Langston Hughes in the Harlem Renaissance, and “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner and “Cool Tombs” by Carl Sandburg in the Postmodernism. In both the Harlem Renaissance and in the Postmodernism, they use life experiences that have happened to people in the past during those historical times in history. The Harlem Renaissance was many about the slavery time period, when the white man would have slaves to make them do all the work such as in the field or in hard labor carrying heavy

Among his “praises,” for example: “When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went” (24). In this, it becomes clear to the reader that you do not want to be an average citizen; you do not want this to be your elegy. Some critics argue this, however, as Auden stating that there is nothing disgraceful in being unknown. The poem is, above all, a satire of the way conformity hinders the individual and leaves ridiculous and solely external distinctions between human beings.

Kevin Gilbert’s The New True Anthem shows a voice of protest through the quote “The scarred black bodies writhing humanity locked in chains which shows the poetic techniques of alliteration. This quote is aimed at the Aboriginals. This quote emphasises that the owners of this land, The Aboriginals are being killed and locked up in prison. Kevin Gilbert is an Aboriginal and is fighting for his people’s rights. This show the importance of a voice as Kevin Gilbert sees how Aboriginals didn’t do anything wrong and are getting treated poorly/ The use of alliteration further justifies that a voice of protest is important in society as brings out confidence for others who want to speak out but just can’t.

With the people of The United States of America categorized as the audience, King speaks to people of all races and ethnicity. This discriminated audience included the grasping appeals to the ethos, pathos, and logos. As each appeal is fully informed of the rhetorical purpose, King finds a way to encourage all three. Through several metaphors and types of imagery, he makes the decision to speak to all of the appeals in order to accomplish to need for change. Clearly aimed directly at the hearts of blacks and making the whites feel ashamed of their actions brought together a turn in society as they knew it. This specific structure geared towards the audience was the main reason why King impacted Americans across the country and not just at the march. These different appeals mixed within the audience to help King influence his purpose of racial equality as each type of person could relate to his moving words.

The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the film Gone with the Wind share an exuberance of similarities whilst using the perspectives of both a slave and his master. They both, in detail, show that slavery was extremely popular and successful in the Southernmost states in the US. It was indeed considered a lifestyle of many in the nation. In the eyes of author Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind was the “Southern response to the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Mitchell depicts life in the South as a nirvana for highly profitable Caucasian southerners on their plantations where African Americans were more than happy to take a subsidiary role to satisfy their owners. It was an inaccurate portrayal of the time period. On the Other hand, Uncle Tom’s Cabin told the horrifying, but true story of the brutal slavery that took a toll on the South. Although these two works show very different perspectives and tell two totally diverse stories there are many similarities to be shown.