Strangers On The Land Of Paradise By Lillian S. Williams

The author of Green Gulch conveys that when in a group, one can be overwhelmed by pressure that brings them to savage extremes. After being lost, a young boy joins a group of kids he has never seen before. The group is nice and offers to bring the boy home. They stop at a sanctuary of a pond. There is a turtle in the pond that is violently murdered by the boys after one decides to throw a rock. Then, the group turns on the new boy. They beat him maliciously and leave him stranded on the road to get home. As, the boy look backs he can’t think of what went wrong, “They stood in a little group watching me, nervous now, ashamed a little at the ferocious pack impulse toward the outsider that had swept them.” Obvious from the boys’ reactions, it was the fault of the group impulse. After the murder of turtle, the adrenaline and riot of the group caused them to turn on the next vulnerable target. They were not acting as they should have, and the realize that afterwards. They were nervous. Even though there is not immediately an adult around, they are nervous because society has conditioned them to behave. They are also ashamed. The shame shows that they are nice boys. They feel bad. This shows that the vicious group mind set was so strong that it came over there good personalities and conscious. However, there is only this slight remorse after the fact. This does not make up for the brutal murder and beating that they had dealt. Being in a group turned them into

Dolores Hayden is a poet, professor of urban studies at Yale University. “Urban History, a sense of place and the political space”. On Hayden memoir, she focus on three specific area. First, she argues, that a simple way to understand urban space is by identified cultural landmarks around us. “Place needs to be at the heart of urban landscape history”, for it is essential to what makes the geography related to the inhabitants of the city. Furthermore, Hayden believes a 'sense of place' is developed at an early age, therefore every human being has a unique sense of belongings. Lastly, she emphasize that each place in the city is connected to a social or economic reason for its existence.

In the beginning chapters of the book, we get a glimpse of the typical home and community of an African American during segregation. Many Africans Americans were too adjusted to the way of living, that they felt

Let the Circle be Unbroken portrays an african american family’s hardships against powerful white landowners and family tragedies. All in the perception of the strong-willed Cassie Logan. Let the Circle be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor is an enjoyable book with engaging characters, unpredictable plots, and an amusing genre.

The autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by Harriet Jacobs illustrates the life of a former slave in the South who was subjected to mental and physical abuse by her slaveowner and details her escape to eventual freedom. After living through a long and tumultuous life of enslavement and abuse at the hands of her master, Jacobs was eventually able to escape to the North and write an autobiography of the horrors and hardships she faced. The institution of slavery was a destructive system in which thousands of African Americans were separated from their families, forced to work hard labor, and abused

The literary works of a society contain an abundance of information concerning its culture in regards to the time period that they were written in. Many significant documents written in history have had a vital impact on certain civilizations . An example of this is the Xiao Jing, which is a Chinese treatise that throughly explains the concept of filial piety. The Chinese strictly adhered to and lived by the rules set forth in the Xiao Jing, therefore these written set of rules greatly the influenced the way of life, behavior, and beliefs of Chinese people. A major point covered in the Xiao Jing is the role and position women have in Chinese society. Women were considered slaves, and their purposes in life were to serve the men they belonged to. The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck is a novel that demonstrates the expectations and roles of women in Chinese culture through the characters O-lan and Lotus as their worths are determined by their abilities to work, bear children, and/or please their men sexually like most women in China.

In the beginning of the book, an odd scene was described. A mother was rummaging through the garbage, and this was described from the perspective of someone else. This person is the mother’s daughter. She is sitting in a taxi on her way to a party up the block when she lays eyes upon her mother. The author describes the daughters reaction by saying, “I slid down in my seat and asked the driver to turn around and take me home”(Walls 3). The daughter is literally ashamed of her homeless mother. This reaction is appaling to someone who is not in the daughters shoes. “After ducking down in my taxi so my mom would not see me, I hated myself - hated my antiques, my clothes, and my apartment” (Walls 3). Obviously, she regrets the feeling of embarrassment

About a decade ago my mother, sisters, and I had lived alone in a small apartment. Our meals consisted of frozen beans, rice, and occasional food given to us by our elderly neighbor, Brenda Gibson. Mrs.Gibson was an extraordinary woman who’d babysit my sisters and I while our mother worked the late night shifts at the local senior center. My mother had no choice, her regular shifts could only cover one-fourth of the bills, and because she spent her days working she never had time to spend with her growing daughters. I did not know it at the time, but my family was being mangled by the ice cold fingers of poverty, digging itself deep into our bones, and trying to suck out our happiness, a scene lived by many other families in our neighborhood. Although my family made it out alright, a question remains regarding the rest of America and the future of it’s struggling families. What are the characteristics of children experiencing poverty in America and how do their characteristics affect and influence their life choices? Not only was this question influenced by my own experience but also by “A Place at the Table,” a documentary directed by Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush, explaining and showing the connection between poverty and the economy.

Oppression is defined as, “the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner”(dictionary.com), and is found all around the world. There is essentially two parts to oppression: the oppressor, who is demonstrating his power by displaying cruelty towards the second part of oppression, the oppressed. The oppressed take part in offenses made by the oppressor, that usually contain a cruel, and unfair burden towards them. The world has demonstrated this profound relationship since human history first began, not only in their way of life, but in literature. For example, Geraldine Brooks, displays the oppressors, in her novel The Year of Wonders, by implicating strong men, and a powerful family; while the oppressed are

This passage is important to the book because it helps to explain Robert Cohn, how Jake Barnes see’s Robert, and it's a cliffhanger for events to come. The first and second chapter go into a lot of detail over Robert Cohn but this passage especially was put in the novel for a reason. This passage basically says that Robert is looking for direction, he doesn't know what to do with his life, and he has turned to this book, “The Purple Land”, for help. It also shows how Jake Barnes see’s Robert, Jake knows that Robert has been obsessing with this book and he knows that wherever this leads him to it is not going to be good. “The Purple Land” is a fiction book that talks of romance and adventure but does not necessarily have a happy ending. Ernest

To attain well-being in life one needs to surround themselves with friends and loved ones. Many researchers strongly believe that a person’s well-being can be directly affected by how many friends he or she has and also by the quality of the friendships. Most literature today uses friendship as a main topic because friendship is progressive and friendship cultivates other emotions and physical health. If we can understand how friendship affects someone 's well-being than we can make the world a happier place. It is easy to conclude from The Samurai 's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, and in life that friendships is essential for a person’s well-being.

The movie Flowers in the Attic follows the Dollangangers as they try and survive the abuse perpetrated by both their mother Corrine Dollanganger who is approximately 36 years of age, and their grandmother Olivia Foxworthy, who is approximately 60 years of age. Olivia is known by the children as the grandmother. The movie opens with what looks to be a normal American family in the 1960’s with two boys Christopher "Chris" Dollanganger, Jr., who is approximately 16 years old, Cory Dollanganger, who is approximately five years of age, and two girls, Catherine Leigh "Cathy" Dollanganger, who is approximately 14 years old, and Carrie Dollanganger, who is approximately five years old. The children’s father, who is later revealed to be their mother’s half uncle is killed in a road accident. Previously, the Dollangangers were a middle-class family but due to unfortunate financial circumstances were forced to sell all of their possessions, and move into their mother’s childhood home, Foxworth Manor. It is then revealed that their mother was disinherited by her father when she married her husband, and was exiled from Foxworth Manor for 17 years. On her arrival at Foxworth Manor Corinne and the children are met by her mother Olivia, and the children are told that they must spend the night in an upstairs bedroom, because their grandfather is ill with a heart condition and the shock of knowing that his daughter is there with her children may kill him. It is at this

This is a review of the movie called the “Israelite's” by Robey. In this movie, a guy said a dumb word to his girlfriend and he goes back in time to fix it but instead, he sweeps her off her feet and causes a knock-on effect. He says the idea of going back in time and fixing your parents’ marriage is far-back in the rear-view mirror unless your father was found buried in the basement. He criticizes the film and calls it more excited about going back in time and cheating the fourth dimension to win a lottery than fixing a problem. He links this film to Bradbury’s short story when the hunger steps on dirt and alter the future negatively. He has a good understanding of A Sound of Thunder and calls it “brilliant 1952 short story” and thinks that

Around the world, there are an overwhelming 143 million+ orphans children either in orphanages, foster care or roaming the streets. “When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you are taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.” which is say by Hilary Thayer Hamann whom is Anthropology of an American girl(Hamann). As the orphans in this society just like a wallflower. Orphans has a huge percentage in the total population in the world.

The setting of A Lost Lady is the beautiful prairies and flyover regions of the United States. These open areas of rolling hills, grasslands, and wildflowers are often overlooked, but are none the less a pleasant view, as well as an important part of America’s history. Another aspect of America’s history that is often overlooked, but not as pleasant, is the idea of gender roles and the objectification of women. In Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady, Mrs. Forrester is able to break through and overcome such objectivity that her husband, Captain Forrester, and her younger friend, Niel Herbert have placed on her.