The Garden Party

The story begins with a beautiful day and blossoming flowers. Which gives the reader a sense of a light-hearted childrens story. “The morning of June 27th was clear and Sunny… The flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green.” What do you think this sounds like? Initially, it sounded like something I could read to my four year old sister.

Donald Justice wrote a poem called Incident in a Rose Garden, showing readers the true fact that life is nothing more than a vapor. It evaporates almost as quickly as it is made. However, there is beauty in it as well as surprise. He portrays this theme throughout the poem by using contrast and irony.

There are certain people who think we create our own destiny in life. They believe that we are born as equals, and we shape and mold our future based upon our choices. Then, there are others who believe our destiny is predetermined before we are even born. They think that greatness or failure is beyond our grasp, that the life of a human is like a roadmap, and every destination is marked for our arrival. As much as I’d like to believe that everyone starts life with a clean slate, his or her chances of success as equal as everyone else’s, I don’t think there is true equality at birth. Children are born into impoverished families, who require their kids to stay home and work rather than get an education. There are kids who are born into families of abuse, neglect, and harsh words. In society, we do not begin life as equals. “Beyond the Beautiful Forevers” by Katherine Boo discusses inequality throughout the entire story. Weather it is Fatima the one leg, women, or the poor trash collectors of the slums, Katherine provides rich insight into a society that is riddled with corruption, where nothing is equivalent at all. By showing how people are born unequal, Katherine reveals the true theme of the book; inequality throughout society.

“‘...There’s four kinds of folks in the world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbors, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes,’” (Lee 302). In To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem argues for the act that the poorer people in town were different because of how much money they had. Many people agreed and held a predetermined idea that people were different because of their social class. Class issues such as social prejudice occur in both To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. A person’s social class can largely affect how they are treated in society and what they can or cannot do.

In the world, equality is not given. Equality is earned, and often time is only earned after death. James Hurst’s “The Scarlet Ibis” is an excellent portrayal of how those who are unequal must try their hardest to find recognition as an equal. The story paints a picture of a boy struggling through life, only to die to unfortunate circumstances (Hurst 354). With only the knowledge of the story, the reader infers that the theme of “The Scarlet Ibis” is a story of guilt.

Society has been dominated for centuries by a relentless amount of distinctions that have separated mankind in nearly any area of life. From features to wealth, physical entities that define classes of people continually craft the world with an inherent structure that disables any two individuals from achieving equality. However, there is one event that shatters the confines of this rigid world. Death. However, Hurston attacks this notion of death as the great equalizer of the society as to depict a world where racism seeps into all aspects of one’s existence. After the hurricane in which Tea Cake and Janie worked tirelessly to escape its wrath, they are exposed to a world with a greater resemblance to hell than the place they once called home.

Quote: “There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.”

Life is like a lottery where some have the blessing of being born in a high ranking family while others are not, however, they both have the choice of using it in their favor or against it. In the stories by Kate Chopin and Arthur Miller, the main characters are set in a certain social classes which dictates their decisions and opportunities. In particular, Edna Pontellier is high in status and can do what she pleases whereas Abigail Williams must fight for what she wants due to her low ranking. Essentially both characters are different in class which really shows the difference in problems and opportunities they

The world we are living in, is unfair for all the people that are living here. The society today only notes the rich, famous, strong and the poor, weak are not getting notes by the people. I think the author of the book called The outsider is trying to tell us that life is not fair. My big idea life is not fair for the Outsider is just like the real world the rich is making problems for the poor like buying their homes, jobs, for their own use and making them go live in the street. S.E Hinton will proves that life is not fair in The Outsider. The character are going through some horrible and hard event in the story. Life is not fair is important to the novel because it is relate to the character are that are going through some hard time

If you live in America your life should be better, fuller and richer for everyone, but if you belong in the working class or the poor class, this might still be impossible. You might be able to have a job, a place to live, but you will not be able to have all the other resources the upper class has. For example, time off from work, vacations, education, or even afford you own house, this might be the biggest struggles for working families. This paper will examine how minorities in, “The Lesson “and “Volar” deal with the difficult effects of socioeconomic class. In “Volar,” Judith Cofer presents us with the image of the little girl dreaming about changing her appearance.

In this text I will be telling you about the marigolds. Once a few years ago a young girl lived in a small neighborhood when she was young and her and her friends used to hide in bushes and mess with Miss.Lottie. Lizabeth mother was never home because she was working. Her father was unemployed. The little girl was in her bed and she couldn’t sleep so she woke her brother up and put on some clothes and left. When she got outside she ran for a little while and she ran over to Miss.Lottie’s garden and tore them out the ground

They choose a quote that illustrates that people are naturally born unequal: “We know all men are not created equal...some people are smarter than others, some have more opportunity because they are born with it... Some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men” (274). However, men want to fix this hole that mars their small world and they patch this hole with societal equity where the ones at the “bottom” are aided in being brought to the “top”and those at the top are stagnant at the “top” making it seem as if everyone has equal opportunities. However, the problem with equal opportunities is that the group at the “top” faces many

In the article, “Life's Not Fair - Deal With It,” the author explains how life is not fair, but he also tells us that there is nothing we can do about it but keep on living. Furthermore, the author seems to have had experience in complaining to someone that life was not fair. In his article, there are brutally honest rules that he lives by, or he wants the readers to grasp onto and use throughout life.

In a perfect world we would all live together in peace. But we don’t live in such a world. In Liliana Heker’s story "The Stolen Party" we are reminded of the real world and the thin line that separates the lower class from the upper class. In an instant we see all the discrimination and inhumane treatment some people feel they have a right to inflict on those whom they consider "not one of them."

The poem begins with a man going to “turn the grass”. In this time period grass was cut using a scythe in the early morning, while grass was still wet. After this was done another laborer had to scatter the grass to let it dry. As the other laborer is going out to the field, there is no one else around him, he is completely alone, until a single silent butterfly crosses paths. The worker witnesses the butterfly looking for flowers, and eventually finds a gathering of them, which amuses the author. The author begins to ponder what was going through the other workers head to make him decide to leave the flowers intact. He begins to sense the beauty that the other worker must have felt when he left the flowers