The Is Not Always Better, And Favors The Underdogs

In this essay the idea of power is expressed by how much of an impact a powerful person can have on a powerless person. In Montana 1948, an argument occurred between two characters. One was called Wesley Hayden and the other was Wesley powerful father Julian. The

Historical events support the theme of Challenging the power structure in both Pleasantville and To Kill a Mockingbird because power can be defined by a structured system that is challenged by the urge for change within it. Stifled oppression and control leads to a need to challenge ”the system” and status quo. As this occurs progression becomes inevitable and irreversible.

The story “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” that’s written by Rebecca Skloot. The author talks about a story happened in the 1950’s, and it’s effects still happening. The aspect that controls the story is power of privilege. In all places, in all times, power of privilege is specified for people who called elite. They get this power to control situations, but it does not mean they all deserve handling this power. This power created to control everything and improve or develop it. It is just considered under the actions that seem like what Skloot mentions in the story, but this power is related to all things in our life. Now, let’s go back to the story, and see the effects of that power under the wrong usage. At that period of time, the power of privilege was controlled by whites. The separation that was between blacks and whites, and the arrogance that some white people had encouraged them to insult black people. Dr. George Gey is the one of the doctors who used their power to do something no one at that time knew it’s consequences, which is taking the cells. On the other hand, Henrietta whose cells were stolen with out her permission. Finally, the results mostly affected Deborah which is Henrietta’s daughter.

Power had a huge part on how people were treated back in the times of slavery. In the novel Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, an African-American woman named Dana traveled between the 1800s and the present to help her great-grandfather throughout his life while also trying to shape him into a better person in the racist society that he was in. One of the things she noticed was how power could dictate how people lived their lives, especially since slavery was prevalent in the area her great grandfather, Rufus Weylin, lived in. Dana, Rufus, and Alice were all characters whose power affected how their lives turned out and the choices that they made.

Everyone wants to be powerful right? Everyone has different thoughts and ideas, but what is it that makes us so powerful? As sad as it is, what makes us powerful is our class, gender and race theses three little things determine what people think of you. So say your Mayella, she is a white, low class woman. Then there is Tom, he is an african american, low class man. Mayella accuses Tom of rape and abuse but tom is crippled and even Mayella said her father did those things, but since tom was African American and mayella was white, she won the case. It wasn’t fair and it wasn't justice but that’s just how they lived. In a society that judged by race, class and gender.

Often time power can be understood as control of material resources and wealth, control of politics and the institutions that make up society (Hutchison,2015). It is important to recognize and identify the core concepts of power or lack of power with individuals in society. The conflict theory allows examination within the text of those who hold power and lack power. The end result of power to hold dominance over another person, group, or society. As a result of the control and power is causes those who lack power to be devalued or alienated from a setting or even society (Hutchinson, 2015).

Gaining power for some is never enough,because the lust for more is still there. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jody Starks seeks to gain power over others. Starks aims to be someone big and important. In the novel Starks seeks to gain power over the people of Eatonville and his wife Janie, he also seeks it in the face of death. Stark’s lust for power strains his relationship with Janie and with some of the town.

In The Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy accurately shows how the misuse of power and idealistic beliefs of acceptance can be catastrophic and even deadly. “My entrance to this marsh-haunted city is always filled with troubled meditations on both my education and my solitude during a four- year residence at the Institute. The city of Charleston, in the green feathery modesty of its palms, in the certitude of its style, in the economy and stringency of its lines, and the serenity of its mansions South of Broad Street, is a feast for the human eyes. But to me, Charleston is a dark city, a melancholy city, whose severe covenants and secrets are a powerful and beguiling as its elegance, whose demons dance their alley dances and compose their malign hymns to the side of the moon I cannot see. I studied those demons closely once, and they helped Kill off the boy in me”, (Conroy, 1). The Lords of Discipline is a well written story about Will McLean idealistic journey from a naive boy to the eye opening harsh reality of evil that was occurring in Charleston, South

In “Just Lather, That’s All”, as well as “The Lottery” we can view unfairness from a particular person’s perspective.

Henry ford, once wisely said,’’ History is more less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today’’. “The Lottery” and “Harrison Bergeron” are the best deprivation short stories. Harrison Bergeron” and “The Lottery” both reveal that it is human nature to blindly want a better situation without considering all the possible outcomes. Not just in these stories, but also in reality, people want to attain an equal society, although many people do not consider how everyone will become equal, in ‘’Harrison Bergeron’’ He is afraid of everything and try to enlighten to other member of society and In Shirley Jackson’s ‘’The Lottery’’ the story shows winning the lottery is bad, but in the lottery the lucky winner who draws the winning paper then gets the prize of being stoned death. Jackson uses Tessie Hutchinson’s character to condemn force. However, both stories are false equality and blind traditions but both societies while awareness is the difference between them.

In the novel, Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards paints a intricate picture of Lyle’s struggles with his father’s past mistakes and closes the passage with Lyle finally standing up for himself after witnessing his family being heavily discriminated against in the prior pages. These pages are plush with detailed diction, vast rhetorical devices and sentence structure.

McIntosh’s (1989) essay offers an autobiographical, but informative outlook on privilege and power. She provides examples from personal experience as well as exhibiting discussions that must be taken into consideration. Using the metaphor “unpacking an invisible knapsack” (1989), such debate includes the definition of unearned areas of privilege, and the contrasts between earned strength and unearned power. To reflect on the reading, an art response depicting the invisible knapsack is explored along with a summary that discusses its impact on certain groups.

Every person would like fair treatment but, in our communities, we find that some individuals do not get fair judgment regarding some issues. The topic of justice has been talked about by many individuals in our societies. Writers too have not been left out in telling about the same issue. Authors of different genres work very hard to try to help create a just society. These authors do so by using different themes in their works to let us see how our society is unjust and also what we can do to ensure justice is in practice. This essay discusses the topic of justice as displayed in the poem “The Colonel” by Carolyn Forche, the play. “No Crime” by Billy Goda, and the story “The Lottery “by Shirley Jackson.

Alice Walker, an American novelist, once stated that “the most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” In current society, power is everywhere, and everyone has at least has some control, no matter how ineffective they might feel. In the novella “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, the concept of power is represented on a ranch in the 1930’s. On the ranch, there is a group of outsiders- people who do not fit in- that consists of Crooks, a black stable buck, Curley’s wife, who is married to the powerful Curley, Lennie, a worker with a mental disability, and Candy, and old swamper. These outsiders are isolated and feel powerless compared to the rest of society. However, within this group of outsiders, power structures still exist and everyone has power in one way or another. Steinbeck, through the story of Crooks and Curley’s wife, teaches that no matter how powerless someone seems, they may still wield power over others.

Power and happiness go hand in hand. When one abuses power it reveal their limitations and perhaps inability to maintain power to help the greater good. One of these may be the differences in laws for those in a position in power and those who are not, and abuse occurs through moral differences in such society. "Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of