The Lin Family: Who Is Being An Individual?

Robin Williams had three boys walk around the courtyard. At first, they went at different pace with different strides in different directions, yet somehow, they all mimicked each other and looked like soldiers marching. The students on the sidelines all started clapping to the beat of their feet, one after the other until everyone was doing it. (Dead Poets Society, “Conformity”). This shows how the problem of conformity is so subtle: they did not even realize they started following each other; the ones on the sidelines all clapped because they saw others doing it, all the while thinking they would have walked differently from the others. They only acted differently when prompted to, meaning it is difficult to break societal norms so deeply ingrained in our daily lives (Dead Poets Society, “Conformity”). This analogy is a perfect method of depicting how conformity seeps in and the difficulty to be unique when one is alone. By not being their true selves, they would not know their own potential and what they could accomplish, which is why there is such negative connotations with

Individualism: Individualism is the term that refers to the ways in which people identify themselves and focus their goals. Individualism gives priority to personal goals as opposed to the goals of a group or society. Once the men have stepped off the bus on Parris Island they give up every aspect of individualism, they are stripped of all valuables and given the same clothes and haircut which they will wear for the remainder of time. American cultures which are seen almost daily are the ability to voice your own opinion, choosing your personal perspective, and even just the choices you choose to make. Individualism is something that can differ between cultures, but most cultures share certain qualities.

TKAM Essay Why do people want to change the way we live our life? I don’t fit in, so what? In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Lee uses characterization and tone in order to convey the idea that in society every gender has to follow their code of conduct, consequently it restricts people from being themselves in order to fit in.

Individuality is the quality that people that makes each person unique and distinguishable from each other. It is important to remain distinct from others, even among groups of people that are classified as either the same or very similar. While individuality is a concept that many people agree with and want to ensure, the pressure from most people’s lives, including their environment and the people around them, forces individuals to lose who they truly are and morph in order to fit in. I strongly agree that individuality, while important, is difficult to keep because of outside factors, a concept that was presented by Logan Fey.

Identity is a group of characteristics, data or information that belongs exactly to one person or a group of people and that make it possible to establish differences between them. The consciousness that people have about themselves is part of their identity as well as what makes them unique. According to psychologists, identity is a consistent definition of one’s self as a unique individual, in terms of role, attitudes, beliefs and aspirations. Identity tries to define who people are, what they are, where they go or what they want to be or to do. Identity could depend on self-knowledge, self-esteem, or the ability of individuals to achieve their goals. Through self-analysis people can define who they are and who the people around them

What makes a narrator unreliable? According to The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, an unreliable narrator is a character whose interpretation of events is different from the author’s. (Meyer,2014,195). It is a character who tells the reader a story that cannot be taken at face value. This may

Jacques Derrida had once said that culture is something in which "everything is arranged so that it is this way." I believe that culture is the opposite as it creates the way in which you perceive external forces rather then it being the external forces arranged in a specific way.

Argumentative Synthesis Essay     Many people see the world and others differently. Just like the two sisters in “Everyday Use”, the two sisters in “Two Ways to Belong in America”, and the father in the letter/short essay “An Indian Father's Plea”. All these people have different past and things they’re going through. The two sisters in “Two Ways To Belong In America” both have their different stories from their past, one likes America the other does not because they betrayed her. Next, the father from “An Indian Father’s Plea” sees America differently because the school was labeled his kid a “slow learner” which made him upset. In addition, the two sisters from “ Everyday Use” argue about a quilt in which they both view differently

Individualism is having our own thoughts, our own lives, and our own bodies. I believe that, that is super important for us human beings. There is a great quote that I came across on individualism by a man named Douglass, I don’t honestly want to put all of that here but there is a part of it where he says “I am myself; you are yourself; we are two distinct persons, equal persons.” I think in all honestly this completely sums up individualism. We are all our own people, which is how we should be living, with our own lives (all according to individualism of

In the book Fahrenheit 451 it says, “I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise ” (Bradbury 11). This is a perfect example because it shows how Clarisse is one of not many people who actually has her own individuality and is not afraid to be different from the others around her. Also in the story Fahrenheit 451 it says, “Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against” (Bradbury 62). So now everyone has to be almost if not exactly the each other. People should be able to be who they are and express who they are without having to ‘conform’ under what the expected or projected image should be. On top of that, in the short story “The Pedestrian” it states, “The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in midcountry” (Bradbury 1). At least there are those who aren’t afraid to stand out and break the conformity that is being forced upon these people. Everyone is to busy trying to be like each other they can’t even notice how those who are different stand out or stand up, even if they don't realize

Conformity can mark a loss of the individuality and humanity within a society, but those who do not conform will be seen as strange and different. Bradbury and Vonnegut warn against conforming and becoming a truly equal society.

Danielle Iaboni Mrs. Arlotto ENG4U April 5, 2014 The Outsider and Dead Poet’s Society Comparative Essay “I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that’s making me successful.” Country singer Shania Twain explains that the things she does in her daily life, making her different from everyone else, actually makes her unique, despite the fact that it goes against social norms. A non-conformist person is someone who goes against societal norms because they are an individual who will do what they prefer to do, regardless of what others may think. In the novel The Outsider, Meursault is indifferent and passive to a

Many believe that people who think about themselves are self-centered and do not care about the people around them. That is where their wrong. Individualism is not just about one certain person; it is about the whole world. Stated by President Woodrow Wilson, “America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.” (Wilson). This proclamation overall shows how everyone is their own individual self but as a nation we all stand together. People are individuals.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are extremely influential novels that can teach great lessons to teenagers and adults. One of The Outsider’s main themes is; everybody has different problems, but everybody is still the same. This theme is shown throughout the entire novel and explains it well. There are two different groups in the setting of The Outsiders, the socs and the greasers. The socs are the rich kids that drive nice cars and get into a lot of trouble without being punished by their parents, and the greasers are the less wealthy kids that fight with the socs and wear greased back hair and leather jackets. Both of these groups are completely different people, but they still live in the same city and see the same environment. As Ponyboy states “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset” (Hinton).

“Farm Near Duivendrecht, in the Evening” –Analysis… Different people think, live, view, and judge in distinct ways. That’s what makes life so interesting. The great diversity of the world sometimes has an effect on certain people. Humanity itself has ways of expressing its differences, for example there’s; art, music, fashion, and hobbies, etc. All these are factors that can help identify ones personality, lifestyle, and views on certain topics, etc. This helps define us in a way, it’s a form of expression, whether personal or not.