The Turning By Tim Winton

This world is filled with many troubles including racism. Society often depicts whites as superior to blacks. However, this is not precise, because every race has both good and bad within it. The world is trying to break away from racism to become a better place for everyone around the world. Racism is not only about the color of one’s skin, it can impact individuals around the world due to their race or religion. The title of this novel is “Black and White” by Paul Volponi. In this coming of age story, two friends, Marcus Brown and Eddie Russo, who are black and white (respectively), are senior basketball stars at their high school. Marcus lives in community housing which is fraught with crime with a single mother. On the other hand, Eddie lives in a private house nearby where Marcus lives. Both Marcus and Eddie are in financial hardships and need to find easy money to cover their school and basketball fees. The two agree to start pulling robberies when they unintentionally shoot a black man. They are left in anxiety trying to avoid getting caught while trying to lead a normal life after the incident. They both end up going through the justice system, and Marcus must serve jail time while Eddie gets to go free. While all of this transpires, Marcus and Eddie manage to keep their friendship strong and overcome any barriers together. Any true friendship can overcome racial stereotypes put in place by society including the racial barrier between Blacks and Whites. The novel

Two best friends, Chris and Win, decided to do something great their summer of senior year before heading of to collage. Chris and Win are going to bike along the West Coast to Seattle, where Win’s uncle lives. At first Chris’s mom is against them going, while his dad pushes him to go because he had a similar dream that he did not accomplish. Win’s parents seem to not have a care in the world that their son is going to bike across the country. Eventually both sets of parents agree and the boys start their journey. The trip is going great but somewhere along the way things started taking a turn for the worst. The book Shift by Jennifer Bradbury is a great realistic mystery that keeps the pages turning.

“I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we 've got to do it right. We 've got to give those animals a decent life and we 've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.” ― Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin brings up a brilliant point, it’s okay to eat meat but it’s not okay to treat these animals throughout their life as just something that you will be killing. They have the right to live healthily and in a property environment. Throughout the novel The Chain by Ted Genoways it brings a light to all the dangerous conditions animals and workers go through and what actually goes into the meat you buy in stores. Although low prices on farm produced meat sound enticing, the abused caused to animals and the dangerous working conditions for workers cause dangerously poor sanitation, and can affect many Americans health.

Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing is a Western of subtly crossed borders. Vanderhaeghe elicits a sense of blurred lines between opposites, giving the illusion that boundaries are not so statically fixed. The historical figure Jerry Potts illustrates that the division between Indigenous and white is not so easily distinguished by ways of appearances, languages, and relations. The lines of health and illness intertwine as the reader follows Addington’s syphilis, Custis’ mystery ailment, and the Indigenous peoples’ struggle with smallpox. Justice, punishment, and the law become subjective in the novel with regards to Madge’s death, Addington’s military massacre, and Indigenous resistance against unfair treatment. Distinctions between

Throughout the course of history, human nature has embraced conformity and being average. However, human nature expresses itself in a variety of ways and these differences make everyone an individual. Civil rights activists have recently made a strong effort to encourage people to embrace and express their differences. The recent push for a more open society has resulted in both backlash and acceptance. Kay Ryan explores what being an individual means and the choices we can and cannot make about ourselves in her poem “The Turtle”. She uses the turtle, an often ill-suited creature in regard to survival, to contradict the common misconception that people can choose their sexuality. Kay Ryan, an open lesbian, often uses poetry to express her position on particular subjects in regard to sexual orientation.

“The cylinder whirled, whirled, and then stopped. Slowly Danny put the gun to his head.” A short story “The Last Spin” by Ed Mcbain is about two club members Tigo and Danny, who are picked to settle differences between two clubs fate in a game called Russian Roulette. Danny is an overall motivated guy, however his thoughts could overtake the way he feels about a situation. He is motivated to do whatever it takes to win the game, because he feels determined, but since he has thoughts that make him nervous, or hesitant might affect him throughout russian roulette.

They say history repeats itself, and in order to keep mistakes from the past happening again we have to teach the younger generation what happened, and what were the outcomes. though it was proven in the novel The Wave by Todd Strasser, history can repeat itself. The author makes us question how easy it is for mistakes in the past to recur. as the wave became a more serious situation in the book, characters in the book completely changed their attitude and personality for better or worse. In this literary essay I will assess the educational value, the risks involved with the experiment, and weather or not this experiment should have been done without the consent of the parents and supreme

Ringel and Brandell introduce Ornstein’s suggestion of treating trauma in with self-psychology. When keeping sense of stability is necessary to the establishment of a cohesive self. Through time the cohesive self-assist with development sense of identity. Trauma can actually jeopardize the continuation of self. Pieces of traumatic memory can appear in the form of flashbacks or within a dream jeopardizing the existence of cohesive self (p. 173). Ringel and Brandell add Ornstein’s explanation on the difference between childhood and adult trauma. The difference between them is within the attendance of a united nuclear self (p. 173).

The texts discussed above reveal that individual trauma is as widespread as historical trauma and that child abuse and family violence are matters that invite serious study and collective consideration. They exemplify the dissociations, bewilderment and the helplessness of the traumatized protagonist and how creative imagination helps in the survival and displacement of trauma. They illustrate how trauma changes lives, close off self- knowledge, produces anguished memories and elusive pasts. Narrative becomes a means of articulation of a painful truth, the anguish, uncertainties and defenses accompanying this experience.

In Mourning and Melancholia, Sigmund Freud explicates how mourning and melancholia are intertwined with profoundly similar features such as the loss of a loved object and dwelling on loss. Freud outlines mourning as “the reaction to the loss of a loved person, or to the loss of some abstraction”. Further, mourning gives an individual a system by which they can experience their sorrow, and perhaps most importantly provides an end for them to reach a point they are able to move on. Conversely, melancholy is mourning without end. Freud writes, “The complex of melancholia behaves like an open wound…”, making it a continuing cycle of mourning. In this essay we will examine how historical and ongoing trauma results in suffering, objectification, dissociation, illness, psychosis, and even addiction, primarily in two texts – Angela Garcia’s The Pastoral Clinic and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks.

How could a person’s trauma damages themselves? Certain people tend to be hardly traumatized by difficult experiences that they have been through. While others are able to surpass their emotional wound, and continue with their lives very sanely. As we go struggle with different circumstances, also means that the effects on people’s trauma also verified. For instance, Martha’s Southgate’s novel, The Fall of Rome, serves as a proof how trauma could be expressed out in various and rare ways. One of the main characters of the novel, Rashid is traumatized when his brother’s Kofi was unfairly killed. As Southgate writes, it becomes evident that Rashid‘s trauma causes him to forgets about himself which results in losing his purpose in life.

In both Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" and Haruaki Murakami's "After the Quake", trauma plays a central role in shaping the novels and the lives of the characters. Both novels explore individual trauma, and consider it in the context of larger scale traumas, such as that of collective trauma, and traumatic incidents on a larger scale, such as the Kobe earthquake in "After the Quake". This focus insists upon the importance of the social and political context of events in shaping individual's lives. In "The God of Small Things", the construction of the narrative and personal lives of the characters attempt to represent trauma and its aftermath, in which sensations, memories, and scenes bleed into each other. Throughout the novel, a number of narrative threads weave in and out of each other, allowing the novel to represent the

In her article, Charles considers the ways in which psychoanalysis and literature parallel one another, noting how literature offers readers the experience of exploring and experiencing the complexities of being human. She notes how literary devices like metaphor allow readers to explore concepts like knowing more experientially. Haruki Murakami, particularly, uses this technique to introduce his readers to experiences that transmute one reality into the next. Charles contends that Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage operates as a traumatic narrative with difficult to piece together fragments that explore issues of history and memory. Specifically, Charles explores the concept of interpersonal trauma in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

Trauma comes in many forms. Victims of trauma often experience violent flashbacks, disillusionment, and feelings of detachment. The process toward recovery is frequently not a simple one. In Ernest Hemingway 's short story collection, In Our Time, the war veteran Nick faces the difficult journey from trauma to recovery. Although In Our Time is usually considered a collection of short stories or vignettes, there are several unifying characteristics that piece together Nick 's process of recovery. As the short stories progress, both the narrator and his physical surroundings experience a gradual shift. Through these unifying devices of characterization, setting, as well as imagery, Hemingway depicts a single man 's rehabilitation across seemingly disconnected stories.

Ronald Reagan once said, “We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won.” I read the book, Dancing in the dark by Morris Dickstein. This book was about the great depression, and the impacts it had on American life. The traditional thought of poverty, people dying of hunger and people lying in the roads, has been erased. America has abolished poverty by the traditional standards but the thought of poverty and what it is has changed. In America we consider poverty to be spending all your money on bills, so you have no money left for food to feed your family. We consider poverty to be just being poor. One-Third of our population makes less than $38,000. This is not enough to be able to be above the poverty line. Anything below this