The Use Of Silence # 1

“Silence is violence” is a common phrase used by people nowadays which references people who lack initiative when it comes to speaking out against oppression. The same phrase could be applied to the ideas within Shusaku Endo’s novel, Silence. Endo was clever to name his novel Silence, because the word is a very prominent symbol within the story. In fact, it plays a crucial role to the development of the main character. Although some readers may argue that the role of silence in the book is neutral, I claim that silence plays a negative role for the characters because it is what causes protagonist Rodrigues to renounce his faith. In the story, it represents the silence of God, which induces Rodrigues to question his religion through the torture of innocent Japanese Christians.

Chaim Potok uses many different types of silence in The Chosen. He utilizes many of them to facilitate illustrating the characters’ beliefs and emotions. The silence helps to buoy the imagery and strength of the emotions and assists in adding depth to the moment. Each silence also helps to clarify the messages that pass through the story, making them sharper and additionally refined.

No one can truly understand sympathy until they have suffered. In his The Chosen, a postmodern novel, Chaim Potok surveys the meaning of compassion learned through suffering. Danny Saunders, a brilliant Hasidic Jew, lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn along with his friend, Reuven Malter, in the 1940s. With his photographic memory, Danny aspires to become a psychologist, but he knows that he will have to inherit his father’s position as the rabbi of their community. In addition to this, his father, Reb Saunders, will not speak to him about anything other than the holy book of Talmund. Danny is forced to keep his ideas and experiences to himself, leading to him suffering because of this silence. Chaim Potok’s The Chosen uses Danny’s gradual shift

In 2012, thirteen U.S. police officers fired a total of 137 bullets into a Chevy Malibu; the motorists inside were unarmed. Police brutality is a heavily debated topic, in the United States, its existence is the issue. There has been countless accusations of excessive force, also known as police brutality, throughout the years. Excessive force is the unjustified use of force to detain, control, and assault of any individual. Due to the Blue wall of Silence, insufficient training, unequal application of law, police culture, and the decrease of gun ownership, police brutality is on the rise.

I thought that Silent Ears, Silent Heart was an excellent book. It really gave you a full prospective of what a family and a person has to go through living a life without being able to hear sound it also helps you realize what someone has to go through that can’t hear what is going on around them. The book starts off with a couple named the Clines there’s Mr. Cline who is Jack who runs his own multimillion dollar business in a glass production. His dream is to have his son at his side and follow in his footsteps and run the family business someday. Then there’s Mrs. Cline who is Margret who is a stay at home wife that is waiting the arrival of their child.

Pretend Play by covering the baby with the clothes, as if the baby is sleeping

Silence by Endo Shusaku is portrayed from a cultural and religious suffering during the 1600s in Japan. The whole trip is carried out with a missionary enthusiasm for the hidden Christians of Japan but also for a personal curiosity to confirm if the stories of Priest Ferreira's apostasy was real.

Sometimes you have to go the extra mile and tell your nanny or whoever takes care of your child to potty train the same way as you do. If you're not consistent this can send mixed messages to your child and the results will be inconsistent. Put it in another way if you want your baby to go to the potty to pee and poop consistently then you have to be consistent with the potty training.

Silence is better than unmeaning words by Pythagoras has very deep meaning. Silence is defined as when there is an absence of sound, but there is more to it. During silence a lot of the times people have no idea about what to say or what would be appropriate thing to do. In a short story “A primer for Punctuation of Heart disease” by Jonathan Safran Foer, story revolves around a boy named Jonathan whose family has lack of communication which has caused distance in familial relationships. The story consists of different Punctuations that most audience is unfamiliar with and the meanings that he gives revolves around how his life is spent in silence. Foer uses silence as a notation to convey the message that silence is a way to run away from

Many people have no idea that a song can be a wonderful poetry which is called lyrical poetry, but all songs are not poems. In this amazing poetry “the sound of silence”, both the authors Paul Frederic Simon and Arthur Ira Garfunkel ironically implied their frustration on the modern world and how it’s changing. In 60’s this lyrical poetry has left an indelible mark on pop culture. This poem’s lyrics has a disturbing picture of a society which work with materialism and self-absorption. The poem uses the imagery of light and darkness to show how people's ignorance and enthusiasm to destroys their ability to communicate even on simple levels. Day by day people are becoming more secretive about their life and forgetting being social on some level. Moreover, the narrators strongly felt these changes and transformation could lead us to a robotic life. The Sound of Silence" contains numerous poetic elements, including figurative language devices, rhyme scheme and tone. Throughout this poem, narrator is addressing the dark site of the society, people and how its leading them in to a false dilemma.

Weninger, Robert. " Sounding out the Silence of Gregor Samsa: Kafka's Rhetoric of Dys-Communication. " Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature 17.2 (1993). Robert Weninger’s “Sounding out the Silence of Gregor Kamsa”, was published by New Prairie Press in 1993. An intensive and extensive article, Weninger dedicates it entirely to explain Gregor’s lack of voice, both literally an metaphorically after his metamorphosis.

I support remaining silent encourages even more evil to happen. To add, that if you speak out then you can save someone from something evil or bad happening to them. Also, the way that the victims were treated is the reason they were silent. While they were in the camps they were not fed enough or got enough sleep which being drowsy gave them a tired kind of distant feeling then without food the prisoners were very weak and starving. To start off, I agree that if people spoke out for each other things would have been different.

Throughout de La Salle’s writing, he uses diction to further our understanding of who these saints were. He paints pictures, choosing words carefully so that each character will be perceived in the manner he intended.

In “A Silence that Kills” Lyndon Haviland expresses the idea that the public must confront the social inequities of tobacco use. Haviland believes the communities must communitcate a sence of urgency and engage all Americans in the battle against tobacco use. The author expresses her ideas thoroughly by concentrating on certain fact of tobacco use or second hand smoke affect, the epidemic in out current communities, the silence of the government, and the concern for public health. With the constant repetition of unity and a well-organized, concentrated article, the author easily captures the attention of the reader and the intended American audience. However, the author lacks information on

Some argue that corrupt police officers are simply the product of a corrupt culture of the agency they work for. These officers are socially introduced to a number of informal rules when they begin employment. This process and these rules serve two main purposes. First, this process is designed to minimize the chances of external or internal controls being mobilized to address the behaviors and, secondly, to keep corrupt activities at a level that is acceptable and likely undetectable. The rule most often referred to in this connection, is the “Code of Silence.” Officers are socialized into not cooperating with investigations regarding fellow officers. Whether or not the officer participates in corrupt activities for financial gain, an officer’s adherence to the “Code of Silence” places them squarely amongst the corrupt of the profession (Price, 1972).