Victim by Oliver Smithfield

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is a novel about a 13 year old boy named Brian Robeson, who crashes in a small bush plane in remote canadian wilderness and the journey of survival he had to overcome against nature and wildlife.This novel proves how hard times can better a person that overcomes those times.

These two characters showed significant psychological work in hopes of changing their “problematic” social identity. Both of these characters were conscious of the stigmas that surrounded their identities, each, however, had distinct ways in which they dealt with those stigmas and changing their meanings as they grew older. Many would say that the way in which they were able to transform their identities meant either embracing it or denying one’s own identity fully as the film progressed and new societal pressures arose.

In the novel Hatchet by gary paulsen,A boy named Brian gets stranded in a forest and having, no food he reacts to some things a little different it states in the text “But when he brought a cupped hand to his mouth and felt the cold water trickle past his cracked lips and over his tongue he could not stop. He had never not even on his long bike trips in the hot summer, been this thirsty. It was as if the water was more than water, as if the water had become all life, and he could not stop. He stooped and put his mouth to the lake drank and drank, pulling it deep and swallowing great gulps of it. He drank until his stomach was swollen, until he nearly fell of the log with it, then he rose and stagger-tripped his way back to the bank.” This

The author agrees with the idea of women as victims through the characterisation of women in the short story. The women are portrayed as helpless to the torment inflicted upon them by the boy in the story. This positions readers to feel sympathy for the women but also think of the world outside the text in which women are also seen as inferior to men. “Each season provided him new ways of frightening the little girls who sat in front of him or behind him”. This statement shows that the boy’s primary target were the girls who sat next to him. This supports the tradition idea of women as the victims and compels readers to see that the women in the text are treated more or less the same as the women in the outside world. Characterisation has been used by the author to reinforce the traditional idea of women as the helpless victims.

Actor, Patrick Stewart in his speech, “The Legacy of Domestic Violence”, recounts his personal experiences of domestic violence as a young child. Correspondingly, Stewart describing his violent, and brutal childhood advocates more awareness to the sensitive matter as well as it’s victims which is Stewart’s purpose of delivering the speech. Domestic violence is an emotional subject to many which is why Stewart targets his audience’s emotions with the help from the literary techniques he uses. Stewart’s main usage of pathos emotionally appeals to his audience; furthermore, contributes to the passionate, and empathetic tone emphasized throughout his speech.

Incidents reads like a story of pursuit and evasion, one full of heroes and villains, of bright young men claiming the freedom to seek their fortunes and of desperate maidens trying to preserve their virtue, of mothers trying to protect their children and of the hardworking poor trying to survive the greed and exploitation of the powerful and wealthy. (163)

This ethical analysis will define the hierarchical societal pressures and psychological torment that validates acts of crime committed by Bigger Thomas in Native Son by Richard Wright and Maria in Ian McEwan’s novel The Innocent. In Wright’s novel, the main protagonist, Bigger Thomas, is a twenty year old that is prone to crime because of being marginalized in a racist white society that will not allow him to advance himself. After accidently killing Mary Dalton, Bigger’s fear of being caught is part of psychological torment that partially vindicates him from the crime. This is also true of Maria’s murder of Otto to protect Leonard from getting killed during a fistfight, since Otto had psychologically and physically abused her. Maria’s case is more compelling than Bigger’s, but they both share the underlying hierarchical abuse of society and the psychological torment that vindicates the traumatic outburst that lead to murder. These criminal acts define certain circumstances in which “crimes of passions” are vindicated in relation to the abuse and mental torment of the perpetrator of the crime. In essence, an ethical analysis of Bigger Thomas and Maria will definer the vindication of certain crimes due to hierarchical oppression and psychological torment in crimes of passion.

“How do you like that? I 'm the victim. I 've always been the victim.” These are the words of Mrs. May, a character in Flannery O 'Connor’s short story, “Greenleaf”. Her remark is interesting because after studying the stories of various millionaires and successful people in the world, I discovered that a key trait that all of them possess is that they made a decision to not live their life as victims to their external circumstances. However, this is not the case with Mrs. May. She spent fifteen years living miserably because of her condescending and negative attitude towards the people in her life, especially the Greenleafs. Finally, to top it all of, a stray bull

Riot by Walter Dean Myers is a book that takes place in New york city in 1863 when many uncontrolled riots were going on. These riots were about races and many African Americans were being beaten, robbed, and killed. The many police that were trying to stop the riots had no luck as they kept occurring and people kept being killed. The protagonist of the story is Claire who is a fifteen year old girl. Her dad is African American and her mom is Irish. Claire doesn’t know what to do or where she fits in the riot because she is half black and half Irish. A big part of the story is Claire trying to figure out who she really is inside because she is torn by two warring sides.

The long- and short-term effects of revenge are one of the major themes that are explored in Andre Dubus’ short story, “Killings.” Dubus uses the revenge in his story to reveal more detailed and crucial information about characters, which is especially important in shorter stories, where conciseness, yet depth, are essential. “Killings” is told from a third-person point of view, but it focuses mainly on the life and family of Frank Fowler, who was murdered by his lover Mary Ann’s soon-to-be ex-husband Richard Strout.

In “The Victims” by Sharon Olds it describes a divorce through the eyes of the parents’ children. The first section is shown through past tense as the speaker is a child and the last section is shown in present tense with the speaker already being an adult trying to make sense of past events. The word “it” in the first two lines carries a tremendous weight, hinting at the ever so present abuse and mistreatment, but remaining non-specific. The first part generates a negative tone toward the father who is referred to as malicious by the mother who “took it” from him “in silence” until she eventually “kicked him out.” Through the entirety of the poem the children are taught to hate their father. Who taught them? Their mother showed them that their father was a villain and were taught to have no sympathy for him but “to hate you and take it” and so they did so. Although the poem never directly states what the father did to receive the family’s hated, the speaker gives examples as to why he is hated.

Gender is a concept that has been socially constructed to identify people as male or female, masculine or feminine. The concept is used to regulate the way people live and is something that influences the representation of female bodies in novels. There are several theories, such as the objectification theory, the “male gaze” and the feminist theory, that help to understand the role of the women and show how they are oppressed and weak in comparison to men. Angela Carter reinforces these theories by sharing similar ideas of male dominance and female redemption in her short novel, The Bloody Chamber. Through her stories, “The Erl-King” “The Snow Child” and “The Bloody Chamber,” Carter challenges and critiques the stereotypical gender norms

In Dignam’s piece of literature from 2004 has focused on how the representation of the victim in

Brown succeeds in evoking deep emotions in his readers, most of them related to self-awareness. Using anecdotes, figurative language, metaphor, connotative language, passionate proofs, sarcasm and anaphoric repetitions, he leads the readers through a path of self-forgiveness and self-reflection. Among all the appealing strategies used by the author, three of them excel with respect to Pathos: anecdote, connotative language and anaphoric repetition. Firstly, the anecdotes present in paragraphs one and eight are personal situations that the author shares with his audience, as he intends to identify himself as a phone dependent. Secondly, the connotative language present in most paragraphs has the power to gain the empathy of the readers. Thirdly,

This paper will attempt to answer: How do the operations of repression inform the work? What unconscious motives are operating in the main character(s)? What core issues are thereby illustrated? How do these core issues structure or inform the piece? Are there any family dynamics, including oedipal or Electra dynamics, at work in the piece? Is it possible to relate a character's patterns of adult behavior to early experiences in the family as represented in the story? How do these patterns of behavior and family dynamics operate and what do they reveal?