The Painted House John Grisham Essay

Today after much progress and contributions in history, Women are still struggling to be equals to her male counterparts. Often judged and seen as second-class citizens. The struggle continues still till this day. Two short stories that I have read that seem to have the same conflict that women struggle with everyday are “A Dolls House” by Henrik Ibsen and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The stories are both similar in the sense of coming from a women’s perspective, as she finds herself through tribulations. The story also involves manipulative and controlling men who assert their so called assumed role as head of the family. However, perception comes into play when comparing and contrasting stories and in my opinion with regard to the overall impressiveness, effectiveness and distinctive merits the better story is “A Doll’s House.”

A Painted House, it is a congenial, suspenseful read filled with racism, murder, and stories. This is an amazing novel based in 1952, but is it actually about a painted house? That is the title. Well, yes though it is more symbolic than simple. The protagonist, Luke Chandler (age 7) lives on a cotton farm in Black Oak with his parents and grandparents. The house they live in has never been painted. That means something in rural Arkansas.

2. Jackie Robinson’s life changed when he became the first black man to play in the world series and Major League Baseball (MLB) during a time of segregation in America. These life-changing events challenged him because he had to face racially tense crowds and endured threats from teammates, opponents, and bigoted fans. For example in paragraph three, the text states, “Some of my own teammates refused to accept me because I was black.” This quote explains a negative portraying event that comes upon Jackie Robinson. Also in paragraph three the text states, “There were threats against me and my family and even out-and-out attempts and physical harm to me.” This explains how Jackie felt uneasy about how the whites were trying to put Jackie down. Despite the racism he faced, Robinson learned to have pride in his accomplishments and appreciate the courage, support, and love shown by his supporters. For example, in paragraph eleven, the text states, “I don’t think I’ll ever forget that small, shrill voice of a tiny white kid, in the midst of a racially tense atmosphere during an early game in a Dixie town, cried out, “Attaboy, Jackie.” This explains how because of one his supporters was cheering him on he felt he had to succeed even if most people wouldn’t accept him. Jackie’s challenges made him a popular name to remember in the Major Leagues today.

George C. Wolfe’s satirical play, The Colored Museum, elicits emotion from those who read its powerful lines and make its sentiments spring to life on stage. The play is Wolfe’s indelicate way of handling sensitive subjects related to the African American community. The play carries just enough humor to keep its audience captivated and just enough scalding stereotype to keep its audience from growing bored. The satire and parody presented in The Colored Museum depicts the harsh truth about the lives of African Americans.

Calico Joe,” written by John Grisham, is a novel that can really grab the attention of the reader. The author of this novel, John Grisham, once dreamed of a professional baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals. There are three main characters within the story. There is Joe Castle, a promising 21-year-old rookie for the Chicago Cubs, who is having an unbelievable year and breaking rookie records. There’s Warren Tracey, who is a 34-year-old pitcher for the New York Mets and the father of Paul. The other main character is Paul Tracey, who is also the narrator. Paul Tracey is an 11-year-old who seems to take after his father in the sense of being a rather skilled baseball player. The novel, “Calico Joe,” is about a baseball player with a promising career that gets ended just as it is beginning. This was because he was intentionally hit by Warren Tracey. This novel also shows the aftermath of this tragic event. This novel does an excellent job of revealing its point, as well as revealing certain things that are were relevant in the America of that time and the America of today.

The book I read was “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros. There was many themes in this book. The two I want to focus on are Loss of Innocence and The Power of Words.

For a 12-year-old Cuban boy living in the Bronx, baseball is his family's only way out and means a better tomorrow. In the novel, Heat by Mike Lupica, baseball represents a way out and a better tomorrow. He loves baseball and idolizes the Yankees pitcher El Grande, who was also Cuban-born. Michael Arroyo is a young boy who has reasons to distrust the representatives of the state must figure out how to continue life on his own terms while navigating the adult world and avoiding both the well-meaning and the badly-intentioned interference of grown-ups. Michael is also the best baseball pitcher on his South Bronx all-star team. Michael's arm is so good, that a rival Little League coach begins requesting proof that he's only 12 and eligible to play. They ask for his father but, recently, his father took a trip to Florida and had a heart attack, killing him. Michael and his 17-year-old brother Carlos, are trying to avoid Child Protective Services until Carlos turns 18.

The Boys of Summer, a non-fiction book of baseball, written by Roger Kahn. Who tells a wonderful heart aching tale of a simple stick and ball game that helped start the development to push Americans (generally the white population at the time) to change what the country claims to be, a free and fair non-prejudice country that gives “everyone” their own rights/opportunities. Jackie Robinson, America’s first African American to play on a Major Baseball league. He was the first colored-skinned to ever make history not only in the game of baseball. Robinson ignited a spark that sent Americans (mostly the white population) dumbfounded, that a “nigga” a dark colored-skinned individual was more than just a janitor. This book transcends the generation gap as Kahn recaps his boyhood in Brooklyn, his young career as a writer following the Brooklyn Dodgers, and a follow-up of the certain members of the Brooklyn Dodgers during post-playing days. As Kahn nostalgically narrates his story of the transformation of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a dead team who came back to life to make a major impact on the country, to a becoming dead of the last time. Reveals the theme that race play a huge role on American’s reaction to the Brooklyn Dodger, Jackie Robinson, and the aftermath to letting a “Negro” into a white man sport.

Significant motifs in House on Mango Street I. The recurring motifs in Sandra Cisneros novella “The House on Mango Street” that are most significant are the ones that mold the story and change it in good and bad ways. The people in this book represent a bigger picture of poor struggling and battling people in the real world. From the recurring degrading of women to the struggle of poverty and immigration, while battling loss of innocence. II.

Throughout the madness displayed in “The Yellow wallpaper” and the disappearance of Nora at the end of “A doll’s house”, we could see both women are confined and controlled by their marriages, Nora from Henrik Ibsen's play “A Doll's House” and the narrator from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" portray the negative treatment of women throughout society during the 19th century. These women long for the activity and stimulation, which they have been deprived of as the product of a society that puts women in the lowest division, and they resolve to triumph over their husbands and free their souls. Therefore, seeing these vast similarities’ in these stories when it comes to the husbands John from “The Yellow

In society, there has always been a gap between men and women. Women are generally expected to be homebodies, and seen as inferior to their husbands. The man is always correct, as he is more educated, and a woman must respect the man as they provide for the woman’s life. During the Victorian Era, women were very accommodating to fit the “house wife” stereotype. Women were to be a representation of love, purity and family; abandoning this stereotype would be seen as churlish living and a depredation of family status. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Henry Isben’s play A Doll's House depict women in the Victorian Era who were very much menial to their husbands. Nora Helmer, the protagonist in A Doll’s House

Chubby sausage fingers grasp the triangle shaped crayons and begin to draw on the clean white paper. A rudimentary drawing is produced, three potato shapes and a triangle atop an askew square. The child points out the inscrutable shapes, “This is Mommy, Daddy and me and that’s our house.” A house, shelter from the outside world. ” The boy was not sure if it was a house in which dreams came true or if the house itself had been made out of dreams (Donahue p.1).”

In Allende’s The House of the Spirits, Esteban Trueba is the principal male character. During the course of the novel, Trueba increases his power in the world as he progresses in status from a conservative landowner to a powerful senator. He is tyrannical, treating his family members and the tenants on his family hacienda, Tres Marías, like subjects rather than intimate community. The basis for most of Trueba's actions is the desire for power, control, and wealth, and he pursues these things at any cost, disregarding his emotional decline and the effects of his actions upon the people in his life.

16. Replenish (421) -to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.

Violence is one of the main themes in the whole novel and there are different instances of the use of violence that have diverse features. As Luke is the main character in Grisham’s novel, and he is characterized from the author’s perspective, he is at the center of the events that deal with violence, or he is one of or the only witness of such acts. In A Painted House, Luke experiences verbal, physical, and psychological violence, and all these instances have different impact of the main protagonist.