Why Do We Read Fiction Robert Penn Warren

It delves into the issues we have faced as a society in the past and how they are affecting this generation. Thomas Hodge feels left out of the black community because his parents raised them in an upperclass neighborhood, but he feels that the white people don’t except him because of his skin color, while also stereotyping him into “the average black man” category. In M. Butterfly we see how jumping to conclusions can end with drastic consequences. Song Lilling, is a performer in China, at the time women were not allowed to perform on stage so, men filled the roles.

An Needed Curriculum Fiction is a base needed for the future generations and literature in general in the classroom when it comes down to it all. As a student, I feel that Fiction is something needed in my everyday curriculum. Without it, I wouldn’t have the certain point of views as I do today, alongside the fact it can impact anyone in general greatly. With the book titled, Always Running by Luis J Rodriguez, I was able to connect myself with what it’s like to come to America with no knowledge of English and the discrimination he faced greatly throughout the novel. This novel greatly impacts my backing up of the fact we need Fiction in our life.

Literary and commercial fiction are the two types of fiction that Authors all over the world present to readers. Commercial fiction always entertains readers and this is the point, to provide a story that anyone can enjoy. Literary fiction does not offer a clear way for one to understand and literary fiction is not created to be understood. Literary fiction makes readers do all the work and find meanings all by oneself. It is vital to be able to determine a literary work from a commercial one to fully grasp a work and the methods to determining one from another is easier than one thinks.

It shows how there was racism and poverty and life was hard for many

If you ask an American what it was like in the 1920’s I am sure you would get a very different answer than if you asked a Immigrant. In School we are taught about the “Jazz Age.” We talk about the jazz music, movies, and flappers, but what people don't realize, is that there are two different ways people lived and acted during this time period. The “New Immigrants” who came from foreign countries such as Poland, Romania, and Italy did not have the same experiences as the Americans. The immigrants were treated differently because they spoke different and had different religions and customs. This novel explains how they lived with everyday struggles such as: living and working in abject poverty, running from the Ku Klux Klan, and women wanting

“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction,” says Clark Zlotchew, a renowned author. This begs us to question, how do short stories portray relevant issues in society?

Fiction has been around for centuries, feeding the imagination of young and older minds. Usually when people read a fictional story, they don’t think about the connotation the story tries to convey. But every story has a message, and whether it be big or small, it takes a complex, deeper thinking to be able to find that message. It is apparent that the reason we study fiction is to be able to find that deeper thinking within ourselves and enrich our imagination.

In the 1950’s the men were the ones who worked and the women's were the ones who stayed home to clean the house. If a women want to become something everyone thinks that it was a joke. It was like if the man's had the right to be what they want but the women only had one job and it to take care of the house. In the 1950’s men and women were not treated equally because women were expected to get married and to take care of the home. In Lor0rain Hansberry’s play A Raisin In The Sun shows hot the women character are kept from living the life that they want to live.

The core of the book is the fallacies of American culture and human nature. The book exposes how people in the industrial age were just as cruel and grimy as the machines they worked with. They had fowl mouths and terrible drinking habits. The men were always the one to support the family, but in reality, wastefully spent their money and time. The women were similar to men in that they had terrible drinking habits and never truly supported their families. Women who weren’t heathens were prone to men that were and eventually became the alcoholic wives and moms to cope with their “piece of shit” husbands. What made it even worse is that no one ever seemed to attempt correction. They all happily lived in the slums of lives without a thought of

The Novel has been set in the South, in the 1930s, causing many major conflicts to easily occur between races, genders and society as an entirety. Afterall, Jim crow laws were in place, racism was thriving, gender roles were extremely apparent and societal ranking was far more accepted than we fortunately see today. Throughout daily life, one could find the embracement of social mores tremendously

All of sudden the mother here’s a explosion and she races to the church and saw that the church had been bombed. She was frantically looking for her daughter and she can’t find her. Then she comes across all the rubble and she finally finds something of her daughter. The mother ended up finding one of her daughter’s white shoes. In the article called, “ Four Little Black Girls Dressing in White,” Tells the story about the four little girls who were killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. This article goes into so much detail about the girls that it even tells how their personality’s were like “Carole Robertson,”she was 14 years old and she was a bookworm and it talks about how she like books and that tells a little bit of her personality. There was so much that happened that day that scared so many people. “Ballad of Birmingham” tells how African American’s struggle against racism and “ fought by the demonstrators and activists of the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s.” If you lived during this time period and you was a African American you lived under different rules and “separate code of behavior that your white counterparts.” Everything was so different than whites and

One of the factors that decide whether the fiction is literary or commercial is the plot of the story. The distinction of the plot of commercial fiction is that the story is unconventional the ending is not really clear, rather ambiguous. In this story especially, there is a lot to discuss the

In the 1940’s children were to be silent and obedient no matter what the circumstance. Next, the powerlessness of being black in the 1940’s, again having no voice or control in their life. Also, their low-income living puts a sense of powerlessness over their lives. Lastly, being a woman in their era, is another setback. Each condition of powerlessness becomes a giant weight upon the young girls and the woman as well.

Teen suicide is something that is endless, it will never stop but if everyone was educated on it, it could help prevent deaths. I think with people provided with statistics and further information can help avoid adolescent suicide attempts. I think most teen suicide cases could be prevent if we knew the signs to look for and the ways to stop it. I believe parents would feel safer if they knew knowledge on the issue and how to handle it. The intended audiences for this essay is parents or friends of suicidal teens. This essay is important because, as mentioned earlier, we need to be educated on suicide to end tons of tragedies. It is also important to be aware of the warning signs to help prevent. This essay is relevant because teen suicide is a war that happens daily, and will continue to happen, until we take control of the situation and do something to stop it. If family members were informed of the cause and symptoms leading up to the attempt of suicide, then there is less likely that teenagers would try and commit

There are thousands of poems floating around written by bitter or depressed teenagers that are never recognised as works of art. Another form of escape for teenagers is, unfortunately, suicide. It is alarming how high the teen suicide rates have risen over the past decade. Yet, it is comforting that there are support groups and counsellors available now to aid teens through their troubles. Because no one wants to see a life full of promise and potential end abruptly because of a little sorrow in one kid's life. Another reason for teen suicide is their home life. The teenager gets caught in the middle of an argument between their parents, and they take the blame personally. This is not right. Sometimes the child is beaten or abused and is forced to run away into the streets, where they become homeless, and sometimes abducted. Sometimes they just die in a back alley during a cold winterOs night, and they are never missed. At sixteen, a teenager knows about suffering, because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.