the Bad and the Ugly

ground and told me to stay there until recess was over.” Soto is using the words “playground terrorist” to convey even more how people are being really rude to him. Also Soto explains, “Everybody saw me. Although they didn’t say out loud, “Man thats ugly, “ I heard the buzz-buzz gossip and even laughter that I knew was meant for me.” The boy’ self esteem is constantly being lowered because of the people and mainly the jacket. Even his own friends are not being as nice as they normally are. The symbol

always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.” This is a quote said by Death in the novel The Book Thief. Death says this quote while witnessing a young boy named Rudy giving a stuffed teddy bear to a dying enemy fighter pilot. In this quote, Death is stating that he sees many people come and go. And through his time, Death sees that people can be both good and bad. While saying this quote, Death wonders how humans can possess

jacket he believes is “ugly.” In The Jacket Gary Soto uses imagery, personification, metaphors, and similes to convey the idea that one’s clothes can affect their life and how one feels. In the beginning of the story, Gary Soto uses similes and metaphors to develop the theme of how one's clothes can affect them. For example, after realizing that the ugly jacket on the bed was the jacket his mother had gotten him, he says, “I stared at the jacket, like an enemy, thinking bad things before I took off

plays a big role in the adult life. “The Jacket” is a representation of Gary Soto’s adolescent life. It is a short story depicting his hardships as an adolescent as he battled with peer pressure and low self-esteem or lack of confidence caused by the ugly green jacket. The jacket serves as a symbol of his personal battles, growth, maturity, and his readiness to face the cold and harsh challenges in his life. The narrator strongly claimed that his clothes have failed him when he recalled the green jacket

Have you ever read some of the great quotes in To Kill A Mockingbird? Well You are in luck because i’m gonna tell you some! This book is filled with great things and i am gonna share a few of those things. This has the smartest and most wise human to never walk the earth. His name is atticus finch. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”- Atticus Finch. Atticus used this line when he was talking to

media and society constantly make people feel bad about the way they look. In Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld, the main theme is about finding one's identity in a world that already has one made up for them. Despite this theme, the characters in the novel do not strive to overcome society’s stereotypes. The pretties, specials and the uglies do not try to break out of society’s ways and find their own identities. After the operations,

about women that distinguish the differences between them. Thesis statement: Today I will be answering a few of the questions men have about women which include “ Why are women so insecure?”, “ Why do women think they are ugly without makeup?”, and “ Why do women think men have bad intentions?”. Introduction Attention Getter/ Speaker Credibility: To state the obvious, there are numerous differences between men and women. It's important to remember that we are dealing with two co-cultures who value

others. This episode begins by explaining Janet’s problem: she is ugly and wants to become beautiful. When Janet is first introduced, she is under a

need it because it was “ugly”. Thank you for being here, everyone. I’m Galen Weston, the executive chairman, and president of Loblaw. Throughout Europe and Australia, groundbreaking actions are being taken in the grocery service industry: Ugly foods For those of you who have not followed, ugly foods are the foods that are thrown away when being bought or sold to stores. This happens when they do not meet the proper criteria of what is considered “food beauty”. Selling ugly vegetables shouldn’t be

examples were. If they were ablist and tokenistic, but with an attempt at being respectful to the disabled community, then I would categorize that as The Bad. If the example was very tokenistic or discriminatory toward disabled people without regard towards the feelings or rights a disabled individual, then I would categorize the example in The Ugly section. The Good Demonstrating equality through being non-ablist and non-tokenistic is how I classified examples into The Good section. My first example