The second poem ‘’Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’’ is about a mixed race girl who tells us about the gifts she receives from her aunts in Pakistan. She likes these vibrant gifts but feels weird wearing them because they are uncomfortable and she prefers wearing English clothes-‘denim’ and ’corduroy’. She tries to imagine what her homeland (Pakistan) is like for she traveled to England when she was just a few months old. She feels as if she doesn’t fit into both countries and thinks she’s all alone. The poem Half-Caste is about Jhon Agard who is mixed race.
The first and obvious reason is that the book takes place in a pro-communist setting. The book may have been trying to prove a point, but it was still enough to offend many. The book is also sexually explicit, so it is easy to see why parents may want to “protect” their children from the idea of sex and that it should not be thought of in the way George Orwell writes about it. The most interesting reason for the ban of 1984 was the fact that it reminded people of what is like in the United States today. It has made people uncomfortable to think that what is being described in this chilling novel reminds them of what they see outside their own windows, with the fact that humans are constantly on watch and there is practically no way to keep anything hidden.
(Pg. 83) This Supports the idea of inner growth because Crabbe learns to trust himself not Mary. Lastly, Crabbe’s inner struggled is revealed through keeping Mary’s secret. When Crabbe first meets Mary she had a secret pack in the wood that she made Crabbe swear not to ever touch. This shows that Crabbe has respect for Mary’s Privacy, but he did wonder what was in that bag.
Word Count: 1399 Firoozeh Dumas argues how difficult it is for an immigrant with a foreign name to live in America in “The F Word.” The author describes her past troubles with having the Iranian name of Firoozeh. Children and adults alike pronounce it incorrectly and cause embarrassment and confusion. Dumas decided to start calling herself Julie in an effort to prevent inconvenience on the part of American tongues. Foreign names make immigrants feel alienated among a nation with names along the lines of Joe, Mary, Dave, Steve, and Sarah. Americans have become more willing to learn a foreign name.
Even though the American Library Association bans books that parents complain about, it is an act that demeans civil rights and contains numerous disadvantages. A few reasons that I believe outlawing books is unruly is because I believe that banning a piece of literature would not stop people from reading it, authors spend extensive hours creating their story for readers to enjoy, and citizens should have access to the press and the opportunity to read any book of their choosing without opposition. One of the significant reasons why terminating the banning of books would beneficial is because I believe that banning a book would not stop people from reading it. Despite the fact that some books are vulgar and show a different view of society, banning the book in its entirety does not create the effect that the American Library Association believes. Instead, parents should know that banning a book as a matter of fact, promotes its popularity as banned books even have their own special week every year where readers are encourage to read banned books.
First of all, it can be said that this desire for books and affinity for words is an innate ability to all human beings. In Fahrenheit 451, Faber, the professor helping Montag, was taught like all other citizen not to think of books, and to denunciate anyone who might own books. Nevertheless, he decides to read them, because he is attracted by the material and intellectual content of them. He, of course, hid these, but he still had to bring them back home, which was dangerous. He put himself in danger for books, which proves that human are ready to take big risks for culture, which shows they have this innate and natural desire for books.
Because of her past, Wu’s grandmother will forever have a recollection of her childhood pains. Wu states, “The bindings that long ago made her cry,” when she recalled a moment with her grandmother (572). On the other hand Wu speaks about her view of feet binding. Being raised in an American culture, Wu was unfamiliar with the act of “binding” and in looking at her grandmother, she comes to realize the remarkable differences between their worlds. The most noticeable difference her feet.
A character from a novel that I admire is Dicey Tillerman, from a book entitled Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt. As it comes to mind a Universal Truth I have learned relates to this book; “Growing up isn’t easy. Attaining maturity involves making difficult choices.” After Dicey’s mother abandoned her and her siblings, James, Maybeth, and little Sammy, in the middle of Connecticut, they have to find their way to their Great-aunt Cilla’s house in Bridgeport. When they make it to Bridgeport they find out that their aunt has died and her daughter isn’t able to take care of them. They leave again to try and find the grandmother they have never known who lives in Crisfield, Maryland.
Ren and Toby will find it increasingly difficult to trust anyone because they were raised on the untrustworthy principles of the Gardener cult. Although, the novels Year of the Flood and Life of Pi are similar in that they are portrayed through a guidebook or an oral hymn book for survival purposes. They differ, however, in that one guide is written and followed due to a trust between the protagonist and his surroundings while the other novel's guide could not be written due to a lack of confidence between the protagonists and their surroundings. Pi is able to follow the survival guide because he trusts the author of the guide book. This is proven in chapter 58 when Pi first opens up the manual."
This definition of the fairies matches up with W. B Yeats' poem because the fairies would not tell the human child the good and the bad of both his world, and their world. The fairies in The Stolen Child are devious, untrustworthy beings because they do not give the child a fair choice between the two worlds and do not tell him the consequences. The first stanza describes the type of homes the fairies live in, compared to the child's world. In the very first lines of the first stanza Yeats has the fairies describe their land as a leafy green island. This is the fairies first arguments to convince the child that their world is more beautiful.