The In-between Worlds of Vikram Lall and The Last King of Scotland both take place in the current political struggle of Africa. Both storylines deal with how the political situation is affecting the citizens of its nation. Nicholas Garrigan and Vikram Lall are caught in the political heat in war raging countries. The reality of life and politics hits both characters hard when they are confronted with choices that they have to make regarding their personal values and morals. The two stories are similar for they are an important statement about personal choices and consequences.
The various hardships that the narrator must endure, in his quest to deliver his speech, are representative of the many hardships that the African Americans went through in their fight for equality The narrator in Ellison's short story suffers much. He is considered to be one of the brighter youths in his black community. “The grandfather tells his son to “keep up the good fight,” to continue the black people’s war by guerrilla tactics, to be a traitor and spy in the enemy’s country as he himself has been” (Battle Royal). The young man is given the opportunity to give a speech to some of the more prestigious white individuals. The harsh treatment that he is dealt in order to perform his task is quite symbolic.
Following the recent Cold War, capitalist America’s controlling nature typically victimised plebeians on the basis of their political perspective. Through the employment of mise-en-scene where the campfire is placed in the middleground of the dark Atacama Desert, Salles creates a salient point which emphasises the disassociation of the Chilean miners from society. Ernesto’s authorial voiceover ‘tragic and haunting faces’ in conjunction with a close-up shot of their dirt-stained faces, the mining couple are presented as politically dispossessed. This draws sympathy from the audience towards the couple as they are victimised and oppressed due to American capitalism. Moreover, when being chosen by the mining company, the unsteady camerawork and constant switching of perspectives highlights the controversial nature of the conversation and presents Ernesto as an authoritative figure fighting the inhumane treatment of the impoverished in South America.
Joanne Chang Mr. John Gr. 11 English December 5, 2010 Novel Film Comparison of A Tale of Two Cities and Les Misérables (1998) In the late eighteenth century, a movement of terror revealed its mask. After the impulsive investment of France to profit a fruitless battle of the failed attempt to colonize North America, France had sunk into an ocean of deep debt. Despite the knowledge of the financial catastrophe, the French aristocrats continued their luxurious and extravagant living, sparing nothing but poverty for their people. As the peasants realized the corruption in their government, oppression became the trigger to the series of bloody and violent acts for justice against the aristocrats – the French Revolution.
The book focuses on white American myths because Keim feels they are the most dominant, negative, and in need of change. Keim’s argument is that through the media, magazines, newspapers, and children’s books, stereotypes and inventions about Africa are seared into the minds of Americans.
Through Malcolm X’s journey from a wretched hustler, to a strong leader of the Black Muslims, to a cultural hero, he evokes and emotional appeal on his audience, both blacks and whites, and educates them on racial injustices in hopes of helping to destroy the deadly disease destroying the heart of America. In the beginning of Malcolm X’s autobiography, he concentrates on educating his black audience by relating to them through his hustler days. For instance, when Malcolm and his gang plan their first of many robberies, he puts a gun to his head, pulls the trigger, and states, “ I’m doing this, showing you that I am not afraid to die”(Haley146). Although we later find out through Alexander Haley’s epilogue that Malcolm actually palms the bullet, the audience sees what a wretched soul Malcolm is before undergoing his metamorphosis. He yearns for his black audience to see that change is feasible no matter how big or small that change may be.
Pete experienced this first hand between the two very different countries, the United States and Tanzania. In the United States, those who wish to achieve at something will go about it in a violent or outspoken way. Racial equality was a huge struggle in America. This pushed Pete O’Neal and other African Americans to become part of the Black Panther group. They spread their message with violence.
Remarque’s novel is a insightful statement against war, which focuses primarily on the devastating affect both psychologically and the humanity of soldiers. Paul’s narrative reflects persistently on the romantic ideals of warfare. Paul and his fellow soldiers are tempered with the reality that their bonds come at the high price of relentless suffering and terror. Most of the prominence events that refer to character altering situations occur in the final chapters of the book. Paul’s analogy between minting coins and the effect of the war on veteran soldiers is a significant event.
by the famous tragic play write Sophocles. The play is about a woman who fights against her government to bury her deceased brother after it has been ordered by the king that the body shall rot and not be buried. Knowing the severe consequences she buries him and faces serious punishment for her actions of disobedience. By simply looking at the very brief summaries of the two works it is clear that there is a relative theme between the two. Daniel Ellsberg, “the most dangerous man in America” is much like the character Antigone .
Upon going to see Hester in jail, Chillingworth promised he’d seek vengeance on Pearl’s father saying “I shall seek this man…he must needs be mine!” (100). Soon, the villain sought the man he had been seeking, and realized that Dimmesdale must be the child’s father. Though Chillingworth felt quite sure, he wanted to be certain who the sinner was. In suspicion, Chillingworth talked to Dimmesdale saying, “the power of nature call so earnestly for the confession of sin, that these black weeds have sprung up out of a buried heart, to make manifest an unspoken crime..”(152). In this quote, Chillingworth is comparing a black weed growing from a dead sinners heart to the sin he thinks Dimmesdale has committed, and is trying to make him confess.