Alisha Thornton 3/20/2013 English 098-099(180) Essay3 Revised In Malcolm X excerpt”A Homemade education, published from Malcolm X An Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley demonstrates the claims that without knowing how to read or write and understand and express what you are reading you become frustrated. Although Malcolm X struggled with reading and writing, and expressing himself while in prison, he learned that the library was a breeding ground for knowledge and that without this information and skills he’d be cut off from the world. While in prison Malcolm X realized that his reading and writing wasn’t good. He even had a hard time expressing himself. While in prison Malcolm would try to write letters to Elijah Mohammed but would become frustrated because all he knew was slang and street life.” I commanded attention when I said something.
Shins’ inhumane treatment in Camp 14 forced him to fend for himself from a very young age. Everyone in Camp 14 has to learn how to have self preservation, how to make sure that they can have the tools in the camp to simply stay alive. They are taught that being brutally beaten for making a simple mistake is what happens in a normal society. Prisoners in the camp are taught to become “informers”, to inform the guards or teachers of knowledge they have come across from a fellow prisoner, whether it is something as simple as taking a corn kernel from the dirty floors of the school room, to plotting an escape plan. Many times, the prisoners would be commended for informing a teacher or guard of information that would be valuable to them, like an escape plan from another prisoner, or the fact that someone in the camp had a stash of rice grains they were saving.
Breakfast mostly consists of a barren piece of bread and watered down tasteless coffee that comes with an opportunity for the Kapo to harass you, beat you or even kill you if you drop food or try to take extra. The Kapo were the guards at the concentration camps. It seems that every passing moment is an opportunity for the guards to beat or kill you. Morning roll call, line up along with the dead bodies that didn’t make it through the night that the prisoners would have to drag out of the barracks. Stand at attention in rain and snow forbidden to talk or move, some prisoners have been known to drop dead right there from sickness, fatigue or malnourishment.
This could be interpreted as a symbol for his dissatisfaction with Elizabeth because she is not good enough. It could also represent that their relationship lacks the spice that he craves; the spice that he received when he “sweated like a stallion” with Abby. Due to the way that he enters and decides almost immediately that he wants to taste the stew and season it, we also receive the impression that Proctor has probably done this before, therefore it is possible that he has not been pleased with Elizabeth for a long time. Elizabeth has not been present before this scene so it shows a lot about their relationship that she enters the room her first words are a question “What keeps you so late?” This shows that she is
Poverty can have a large emotional effect on many people, and often they become mentally exhausted or depressed. The poet truly emphasizes the hardships of a poverty-stricken life in the second stanza, when he describes the day-time image of the tenement room. During the day, sunlight illuminates everything so that every point and detail can be seen. The author makes this stanza the longest to illustrate how hard it may be for individuals to escape the mental state of poverty during the day. He describes the furniture with a bleak mood, such as the two chairs, “spiritless as
In the text there is also a sentence such as ‘the boys polished them with their spoons’ this quotation is showing that they were underfed in the workhouse and shows that they were suffering with starvation. The quote can also come across as quite emotive as it makes us feel very grateful for the food that we get and should be lucky for the food we get. The metaphor used makes the audience to create an image of what’s happening and can make audience feel very light hearted. In the other text they have also showed negativity views on food such as ‘dreaded bowl of gruel’ this portrays that they did not look forward to eating the food, this also shows the setting of the place very negative as it doesn’t seem very luxurious and shows that although they didn’t get any more food they still ate it because they had nothing else to eat and they needed to as they were suffering from starvation already and needed enough protein to stay healthy. Another quote is ‘was alcohol banned’ this is a rhetorical question which makes the audience think that the person who is asking the question is in despair because stereotypically alcohol is thought to be able to drown sorrows in.
In Night Elie Wiesel and his father are in a concentration camp. His father falls very weak and ill, and it is getting harder to care for him. Elie must make a choice what is worth more- his life or his fathers. Therefore, both main characters have had to make tough choices which leaves both of them with feelings of guilt and
But like I said earlier, Levi was more ashamed over the fact that he was too focused on survival and realized that they lost his humanity along the way. I think Levi was being too hard on himself. Throughout the rest of the book, his humanity is present through his exchange with other prisoners, his ever-present knowledge, and his insight into others. Although this passage is glaringly honest, I do not think that he completely lost his humanity due to his will to survive. Levi admits that there were times when thought was impossible to ignore, like right before falling asleep.
But it wasn’t until I watched Food Inc., that my perception of the food industry shift and I started to watch out for what I eat. Food Inc. is a documentary by Robert Kenner that exposes the secrets that the food industry hides from the public. The documentary uses contrasting images of an ideal country life with the harsh truth of the food factories with their unsanitary conditions. By using horrific scenes, interviews, testimonials, and many other ways to convince their audience that the food industry does not have our best interest. Food Inc. affectively convinces the audience with the use of logos, ethos, and pathos, that there are problems within the food industry that are negatively affecting everyone’s lives thus we should take action against big businesses in the food industry.
When someone has been in prison for so long and they are not properly rehabilitated, they go back to prison because it is how they know life to be, like it is there home. the combination of repeat offenders and new offenders leave the prisons overcrowded and dangerous. Prison is suppose to be a form of punishment and rehabilitation, not a way of life that is welcome. These inmates are seeing it as a way of life because it is so overcrowded, they are not taught any