The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Igby Goes Down by Burr Steers are both displayed as rites of passage texts. The texts are overtly didactic and both composers’ present the notion of non-conformity. Salinger and Steers express how individuals are pressured to conform to society’s values and beliefs. The two protagonists are anti –heroes and demonstrate non-conformity; they rebel against the apparent hypocrisy present in their respective societies.
Jenna Giammalva English 3 per.2 February 1, 2010 Ms. Lindroth Thesis: In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain exposes how ignorance causes violence, and how personal gain overrides moral deeds through the use of satire. Mark Twain’s Notice and Pap’s ongoing diatribe reveals how ignorance undercuts one’s credibility. For example, In Mark Twain’s Notice he cites, “Persons attempting to find a plot will be shot” (2). Twain is exposing the truth in satire throughout the novel and people who don’t understand that are ignorant. In more simple terms, if you only go away from the book with only the plot then you are stupid.
Ultimately, Huck hides Jim from the slave catchers by leading them to believe he is hiding his sick father with the smallpox under the tent. The slave catchers even float a twenty-dollar gold piece on a board to Huck. Though Huck is always up to mischief, he is smart at manipulating relationships. The relationship Huck has with Jim becomes one of respect. Twain shows that while there are people who view slaves as inferior, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn gives great example that shows a human side.
Amir felt guilty his whole life for what he did. Twenty-six years later, Amir went back to his homeland in order to redeem himself. There he encountered Assef, who he fought in order to win back Hassan’s son to gain redemption and make things good again. In the novel Beloved, the story takes place during times of slavery. Sethe was once a former slave of a place called “Sweethome”.
Derrick Williams Prof. Sackley History 199 9/30/2011 “For my own part, I felt indifferent to my fate. It appeared to me that the worst had come (the separation of him and his family), that could come, and that no change of fortune could harm me.” Charles Ball was born into slavery. He encountered the same punishment and had to live the same hard and cruel life similar to any other slave. However, Balls story differs due to his never ending ambition to be active in his attempts to expose, change, and better the lives of slaves. As a young man, Ball was sold and separated from his wife and children to a slave trader.
Huckleberry Finn is a young boy living near the Mississippi River during a time when slaves were treated more like property than human beings. Throughout the book, Huck is battling with his conscience trying to decide whether to side with society- owning slaves, or being himself and learning to care about Jim who is a slave owned by Huck’s caretaker, Miss. Watson. Huck is abducted by his father at the beginning of the book, but he escapes only to find Jim hiding on an island called Jackson’s Island. Jim explains to Huck that Miss.
The Shawshank Redemption directed by Frank Darabont explores the human capacity of adapting and changing oneself depending on the needs and influences of one’s environment through protagonist Andy Dufresne who struggles to rediscover himself after being wrongly sentenced to prison. In The Simple Gift Herrick explores how a nurturing environment allows individuals to delve more deeply into themselves and discover who they are. The alienation experienced by Billy in “Nowheresville” due to the abusive relationship with his father is epitomised through the personification of the rocks “protesting at being left in this damn place” and the pathetic fallacy of the “wind[that howls] howls and rain[that] sheets in” on the “afternoon of [his] goodbyes”. But due to his desire to belong Billy leaves the “rundown and beat” ”dump”. Upon Billy’s arrival in Bendarat Herrick symbolically foregrounds Billy’s consequential belonging through the imagery of “the sun finally lifting the fog”.
Overreaching Don’t Pay (pg 186) Huck cannot stand the frauds anymore when he sees Mary-Jane crying over the slaves sold and have their families separated, so he tells Mary-Jane the truth about the frauds and devises a plan to jail the king and his duke, which Huck feels proud of because even “Tom Sawyer couldn’t ’a’ done it no neater himself” (195). XXIX. I Light Out in the Storm (pg195) The day Mary-Jane went to town was the same day that the real Harvey and William return. The townspeople along with Dr. Robinson and lawyer Levi Bell inspects the frauds and almost immediately reveals their fraud identities. XXX.
He had separated from his family at a very young age. However Qlaudah Equiano, who also wrote his own story about his slave’s life –The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano- was different, he was kidnapped into slavery from his own homeland and looses his last hope of ever see his sister again after being separate for two times. Douglass’s experience was taking place in the South where he was being rented to Mr. Covey by his master. Douglass told his story in a chronological way and using a maturity tone.
However, he is later taken from the Aulds and placed with Edward Covey, a slave “breaker,” for a year. Under Covey’s brutal treatment, Douglass loses his desire to learn and escape. Douglass decides to fight back against Covey’s brutal beatings. The shocked Covey did not whip Douglass ever again.Douglass is hired to William Freeland, a kinder slave master. He could not escaped by his own power, and he had to gather his fellow together in order to escape.