Toni Morrison employs some historical events and personnel thoughts into her novel Song of Solomon. While there was fights for racial equality during Toni Morrison’s life where she might have experienced some of it, there is some fights for equality seen by Guitar. He himself becomes very into some aspects of the civil rights movement, specifically in the Seven Days. Milkman also dreams of finding out his past and actually leads us into his past. Milkman in a way also rebels against his father by hitting him and deciding not to join the family business with his father.
Walt often calls Thao "Toad." With no father in the family, he is expected to be the man of the house, but he lacks direction and initially does chores at the direction of his sister Sue. Thao is soon coerced into joining the Hmong gang by his gangster cousins. After Thao clumsily attempts to steal Walt's car as part of his forced gang initiation, he returns home instead of fleeing with the gang. After confessing the attempted crime to his family, Thao's mother and sister bring him to Walt to apologize and make amends to the community as Walt's servant.
Williams uses symbolism to highlight the attributes of each character and what they represent. The play is constructed so that each character has a defining symbol which resembles their personality. Tom is in distress since his father left him to be the male model in the Wingfield family. He has constant conflicts with Amanda due to the conflicting acts of duty and aspires to pursue his dreams of being a poet. When he returns from the movies he mentions the magician’s trick “We nailed him into a coffin and he got out of the coffin without removing one nail.
At the start of the film Szpielman is seen playing the piano. He is clean shaven and is wearing a suit. As the war moves forward and the family's situation worsens, Szpielman's brother makes a joke about his “ridiculous tie.” Implying that in their horrible situation, why did Szpielman think he was important enough to wear a tie? His costume contrasts here with the end of the film where he is seen looking primitive with neglected facial hair, ripped clothes and clutching desperately to his can of food. This decline in Szpielman's humanity is effective as it shows what man becomes once everything has been taken from him.
Kinship is very important in all societies. Without a certain kind of kinship we would not find any way to get along. Some communities may share a common ancestor and some communities can coexist because they hold the same race. In some way or another we are all some form of kin and if not we find a common kinship to someone so that we have someone like us. Kinship is the fundamental glue that unites a society so they can coexist with each other in harmony.
He learns, as I will argue here, how to control his anger and use it constructively by discovering his Inner Warrior. Summary of Never Back Down The protagonist of the movie, teenager Jake Tyler, moves with his family from Iowa to Orlando, Florida where his younger brother is to attend a tennis-academy. At his old school in Iowa Jake had already exposed difficulties in managing his anger. During a football game, a member of the opposing team teases him about the circumstances of his father’s death, who died while driving drunk with Jake in the car. Jake loses his temper and
Aren’t you glad you live in a time where racism is no longer acceptable? In the novella, The Gold Cadillac, by Mildred Taylor, we meet an African American father who realizes that the safety of his family is more important than his need to exercise his rights. As the story unfolds we meet an African American father named Wilbert who lived with his family during the 1950s. Wilbert, the father, impulsively purchases an expensive Cadillac without the approval of his wife, Dee. He then decides to drive the Cadillac south even though his friends and family have expressed their fears about his decision.
Because of his addiction, he is thrown out of his home by his parents. His father smacks him in the face, calls him trash and throws him out on the street. Not long after Lucky finds Dove. Dove is a drug dealer who decides to help Lucky and takes him into his home, where Lucky is to be his runner. Lucky seems happy to be working for Dove as well as living with him and there seem to be a light ahead for him.
He is not hiding why doesn’t want to visit his family. When Fanton was a young boy his brothers hunted him and taunted him, as said in the story “He was startled by the sound of Peter roaming his name. The summons might have meant anything from “Mom wants you for dinner” to “prepare for a beating”” or “Over the years they have bloodied his nose, pulled down his pants and squeezed the sides of his lips while forcing him to repeat “I’m a pretty baby” over and over again”. Therefor when Fanton lost his favorite model car he was quick to blame his brothers, accusing them for taking it and hiding it his reaction is described like this in the story:”Fintan went to the kitchen and threw the only tantrum of his life. While his mother and brothers looked on, he shrieked, stamped, broke a dish and went stiff as a corpse”.
The other route is getting taken under Walt Kowalski’s wing, an old, stubborn widower, by gaining his respect after two weeks of working for his forgiveness. When Spider, Tao’s cousin, decides to give Tao another opportunity to join his gang, there is a massive amount of chaos. At the end of the scene, even though Walt does not accept the Hmong people, they are on Walt’s side, the American side, because he protected Tao from Spider’s Hmong gang. The ethnic rivalry between the Hmong and American is exemplified through this scene. Tao needs to figure out what tribe he wants to belong to that will make him a better person and display what type of person he truly is.