Kim Cavallaro English 101 Professor Harding September 13, 2012 “The Achievement of Desire” In “The Achievement of Desire”, by Richard Rodriguez, Rodriguez tells the story of how he assimilated into American culture and shed his entire remaining image of his previous Latino culture. He did this by completely Americanizing his accent and replacing any amount of social life for a life consumed by reading and school work. The story takes on a rather regretful tone, and begins with an account of him in his thirties giving a lecture to a “ghetto classroom.” Every student seems to pay attention to his lecture on the “mystery of the sounds of our words” except for one girl in the class. She is raising her hand and taking notes, and is thoroughly engaged in what he has to say. He takes a moment to explain that the girl looking at him represents him as a boy.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (pg. 30) is one of the lessons learned. No one in Maycomb puts themselves in Boo’s shoes, so they don’t understand his suffering. People don’t see his true intelligence that was ruined by his cruel father; this makes Boo one of our most important mockingbirds. I see behavior like this everyday, as I walk down the high school halls, into the lunchroom, even just kids hanging out in town – there is always some one judging someone.
For the rest of the nineteenth century his story would be told in songs, in plays, and in books—many of these stories deliberately or inadvertently falsifying the life that, when it came right down to it, few knew. In his fine biography, Sam Patch, The Famous Jumper, historian Paul E. Johnson painstakingly examines the record and paints a fresh, if also limited, portrait of the man who was one of the “pioneers” of “modern celebrity." Born into poverty in Rhode Island, Patch was destined to work the mills of Pawtucket, where a poor, uneducated boy could get work and, if he had talent, as Patch apparently did, learn the craft of mule spinning. This was no small achievement: “the spinning mule was among the biggest machines in the world,” and spinning was a craft practiced mostly by English immigrants. It was a difficult operation, mule spinning, and it “required experience, along with a practiced mix of strength and a sensitive touch,” Johnson writes.
He describes his lower class upbringing in the exposition, his slow but steady progression to middle class in the rising action, and his poorly considered big move to a substancial home putting him in major dept and forcing to become an adjunct professor for extra income in the climax. He concludes saying he finds it difficult to teach denouement, the part of the story where “the characters resume something akin to normal life”(p.72), because he’s not sure if it actually exists. Throughout the read thus far, i’ve found Professor X’s writing sarcastic and even amusing. It gives a playful undertone to his otherwise pessimistic outlook on what he’s writing about. He often references american classic novels, or historical events and puts himself in the event sarcastically blowing off whatever major event is occurring.
When class begins he realizes that she is the teacher, however, he continues to flirt with her. The chapter ends with Jesse answering a question with “‘I love you very much.’” (112) Important Quotations: “Loggers are high-born in Calamus. The ugliest name you can call a logger or his son is a farmer. You farmer. Nobody gets any respect for growing things.” (105) “The trouble with Lorna is she could be a good student if she just paid attention.
It is not a fancy spiral notebook it is a regular composition notebook with a #2 pencil. Grant tells Jefferson that if he ever has something that he wants to talk about but can’t find the words to say it he can write it in the notebook and they can discuss it when he comes for his visits. Jefferson’s notebook is the viewer’s only glimpse into the inner workings of his mind. In it, Jefferson reflects on his connection to the rest of society and the injustice of his situation in a way that contributes to his transformation. He explains how when he was out in the world no one ever cared for him or about him but now that he is behind bars and about to be executed it seems as if the whole town cares for him.
Dickens demonstrations here that Tiny Tim is the most vulnerable of all the lower class yet he is one of the most giving and happy members of the lower class, which puts shame on Scrooge and his fellow upper class men. I was going to write about how Dickens uses the 3 ghosts to turn Scrooge around which shows the people of his time how anyone can change and has good in them and that it is not hard to change, just to accept the others around you. Not only did Charles Dickens pen a novella that will be seen for many decades to come, Dickens uses this novella to try and get his point across to the people of his time, and how in which both the upper and middle classes were to get along and how to get along with each other. Dickens does socially commentate on his time more than trying to pen this novella into a religious moral
Steinbeck based a whole books to one of the occurring events. In Of Mice and Men, two men (one stable human being and the other a mentally retarded; hardworking liability) are migrant laborers trying to earn enough money to pursue their dreams. The same goal for all Americans; that being to achieve their dreams and be successful. He describes the inequalities of the world, through two men that are looked down in the novel. Most of Steinbeck’s books are based on poverty and injustice (Williams 97).
Both of the students got a time out. Chapter #2 (Elementary School) Mr Campbell walks into his grade 8 classroom after just transfering into his new school and looks around at a class full of teenagers. A student stands up and screams at the top of his lungs "YOU! ", it was Mr Campbells arch enemy, Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris ran at Mr Campbell and begun an epic battle between the two.
Throughout my essay I will be explaining how Mr Cairney abuses the power that he has and how he demonstrates it to us. In the opening of the short story ‘Dear Mr Cairney’ what interested me most was the fact that he was a bully. In the text the past pupil mentions that he could tell Mr Cairney did not like him. This is shown when Cairney tells him to stand up in front of the class for quarter of an hour although there were others talking. “but the first morning you came it was me you told to stand up even though there were several of us talking.” This made me think about how little Mr Cairney knew his past pupil upon arrival and how he addresses him, using his last name as a form of bullying.