The ‘there’ from which Esperanza comes from suddenly has negative connotation. It is undesirable, unwanted, and to someone in a higher class than a poor Latino family, it is uninhabitable. Esperanza, who up to this point innocently went about the daily life she deemed entirely normal, now has an outsider’s shameful perception of her living quarters. This is what triggers her yearning for her own house outside of the poorer neighborhoods, a home she can be proud of. As Esperanza puts it, “A real house.
She wants to be accepted by her friends who are concerned with the appearances of the town, while she also sympathizes with Mrs. Fullerton. She is stuck in the new and old generation and I like how the author represented this character. It makes the reader see both sides of the story and makes it an un-bias piece of writing. I think the title “Shining Houses” represents this story well. The shining houses stand out in the community and creates a sense of pride for the people who live their.
How does Louise's personality (according to her MBTI score) play a role in this scenario? Louise is described as an ENFJ according to MBTI. ENFJ acronym represents Extraversion, Intuition, Feeling and Judging. Extraversion: Louise did not show this side of role. If she adapts this personality type, she will have an outgoing personality and enjoy spending time with her team.
Control Theories can explain why Tre and Ricky have both conformed to society by building bonds with people they trust and who can instil positive values on them. For Tre, one of the individuals is Furious, who mentored Tre in teaching him how to live an honest lifestyle and shaping him into a conforming individual who was able to separate himself from most deviance in the community. Furious’ mentoring shaped Tre into developing values and characteristics which he holds tightly within himself which were, in evidence, much stronger than external influences of living in the ghettos. One of the most predominant theories which can explain deviance and inequalities in Tre’s neighborhood is Subcultural Theories. During one of the first scenes, Tre gets into a fight with one of his classmates while he was living with his mother in a wealthier part of Los Angeles.
Many outsiders, including myself, solely believed these communities only boost and idolize eating disorders when many actually are judging from the outside looking in. Although some group may operate this way, this one in particular was very supportive around the idea of recovery and the beginning process of becoming an anorexic. Many individuals refer to the Pro-Ana site generally because it was a less censored and free community where they can talk freely about their feelings and emotions without having to worry about rules and judgmental professionals who “seek to
The first such way is to ignore any legitimate concerns women have; the second way is to classify any emotion as unnecessary and “irrational.” Women get taken advantage of solely because society has considered them emotional, which in today’s modern society is often mistaken for being unstable. This in turn affects a women’s status in life. With this in mind, it is the status that will ultimately define their social mobility, “the lower the status, the more manner of seeing and feeling is subjected to being discredited, and the less believable it becomes” (Hochschile 173). Society has usually seen the lower class as unintelligent and therefore have their opinions denigrated. Even if she has a legitimate case to voice an opinion, “a person of lower status has a weaker claim to the right to define what is going on; less
In the story Lives of the Saints and the movie "Chocolat," we were able to find many examples of the archetype outcast. Each family in these two stories were somewhat isolated from the rest of the town in many different ways. Cristina was judged from the rest of the town because of her actions, causing her family to be seen as an outcast from the other townspeople. In Chocolat, Vianne and her daughter were seen as outcasts due to the fact that she was not religious and didn't go to church like everybody else. Cristina and Vittorio are rejected from other townspeople in many different ways.
He is the innocent bystander of this book that is somehow involved in everything that takes place one way or another. He is a cousin to Daisy, a peer to Tom and a companion to Gatsby. He knows everyone’s dirty secrets but feels that it is not his place to reveal them. He is the neutral party, the “Switzerland,” that everyone comes to and trusts. He has a strange fascination and curiosity with Gatsby’s shady past, and hangs around him to try to discover more about him.
It could be for not wearing the right clothes, having the wrong hair color or even having your own opinion. Being different is dangerous today in our society, because you will get stamped as the “weird girl/boy.” If you try to raise your head above the others, you will get it chopped off. Being different is hard since people do not accept knowledge or something out of the ordinary. People want to fit in and that is why a lot of people in our society are the same. Go against the flow.
Integrity and personal responsibility both play a crucial role in today's society, including in personal relationships, business, and the government. First of all, integrity is important in our society today because without it we'd be living in a nation that has no interpretation of the difference between right and wrong, so people would just do whatever they want despite who it might hurt or affend. Although there will always be people that seem to have no integrity or morals at all, such as murderers and rapists, it's safe to say that most people have a set of rules and principles they live by. Many of these rules were probably taught to the people during their childhood and as they were growing up, whether it be by their parents, teachers, or even the media. People tend to hang on to these views that were taught to them, accepting them as being correct but never really analyzing them.