Terry speaking out in the cab shows his inability to “keep quiet” and his regret as becoming a “bum” through following the orders of Johnny Friendly and the mob. While charley only sees from a financial viewpoint “Do you know how much the piers are worth that we control through the local?” However Terry is more focused on fulfilling his dream, something which no amount of money can reclaim, his sense of dignity and respect. This is evident when he quotes “I could’ve been a contender. I could have been somebody”. Terry’s speech alone in this scene shows his detachment from being ordered around and stuck in a cage like a “pigeon”, deaf and dumb to speaking out and attempting to redeem his sense of dignity and power to become a
The people that judge him have their eyes closed and need to open them and realize that he does not just support n-----s, but people just like himself too. These are only a few examples of events in the plot in treating people equally in To Kill A
Although this portion of the book was called the Apology it was in no way apologetic. From the way he was acting it seemed as though he knew he wasn't going to win and that he was just defending himself to prove a point to his students and to the community. He was shown no mercy. He was found guilty, 280 voted against him and 221 voted for him. Following this he was given the option to come up with a suitable punishment for himself.
Seemingly backed by the constant attempts of the foreman to compose the static of opinions expressed by those voting “guilty, Juror 8’s war see’s many other jurors reformed. Perhaps the most substantial tool to Juror 8s cause is the voice of Juror 5. Having grown up amidst the slums of New York and socialized with the people amongst it, he claims to empathize and appeal the room to seek common ground with the boy. Opposing the prejudice of 10, regarding ‘these people’ as “wild animals”, Juror 5 lathers on personalized glue to Juror 8’s prose, sticking himself into the audience that listens. Underscoring each of the Jurors transformations is hints of their past; Be it Juror 5’s childhood amongst the slums, Juror 11’s inhabitance within
A poem in which the language and use of poetic technique gives us an insight into the less pleasant side of life is King Billy by Edward Morgan. King Billy is a poem that revolves around the life and death of a Glasgow Gang leader in the 1960’s called Billy Fullerton. It also looks at the poverty at this time in Glasgow. It is written in a free verse and uses many different writing techniques to get across the felling of emotions of Edwin Morgan. The theme of violence is depicted by the menacing introduction to the poem as we open at the funeral of a murderous gangster.
A group of soldiers surrounded the wagon when it came to a halt, disciplined and in unison. Brown gazed around him, the distraught crowd and their exhausted expressions, the unnecessary, elaborate security precautions, and the daunting scaffold, quiet underneath the morning sun light. Those in the crowds, were nearly as quiet and calm as the prisoner himself; they had not come to save him, they were there to watch him die. Brown ascended the steps of his fatality. If he was afraid, he certainly didn't show it.
Although Boo Radley shows just what a substantial person he has become, he is still misjudged by the society. This is proved when Boo Radley saves Jem’s life by killing Mr.Ewell and Atticus says it wouldn't be right to expose him and Scout vocalised, “ It would be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”. So when Atticus kept the information of Boo to himself, he really believed that Boo Radley was an innocent man who caused no harm to anyone and therefore shouldn’t be persecuted, as he has been illtreated his whole life. The aim with mockingbirds in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, is that mockingbirds should not be killed as they only exist for the enjoyment of others and cause no harm and only minded their business. Another way in which Harper Lee uses the mockingbird as a symbol is through Tom Robinson.
As soon as he found out that Lennie was being hunted down by the men on the ranch, especially Curley, he didn’t try to stop it or convince the men to re-think their actions. Once George told him of his plan to kill Lennie himself, Slim understood but he didn’t actually try to help them avoid the situation. He could have done so by encouraging them to run away and he could have given them some money to give them a head-start. I do agree to a great deal that Slim is a positive role-model for those around him. He possesses positive traits like believing in equality and trying to do the best by those around him.
On the other hand, bystanders in distinguished works that exemplify silence and un-humanlike characteristics are townspeople in “38 People who saw Murder”, Michela in the novel “In the Company of Angels, and Seamus Heaney in the poem “Punishment”. These characters resist the human rights by allowing others to get hurt, sometimes even themselves, without defending their beliefs. The human rights allow people to stand up for what they believe in no matter the damage it will eventually cause them. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in “A Letter from a Birmingham Jail” exemplifies what it means to stand up for oneself no matter the consequences. King defended his belief of human rights for the betterment of society.
Yet, upon closer observation we find how he masterfully intertwines the plight of our social condition in many of his films without ever uttering a sound. In “City Lights” we are invited into the broken, homeless and a social outcast life of Chaplin’s Tramp. From scene to scene this tramp takes us on a world wind tour of love, friendship, social prejudice, and heroic existence. Right from the opening scene we are confronted with some officials dedicating a new statue with all the pageantry and gallantry commensurate with such an event, but at its unveiling, who is found sleeping on it; none other than the tramp himself. Whatever the expense, for either the statue or the spectacle itself, nothing could be more removed from the plight of one of their own, but today is not the right time nor the right venue and the vagrant was chased away.