This documentary explores how the harmful living conditions may be causing orcas to lash out violently toward their trainers. It is much believed that the captive environment has to do with these uncomfortable, devastating consequences of many Sea World trainers faced. (blackfishmovie.com) A main focus of this film has lead towards an explanation for what actually happened, and hopefully a negative response from the
Some of the most common themes in Joseph Kafka's literature deal with justice and punishment. "In the Penal Colony" is a narrative which takes a critical look at totalitarian punishment and its faults. As the title suggests, it is set in a penal colony, on a small island where discipline and punishment are all-important. The story is told from the perspective of an explorer who, much like the reader, is an outsider of the penal colony, Western educated and liberal. He has come to evaluate the effectiveness of this machine, a device of punishment, torture, and execution.
Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby is a book that explores a massacre of Apache tribes people. The book highlights the clash of American, Mexican, and tribal cultures in the US West and borderlands. By incorporating the perspectives of several groups of people who were involved in the massacre Jacoby is able to give voice to those perspectives which are often forgotten, providing new insight into the Camp Grant Massacre. Equal time is put into each side, revealing that there are more shades of grey in this event than commonly believed. There are many connections between Shadows at Dawn and the course, including the influence of European contact on the indigenous population as well as the deconstruction of stereotypes that have existed in the national history of the United States and Mexico.
In Martin and the Hand Grenade, and Harry Wood, this brutality is extrapolated in regard to man. In the other two poems, For the fire and A crow that came for the Chickens, the underlying theme lies in the cruelness of nature. This alone is evident through the titles of each poem. However, the common theme of both survival and death is established throughout all four of John Foulcher’s
Misto does this in a humorous and often confronting manner. Through the use of distinctively visual techniques, it leads us to think about significant issues in the world, such as the mistreatment that the prisoners of war endure, the affects that the war has on the survivors and the ability of the human spirit to overcome hardships experienced in war. One significant worldly issue john Misto explores in the play is the mistreatment that the prisoners of war endure. The distinctively visual elements in the play enable the audience to visualize what Bridie and Sheila endured during their imprisonment. This is evident in act 1, scene 1.
William Golding uses a few symbols such as the beast, hunting, and the conch to show the change from civilized to savage in the boys. William Golding uses the beast to symbolize the boys becoming savage. The beast is the idea of a monster or animal that is on the same island as them, like being trapped in a cage with a lion. No escape. It shows that when people are scared they will do crazy things.
Elie Wiesel on the other hand incorporated various literary techniques to convey the message of Nazi’s brutality towards their Jewish prisoners. He referred to the haggard Jews as “wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes…” (Wiesel 95). The Jews were reduced to behave like beasts due to lack of food and water. The Nazis purposely failed to provide the Jews with sufficient supplies. Withered and disgruntled, the Jews seek to fulfill the needs that had been deprived from them.
In the poem Eliot writes, “I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” This metaphor is a depiction of Prufrock and how he wished he was a crab who lived on the bottom of the ocean. His line depicts Prufrock’s depressed state and his wish of being something else. The crab metaphor reveals Prufrock’s insecurities of living in the world and being visible, rather than living on the bottom of the sea, away from people and the real world. Eliot also illustrates Prufrock’s alienation and depression through vivid imagery. Prufrock says, “When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall… And how should I presume?” This line is a portrayal of Prufrock’s struggles with life.
Here we are like another breed of dogs (57). The victims in the asylum are reduced to animals. They have lost the ability of logic and reasoning, which makes humans superior to animals. Names are one of the facts that set humans away from the other animals. Names give people individuality and identity, which distinguishes them from one
This is used to describe the conditions of the prison Michael X was being kept in. Showing that they were in fact caged like animals. This allows the reader to sympathize with Michael. - “Which made him look like a Ku Klux Klansman” irony. This is because Michael X is a black man.