In 12 Angry Men, Juror #10 says, “Boy, are you smart! Well, I’m tellin’ ‘ya we better watch out! This kid on trial here, his type… Well, don’t you know about them?” he says “his type” as if he is better than the boy on trial because he is not on trial for murder. Perhaps maybe those not having names would represented them being symbolic of the different groups in society. In Of Mice and Men, Curley’s wife does not have a name.
Name Teacher Course Date Morality in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” suggests a lack of morals from both Delia and Sykes. Morality is an extent to which an action is right or wrong. Throughout the story, Sykes shows his lack of morals. Sykes put a rope on Delia’s back knowing she hates spiders, snakes and bugs, which caused Delia to freak out. An example of Sykes lack of morals is, “If you such a big fool dat you got to have a fit over an earth worm or a string, ah don’t keer how bad ah skeer you” (705).
Lennie also as the misfortune to have a feeble mind in a very strong body. He does not appreciate or understand his own strength as we see him destroy anything living from mice to Curley’s wife. His physical strength presents a challenge to Curley, but as he learns when Lennie crushes his hand, coupled with his lack of cognition Lennie is a lethal cocktail. Lennie’s other disadvantage is the time in which he lives. He is threatened with being ‘locked in the booby hatch’ and really the options for helping someone
He tries to prove how animal testing affects animals, but the evidence that he gives us was some kind of violence and lacking police protection. These evidences do not match with the idea that he tells us that “lacking adequate police protection, fearing for the lives of their employees… bringing it to the brink of bankruptcy”. I feel that the writer uses red herring. He keeps bring up criminal issue instead of talking about how animal testing effects on animals. Moreover, the writer gives evidence that I feel it does not make sense “the crime against Huntington are not isolated incidents; animal rights terrorists commit more than 1,000 crimes annually”.
In conclusion, it is extremely transparent that Tom is a more corrupt character compared to Jay Gatsby. His dishonesty, jealousy and lack of moral values exemplify his corruptness. In comparison to Gatsby, we see many similar traits and actions between these two characters with vastly different consequences. Gatsby’s motivations are pure when seeking his true love while Tom’s motivations are malicious and intend to hurt others. Cited Work Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Matthew J. Bruccoli.
Ken Kesey One Flew Over The Cookoo’s Nest Essay Dane Klenk 10/20/11 Honors English Sparks Dane Klenk 1st page In Ken Kesey’s award winning novel “One Flew over the cuckoo’s nest”, he shows his anger for the lack of rights our government has given our society. He was angry at how our government had blatantly disregarded our right to freedom of speech, right to vote, and unlawful to discrimination with regard to race, religion and sexual preference. In essence, Ken Kesey tried to move society to stand up for equal rights. Ken Kesey expresses his anger through a mental institution, where Nurse Ratchet controls the patients like mindless puppets. He creates a symbolic world where Nurse Ratchet disregards the rights of her patients, subjects them to undeserved punishments, and controls every aspect of their day-to-day lives, and exacts her revenge on the would-be hero McMurphy.
In ‘Of Mice and Men’, Lennie is the character we have the most pity for. Do you agree? The book ‘Of Mice and Men’ by John Steinbeck is a story of two men both of whom have lead very difficult lives. At first the reader is captured by the simple mindedness of Lennie Small, a character who is portrayed as a big, friendly giant, but later it becomes clear that it is others who are baring the consequences of his poor decisions and then the readers pity directed towards them. George has to put up with Lennie and then kill his best friend, Curley’s wife faces discrimination and even her kindness towards Lennie leads to her death.
Xuan Pham Bakula 4 English 10 December 8, 2011 Discrimination in Of Mice and Men How would you feel if you were treated unfairly because of your skin color? If I was in the Great Depression period and treated unfairly by society, I would feel upset and angry. I would question for myself that society is human and I am a human too, we are the same then how they could treat me so unfairly. During the Great Depression, racial discrimination still existed. Society treated people with different skin color, particularly African Americans, awfully and treating them like slaves because they believed that African Americans were inferior to upper class.
English 9 AA / 2nd hour 16 December 2010 Peoples Differences in Society In the novelette Of Mice and Men, the setting was based on the depression era. In those days the “different” weren’t treated as to what people are today. They treated people as if they were from a different world. If there was a black, mentally disabled, or a woman like in this book, they treated them differently. John Steinbeck, the author, showed a good example of social injustice in this book.
The rest of the world doesn’t care about the elderly, and Candy knows it. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses Alienation as a central theme for a reason. It demonstrates that everyone needs somebody to talk to. Those discriminated against for their race, age, or gender in the book are always shown to be in a worse situation then those with