One of the greatest examples of irony ever is the “crisis of conscience” scene, when Huck decides to “do the right thing” by social standards of the time period, and write to Miss Watson to reclaim her “property” Jim. Then Huck remembers Jim's generosity and concludes that he should not send the letter. Ripping up the note he declares, “All right then, I'll go to hell.” With it, he rips the racist teachings of his childhood out from his conscience. At that very moment Huck has convinced himself that he has done the completely wrong thing by social standards, the reader knows that he has actually done the right thing and that Huck's good impulses have prevailed. This scene is the perfect example of dramatic irony because the reader has an all-knowing perspective of the situation while the main character( Huck) struggles with a problem that we already know the answer to.
As a result, she became very bitter, angry, and cold-hearted toward him, and did everything she could to keep him from reading. The sentence in Douglass’s autobiography, “She was an apt woman; and a little experience soon demonstrated, to her satisfaction, that education and slavery were incompatible with each other” tells me that she was a likely person to be swayed by her husband’s opinions. Also, she was eager to let it be known that education and slavery just did not “mix”. That brought on her being very harsh with Douglass. In Douglass’s autobiography, he expressed gratitude toward the white boys in the neighborhood.
Thoreau became sick of paying taxes and decided to move out into the woods to escape the society he lived in. This did not stop the town tax collector from approaching him and jailing him though. Henry was also highly apposed to slavery and stated that he could not associate with a government that was “his” if it was also to be the “slaves” government too. The only way he could see being able to push past these barriers was through civil disobedience. He did this by evading his taxes that went to funding the recently entered conflict with Mexico as well as funding a government that supported slavery.
It’s so cold and dark in here and I feel alone. Sitting here made me wonder if you ever really loved me but after reading your letter I know that you do. You’re just a man John, a man that made a mistake. I always thought you were too hard on yourself but you just need to realize that nobody’s perfect. I know that you’ll find a way to get me out of here John, to prove to the people that I am innocent and so are the others.
The theme Conformity is expressed in Fahrenheit 451 by the use of figurative language and motifs. When Montag comes back to work Beatty is still trying to convince him that books are bad for people, after Beatty is done lecturing to Montag, Faber tells Montag, through the earpiece, that he can choose whatever side he thinks is right “But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority” (104). Bradbury uses the metaphor comparing the majority to cattle for two reasons: to show the vastness and solidity of it and to show the similarity of the people in the majority. Majority always rules and even though what is believed by the majority may be wrong, logically or morally, it is still what will be carried out. This quote ties to Conformity, because the majority wasn’t always the majority.
Throughout the poem the author does a good job of expressing to the reader the significance of seemingly insignificant things. All of these so-called insignificant actions or objects all trigger the very significant emotion of hate towards the Haitians people by the general. An example of this is in stanza eight where the author gives significance to regular objects like the lack of curtains and the parrot in the brass ring, the author does this in order to give a subtle incite to the reader about what caused the general to kill. Throughout the poem the author does a good job of using this subliminal imagery in order to give the reader an idea of what’s going on in the poem without giving the story away but still keeping the readers
Breeze Wanaisie Writing 122 Kathleen Horton 2/19/13 The friendliest opposing voice Racism has been around for probably all of time. In our history there have been many ways, effective and not, to address this issue and to abolish it. King and Obama are two people that have attempted to do this. Although King and obama both are persuasive, king is more so because he writes in a friendly voice, which is more effective. The general tone of kings voice is shown threw out his entire letter.
It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He will become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontent and unhappy.”(Douglass 20) If I had heard that spoken about myself I do not think that I could have sat and listened to him. This was not the first time that Douglass had seen or heard the whites talk about the slaves that way, but it forever changed him.
“In literature, evil often triumphs but never conquers.” I generally thought that this quote meant that the Bad guys may win the battle but he wont win the war. I for the most part agree with this quote. The novel “Raisin in the Sun” by Hansberry shows a great depiction of how the quote applies in literature, when Walter is told that they couldn't move to their new neighborhood because they are black, and then regains his honor. “Speak” by Anderson has a perfect example as Melinda was raped in the beginning and then gets back at Andy Evans through violence. In the novel “Raisin in the Sun”, when Walter tells Mr.Linder that they wont be moving into the new house in clyborn park is when Walter lost all of his honor.
I could not sleep because we all were too crammed together to move a lot, and the smell made me sick with everybody not being able to bathe. Just imagine what I had to go through, just to come to America. Imagine hundreds of men, women and children huddled together in the dark, on bare wooden floors with no ventilation, the only thing we breathed were the stench of vomit and the effects of diarrhea because there were no restrooms or sanitary facilities. There were no mattresses and the berths were never cleaned. Many of the unhealthy remained in bare wooden bunks just laying in their own filth the entire voyage because they were too sick to move or get up.