Steven Jimenez English Ms. Torres 31, October, 2014 The Scarlett Letter Many people throughout their lives have been in the position of being looked down on by a group of people or society because of something they have done wrong, but overcomes their wrong doings at the end. In the novel “The Scarlett Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the protagonist Hester Prynne has this perpetual fight with proving to the puritan society that she is more than the letter “A” that is attached to her bosom. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows in his novel that people sometimes should receive a second chance. Being in a conflict with a group of people can be extremely stressful and overwhelming but people need to be their own support system and backbone to overcome such a difficult problem in order to move on with their lives. People often when being in a conflict with their society, usually back down because it is on person against a large amount of people but sometimes that is not the case.
The Bundrens have not form of civilized communication. They always end up disagreeing with each other. This has created intense barriers in their family life and has pushed away the possibility of being a normal family. In the novel, one realizes that Addie’s children resent each other and they are always competing for their mothers love. "If everybody wasn’t burning hell to get her there, with Cash all day long right under the window, hammering and sawing at that…" (6) Clearly from this statement, Jewel felt that his family was exaggerating the issue of Addie’s death.
Her ignorance of the black and white relations was brought to light when he described the people’s actions of seeing her ride the bike. The author declared that the “Black kids zipping past her on Sting Ray bikes and skateboards, popping wheelies, throwing baseballs, and tossing fireworks…” (2). Even with people around, she never once stopped riding her bicycle. The author also happens to describe what James thinks about his own mother. Growing up, he always felt as if his mother was purposely embarrassing him and very strange compared to other mothers.
In the short story it ends right when she gets in the car with Arnold which creates a more eerie and suspicious kind of feel. But with the way the film ends it doesn’t create the same effect as the story. In the film the girls are always going to the “mall” so their parents think. Connie’s mom starts to get suspicious as the film moves on. Many of the differences were throughout the film so they could prolong the story.
B. Your life can be changed in a split second. III. Example 1 A. As I started to say “I think that car just hit something” the front of my car went up in the air slightly tilted to the right then down.
Numerous controversial ideas have played profound stepping stones in societies climb to try and create the perfect society. The vision of a perfect world through self sacrifice was exploited by the government in the novels 1984, by George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. These books portray the atmosphere of that perfect world through government control. In each novel a single character is outcaste because of his refusal to conform. This refusal leads the characters to an ultimate conflict with an individual closely related to the government.
“Bullying is a big problem that effects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on it’s receiving end” (Lyness 1). Bullying does not just affect kids, but the parents too. It affects the parents because a lot of their children begin to be afraid attending school. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda was affected by being bullied lead her to think about suicide, scared of coming to school, and victims like Melinda begin to not care about school and fail. Melinda was affected by being bullied and led to many things and one of them is thinking about suicide.
Mia Walters Mrs. Speca Freshman English; 0012 10 April 2012 Secrets Every once in a while everyone gets that feeling that something is being kept from them, whether it is a secret or something else. Well, the characters in The Giver by Lois Lowry and Fahrenheit 415 by Ray Bradbury realize that some very important parts of life are being kept from them. A common theme in The Giver and Fahrenheit 415 is that censorship is essential to maintaining power in a society because if the citizens knew how the government controlled them they would rebel. If the people of these books knew what used to be and what they were missing out on, they could possibly be very angry that it was taken from them without their consent. For example, in The
Social Policy Decisions Paper Patrize P. Stuart BSHS/355 January 27, 2014 Linda Sewerbridges Introduction Since 1982, there were numerous of deaths by traffic which involved many people driving while drunk. A mother took a stand, to do something about drinking and driving. When this mother took a stand, other mother supported her, and took a stand alongside her. She was determining to influence people, to stand with her to stop death due to drinking and driving, other mothers, that had loss children to drunk drivers, channeled their grieve into the fight, that began in the 1980’s. Children under the age of 21, are not allowed to have no alcohol in their system that sit behind the wheel of an automobile.
The sunshine represents the good in someone and the shadows symbolize the knowledge that Caitlin lacks about Billy and that she is an outsider in Billy’s home. The polysyndeton ‘...and says “thanks” and that’s when I turn and run” tells a lot about Caitlin’s way of looking at someone. Even though Caitlin doesn’t wish to, she belongs to mainstream society, and this influences how she judges someone. These techniques have shown that through the environment she grew up in and the connection she has with her parents, Caitlin still does not completely understand Billy’s way of life. This impacts her sense of belonging with