The modern day novel and movie The Help shows many similarities that were portrayed in the classical novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Both The Help and To Kill a Mockingbird go into depth about the struggle humanity has been threw over the years. Although they both contain the same themes the way the authors create the situations and display the harsh reality of society’s make these two stories very different. During the depression prejudice was at its peak, with the Jim Crow laws and no rights for blacks it made it near impossible for the African American community to live a normal life. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the rape trail of Tom Robinson vs Mayella Ewell, an African American man accused of raping a white teenage girl was held in a bias court room of Maycomb County.
Erick Arellano Josue Arrendondo English 115 20Sept2012 That Ho Don’t Fly “At the close of this millennium, hip-hop is still one of the few forums in which young black men, even surreptitiously, are allowed to express their pain”(603). This excerpt from Joan Morgan’s From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos poignantly expresses the overall motif of the piece. Morgan makes several assertions about the relationship between female degradation in hip-hop music and the failings and shortcomings of black men being the product of society’s prejudicial treatment and in some cases outright abandonment. She does so with too few literary tactics. Off the bat Ms. Morgan makes use of Ethos and Logos.
They view themselves as burdens. They don’t like being homeless, but they have come to believe in their worthlessness. Another scene that brings home this point, is when they are in the cemetery, and Kiyoko is crying, and Gin and Hana are fighting. Gin informs Hana “We are three homeless bums who can’t take care of themselves.” This sentence here proves that Gin feels ineffectual. Now not all residentially challenged people feel this way.
The phrase ‘no sleep’ is a euphemism for death and suggests that she will pay for what she has done. This is similar to Farmers Bride as he is frustrated that she will not interact with him. This is shown when he says ‘three summers since I chose a maid’; this suggests that she has been avoiding him for the past three years, which is frustrating for him. The word ‘maid’ implies that she is still a virgin, suggesting that his frustration could also be sexual In Sister Maude italics are used to emphasise her hatred for her sister Maude. This is used in the last line of the poem ‘Bide you with death and sin’; this symbolised her outrage at her sister and her hope that she will pay by going to hell after death.
Not really a sudden violence, but 250 years of existential, endless and constant violence. Blacks being sold off, families being separated, children being threatened. The author ends his argument with saying that the Civil War was a revolution that ended slavery which is not
He feels like his obsession for Martha has led to his failure as a Lieutenant. The author states, “He felt shame. He hated himself. He had loved Martha more than his men, and as a consequence Lavender was now dead, and this was something he would have to carry… for the rest of the war” (719). When Lavender is killed Cross believes it is all his fault because he was too busy daydreaming about his love for Martha.
“I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wounds and a dead child dragging his shattered back.”(934) Lorde is figuratively saying she is trapped on a desert to imply her feelings towards her surrounding society. At the time of the poem (1978) our country was dealing with racial injustices and civil right issues. Humanity, in this time, is being dominated by powerful white men and Lorde feels as though society will never grow under these conditions. “…without loyalty or reason…”(935) expresses the lack of vigilance the cop had for the value of life, and the courage the people should have had to fight for the death of an innocent child. The thirst she describes is one for justice.
Larry, while talking with Isabel uttered “the dead look so terribly dead when they’re dead.” (46). Obviously the sight of his dead friend was forever ingrained upon his memory. He goes on to say that when “a fellow who an hour before was full of life and fun and he’s lying dead. It’s all so cruel and meaningless. It’s hard not to ask yourself what life is all about; whether there’s any sense to it or whether its all a tragic blunder of blind fate” (47).
Many Africans refused to eat or jumped overboard, committing suicide. In the Middle Passage alone, it is estimated as many as eight million slaves died. African slaves are closely watched on board The third and final stage of the Triangular Trade involved the return to Europe. Ships returned with goods from the plantations such as cotton, sugar, and tobacco. However, before these goods were loaded on the ship, an entire cleaning of the ships took place.
“This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.” This quote creates a sense of loneliness to the reader seeing as the speaker is saying that “all smiles stopped” implies that the person who smiled is no longer alive but now dead. Being alone in a household after someone has died makes you lonely. Even though the speaker doesn’t say this the reader can tell this is what he is feeling because of the fact that he is now looking for a new wife to give him company. We can see this by the quote: “Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed”. When lonely you look for company; searching for a new wife/partner is the same as searching for company to fill in the loneliness.