When Richard and Harrison agree to fight themselves for money they end up humiliating themselves. For the two men are unable to fake a fight and are thus forced to actually injure one another due in part to the fear that the white viewers invoke on them. This fight in the end deeply ashamed Richard for it got him to realize that violence infects the black community in general, whether from within or from the white community’s imposed violence. When Richard grows up he moves to Chicago and joins the Communist movement. However he learns quickly that the police beat protesting Communists and Richard is forced to move from one outcast group to another, never truly escaping reality.
“All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men”, (William Penn a preacher, minister, and missionary in the late seventeenth century). In The Absolutely True diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexies shows us how alcohol abuse affects Junior's life, how painful it is to deal with the effect, and how it leads to violence and death of the ones he loves. Alcoholism is a disease that affects millions of people and it isn't different for Indians as we see in every other page of this novel. To understand why alcoholism is a disease, it's important to look up it's effects.
She gets mad and goes by herself. She gets killed by the Population Police. Luke finds out and feels bad that he didn’t go with her. The Population Police found out that Luke existed and they tried to find him. George, Jen’s step dad, gets Luke a fake ID and Luke goes and lives with these other people so he can be
It is companies such as the peach farm that force people’s insanity and revoke their sense of ownership and livelihood. At the end of the story there is a tragic scene where Rose of Sharon, one of the women of the group, gives birth to a stillborn child in the rain and Uncle John, a depressed drunk due to the death of his wife and mal living conditions, sends the dead baby downstream in hopes that the landowners of California receive the message that there are people dying due to their greed and self interests. Unfortunately the Joads and many others try to stay united but the horrors of poverty settle in as many people die due to the living conditions and there are many setbacks in their journey expressed as “livelihood,” was never met. The novel portrays an image of a world in which generosity and self-sacrifice are the greatest of virtues. It also portrays an image of the 1930’s and one of the causes of the Great
Big foot's group was caught during their journey by Major Samuel M. Whitside and the Seventh Calvary. They were forced to withdraw back to the bank of Wounded Knee Creek. At Wounded Knee, as the Indians were helpless, the whites started taking all of their weapons. massacre break out by one of Indian open fired, they believed that it was an accident shot done by a deaf man, Black Coyote, when the soldier was trying to take the gun away from him. Within minutes, gunfire from the military unleashed upon the unarm Indians, they were outnumbered by 500 U.S Soldiers.
Esteban furiously goes after his daughter and brutally whips her. When Clara expresses horror at his actions, Esteban slaps her, knocking out her front teeth. Clara decides to never speak to him again, reclaims her maiden name and moves out of Tres Marías and back to the city, taking Blanca with her. Esteban, furious and lonely, blames Pedro Tercero for the whole matter; putting a price on the boy's head with the local corrupt police. At this point, Pedro Segundo deserts Esteban, telling him he does not want to be around when Trueba inevitably catches his son.
At this point other members of the family started to tell Boy Willie that he should listen to his sister there was no point to be fighting over, since the piano had already caused so much grief he should just stop the arguments. That day they felt the spirit of Sutters, Bernice was convinced since her brother Willie had showed up the brought the bad spirits with him. They also thought the spirits were the souls of all the slaves that have died in Mississippi. The so call the yellow dog spirits, ever since they can recall this ghost were killing all the slave masters because of all the barbarian acts that committed against all of the innocent slaves. Boy Willie was not certain that this is not his fault, that he should not be blame because he came to the house this ghost follow him all the way from Mississippi to
His father, a preacher, was killed by the Ku Klux Klan for disrupting the good Negroes. Furthermore, His mother was cheated out of the insurance money and went crazy trying to keep food on the table and the state from taking her children Malcolm and his brothers and sisters were split up. As a child, Malcolm had great oratory skills, screaming until he got his way. Despite all this tragedy, Malcolm had the courage to continue living his life and became a good student in elementary and middle school. He had dreams of becoming a successful lawyer someday.
Due to the whites chasing away buffalo and game, some hotheaded Indians started raiding wagon trains, killing and scalping and plundering. The whole East started to resent the “savages”. Emigrants also wanted protection. Little Wolf sometimes restrained his warriors with a pony whip, and he did not like the abuses he saw (Millard, 1964, p. 45). The Indians ended up killing innocents out of anger and revenge.
Kira Argounva one of the main characters in the story and her family suffered by being poor. Kira father had to shut down his textile shop because their people didn’t have enough money to buy stuff; the government made sure everyone didn’t more money than them because the people would be overthrowing the government and receiving a lot of money. The government has spies to make sure they don’t make a lot if so the people would get sent to jail. For example Leo who is Kiras’ boyfriend that tried to make extra money, but got caught by the spies and they broke into his house then sent him to jail for breaking their law. This shows communism in the