Atticus Finch has been deemed a hero of justice, a mythological paragon of social activism. But although Atticus admirably defended Tom Robinson. He was no antiracism activist. First, Atticus did not volunteer to defend Tom Robinson; he was given a court order to do so. Then there Atticus’s complacence to racism, clearly portrayed in his confession (regarding defending Tom): “I’d hoped to get through life without a case of this kind…” This is not to dismiss Atticus’s fine attributes: He is a good father, treats all (black and white) with respect, and practices patient humility.
He is a rational and logical man. These aspects of his character bleed through when he has a verbal and public argument with Oedipus. Oedipus blames him for attempting to usurp his thrown as King of Thebes. To this Creon only replies, "A man of sense was never yet a traitor, I have no taste for that, nor could I force Myself to aid another's treachery." This response shows the integrity of Creon’s character and only proves that he wouldn’t dare conspire against Oedipus.
This becomes one of the main motifs of the novel. | 2. “No matter how innocent a slave might be – it availed him nothing, when accused by Mr. Gore of a misdemeanor. To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished; the one always following the other with immutable certainty.” (Douglass 13). | As an American, I appreciate and sometimes take for granted the rights and freedoms I am given every day.
JP Morgan Chase’s Slavement When you heard the word “slavery”, you knew that it related to abusiveness, inhumanity, and brutality with keeping the slaves to work 24/7 without payment, abusing them if they don’t follow the direct order and letting them died slowly without giving them any food. African-American had been enslaved in The United States of America since early 17th century. Slavery had its origin with the first English Colonization of North America in Virginia in 1607, even though African slaves were brought to Spanish Florida in 1607.⁽¹) Furthermore, it had been more than twelve million African were shipped to America from 16th to 19th century to work as slaves. At that point of time, slaves didn’t have their own rights to fight for themselves. I personally think that slavery was one of the most unethical issues that ever happened in The United States of America, and one of those many cases pointed out to the second-biggest bank in The U.S., JP Morgan Chase, which had two predecessors in Louisiana that had customers that appear to have used enslaved individuals.⁽2⁾ Even though the law already persistent the slavery case clearly with the adoption of the Thirteen Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865, JP Morgan Chase extended loans to slave-owners using slaves as collateral for the loans, consolidated lawsuit alleges.⁽3⁾ JP Morgan Chase hired a Maryland research firm and found that its predecessors had approximately 13,000 enslaved individuals as collateral on loans and took ownership of approximately 1,250 of them when the plantation owners defaulted on the loans.⁽4⁾ JP Morgan Chase’s involvement in this case because there was a link between JP Morgan’s predecessors which were Citizens Bank and Canal Bank, and Bank One which JP Morgan bought in 2004.
Freedom was not something that was given to him. He had to find it himself and never stopped at nothing until he lived to see the day that slavery was abolished. Douglass had an active involvement to better the lives of African Americans. One of the hardest lessons he had to learn was that the battle for his freedom doesn’t stop and he refused to stop before finding it. Douglass risked his freedom and wrote his Narrative.
The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs". This is one thing that kept Bozella going,he knew he was not a coward. Bozella was not only a man with a lot of hope but he also had perseverance. He never gave up when they continued to trial him guilty.He continued to keep trying to gain his freedom which rightfully was his. Bozella is now a great inspiration to a lot of people.He is a great example of why never to give
Mr. Covey did not punish Douglass for the sake of his own reputation. “Mr. Covey enjoyed the most unbounded reputation for being a first-rate overseer and negro-breaker. It was of considerable importance to him.
The final image of Sutpen given by Rosa is that some black man kills him on his plantation. Rosa also asks Quentin to come with her to the old Sutpen mansion, because she thinks someone is hiding out there. Continuing with his stream of consciousness technique, Faulkner has Mr. Compson tell the next few chapters through his memories of Thomas Sutpen. Sutpen was in the Cival War with General Compson, and as the stories have been passed down to Mr. Compson, he is passing the story now to Quentin. In Mr. Copsons version, I learned of Sutpens marriage disaster, his immediate family,his illegitimate child with a slave, and a previous marriage to a woman who was 1/8 black, who bears Sutpen a son, which is his dream, but also his downfall.
Narrative of an American Slave Douglass' Narrative begins with the few facts he knows about his birth and parentage. He knows that his father is a slave owner and his mother is a slave named Harriet Bailey. Here and throughout the autobiography, Douglass highlights the common practice of white slave owners raping slave women, both to satisfy their sexual hungers and to expand their slave populations. In the first chapter, Douglass also makes mention of the hypocrisy of Christian slave owners who used religious teachings to justify their abhorrent treatment of slaves; the religious practice of slave owners is a recurrent theme in the text. Throughout the next several chapters, Douglass describes the conditions in which he and other slaves live.
As said by our third president, Thomas Jefferson, “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. This quote is very similar to Dale Carnegie’s quote. It has the same exact message. The first time I read the quote, I didn’t quite understand it, but then I put my own situations in it, and then it became clear. I’ve always been a child of jealousy and competition.