While many people would be discouraged by the title of the class alone, I was intrigued and immediately signed up. I will forever remembered the line he introduced the class with, "Welcome to Science Fiction & Horror. If you are easily confused or disgusted, you should get the f**k out of this class. S**t gets real in this class, so buckle up." Completely stunned by the first words coming out of this new, intimidating teacher, I was excited for an English class for the first time.
A literary tool that was revolutionized and mastered by Mark Twain. He used it prolifically in the writing of Huck Finn, and as such is a great tool for teachers to explain satire. Huck Finn is actually one massive compilation of satire because it pokes fun at the institution of slavery throughout and portrays all white southerners as “drunkards, murderers, bullies, swindlers, lynchers, thieves, liars, frauds, child abusers, numskulls, hypocrites, windbags and traders in human flesh,” as Russell Baker, writer for the New York Times once wrote. Twain also used irony in his writing. 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.
Texts that are interesting and haunting have themes such as power and manipulation. However, stories with power, manipulation AND conformity, have strongly affected me and caused me to overthink about how simple it is to brainwash members of a society. This kind of activity (conformity, manipulation and power) is evidently shown in The Wave which was written by Morton Rhue. The Wave took place in Gordon High School. It's about Ben Ross, an intelligent history teacher that decides to perform an experiment on his class called “The Wave”, which at first started out so simple and small, until The Wave became unstoppable and spread around the school in such a short period of time, affecting many people.
For it is a natural human instinct to stereotype. For centuries, we have been stereotyping different races such as the blacks. The whites used to see them as evil doers, but now we realize that it is not true. In the book, Tom Robinson was killed because he was stereotyped. If he had an impartial jury, he would have been a free man.
They knew how it felt to be the victim of random, useless, careless murderous acts. This can be backed up by the lynching’s that had happened during the 1880s all the way through the middle of the twentieth century. Hobbs does a great job in making the reader realize what took place at those dark times. In the section Hobbs writes about lynching in South America, where Florida led all southern states with the most lynchings. Lynching’s began as “type of vigilante justice”, then turned into a cruel way to torture blacks and the African American
“I been there before”: The Tom Sawyerification of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn Following Huck's ardent declaration to “go to hell” and “steal Jim out of slavery again” in chapter XXXI, some critics claim that the ending of Huckleberry Finn is one of the biggest botches in the history of literature. In “The Green Hills of Africa,” Hemingway even goes so far as to write that, “If you read it [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn], you must stop where the Nigger Jim is stolen from the boys. That is the real end. The rest is just cheating.” Why did Twain, a brilliant writer and fearless social critic, decide to end his Mississippi bildungsroman in such an unexpectedly troubling fashion? All of Huck's maturation while “going down the river” seems to be reversed.
The Significance of Symbolism in “To Kill a Mockingbird” toward Social and Racial Prejudice The novel by Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird” mainly discussed about prejudice in many aspects. One aspect is about the prejudice against Tom Robinson, a black man who is falsely accused of raping a white woman and convicted to be guilty by all white jury because of the custom of the society and the racism of the people. Harper Lee uses symbolism which carries the message better than words to signify the prejudice that can be seen as symbols throughout the story, mostly about the problems of social and racial prejudice in the South in 1930s. The use of prejudicial symbolism can be studied by looking through symbols from the book. The paper will be discussing about symbolization of the prejudice against Tom Robinson, the causes from historical context and the evidence of prejudicial thought which is upheld by people in Maycomb society.
This is a very popular topic for school essays nowadays. A Shrek essay has the advantage that every student has watched the movie, or at least has some idea on who this “big, stupid, ugly ogre” is (actually, a brave, good hearted antihero of our time). So don’t freak out if a teacher asks you to write an essay on this topic, because you could do much worse! Shrek essays are funny to write and read, although you should focus on “serious” topics and not only repeat the best jokes on any film of the Shrek series. Today, everyone is talking about Shrek again, since the fourth (and, apparently, last) film of the series is about to be released by DreamWorks.
Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” contains many different underlying themes, one of which includes the evils of slavery. Melville shows this in Cereno as he “ attempts to strike a balance between people divided by race and class, thus speaking to the new multiracial readership of popular works on slavery” ( Melville 18). Slavery can bring out the evil in individuals when they try to gain dominate control over someone. The same can be said about the slaves about the San Dominick merchant ship. Babo, acting as the leader of the revolt, ordered the brutal slaying of any non useful sailors.
Running head: ARE ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE MORE SUCCESSFUL Are Attractive People More Successful, Or Are They Just Another Pretty Face? Elli Hill Eaglecrest High School Freakanomics and Outliers Research Paper AP Language and Composition As children, we were all taught valuable lessons to keep close as life goes on. We learned them from our family, the cartoons that were on the television every morning, and even from self experiences where our little brains didn’t know any better at the time. Though, most of what I learned came from the story books that piled up next to my bunk bed. The pile consisted of fairy tales, comics, Disney stories, the usual content read by a 6-year-old; despite each book having different settings and characters, they all had the same storyline: there’s a heroine, and soon enough becomes a damsel in distress once they’re taken away by the malicious villain.