Carmen Dent Mrs. Roberts English Book: Beastly By: Alex Flinn 1. Discuss how the main character is like or unlike a person you know? (10 points) Kyle, the main character in the book Beastly, is rude and careless. He only cares for his self, and if someone looks ugly or nerdy to him he will be extremely disrespectful to them. There are a lot of people that I know who would do that to people just because they think they are better than most people.
I think the problems are that the norms of the 1950's were wrong and people got too involved in other people’s business. I feel that most people during the 1950’s who discriminated were ignorant as hell and didn’t understand what was really going on. I feel like people who were forced to act a way that was considered to be the right way or thing or grew up in a family that were brought up to hate people of color were the people who had the most problems and secrets that society wouldn’t even accept. During those times, people were so quick to judge someone only to distract people from their personal lives and problems. For example the scene where Frank and Cathy are arguing about her spending time with Raymond and Frank shows Cathy his strong
Anyone who was positive in the movie they tried to hurt or they killed them off. Young minorities are faced with theses images everyday from music videos on down to television shows and I feel that it was an awful depiction of black culture. I do feel that the movie is detrimental and can taint a young urban minorities mind; it could lead young men and women to idolize criminal lifestyle. When Goldie refers to himself as a “hero” I could almost imagine what is going on in a young teenager’s mind. Their probably thinking the movie was great or they want to sell drugs, be a player or pimp just like him without seeing the truth.
Julia hardly knows Winston, yet she claims to love him. This is very odd, especially in the society in 1984. It seems a little hard to believe that it’s a coincidence that Julia would fall in love with an older, not very attractive man before they even formally met. Not only that, but Julia also claims to have had many sexual encounters with many different Party members. Did she also claim to love them?
Soma is a way to keep a stable social atmosphere because by causing these hallucinations, people are distracted and drawn away from seeing the truth of what world reality they are living in which is miserable and controlled which would make any person miserable. The high the soma creates is like any other drug in society today and is not real but people get addicted to it because it is an escape so this happiness people think they are experiencing is fake and meaningless. Soma makes it seem like reality can’t bring happiness because it only brings hate, anger and sadness. People find themselves getting involved in an illusion because they believe it is better than what real life can offer which is really sad so even when they think they are happy they are still defeated by being sad because they are turning to drugs to make them happy which give them fake
The publicity of the case and the one-sided role of the media caused a majority of people, internationally, to be biased and influenced. This impact then led to numerous problems and difficulties in being treated fairly, such as finding an impartial jury. This factor of having preconceived idea meant that the jury had already decided Lindy Chamberlain’s fate, opposing the justice being “served,” legitimately. Wiping away any chance for Lindy Chamberlain to prove her innocence creates an inevitable outcome. The Chamberlains being judged under a heavily biased jury influenced by the media, therefore shows the maltreatment of the case by the justice system and the society.
Not only are they scorned and hated by society, but also most scorn and hate themselves even if they do not show it every day. Similarly to Dante’s time, even in today’s society gluttony is considered to be a wrongdoing by others. In our day, lust is not seen as corrupt as it was in Dante’s time. A large part of the community does not consider it immoral to have sexual relationships with one or more partner and yet many people are not finding happiness, they are satisfying lust and perhaps finding that that is not enough. They drift from one relationship to another constantly searching for who knows what.
Beatty tells Montag that with “a bigger market there is less controversy” however some of the authors were full of “evil thoughts” and they created and wrote content and compositions that were derogatory to many ethnicities and religions which caused dispute and arguments among many minorities. So the books stopped selling and books were banned- they “were dishwater”- so censoring books and tv programs was to ensure equality among people. By eliminating information and keeping people docile and passive with meaningless
The United States is the strongest government in the world and the media puts it down so very hard. It has gotten to the point where everything that you hear on the news and proclaimed by the media is in a negative manner. The media is hiding the good points of the story just to make an interesting story about the bad. It makes me sick! Now to hear about the hidden points of the war in Iraq I will explain them and prove how the media puts down this great uplifting story.
Rachel Rucker Professor Clapper English 1213, 10MWF March 30, 2012 The Power Of Racial Slurs Words today mean so much in society that people seldom look back on the consequences they hold. These words can cause much pain, anguish, and conflict amongst people who do not even know each other. People say slurs such as “jap.” “flip,” “chink,” and “jew” to others, but they do not know who these other people are. These racial, religious, and ethnic remarks are made to demoralize others and to make them feel inferior. Sometimes these slurs are made in society where people have learned to live with them, by them, and from them.