Putting aside the differences they have a trait in common; they are true life stories that happen to women on a daily basis. The poem “Barbie Doll” is very different from the poem “La Migra.” It is a very discouraging poem because the destructiveness of the standards of female beauty led to the girl’s death. The young girl classmates used to make fun of her big nose and fat legs. “Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.”(line 6). She got to the point that she was not strong enough to take all the pressure, so she cut herself up and offered her legs and nose up.
Ruth and Idgie and Ruth were watching from the bridge. Idgie was Buddy’s younger sister and they were very close. Idgie started screaming. Idgie did not handle the death well, she was close to her brother and it was a sudden death. “A number of studies suggest that survivors of those who die sudden deaths, especially young survivors, have a more difficult time than people with advance warning.” (P60 Worden) It was a very traumatic death as well; she had to watch and was not able to help him.
Labeling and stereotyping. They don’t seem like a big deal until it causes chaos in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In Maycomb, this is a big issue in the community. Scout is watching and understanding this world differently, being young and very influential racisms changes her, in maturing and her personality. Scout is the main character, she is the reason the Finches get in all these dilemmas.
Since children were exposed to this behavior the racism has been passed down to generation to generation. Prejudice is something that is taught, not something that you are born with. The Help is a continuation of the prejudice shown in later years. Its mainly based on African American maids working in the homes of white families doing their work and being treated very poorly. The prejudice was so intense in this white community that one very dedicated maid Minny Jackson lost her job for using the white families toilet, it was believed that the blacks carried other “diseases” than
Throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Nell Harper Lee empathy is ever present. Each character has a personal situation, perspective, or experience I can empathize with. However, the character I can empathize with the most throughout the novel is Scout. In the beginning of the novel, Scout has a very rough first day of school she gets into a fight with Walter Cunningham, and her teacher tells her that her father, Atticus, is teaching her how to read all wrong. Scout is very upset and sad about her first day and tells Atticus that she does not want to return to school.
At one point in the story, it seems as though other people besides the Finch family are seeing that judging people based on their looks is wrong. Ms. Gates, Scout's third grade teacher, explains to the class that prejudice is a bad thing. She states “Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.” (p.245) She emphasizes this to the class, showing that she really understands and despises it when people look down on others based solely upon their looks. Also, a little bit before, Ms. Gates explains to the children what democracy is, and how it works. Scout says that a democracy means that their is “equal rights for everyone.” (p.245) The teacher then goes on to state how the U.S. is a democracy, and how that differs from Germany as a dictatorship.
This shows Scout’s prejudicial character for feeling immediate fear for the blanket because it was specifically Boo who put it on her. We can further see that Scout really indulged in what she heard about Boo and how much the rumors blinded her. Lee connects the quote she used above with another quote from page 89 where Scout says, “Jem, I ain’t ever heard of a nigger snowman.” This quote characterizes Scout’s innocence and portrays the theme of racism. Being the intelligent person she is, but due to her young age, Scout unknowingly uses the offensive word ‘nigger’ because she is too young to understand what nigger really means and how it is racist. This quote portrays the theme of racism when Jem responds to Scout by saying, “He won’t be black long,” describing the snowman to be black on the inside, but white on the outside.
First, she had this way of making her students feel ignorant. From the very first day of class Mrs. Garvin seemed to be very rude and abrupt. When a student feels uncomfortable and threatened it is very hard for one to learn in this kind of environment. I was scared to raise my hand and ask questions because she seemed to talk down at you and she made you feel like an idiot for even asking a question. An educator should have the ability to make their students want to learn.
Assignment 1: Character In Maya Angelou’s autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, the readers get to know the protagonist lacks self confidence; however, she is an imaginative and courageous black girl when she is young. First, she lacks self-confidence. On Easter morning, she realizes that her Easter dress is only a white woman’s throwaway, which “[makes her] skin look dirty like mud, and everyone in church [is] looking at [her] skinny legs”. She feels like a second class person. When she moves to St. Louis and sees her mother for the first time, she is struck by her mother’s beauty.
In TGT, the school photo remind Duffy of how much she hated her teachers at secondary school and why it was that she felt this towards them. The poem begins with Duffy saying, ‘No bigger than your thumbs, those virtuous women size you up from the front row.’ This is to signify that those women who thought they were so intimidating and authoritative are now so small that she could cover them up