In the book, Gary talks about how his television images motivates him to have a way out of Fresno and it kept him fighting to find away out of poverty. He fought for a place where he can plan his roots and be accepted for who is. Gary also had many family conflicts but the biggest one was with his step dad. Gary’s lack of education and being mistreated in school made him think that his future was going to be living in Fresno the rest of his life like his parents did. Gary wants to break away from poverty and keep the next generation out of working in the fields or factories.
Huck should have told the officials about the runaway slave, Jim, immediately as he found him. Yet throughout the story Huck grows a strong bond with Jim which is unheard of in those times. Jim gets taken and Huck debates on trying to save his friend or let a slave go rightfully. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) This is one of the most powerful statements in the book because its Huck accepting the fact that he is willing to go to give up his immortal spirit in order to help his friend, Jim, and do what is right. Huck completely now views Jim as more than just property, but as a person.
The language and ideas in the novel can be seen as offensive and racist to some readers who do not comprehend them. The opposition either wants the word “nigger” to be edited out of the book or just banned all together. Banning the book or editing it destroys the meaning and value would be lost. The book shows how racist people were morally wrong. Also, the book was published over one hundred years ago and most people spoke like that then.
When Huck almost sells Jim out, it is a constant internal battle between Huck’s heart and society. Under no circumstances would I consider Mark Twain to be racist. Mark Twain may use the word “nigger” often, but he creates these racist comments as satires to ridicule society during these times. He uses one of the best works of art to show how life was at one point and to remind future generations how depressing it was for black people in the South during the 1800’s. Twain is like Huck Finn in the aspect that they grew up in racist environments and eventually realized society was wrong for what they were doing.
(Card 19) Even in the middle of the book when Ender is confiding in Bean, he states that he felt he could not lose any of the battles, for some reason which he did not reveal (Card 197). This drive is so embedded into Ender’s personality that even he can not understand it himself, or it is so personal he can not even reveal it to one of his closest companions while at the school. This gives Ender a passion that soon boosts the rest of his army, and they too come to realize that being good is not enough; they have to be superior. Although these are just three characteristics that explain why Ender is such a great leader, there are many more reasons listed in the
He only wanted them do as he said without feedback. The ways the principal handled the situation with Bender clearly demonstrated how zero tolerance can backfire on the leader. There was no empowering in his approach with this teen only distain which added to Bender’s already low self-esteem. If no one shows him how to believe in himself then why would he desire to believe in himself? Discipline is needed and there is level into which matters should be handled however by tearing him down only proved how zero tolerance without compassion is a form of discipline that is
The wave is a story about how a teacher, Ben Ross tried an experiment out on his history class to show the how life was in Nazi Germany. The experiment starts out going ok but quickly got out of control. This book is a great example of how having power and the power of something can have a major influence on things. Ben starts to see that the experiment isn’t going the way he wanted after Robert Billings says he will be his body guard (chapter 11) and Ben reluctantly agrees because he didn’t want to upset Robert. Although this worried Ben he still didn’t stop the experiment, instead he starts to see how far he can take this experiment with the students.
A.S Neil emphasized, that when he established his school in 1921 that he wanted to build a community where “children are free from the authority of adults”. On the other hand, Neil was famous for his provocative, often extreme, sometimes even dogmatic statements. All this might have given him popularity in the 1960’s, but he also lost it when the counterculture of the sixties burned out. Yet, there are a lot of truth in his basic ideas, which should be taken to heart and be considered. Because of this, it might worth to specify what should we say instead of “free from adult authority”.
My experience was significantly different from Rodriguez’s. His life at home and at school is even almost exactly opposite of my own. My family played a key part in my life whereas his was almost nonexistent. I believe he took the wrong path. He completely ignored his family to just work obsessively in school, but took absolutely nothing away from it because he was only working to be recognized, not to learn.
He was very unpopular, clinging close to Phineas, who was Gene’s only source of social interaction. When he was not with Phineas he would feel as if,” I would have lost face with Phineas, and that would have been unthinkable.”(Knowles Pg. 34) Gene did everything he could to stay in favor with Phineas, even by taking part in’ The Suicide Society’ (Knowles. 56-57), when he longed to be studying for examinations. Striving to be the best academically and to be so much like an adult, pressured Gene into thinking he had to be, ”serious sometime, about something.