In the current day and age, people rarely pick up a book before they fall asleep, and most people probably could not explain what Aldous Huxley wrote. The way of life in Bradbury’s dystopia was to employ firemen to burn intelligence and promote mass ignorance in an act to create an equilibrium of knowledge. Montag’s wife, who was hospitalized after their house was bombed, was scrutinized by robots and robot-like humans to extract every bit of knowledge (human blood) inside of Mildred and replace it with mechanically administered blood. (Bradbury 17). This act showed society’s need for ignorance and a “don’t ask questions, that’s just the way it is” type of system.
Jarvis Mckneil Justice in Sweat In all societies there is some form of government or law that regulates how justice is distributed. This story is about a hard working lady named Delia who washes clothes for a living to try to make ends meet for her family. She has been married for fifteen years to a man named Sykes Jones who basically is an ungrateful man that doesn’t appreciate his wife’s hard work. He is hated throughout the town for his flirtatious ways along with his arrogance. This man treats his wife like the scum of the earth but at the end justice will be served.
Dolly hates Oriel, because in her, Dolly sees herself as a failure. Oriels life has been torn apart by the drowning of the family favourite, Fish, and the failed miracle of Fishes partial recovery. She believes in work and family and the nation, and struggles to regain her belief in God through the entirety of the novel. Rose Pickles was forced into a role of responsibility at a very early age, she is pushed into a maternal role for her father and brothers because her ‘sex crazed’ mother Dolly, who spends most of her nights with strange men or in the bar ‘men are lovely’. Rose is first introduced in the novel while she is collecting Dolly at a pub, at the age of 14 she refuses to do it anymore.
“Why don’t you keep your room cleaned like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed – what the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk (Oats 899).” Connie and her father did not have the best relationship either because her father “didn’t bother talking much to them (899).” Even to an extent Connie “wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over (899).” So it is easy to think that her personal feeling to her family and her suicidal thoughts could influence her dream in which Arnold Friend threatens to kill her family and ultimately to kill Connie. Arnold Friend was mentioned early in the book when Connie was hanging out with a boy she had just met and hooked up with for the night.
Goodbye, Columbus This story that we read about Neil a lower class young man living with his aunt and uncle that meets this upper class young woman, Brenda, who attends school in Boston. I feel that Roth was showing how the different classes react towards one another and how some can push some of their difference aside such as Neil and Brenda. Brenda’s family all treat Neil a little different then they treat anyone else. The only person that is a little nicer to Neil was Julie possibly because she was young and naïve. Neil’s aunt makes it pretty clear that she doesn’t like the fact that Neil is spending all of his time in Brenda’s home in Short Hills where her and her Jewish family is the All-American family.
Although it is not clearly stated in the text, there is more evidence to prove Twyla is white and Roberta is black. In the second paragraph of the story, Twyla stated that her mother warned her, “they never washed their hair and they smelled funny,” about Roberta (Morrison 139). Assuming that the author is playing at the stereotype of a black person’s hair, this statement gives more evidence that Roberta is black. Also, later in the story Roberta’s hair is brought up again when she is sitting in the diner and Twyla describes her hair as “so big and wild I could hardly see her face,” which portrayed to me as the stereotype of some black girls having big hair or an “afro”. Another good example would be Twyla and Roberta’s mothers.
Christina Penh English 2 Honors September 6, 2011 Characterization Ruth was a Jewish immigrant to the United States. Ruth and her family couldn’t make a living that way, her father was always trying to capitalize on his distinction as a rabbi. So they decided to settle down in Suffolk, Virginia and opened general store. Ruth's father, Tateh, was racist and he overcharged colored people. Ruth rejected all of her fathers unfavorable opinions and decided to bond with the black people in her town.
Abigail used to be a servant in the Proctor household, but once Goody Proctor found out about John and Abby’s relationship, she fired Abigail. This caused Abigail to have vindictive feelings towards Goody Proctor. Ignorance is displayed through Giles Corey, another character in Act 1. His description at the bottom of page 40 explains how he is an ignorant man. “He didn’t give a hoot for public opinion, and only in his last years-after he had married Martha-did he bother much with the church.
Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale were brought together by the murder that just occurred in their hometown. The two ladies began to start feeling closer, because of the judgment from the men about the way Mrs. Wright not being much of a housekeeper. As you would notice some of the remarks made by the County Attorney (with the gallantry of a young politician): And yet, for all their worries, what would we do without the ladies? (The women do not unbend. He goes to the sink, takes a dipperful of water from the pail and, pouring it into a basin, washes his hands.
In the past, women were not able to work or vote. They were supposed to stay home to cook and clean. Men thought that women were not capable of working and doing the same jobs men did. Men thought that women were beneath them. Flatland is a fiction book whose world is like the American world today.