Auden is a homosexual which wasn’t very accepted in this time period. He tells us that he is afraid because he does not know what may happen to him due to his sexuality. Throughout the whole poem there is an irregular rhyming pattern; this inconsistency results in representing the chaotic atmosphere for a lot of the world during this period. It represents people’s lives and an example of this is “Faces along the bar cling to their average day…” this allows us to perceive the corrupted dysfunctional lives of the people. Auden tells us that people are just about leading a normal life, which they are trying to forget about everything and pretend that it isn’t there.
What they're doing, how they're doing it. Not knowing causes discomfort and it brings anxiety to people because they do not know what to expect. In both short stories "The room" and "Battle Royal" the protagonists discover that at any moment an unexpected event can happen that will change the way a person thinks on how much control they have over their lives. Even though the narrator in "Battle Royal" learns this lesson because of racism and the narrator in "The room" learns it because of the place where he works, they both come to understand that nothing they do is certain and not everything that happens is under their
Paul’s Case “Paul was quite accustomed to lying; found it, indeed, indispensable for overcoming fiction”. His lying was a constant source of frustration in his life which Paul could never fully understand. Paul’s battle within himself, along with the people surrounding him, is what eventually led him to his death Paul could never really show who he was because he was always trying to live up to what his father always wanted him to be like. When someone would try to help Paul, he would alienate himself from them. On his way to New York Paul hides himself from the passengers because he wants to ride alone.
The Bitter Truth Many of the characters in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men dream of a better life. These dreams are supposed to help them deal with their difficult environments. Unfortunately, John Steinbeck’s world is a tough and inhospitable place where dreams do not come true. His story has dreamers and strugglers, with both external belief, where dreams seem to be plausible and a contradicting internal confinement, where dreams generally fade into vanity. Once dreams are abandoned, happiness is impossible to achieve, leaving a person trapped in a cycle of misery.
Where do all of these people go at night, does the city ever stop moving, I don’t see how, there are just simply too many displaced people. On and on I ask myself questions and found there were no simple answers. (This within itself should have told me a
Being blindfolded led to great confusion of not knowing what was going on during the fight and in a larger sense with what was going on in the society. This ability of not being able to see during the fight demonstrates the ongoing struggle in the novel of trying to remove the blindfold and see the world and regain the ability of sight and knowing
As they re-emerge into civilization, they struggle to establish a personal identity or a place in society because they lack the proper education or job skills. In addition, there are no supportive groups to help them find their way, which makes them feel even more isolated, unappreciated, and exploited for serving their country. This scenario is similar to what many Vietnam veterans have felt in their transition from battle to home, and as a result, they faced many struggles in their post-war lives. War has always had a profound effect on those who
Each of the mention problems go hand-in-hand because of the lack of funds, jails are not able to upgrade to a bigger facility. This, in turn, causes overcrowding for the numerous numbers of offenders entering jail. In addition with the lack of funds to build bigger facilities,
The main reason for limited interaction is the lack of funds to acquire transportation to travel, along with illnesses and limited mobility. As people age their perception of social acceptance changes as well. With the change of perception, the values and norms of this population change also. They do not see themselves as adding value to society, and they often fear ridicule for the way they walk, talk, or lack of motor skills. Therefore, they are often propelled to stay at home.
Because the shortage of staff, no medication to prescribe, and no supervision for mental illnesses prisoner, they suffer. "The consequences of failing to provide mental health care include suffering, self-mutilation, rage and violence, unnecessary placement in segregation, victimization, and suicide" (Colgan, 2006). There is a greater risk that poses a problem, inmates that are ill was cause more problems than other inmates. Another problem that is significant is the inability to return back to society; mental illness that is untreated is more problematic for inmates to become valuable, and an up standing citizens. The common treatment in prison is placing inmates with mental illness in segregation this only worsen the