Unfortunately this was not really possible in the 1930s, as people were prejudiced against the mentally handicapped, such as Lennie, and the Wall Street Crash, followed by the Great Depression, meant that the characters could suddenly end up unemployed and starving. George had two dreams, one was the stereotypical American Dream: to have his own farm with Lennie (and Candy) and ‘live off the fatta the lan’,’ without a boss to answer to. His other fantasy is of life without Lennie, who often caused him trouble and constantly needed looking after, ’I never get no peace.’ Without Lennie, George could be like any other worker, only looking out for himself and not caring as much about the way he leads his life. However, George needed Lennie for companionship to help make their joint dream vivid and keep them going. This also links to the theme of loneliness and companionship, and shows how two men travelling together was a rare situation.
For example in “Destroying Avalon” Avalon had to face the death of her best friend Marshall who took his own life because of being bullied for so many years and not letting anyone to support him through his tough times. “Marshall is dead” was repeated in the book to emphasize the feeling of grief Avalon faced. In “The Colour Purple” death and loss is shown when both Celie’s children are taken away from her at birth and is given the impression that they where killed. Bullying occurs the day you are born by society determining colours, interest and behaviours that suit the type of gender you are. However bullying doesn’t really show it’s self until we go to school, this style of bullying can be verbal, physical or electronic.
Following the Second World War there was an economic boom. Most of the money made from things like industry went to business men and upper class citizens who were able to buy shares and stocks. While many people like the rich got richer and the poor made a step up but life for the black Americans stayed the same to an extent. One reason and the most important reason that black Americans did not share in the economic boom was that they were particularly hit badly by the problems in the country as they had always done the least skilled jobs. They had jobs such as railroad track layers, brick layers, grave diggers; fruit, vegetable and cotton pickers, doormen, elevator operators.Almost 1 million black farm workers lost their jobs, many moved to the cities where they shared similar experiences with the immigrants; low paid jobs and poor housing conditions.In the northern states, decent jobs went to the white population and discrimination was just as common in the north as it was in the South and many black families lived in ghettoes in the cities in very poor conditions.
Derek Brown 2/14/13 In “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” written by Scott Russel Sanders, discusses his personal perception of the conflict of gender and equality after witnessing the harsh lives of men and women in the ‘80s. He expresses how gender, where and how you grew up was a big part of your future. This essay deals with the problems that exist between sex and social classes. He describes the hardships men went through working in factories and fixing machines for less pay, bad working conditions and long hours. Sanders gives the perspective of a poor man (himself) and woman who came from a wealthy family.
Fantine a factory worker is fired because she has a bastard child due to her now being jobless a prostitute and became sick. Valjean realised what happened to her and takes care of her. Inspect Javert finally manage to reveal Valjean for who he was. Fantine dies and give Valjean the authority to take care of her child, Cosette. Valjean escapes and finds the child and lived in a church for 10 years.
In the passage, “The Men We Carry in Our Minds,” by Scott Russel Sanders, he expressed his views on men and women, and the problems that exist between sex and social class issues. This essay demonstrates troubles that lie between the rich and poor. The time period in which this piece was written tells of issued dealing with the earlier part of the 20th century. During Sander’s childhood, he witnessed many men working the same job, day in and day out. Many of them were performing back breaking labor in order to support their families.
The person who made the product would get paid for his labour (it usually was men in the 1920’s) but would not save all his income. He, too, would purchase items that someone else, would have made and been paid for.
When his family was very poor it affected their lives in many ways. Bing poor caused O-lan the slave in the family to kill the ox to feed their family one last time, to kill an ox that provided them so much, to kill an ox that Wang lung deeply loved and couldn’t do on his own. When o-lan was pregnant with her second child she killed it before it had a chance to cry again, she killed it because if they had that baby it would be a great burden to the family knowing they have to feed another mouth, she killed her because if that child was born she would grow up like her sister with mental problem because of low nutrition that’s why o-lan killed her. Being poor caused o-lan and Wang lung to sell all of their belongings to have some money and move to the south to have a better life but that doesn’t mean they would get it. That’s what being poor caused his family to do.
Celie's mother dies soon after and now Fonso rapes Celie more and more often, saying "You gonna do what your mammy wouldn't" (p. 1). Celie has two children by her father, both of which he takes away right after they are born. Celie assumes that he has taken the children into the woods and
Attracted by the prospect of a well-paid job as a domestic servant, waitress or factory worker, people are taken away from their native region and forced to work for no salary. Human traffickers physically and mentally abuse their victims to make them do their bidding. With their body and spirit broken the slaves are forced to work in labor camps, construction sites and often on the streets as prostitutes. It has been determined that annually, about 600,000 to 800,000 people - mostly women and children - are trafficked across national borders not counting millions trafficked within their own countries. And while the underground slavery had existed always, the poverty catalyzed by the globalization