I think the topic of cultural expectations is perfect for this novel because it is blatantly discussed about on numerous occasions throughout the novel. The story deals with the idea of the cultural dissimilarity between White Canadians (Wemistikoshiw) and the Cree characters. To be specific it deals with the concept of assimilation and how some characters reject it and others accept it. Take Elijah’s character for example, he is quite elated when his fellow Caucasian soldiers give him an English alternative (WhiskeyJack) to his original Cree name. After Xavier gets word of this he concludes, “Whiskeyjack is how they say his name, make it their own...what sounds to my ears like a longer word for bastard, making his name a name without a family” (Boyden 145).
Jane Tompkins wanted to know the answer to the question of, “All I wanted was a general ideal of what happened between the English settlers and natives in the seventeenth-century New England.” (Tompkins200) She had no ideal of confusing or false information she would come into while trying to find an answer. She researched several writers and scholars who only told half the truth and not the full facts. She saw in the writers writing their opinion instead of facts. Her first research began with Perry Miller who wrote about the movement of European culture. Miller showed in his writing how bias he was with seeing the truth about the Indians.
The Pilgrimage of grace failed for many reasons, however, I think it failed mainly due to poor leadership. This is because Robert Aske accepted the King’s pardon at the River Don and trusted that Henry was going to discuss their grievances in court. When they accepted the pardon they dispersed back to their homes, which meant that when Henry didn’t do anything about their grievances then it would be difficult for all the rebels to regroup. The rebellion was regionalised to the North of the country and was too far away from London go back after just coming back. M.L Bush said that ‘It was interconnected regional rebellions rather than one fluid movement’ because once the rebels had gone back to where they lived dotted across the North of England they would all have to meet up rather than go down to London in one group.
Alexie continues this method throughout this entire paragraph. With this Alexie clearly represents the destructive cultural expectation that “as Indian children, [they] were expected to fail in a non-indian world.” Sherman Alexie’s “The Joy of Writing: Superman and Me” helps us to understand the struggles that Native Americans commonly face while living on a reservation. He represents the cultural expectations for these children and young adults using advanced planning and knowledge of various writing tools. While he doesn’t say so directly we can clearly see that Alexie intends to
Never As It Seems Donald Taylor ENG125: Introduction to Literature Instructor Maria Rasimas April 26, 2015 Conflicts and literary techniques are present in any literature, including poems and short stories. Identifying them gives readers a more understanding of what the story is about. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, 1966 and “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, 1953”, are two short stories that have a similar conflict, mainly individual against another individual, but their selfishness and pride created issues that neither saw coming until it was too late. In both literary stories, climax played an important part of determining the outcome of the conflict, the crisis rose to a rising increase in tension which in turn made the story’s turning point near the end. Fate played a secondary part, both girls were placed on an unusual situation in their lives where they had little or no control of.
English 1010 The two poems “The New Colossus” and “The Unguarded Gates” are considerably the same in that they are explaining how immigrants are coming to the “enchanted” land. But as Emma Lazarus writes “sunset gates shall stand”, Thomas Bailey Aldrich writes “ is it well to leave the gates unguarded” exclaiming how he is weary of letting immigrants trample over the land he considers pure. Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s poem “The Unguarded Gates” gives off that he is a white supremacy. In the second stanza he says “Oh liberty white goddess, is it well to leave the gates unguarded?” worrying that immigration will only bring “unknown rites and gods” into his pure land. To me this sounds as if the land he is used to is only of white people set in their own ways and he doesn’t want poor and non-whites in to “trample” on their customs.
The people to benefit from this attitude towards diversity were the Northern European ethnic immigrants. This created frustration for people of color as they could emulate how the white behavior but could not get past the issue of color. Melting Pot: in 1908 this perspective came into play. The melting pot perspective is one of which stating that settlers to America need not relinquish their entire racial or ethnic heritage but that all ethnic differences would balance into a dominant American culture. This idea “deemphasized differences and emphasizes instead the need to disregard diversity and accept immigrants as Americans as long as they learned to speak English and became citizens.
At the end of the film, the agent of disruption, Edward, has been removed but, lest the audience should feel that Edward has been treated unjustly and the film end on a low note, the hero is given the chance to show his love for Kim and exact revenge on the obnoxious Jim. Although the suburb ostensibly returns to normal, Edward's visit has a lasting effect - snow continues to fall and he is kept alive in Kim's memory. Edward Scissorhands contains numerous stereotypical characters and the whole film satirises American society, a society whose values are as phoney as the cotton wool snow which Pete Boggs nails on his roof at Christmas time. Female stereotypes abound: we have the voracious man-eating middle-aged woman who lusts after Edward; the maternal acceptant Peg Boggs and the beautiful, virginal, adolescent daughter who eventually sees beyond Edward's superficial oddities to the underlying
In the novel of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver sees the way the creatures on his adventures act, and relates them to his own friends and fellow beings. Furthermore, Gulliver states that “the writing of the Lilliputians was very peculiar, not like the European; nor from right to left like the Arabians; nor from up to down like the Chinese; nor from down to up like the Cascagians, but aslant like the ladies in England” (Swift 65). In this paragraph, Swift relates the writing of the Lilliputians to the writing of English ladies. He explains that some of the education does not compare to that of the humans: “They bury their dead with the heads inward and feet outwards, because they believe that in 11 thousand moons, when they will rise, they will be ready on their feet” (Swift 65). In this interesting paragraph, Swift talks about the “peculiar” laws and practices that were presented in Lilliput and how he would make a little justification to the laws if they were held in his country and world.
He uses the lists to compare the difference of people’s points of view about the field that he was in, with his own. This is so he can explain his theory to the reader, and it also shows his logical and organised thought process. In addition, it shows the reader that his point of view is much more defined and accurate. There are a few words that have been formatted in bold, such as “Shakespeare’s Globe” and “CROW APTOK” so that Christopher can get across to the audience that these words are important. Christopher also writes his first joke, despite the fact that he said he doesn’t like jokes in chapter thirteen.