In a location where life is at stake and a person must carry on as an individual for survival, is it possible to survive with no help from others? In the book Safekeeping, by Karen Hesse, the main character Radley Sherborne is in a place where the circumstances around her can result in imprisonment or even death. This is not the only time Radley had to fend herself, as in Haiti she had to care for the little beings and keep them alive as well as her herself due to poverty. In this novel Radley eventually figures out that an individual can only survive when dependant on someone else for something. This theme is presented through Radley’s understanding between the citizens of Brattleboro, her alliance with Julian and her relationship with Madame Seville.
Survival would have been impossible for Radley without depending on someone else, which was seen in her compassionate behaviour with Brattleboro’s citizens. This understanding was the difference between life and death. When Radley hadn’t eaten from days, she knew that survival would only be possible by her dependence on other people for food. “He slides two granola bars under my hand. It’s on me, waving me out of the door” (14). This shows that Radley can only survive with a dependence on other people since they were the only ones who could’ve provide food to Radley. The final way in which Radley’s understanding with other residents proves the importance of depending on someone to survive was in the comfort that the townsfolk provided to Radley. Without this much-needed comfort which reminded Radley of her parents there would never have been the reminder of home, which in turn made her work harder to get home to her family. “I trust them, and why not admit it? They remind me of ho...
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...ed it to figure out when is it safe to leave the schoolhouse. Without a being able to think like the supporter Madame Seville, Sherborne would most definitely have been unable to survive.
To conclude, in order to survive in a place where life is at stake and person has survive as an individual, it is vital to have dependence on someone else. This is most definitely illustrated by Radley who places dependency on mutual bonds and relationships in order to stay alive both at the schoolhouse and her home. Although every individual was forced to survive on its own, trust ultimately won out as Radley successfully used her dependence on characters such as Madame Seville, Julian and the citizens of Brattleboro. She used her art of figuring out the difference between people she should trust and the ones she should not which made her survive throughout this dreadful journey.
There are times when people are hurting and feel like giving up, but then they think of their family and they keep trying. In the novel “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie the narrator and protagonist is at a concentration camp. Although he lost his mother and sisters the first day, he still has his father with him. As the story goes on, readers learn of the hard experiences he goes through and what is going on his mind the whole time. He struggles with his faith and belief in God and he learns what it means to live not just for himself, but also for the one’s who love him. By examining the novel Night, we can see that family is the key to survival, which is important because those who do not have family often end up not surviving because they don’t have someone to push them and someone to live for besides themselves.
I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I am on page 35. This book is about three kids who live in Maycomb, Alabama. They love to hang out everyday and play games. In the neighborhood, there is a house that everybody is afraid of, the Radley’s house. In this journal I will be predicting that the kids will never meet Boo Radley.
Arthur ( Boo) Radley is a reclusive man. Throughout the novel, Arthur (Boo) Radley was shown as reclusive, staying in his house all the time. “What reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters..,”(324). This quotation says, literally in the text, that he is a recluse. Also, Boo is said to be psycho, this is a reason to become a recluse.
In this text excerpt, Miss Maudie is speaking to Scout at twilight on Miss Maudie’s front porch. Scout is bored because she is being excluded from Jem and Dill’s plans, and so she spends her time speaking to Miss Maudie about several things. This night’s particular topic is Arthur “Boo” Radley and his family.
A harsh change of weather hits Maycomb County, which was kinda odd and weird that one of the Radley members died, Mrs. Radley.
As a young boy prohibited from having any fun, Boo’s loneliness grows like a weed, as does his desire to experience the world. Lost in a house closed off from the community, Boo rebels against his family and faith by getting in with the wrong crowd. After being the only delinquent boy rejected from attending industrial school, Boo returns to the house and life he so desperately loathes, his own personal hell. Furthermore, Mr. Radley’s religion and worship towards the Bible ignites the fire of neglect that burns Arthur throughout his childhood. His matter-of-fact take on God and religion places Mr. Radley into the category of men that are “so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one” (Lee, 60). Strictly living to the literal interpretation of the Bible, Mr. Radley fails to provide his family with the means to live joyful, meaningful lives. The disconnection and instability of his family proves that Mr. Radley spent so much time trying to please God and follow the strict rules of his religion that he forgot how to please his own family. Recalling the facts, as foot-washing Baptists, The Radleys abide by a set of rules that isolate them from the community and
“...If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time...it's because he wants to stay inside.” (227).
Both the Radleys, specifically Arthur “Boo” Radley, and Tom Robinson have a lot of prejudice surrounding them. Though the type of prejudice towards them is different, they are connected through the shared experience of being looked down upon. The Radley family is feared because they don’t fit into the norm of the society. Unlike many of the residents, they choose to keep to themselves. After a weird story involving a “gang,” Arthur Radley has mostly stayed in inside his house and is rumored to go outside during the night and terrorize the community. Another rumor surrounding Arthur involves him cutting items from a newspaper to put into a scrapbook and as his father walked by, “Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out,
In the article “Individual Autonomy and Social Structure”, Dorothy Lee talks about individual autonomy. She goes through the topic by examining different groups such as; the Wintu Indians of California, the Sikh family, the Navaho Indians of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Chinese culture. All of these different groups and societies give personal freedom to the individuals regardless of age groups. The example of Navaho Indians is used by Lee to demonstrate how “personal autonomy is supported by the cultural framework” (Lee, 1959, p.5). She points out the individual autonomy of non-western societies to the individuality of western society. One group gives full independence to an individual while the other does not and puts restrictions in place through some form. She states “...in a heterogeneous society such as ours, and in an era of induced change and speeded temp of living, it has been difficult to implement this tenet in the everyday details of living” (Lee, 1959, p.5). She points out the fast living pace of western society, where the personal autonomy given from the other cultures is lacking.
In the book, the narrator had said that the Radleys would never go to church like the other folk and they also hardly came out. The residents in Maycomb thought they were weird so people that knew about the Radleys avoided their house. I knew a boy in elementary who never hung out with any friends. I know now that I was stereotyping him by thinking that he was
In Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, the story follows Ruth and Lucille as they pass through the care of their mother, grandmother, great-aunts, and finally their mother’s transient sister, Sylvie. While Ruth is generally passively accepting of the care or lack thereof that she receives from these women, no matter how unconventional, Lucille purposefully sets herself against Sylvie. After existing outside of the boundaries that society imposes for the majority of her adult life, Sylvie is unable to provide the structured normality to which Lucille so desperately cleaves. In their own methods of seeking happiness, Sylvie prefers a fluid way of housekeeping, while Lucille needs strict adherence to convention. The polar relationship that exists between Sylvie and Lucille serves to illuminate that while society as a whole is more comfortable when everything is separated into rigid order and divided by strict boundaries, categories detract from the happiness of all individuals regardless of whether they attempt to fit within or reject them.
Jane next lived at Lowood. This institution was anything but a true family unit. However, Jane sought out people to care for and who would care for her in return. Helen Burns and Miss Temple became very close to Jane. In ways like the mother of the typical family served as a moral guide and a nurturer, so too did Helen Burns, and to a certain extent Miss Temple.
Throughout Jane Eyre, Jane searches for a way to express herself as an independent person who needs help from no one, yet she also wishes to have the love and companionship of others. Often times, Jane finds that she can have independence but no one to share her life with, or she can have the love of another at the loss of her independence. Jane's entire journey is based on the goal of achieving a seamless blend between independence and love, a mixture that rarely seems to go hand in hand.
Throughout the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee likes to foreshadow the character's traits such as Boo Radley. Even though Atticus’ children, Jem and Scout, believe in the superstitions about him, they get a glimpse of his character through specific parts of the book. The children realize that Boo Radley is not a bad individual at all, he actually cares about them. Since he shows so much care for the children, the reader is not surprised when Boo Radley “saves” the children at the end of the novel.
When it comes to the topic of addiction, most of us will readily agree that it is a miserable trait to possess. An addiction is a physical and psychological state of being that if not treated correctly could result into harmful wrongdoing. In The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, he recounts a story in which a fatigued housewife named Angie Bachmann lost all of her family’s assets, amounting to a million dollars due to a gambling addiction. Every habit has three components: a cue or a trigger of an automatic behavior to start, a routine the behavior itself, and a reward which is how our brain learns to remember this pattern for the future. According to Duhigg, “you cannot extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it” (63). Duhigg suggests that in order to change ones bad habit the “Golden Rule” must be implied. The Golden Rule is a theory of shifting a habit by retaining the old cue and reward, and tries to change only the routine. Duhigg’s answer to the question in the chapter title, “Are we responsible for our habits?” is simply “Yes.” If we have an awareness of our habits, then we are responsible for their consequences. In the case of Angie Bachmann, she should be held accountable for her gambling debts because she was well aware of her own bad habit and did not try to seek for help.