In the story, Demian, Sinclair states that people help themselves without the help of others in such matters. When a person gets help from teachers, mentors or advisors, this support is not meant to put a person down, but to motivate and help move them along in life. People helped Sinclair get through life in many situations, starting when he was a little boy at the age of ten. There are some who may come through one's life and try to hinder him or her from getting them where it is that they need to be because of jealousy or many other reasons. If most cases, successful people most often refer back to someone who served as a mentor or some positive influence in their life.
Sinclair was helped by Demian who he did not really know until they walked home together one day. Demian helped Sinclair to show that he was not afraid of people. Franz Kromer, a local bully, lured Sinclair into telling him that he stole some apples when Sinclair really did not do it. Sinclair did this because Kromer's bad reputation was affecting him, making him want to seem cool. Kromer was one who put Sinclair down when he was a little boy. Demian, on the other hand, was someone who Sinclair looked up to, not as a peer but as a mentor and a man.
Demian talked to Sinclair about books and life in general. Kromer finally stopped bullying and bothering Sinclair and Sinclair was able to move on with his life. In this particular situation, it was Demian who helped Sinclair move forward. Sinclair was also beginning to see that Demian was not trying to be a mean person or someone who was trying to get something out of him as Kromer had been. Sinclair began to hang around Demian more and more and was looking at him as a mentor. Sinclair stated that, "Sometimes in those days I made attempts to imitate him and to concentrate my willpower on some goal I had to achieve it."(pg. 37) Sinclair started making plans and setting goals in life that he wanted to achieve through willpower and motivation. He was trying to do everything like Demian. Demian talked to Sinclair as a grownup of some sort, telling him to follow his wishes.
The Shadow of the Galilean by Gerd Theissen is a fictional narrative about a Jewish merchant, Andreas, searching for information about a group of people known as Essenes, John the Baptist, and Jesus of Nazareth. While traveling through Jerusalem Andreas was imprisoned by the Romans thinking he was a part of a demonstration against Polite when his mission was to find Jesus. Andreas writes, “I never met Jesus on my travels through Galilee. I just found traces of him everywhere: anecdotes and stories, traditions and rumors. But everything that I heard of him fits together.
In the memorial epic, The Pigman, John and Lorraine’s words really show their personality type. In the beginning of the story, when describing John, Lorraine say’s “John has made and art out of it. He prevaricates just for prevaricating’s sake.” What Lorraine is referring to is John’s tendency to make up stories in an attempt to make his life sound more interesting. The reason he does this is to make his life sound more exciting then it actually is. John is the type of pers...
At the beginnings of the 1900s, some leading magazines in the U.S have already started to exhibit choking reports about unjust monopolistic practices, rampant political corruption, and many other offenses; which helped their sales to soar. In this context, in 1904, The Appeal to Reason, a leading socialist weekly, offered Sinclair $500 to prepare an exposé on the meatpacking industry (Cherny). To accomplish his mission, Sinclair headed to Chicago, the center of the meatpacking industry, and started an investigation as he declared“ I spent seven weeks in Packingtown studying conditions there, and I verified every smallest detail, so that as a picture of social conditions the book is as exact as a government report” (Sinclair, The Industrial Republic 115-16). To get a direct knowledge of the work, he sneaked into the packing plants as a pretended worker. He toured the streets of Packingtown, the area near the stockyards where the workers live. He approached people, from different walks of life, who could provide useful information about conditions in Packingtown. At the end of seven weeks, he returned home to New Jersey, shut himself up in a small cabin, wrote for nine months, and produced The Jungle (Cherny).
Van Daan is. The first example of this is on page 559 and states “ One package. Miep only brought me one package.”. This shows how Mr. Van Daan seems to not care that Miep is risking her life for him to get cigarettes, he just wants more than she brought. Another example of this trait is on page 560 and says “ Why aren’t you nice and quiet like your sister Margot?”. This example displays how self centered he is because he sounds like he doesn’t care at all about Anne’s feelings. If you were told you yourself weren’t good enough and should be more like someone else, you would feel terrible. This is basically what Mr. Van Daan is conveying to Anne. The final excerpt that shows this trait is “At last I’ll have some cigarettes.” which is on page 563. This proves he is self centered because at the time, Miep is arriving and this quote presents his thoughts as they should have brought cigarettes sooner. It shows he isn’t caring of the challenge it is to get thos cigarettes for him. These are quotes that show Mr. Van Daan on how self centered he
Mark Twain once said, "We are creatures of outside influences -- we originate nothing within. Whenever we take a new line of thought and drift into a new line of belief and action, the impulse is always suggested from the outside." In the memoir This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff Jack shows that he is a creature of outside influence. Some examples of this are that he copies what his friends do, he doesn't try to shape his own life, and he is heavily influenced by the male figures in his life.
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, inner struggles are paralleled with each setting. Taking place in the twentieth century each setting plays a significant role in explaining a theme in the novel. Fleeing Greece in a time of war and entering Detroit Michigan as immigrants parallel later events to the next generation of kin fleeing Grosse Pointe Michigan to San Francisco. These settings compliment a major theme of the novel, society has always believed to be missing something in their life and attempted to fill the missing piece.
Sinclair wasn't chiefly interested in journalism, as some believe. He paid his way through college writing cheap adventure novels, after which he began writing more serious works, but was extremely unsuccessful, making less than a thousand dollars in four years. When his bad luck ran out, an opportunity arouse, and he took advantage of it. The editor of a socialist magazine, called the Appeal to Reason, offered him five hundred dollars to write a novel about industrial workers, and their slave like conditions. They planned to serialize the novel, that is, release it piece by piece, much like sit-coms are done toda...
“The Jungle,” written by Upton Sinclair in 1906, describes how the life and challenges of immigrants in the United States affected their emotional and physical state, as well as relationships with others. The working class was contrasted to wealthy and powerful individuals who controlled numerous industries and activities in the community. The world was always divided into these two categories of people, those controlling the world and holding the majority of the power, and those being subjected to them. Sinclair succeeded to show this social gap by using the example of the meatpacking industry. He explained the terrible and unsafe working conditions workers in the US were subjected to and the increasing rate of corruption, which created the feeling of hopelessness among the working class.
The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas is a short story written by Ursula Le Guin. In her story, Le Guin creates a model Utilitarian society in which the majority of its citizens are devoid of suffering; allowing them to become an expressive, artistic population. Le Guin’s unrelenting pursuit of making the reader imagine a rich, happy and festival abundant society mushrooms and ultimately climaxes with the introduction of the outlet for all of Omelas’ avoided misfortune. Le Guin then introduces a coming of age ritual in which innocent adolescents of the city are made aware of the byproduct of their happiness. She advances with a scenario where most of these adolescents are extremely burdened at first but later devise a rationalization for the “wretched one’s” situation. Le Guin has imagined a possible contemporary Utilitarian society with the goal to maximize the welfare of the greatest number of people. On the contrary, Kant would argue that using the child as a mere means is wrong and argue that the living conditions of the child are not universalizable. The citizens of Omelas must face this moral dilemma for all of their lives or instead choose to silently escape the city altogether.
...absolutely believe that Sinclair’s messages are of major importance because the validity of his messages still applies to anyone living in the 21st century. Many of his messages concerning wage slavery, socialism, poverty, and trickery of the American Dream are still common dilemmas that exist until now. There are many victims such as my relatives from past and present generations that have died in vain just hoping to support their families abroad. However, even though my parents survived this situation they are mentally scared forever because of this. In addition, I believe that this will only stop if we constantly annoy the heads of our society such as our senators of this situation. In conclusion, I believe that if everyone had the mentality of showing more compassion and sympathy towards others rather than themselves then the world would be a better place.
...cts with his parents when they are trying to help him. He and his parents get frustrated and impatient when something does not go as planned. Arguments often take place regarding how Frank wants something done because he cannot do it himself.
This is the first sign that we can trust this narrator to give us an even-handed insight to the story that is about to unfold. But, as we later learn, he neither reserves all judgments nor does his tolerance reach its’ limit.
In this extract, Bennett reveals the fate of all the boys, the eulogies told by ‘’Hector’s boys’’ seem to stem the realisation the true extent of Hector’s importance to the boys and how his lessons – though understood late, has managed to shape the boys and contribute to who they are at the ending of the play. The extract reflects an elegy in which we see Hector though obscured by his paedophilia, is a tragic ‘hero’ as he saves the boys from being lost in the system of clichéd education in which there is no individualism.
Discuss the relationship between individual and society in Goethe’s The Sufferings of Young Werther. What features of Werther’s individuality make him incapable of taking up a “normal” position within society?
'Ulysses' is both a lament and an inspiring poem. Even modern readers who are not so familiar with the classics, can visualize the heroic legend of Ulysses, and so is not prepared for what he finds in the poem— not Ulysses the hero but Ulysses the man.