I believe that Mr. Hoodhood motives are centered on himself. I think this because he does not typically make decisions about what is best for his son, but based on what is best for his company or his own wellbeing. For example, when Holling tells his father that he thinks Mrs. Baker hates his guts, he replies by saying that he needs to be good in her class so that his architectural firm has a better shot at being named the builders to build the new Baker Sports Emporium. Mr. Hoodhood says this unsympathetically and does not seem to care about what Holling thinks. What Mr. Hoodhood does think is that if Holling is behaved in Mrs. Baker’s class, he is more likely to win the opportunity to build the new Baker Sports Emporium, a company that is
A Hoodoo/Root Worker/Conjurer works with the Christian (Protestant or Catholic) Bible. The words of Jesus Christ, the intervention of Mary, the calling of the Saints, along with the use of the Psalms are thought to hold great power for all manner of works.
Social psychology is a branch of the spectrum of psychology that primarily focuses on social interactions, environmental influences and the social experiences that weigh heavily on individuals cognitive schemas. The film “Boyz ‘N The Hood” is comprised of many contemporary influential African American actors, heavily influenced by the environment they are in and the violence surrounding them in their community. There are various aspects of the movie that portray social psychological concepts, such as social perception, attitude change, aggression and violence, and group dynamics. Social psychological issues such as proactive aggression, reactive aggression, desensitization, differential association theory, and deviance
As a young man, Jay Gatsby was poor with nothing but his love for Daisy. He had attempted to woe her, but a stronger attraction to money led her to marry another man. This did not stop Gatsby’s goal of winning this woman for himself though, and he decided to improve his life anyway he could until he could measure up to Daisy’s standards. He eventually gained connections in what would seem to be the wrong places, but these gave him the opportunity he needed to "get rich quick." Gatsby’s enormous desire for Daisy controlled his life to the point that he did not even question the immorality of the dealings that he involved himself in to acquire wealth. Eventually though, he was able to afford a "castle" in a location where he could pursue Daisy effectively. His life ambition had successfully moved him to the top of the "new money" class of society, but he lacked the education of how to promote his wealth properly. Despite the way that Gatsby flaunted his money, he did catch Daisy’s attention. A chaotic affair followed for a while until Daisy was overcome by pressures from Gatsby to leave her husband and by the realization that she belonged to "old money" and a more proper society.
Jay Gatsby is an enormously rich man, and in the flashy years of the jazz age, wealth defined importance. Gatsby has endless wealth, power and influence but never uses material objects selfishly. Everything he owns exists only to attain his vision. Nick feels "inclined to reserve all judgements" (1), but despite his disapproval of Gatsby's vulgarity, Nick respects him for the strength and unselfishness of his idealism. Gatsby is a romantic dreamer who wishes to fulfill his ideal by gaining wealth in hopes of impressing and eventually winning the heart of the materialistic, superficial Daisy. She is, however, completely undeserving of his worship. "Then it had been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor" (79). Nick realizes Gatsby's estate, parties, shirts and other seemingly "purposeless" possessions are not purposeless. Everything Gatsby does, every move he makes and every decision he conceives is for a reason. He wants to achieve his ideal, Daisy. Gatsby's "purposeless splendor" is all for the woman he loves and wishes to represent his ideal. Furthermore, Gatsby believes he can win his woman with riches, and that his woman can achieve the ideal she sta...
As Lee Haney has quoted, “Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche: do as I say and not as I do. Parents are children's first and most important role models,” it is important for a parent to set healthy and positive examples throughout a child's development stage. In a small town of social division through prejudice and intolerance, Atticus teaches to Jem and Scout his values and beliefs through setting examples. Atticus teaches them that prejudice is bad by going against societal norms, such as taking a black man's case in a dominating “white society” and standing up for the African-American community to defend their equal rights. When Scout questions, "...Why did Cecil say you defended niggers? He made it sound like you were runnin' a still," Atticus then responds, "I'm simply defending a Negro...they're clean living folks. Scout, you aren't old enough to understand some things yet...there's been some high talk around to the effect that I shouldn't do much about defending this man." (Lee, 75) This is important in the novel because Atticus demonstrates tolerance to his children when he receives the Robinson's case and decides t...
Even when he knows he will lose, he still continues to practice what he believes is right. When assigned to a case in which he would have to defend Tom Robinson, Atticus accepted the case saying “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win”. Given Tom Robinson’s background of being an African American, being convicted of rape, and the fact that he lived the South, there would be no chance for him to not be guilty. However, Atticus still puts effort into the case even though it is futile. He feels that if he did not try to win, he would go against his own morals which would give him no right in lecturing his own children. By taking on the case and staying loyal to his ethics, Atticus would teach his children to stay true to their words. Unlike many lawyers who get a similar case, Atticus goes above and beyond for his client. After Atticus and his family drove away the lynching mob from Tom, Atticus assures him saying, ”get some sleep, Tom. They won’t bother you anymore”. Atticus goes as far as to protect his client from getting killed which sets a good example for his kids. Through surpassing his obligation to Tom, he teaches his children to put in their best effort towards everything. Atticus also takes any form of payment available for his services. When Mr.Cunningham told Atticus that he didn't know if he could ever pay him back for work
he didn 't want to live the same sad life as his parents,where he had to work just to put bread on the table he wanted more then that ,he want to have a legacy.he saw an opportunity to seek,and he took it .when he help the old man from drowning.Gatsby went through alot in the war and his life but the thing that kept him alive is daisy buchanan, his love for daisy was unstoppable.Gatsby worked hard to make himself one of new york richest people for daisy buchanan.Gatsby does everything he can to conquer Daisy’s heart again.”Although Daisy has been married off to Tom Buchanan,”Gatsby is determined to win her back by displaying his new wealth.Similarly, purchasing a new wardrobe and an expensive home in part for daisy o fell in love with him Not only do Gatsby try to impress women with their wealth, but they equate those women with money” (Pearson). He believes that the only way Daisy will be with him is if he is rich and if has enough money to sustain her.Gatsby would do anything in order to achieve this status that.in order to get enough money in such short time ,he gets his “hands dirty” to be able to live in West Egg and have the ability to throw his very-well known extravagant parties.”There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whispering and the champagne and the stars…
Gatsby’s dream was to become a wealthy man in order to reunite with Daisy and win her heart. Daisy wanted a man who could ensure her financial stability and Gatsby believed that attaining wealth would guarantee that they could be together. As Gatsby consumed his time of becoming rich, it destroyed his emotional sense of feeling guilty or sadness from wrongdoing. This was because he did not have an emotional conscious from achieving his wealth illegally. In the novel, Tom Buchannan said to Gatsby, “He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter… I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong.” Gatsby politely says, “What about it?... I guess your friend Walter Chase wasn’t too proud to come in on it” (110, Fitzgerald). This quotation occured further into the novel when Tom accused Gatsby of his illegal work. Gatsby retorted in a simple manner and it was evident that that his accusations not phase Gatsby that he had done illegal work. Furthermore, his aspiration of wealth made him strive to a point where forgot the remorse and sadness behind his acts, which destroyed the emotional conscious of his character. Similarly, because of a dream Frank Lucas wished for,
From the dialog and the events with the child, Hawthorne clearly shows his stance in the controversial issue of slavery and racism during that time. Of greater significance, the little boy who repeatedly comes into Hezephiah’s cent shop main purpose is to make a statement on race. The boy ravishes numerous Jim Crow cookies which asserted that he had an unquenchable appetite, a sort of fetish with the issue of slavery. Michele Bonnet wrote a literary criticism concluding this also stating, “The racially biased view lurking in these remarks comes to the foreground with Ned’s Jim Crow gingerbread figure, which emblematizes the black community with a stereotyped, grotesque character, as is further emphasized by the dancing posture whereby he is pictured as ‘executing his world-renowned dance’” (Bonnet 488). His demolishing of the cookies created tensions in the Pyncheon family which can be translated to the thoughts and feeling of Nathaniel Hawthorne and others of that time over the abolishing of racial inequalities. It is clear that Nathaniel Hawthorne did not want the emancipation of slaves and that he was in agreement with society’s claims on those who are of a different race. Bonnet develops the similar analysis stating, “ Hawthorne dramatizes it by making Ned incorporate—and thus dispose of and subdue—a number of objects whose common denominator is that they are associated with anxiety-generating situations: strife, warfare, material progress, and the question of emancipation….” (Bonnet 493). The young boy’s fetish with the Jim Crow cookies only reveal Nathaniel Hawthorns feelings and continuous frustrations with what was going on in society. This is truly one of the major political statements that he subtly develops throughout the
... parties he hosted yet never attended, because they were all to attract Daisy’s attention. He became a bootlegger, albeit a wealthy one, simply with the hope that he could rise up into Daisy’s class, her being from a rich family and him from a poor one. Love is one goal that is always pure and noble. Gatsby sold alcohol in his drug-stores to get rich, but he didn’t just want to be rich. He held parties every night to attract prominent people, but he didn’t just want to attract prominent people. All he wanted was to become what Daisy wanted so they could be together again, this time for good. There aren’t many goals more pure than that.
To this day, John Bell Hood can be recognized as the youngest man to ever achieve the full rank of a Confederate general and to independently lead an army in the Civil War. It is suggested that his true bravery, fierce passion, and relentless desire for southern independence it what set him apart from the rest during his services in the military. In “John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence” Richard McMurry states that “In position and grade… [Hood] belonged with the older generation- men such as Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnson… whose military responsibilities included much more than simple fighting (pg. ix).” The particular methods and strategies that Hood used when executing plans of war are what made him stand
In Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout recounts her childhood experiences growing up the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout lives with her widowed father, Atticus, a successful lawyer, and her older brother, Jem. Throughout the course of the novel, the characters matures and grow in different ways, primarily when Atticus takes the high profile case of defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white women. While this case causes numerous dilemmas for Jem and Scout, he is overall an admirable father.
The pure love, which was the main driving force to get rich, makes him to choose between morals and selfishness. Firstly, Gatsby tries to return the love of his life by all means despite the fact that she is married and has a child. The affair with married woman does not make him feel guilty because the pursuit of money made him stale enough not to think about high morals. He tries to impress her with wealth rather than his own personal features (Fitzgerald 92). It characterizes him as a person with illegibility in methods to achieve the goal. However, his dream of happiness in personal life was broken and brought disappointment as Daisy seemed more impressed with his shirts rather than his diligence to reach the success and stand on the same step of the social welfare stairs as she. “It makes me sad because I have never seen such-such beautiful shirts before” Daisy’s words convey the grotesque satirical reality of their first date after five years (Fitzgerald 92). Secondly, the reader can observe his unlawful activity; Gatsby unscrupulous in a ways to get rich; Nick Caraway finds that later when some person calls the Gatsby’s house and mistakenly tells about their fraudulent activities (Fitzgerald 166). The scandalous scene of revelation of the affair between Daisy and Gatsby shows how money spoiled Gatsby; he did not care of his enrichment methods. “You let him go
Henry Brooke Adams once said “Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.” Though he was not an official teacher, it would not be unusual if Ms. Maudie spoke those same words about Atticus Finch! Atticus Finch always supported his children and raised them to be themselves. With all their struggles, Atticus’ profound guidance helped his children to always be the better person. Atticus taught his children not to yield to the immoral means of their community. While remaining as much friends as they were parent and child, Atticus’, Scout’s, and Jem’s alliance is a superb example of a positive relationship by how Atticus accepted his children for how they came, how their family always remained close and aided each other during stressful times, and how Atticus and his children, together, stood against the evil ways of society.
In conclusion Gatsby went from powerful millionaire to obsessive lover boy. However it does not end here. Gatsby as a whole can be seen as a cautionary tale, warning its readers to not base their hopes on hallow dreams at Gatsby did. However it’s what he did to attain his status earns him his “greatness”, his self-invention, his talent to make his dreams come true. So there is some good that comes from all the disarray and further cynical attitude set forth by its narrator Nick. Like Odysseus in the Odyssey, he had an undying perseverance to get home or in this case win Daisy back, but like any of Shakespeare’s tragic heroes he did enough to induce his downfall. He chased the American Dream, in constant pursuit with no sign of stopping, even if it killed him.