Lornas Box Theory? If you haven't read Ricochet River then you have no clue what the Box Theory is, you may think it's something made up. But it's a very real thing. I have analyzed this Box Theory in how it compares to the novel and how it compares to my everyday life. In this essay i'm going to explain what it is, how it works, how it applies to the novel, and how it’s reasonable in mine and your everyday life.
The Box Theory in the novel is explained as a factory, for example it states. ““Calamus is a factory,” she said. “They box you in a tight little package. They only have fewer sizes. And even fewer labels,”” (Cody pg. 127) What the novel is trying to impose is that, Calamus tries to put you into different groups. An example would be when Lorna says ““They box people up in tight little packages,” she said. “Your cheerleaders, your farmers, your hoods, your jocks.”” The Box Theory is a way for people to group
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They describe Calamus as a place where you can't really leave, it makes you feel trapped. This shows that calamus is its own factory by itself that has groups of where they are all divided. An example of these groups would be Wade and Jesse, they both fit into the jocks. And when this happened to them you can really see the way the Box Theory worked and how it would change them. For example “‘You swagger,’ Lorna said. “You swagger even sitting in a chair. You're dipped and soaked in swagger. The way you treated those FFA. the trouble with you,” she said, “is you want to be packaged. You love it. You lap it up.” what she is showing the readers is how these groups that one puts himself in changes them, and the way that they look at other people. And that is why the Box Theory is such an important part of the book, it helps you get a better understanding of the characters and how they really are when they get attention or power. And that's just how it implies in the
Some college students might try to be more inclusive of others outside their own racial group by interacting across racial/ethnic lines. Humphrey’s states that although “students today do sometimes choose to live, socialize, or study together with similar backgrounds.” (575, Hoeffner and Hoeffner) however, she believes self-segregation does not appear to be widespread.
In Michael Byrne “The Deep Sadness of Elk That Don’t Run,” Michael talks about how the bourgeoisie want to create conformity and approval, but Michael writes “That these are the people that don’t succeed in groups…” (Byrne, Michael. The Deep Sadness of Elk That Don't Lie. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.) They are going as to get mindless conformity that they are training students to know how to fit in, in the excerpt by Susan Cain “The Power of introvert in the World That Can’t Stop Talking.” “Children’s classrooms are arranged in pods, because group participation supposedly leads to better learning; in one school I visited, a sign announcing “rules for group work”…” With this happening in schools around the United States, stigmas are thrown on kids
She alludes to the idea that as people we must look deeper into our lives and see were we may have been given unearned privilege whether is be from race, gender, or sexuality.
This theory offers an explanation for the appearance of a group's cohesiveness, consisting of shared emotions, motives, and meanings. Within it, sharing group fantasies creates symbolic convergence. In The Breakfast Club, the goal set for the group by the teacher in charge of the detention is to write the 1000 word essay describing who they think they are as a person. They are told to sit there without talking or moving and think and write only about themselves. Of course, the whole movie consists of their procrastination as they bicker about their lives and scheme against their teacher and they start to see a different side of everyone as they find out more about each other. There are predictions of the others’ lives acted out, sharing of stories and even lying and making up things in order to get each others attention or get each other away from finding out the real truth about them. These are the dramatizing messages. A fantasy chain starts to pick up once they begin revealing the problems they have outside of school (parents/home life) and grow closer as they tell each other the reason they got into detention in the first place and how it connects to their home life. The five realize that even though their problems are significantly different, they all are equal in the fact that they are all human and one of their problems is not any less important than the others. In short, the
She shows the nature of power and how it slowly slips away from the person’s grasp. First it corrupts the mind of a person and changes them, and then it slips away from their hands leaving them with nothing but arrogance, pride and
shattered by Ralph’s first unifying blow of the conch. Golding uses the scenario of the
The theory explains how people could be labeled a certain way which would follow them and encourage them to act within the confines of said label or be unable to be perceived as anything but that label. These apparent role models participated in deviant behavior almost equal to that of the Roughnecks and yet they went on to be remembered as good kids. They were allowed to act like delinquents but were never perceived as such because they maintained appearances (good grades, healthy interactions, and lots of participation). The Roughnecks on the other hand took no steps to help with their reputation (they skipped school, made their actions public and attracted a lot of negative attention) thus insuring their label. Regardless of each student’s involvement with certain activities they obtained their labels and kept them through
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In-group relationships were built through activities that will promote group identification. Stereotypes were assumed, such as believing that in-group members are brave and friendly (described in favourable terms) and members of the other group – sneaky (unfavourable terms). Hostility developed rapidly, followed by bitter conflict. The experiment focused heavily on the concept of a 'group ' and what a perception of belonging to a group can actually do to the relationships of members within it and their relationships with people outside their group. Sherif remarked that anyone who came in at this point would have concluded that these youngsters were wicked and vicious. However, it was group processes rather than the personality that had produced the conflict. However, in one of Sherif’s studies, which, unfortunately, was never published, they refused to be divided and, together, they resisted attempts by the experimenters to set them against each other.
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...os by using stereotypical images of people in L.A. and how it is so rich and where fame is found. He does not actually know Jane and he creates a character that plays a role in events that are chaotic and fragmented but he still tends to craft artificial linear order. He recreates frame in this “realistic fiction” (2) by embracing tools such as giving the chapters alphabetical order even though each chapter holds events that do not line up because of Abish’s fragmented narration. Abish also rebuilds linear order with the use of superscripts that are there to shoe some type of straight form because they hold no other meaning and lead to nothing else outside of the narrative. Abish also gives facts that give the narrative a synthetic analysis and a false ordering principle. Walter Abish reaches outside the lines to bring in new boundaries and construct his own frame.
From high school girls desperately trying to be one of cool kids in school to corporate warriors rubbing elbows for that next promotion, nearly everyone has fantasized about being a part of the “in crowd”. What is it that makes the bonds and barriers of “in crowd” so unbreakable? Through sharing stories and reaching conclusions through discussion of those stories, members of small groups develop a common bond that shapes their social reality. An example of this bond is prominent in the CW’s hit show, Gossip Girl, which focuses on the world of high society elite at a private high school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. Circumstances in Gossip Girl show how concepts in symbolic convergence describe the formation of group bonds and their effect on the group’s and individual group member’s interaction with the outside world. Before analyzing this, one must be knowledgeable about the basic components of symbolic convergence and have a general understanding of the show’s premise and plot line.
Peer relationships play a crucial role in different aspects of college students’ lives in the United States and other parts of the world. Brown et al. (1990) defined peer crowds as “reputation based collectives of similarly stereotyped individuals who may or may not spend much time together” (p. 177). Peer crowds have benefits such as promoting the development of an individual’s identity or self- concept and facilitating social interactions (Brown et al., 1994).
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