Hatred provokes many individuals to transform into hideous versions of themselves. Their actions, fueled by this hatred may be demonstrated negatively or positively in society. Authors Samira Ahmed in Love, Hate & Other Filters and Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give, elaborate on this central idea. In Love, Hate & Other Filters, Maya, the protagonist, learns to cope with the discrimination she faces in order to move forward with her life. In The Hate U Give, Starr, the main character, discovers how to use the racism she endures to her benefit. In both novels, readers gather that deep feelings of aversion bring out the best and worst in people. A common theme in both publications is that detestation has the ability to highlight the most repulsive …show more content…
First, in Love, Hate & Other Filters, Maya accepts the bigotry in America and moves forward knowing she will adapt and tolerate this inequality. To demonstrate, Maya decides to go to NYU, despite the fact that her parents fear she will not be accepted because of her race. Maya acknowledges the injustice in the world, yet she does not let it stop her from pursuing her dreams. On the other hand, in The Hate U Give, Starr takes action in order to stop prejudice towards certain races. To exemplify, the book ends with Starr’s final statement: “There will always be someone ready to fight. Maybe it’s my turn. Others are fighting too, even in the Garden, where sometimes it feels like there’s not a lot worth fighting for. People are realizing and shouting and marching and demanding. They’re not forgetting. I think that’s the most important part. Khalil, I’ll never forget. I’ll never give up. I’ll never be quiet. I promise” (Thomas 444). Clearly, the short and long sentence structure and repetition accentuate the importance of Starr’s actions. She transformed the hatred she received into motivation to continue protesting and fighting for equal rights. Like Rosa Parks, Starr comprehends that she will never stop fighting until the global community gives her justice. While the first novel teaches readers to endure racial bias, the second teaches the audience to take action and stand for a positive
1) The major theme of the book is respectability. In the 1950 's Rosa Parks became the symbol for black female resistance in the
In conclusion, both of these pieces of work were written in their cultural and historical context. I attempted to compare the two in reference to plot, character, morals/values, and themes and explain them in their cultural and historical context. Dangerous Liaisons was considered to be a condemned piece of literature and Cruel Intentions emphasized this immorality as a modernized version of the story.
Living in a world of discrimination of every kind is unavoidable, but being that people do have a choice they can change. As individuals they can change and become more accepting towards diversity. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee guides the reader through the theme of acceptance. Atticus, Jem, and Scout know and learn the importance of acceptance throughout the novel. All three of them eventually share the same view of acceptance through equality.
Because of the laws against colored people, Rosaleen, as a black woman, lives with constraints in her life. For example, she cannot live in a house with white people (Kidd, p.8), she cannot represent Lily at the charm school (Kidd, p.19), or even travel in a car with white people (Kidd, p.76). The media is also influenced by racism, and constantly shows news about segregation such as the case of Martin Luther King, who is arrested because he wants to eat in a restaurant (Kidd, p.35), the “man in Mississippi was killed for registering to vote” (Kidd, p.44), and the motel in Jackson, that closes, because the owners don’t want to rent rooms to black people (Kidd, p.99).... ... middle of paper ...
Throughout history, the powers of love and hate have constantly been engaged in a battle for superiority. Time and time again, love has proven to be stronger than hate, and has been able to overcome all of the obstacles that have stood in the way from it reaching its goal. On certain occasions, though, hate has been a viable foe and defeated love when they have clashed. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens presents several different power struggles between love and hate.
The novel not only explores racial prejudice, but also prejudice against gender and social status. Maudie is a victim of prejudice agains...
There is no doubt that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a famous novel known for its themes, most of them containing wise life lessons, racial inequality being an obvious and important one. Firstly, racism illustrates the lack of justice and people’s views on prejudice in Tom Robinson’s case. Secondly, the novel touches base on diction notably the racial slurs used. Finally, with racism being a theme of the novel, it affects the characters’ personalities. Harper Lee uses life lessons, diction and characters throughout the novel because it develops the main theme of racism in To Kill a Mockingbird.
An important element that is displayed in both love and hate is motivation. An example of this is portrayed in “A Note on My Son’s Face,” as the author states, “I wanted that face to die, to be reborn in the face of a white child” (35,36). This line displays a level of prejudice towards what is hers. Derricotte battles intense feelings of wanting a white looking child amongst a world where not being grateful for what she has is seen as hatred towards her son. She looks at the face of her black child and is filled with animosity for what he looks like and what he will become. This is where the motivational factor comes into play, and where the lines of love and hate really become blurred. Does she hate her child because of how he looks? or Does she love her child because she wants him to become better than what he is destined for? She is motivated by love to want him to become better than what she believes is possible for him, yet she displays hate in the sense that she is hurting the child for what he is, and also for what he has no control over. According to Rempel this grandmother is displaying both intense feelings of love and hate. Loving what is hers, but hating what it will become. Therefore, this poem supports the theory that love and hate are
Hate is a powerful tool: it can break barriers, create violence, establish revenge, or destroy people entirely. Leaving behind rationality; “hatred is a way to shut down the mind to a degree, in order to handle overwhelming stress or trauma”(Wilson 2014). Through hatred people detach themselves from practicality and inevitably ensue themselves with violence and revenge. The main character Zits in the novel Flight by Sherman Alexie goes on a spiritual journey to find out what hatred, violence, and revenge can cause. The cause of Zits hate, the violence from his past, the effects violence has, the symbol of Zits hate-Justice, and the change seen in Zits at the end of the novel all show how hate develops throughout the story.
...sitive, as they can easily degenerate into the lowest-tier of society if they cannot cope with the feelings caused by these events. Though both novels somewhat end on a positive upbeat, and this demonstrates the mastery of both authors through their amazing literary legacy in the form of these two novels.
Hatred. A feeling that can destroy what we have and take what we love. We all are victims of Hatred’s sinister claws and razor sharp teeth, pulling us into its depths of decay. With all of the bias and effects that Hatred brings to us, sometimes we cannot help but give back what we have gotten. King’s novel, “Carrie,” and xxxDejixxx’s poem, “Treat others the way you want to be treated,” indicate that you reap what you sow.
...finally learned everyone is equal regardless of their skin color. Scout?s perspective towards the conclusion of the novel is emotionally, mentally and socially altered to determine Scout?s final position. Scout?s hindmost position taken is clearly that of racial acceptance and equality.
As a result, this dramatic and deeply moving novel takes us into the world of Jem and Scout, in a journey that teaches both the characters and the readers about lessons in life that we witness everyday and learn from, growing and maturing, day by day. The main problems that were faced in the book were of: prejudice and hate, people judging others, and the inequality between the treatment of men and women. These are problems that are faced in places by people, everyday, even today, and together we must work to overcome these problems and unite, every person equal to any other.
“We fight each other for territory; we kill each other over race, pride, and respect. We fight for what is ours. They think they’re winning by jumping me now, but soon they’re all going down, war has been declared.” Abuse, Pain, Violence, Racism and Hate fill the streets of Long Beach, California. Asians, Blacks, Whites and Hispanics filled Wilson High School; these students from different ethnic backgrounds faced gang problems from day to night. This movie contains five messages: people shouldn’t be judgmental because being open-minded allows people to know others, having compassion for a person can help people change their views in life, being a racist can only create hate, having the power of the human will/goodness to benefit humanity will cause a person to succeed at any cost and becoming educated helps bring out the intelligence of people.
While Maya is young, she notices white impudence but doesn’t always recognize it as racism, and it affected her attitude towards her life. She is taught to understand that white people don’t like black people; the white race is evil. Although she can comprehend that and understand to obey whites, but she doesn’t understand the reasoning behind it. For example, when the young white girls are mocking Momma in front of the Store, Maya is crying behind the door because she can’t understand why they’re being so mean, especially because Momma hasn’t done anything wrong to them. Maya says, “I wanted to throw a handful of black pepper in their faces, to throw lye on them, to scream that they were dirty, scummy peckerwoods, but I knew I was as clearly imprisoned behind the scene as the actors outside were confined to their roles” (Angelou, 25). Maya couldn’t understand why the girls were mocking Momma or why Momma made no attempt to get away from them. This event to her was an act of hate and jealousy, not one of racism and discrimination. Anothe...