Tortilla Curtain: Jack Jardine
Jack Jardine is a very interesting character in the story Tortilla Curtain. He has a very strong influence on Delany Mossbacher, one of the central characters in the story. His influences, along with the tragic string of events concerning Delany and Candido, produce a complete turn around in the ideals of Delany by the end of the story. At the start of the story Delany is a 'liberal humanist';, albeit a hypocritical one, but by the end of the story Delany is carrying a gun looking for Candido.
It is easy for readers to categorize Jack as a cruel, cold hearted, upper class bigot considering his actions and words. I have to admit I think he comes off that way sometimes. But he also is a lot more than just that. He isn't stupid. In many ways his reasoning about illegal immigrants makes a lot of sense. Illegal immigration does hurt the economy. Illegal immigrants do take away jobs from citizens. But Jack takes it to such an extreme that it is hard for one to feel that his views of illegal immigrants and his sentiments about them are purely a result of his concern about the economy and the state.
'Don't be surprised, because this is only the beginning. We're under siege here-and there's going to be a backlash.';(pg. 146)
Jack acts like citizens are in some kind of war with illegal immigrants. With sentiments like this it is hard to deny that he has a bit of paranoia. It is very interesting that he says citizens are under siege from illegal immigra...
First of all, was when the idea of having a chief was brought forth in the first meeting, the narrator stated that Jack arrogantly nominated himself. Speaking of designating chief, when the idea of voting for a chief was brought forth he protested it. This presented his true intentions of being a leader, self-fulfillment and pride. Moreover, Jack was quite inconsiderate. According to the text, when Jack wanted to continue to move to find the supposed beast, Ralph told him to wait for the younger children. He replied with, "Sucks to the littluns!" How can one be a leader of he/she does not care about the welfare of others, especially those weaker than him? Nonetheless, in seek for the thrill of power Jack actually preyed on them; for example, everyone got a piece of meat from Jack's first hunt, except for Piggy, the hunter wanted to leave the younger child in doubt. He does this to intimidate and flaunt his power. In addition, he would do anything to gain it. In the eighth chapter, Jack twisted Ralph's words about the hunters, attempting to sway them on his side, rather than the actual chief. Also, he attempted a coup and forming an alternate group. Plus, when confronted by Ralph in the eleventh chapter, he stabbed him and eventually tried to hunt him down wishing to kill him, attempting to affirm himself as the "true" leader. Moreover, when Jack was chief, he could never be questioned; people solely followed him due to fear. When
My response to chapters 1-3 This novel made me remember when came in to this country and how everything was at the begging in California. We didn't know anything about here everything was so different from Mexico but my family and I had dreams just like America and Candido. When Candido got run over by Delaney it king of made me upset, because it wasn't Candido's fault and the First thing that Delaney thought of was his car, insurance discount, and the last thing was the victim. Those king of thing are thing that us Mexican have to deal with for coming to a new country to have a better future. What made me more upset was when Delaney gave hime twenty dollars. Is it that how much a life of a person worth? What if thing would of happened the
Wade case is the concept of personal privacy. The Court found “that a right to personal privacy does exist under the Constitution.” The privacy right is deemed fundamental and one that is “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.” Thus, the Court located privacy within the personal liberty protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. One case that involved the privacy argument was the contraception case of Griswold v. Connecticut. In this case, the law banned the use of contraceptives by married couples. In overturning the statute, the Court declared that the marriage relationship, including the right to use contraception is protected by a zone of privacy and that the Connecticut statute was an unconstitutional invasion of that privacy. In this case, the decision had been the right of individuals and families to control the decisions that majorly affect their lives. This analysis can also be applied to Roe, as “this right of privacy…is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her
... was instrumental to recognition of the constitutional right to privacy and the interpretation of the Ninth Amendment. This case shows that the Constitution is a living document that can be maneuvered to accommodate for the adaption of American peoples. While it is a stationary and unchanging document, unique interpretations can be gleamed.
Griswold V. Connecticut may have been the most significant of the Warren Courts Rulings: it struck down a Connecticut statute that banned the dissemination of information concerning birth control, which can be considered the foundation of Roe V. Wade, which provided prochoice rights to women.
Sanger died in September of 1966, but lived to see the realization of her “magic pill” as well as the undoing of the Comstock Laws. In 1965, Griswold vs. Connecticut, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the private use of contraceptives was a constitutional right. Sanger left behind the legacy of her birth control league, which changed its name to the Planned Parenthood Association in 1942, as well as two autobiographies, My Fight For Birth Control and Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography.
Constitutionally, the case at first appears to be a rather one-sided violation of the First Amendment as incorporated through the Fourteenth. The court, however, was of a different opinion: "...
As he prepares to leave, his mother expresses her worries, she asks him how she will know where he is.
Meyer v. State of Nebraska. 262 U.S. 390, 399, 43 Sct. 625, 626, 67 L.Ed. 1042. (1923)
In general conclusion, T.C Boyle, author of the novel, The Tortilla Curtain, expressed the isolation of Mexicans in an American society by appointing his Mexican protagonist to be shaded as a no-good, scumbag, "beaner" (62) from the spiteful tones, his serious irony on the Americans perspective, and the delinquent, dirty, rotten, symbolism. The overall usage of literary deviced divulge Cándido Rincon as isolated by his hopeless endeavors for an exemplary life to ultimately reveal America as gruelling and unrelenting towards the Mexican illegals of the state in today's society.
Just then Janine’s heart drops. She yells at the top of her lungs, “HA! You’re not my mother! Go away, or I’m calling the police!”
In T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain Kyra’s generally apathetic in her personal life, but her world turns upside down after the dramatic loss of her beloved pets as she tries to prevent more loss. From a property moving machine to a wistful sentimental, Kyra’s work suffered from her grieving state. While showing a house far from the hustle and bustle of city life and even apart from the suburbs she was, “not herself at all…she had never felt this way about a house before…cushioned from the hot, dry, hard-driving world…she began to feel it was hers”(110). The distance of this house from the dangers of the city and even Arroyo Blanco make Kyra wistful towards owning this behemoth of a house. In trying to protect what she has left Kyra endangers her relationships.
the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut court case was a landmark case it involved the connecticut law from 1879 that banned the use of any drug used for birth control. the supreme court ruled that the use of contraceptives is protected under the right to marital privacy and government intrusion in the matter is unconstitutional. this right to decide whether or not to have a child applied only to married couples, the 1972 Eisenstadt v. Baird case changed that. in 1967 William Baird, after giving a lecture, gave a condom and a box of Emko Vaginal Foam to an unmarried 19 year old woman and ...
In 1970, Norma McCorvey, a single and pregnant woman in Texas wanted to get an abortion. The state laws of Texas at that time stated that it was illegal to have an abortion in Texas. Even though the state told her that she could go to one of the four states in which abortion was legal to have the procedure done, she decided that she could not afford to travel to another state to receive the procedure. Norma McCorvey decided that she would sue the state of Texas, claiming that her constitutional rights were being taken from her. She then changed her name to the pseudonym “Jane Roe” to protect her right of privacy. The district court found that Roe did have grounds to file the suit against the state of Texas. They ruled on the grounds that the abortion laws in Texas infringed on the first, fourth, fifth, ninth, and fourteenth amendments of the constitution. The first amendment states that, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances” (http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html). The fourth amendment states that, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”
He then found himself drifting away from being this typical American by getting into dirty work that was against the law. Most Americans do find themselves in a set back on their way to achieving their goal; but most do not encounter this set back as a penalty for breaking the law. Along with being a typical American at first Jack was very different and self-reliant, when he was 18 finishing up school he stayed behind while his family moved to St.Croix. He got a job and payed for rent, food, and gas for his car. Although he started providing for himself he did start to get involved in drugs and alcohol. He later moved to be with his family and got a new job down