Growing Up and Loathing It
Alienation can be interpreted as loneliness caused by the lack of understanding of others, and may be caused by oneself or inflicted upon by another. During teenage years, boys are especially susceptible to the anguish felt as a result of alienation. Jerry Renault, the protagonist of the Chocolate War, is encumbered by both the alienation imposed upon himself, and that which is burdened upon him by a secret society known as the Vigils. The Catcher in the Rye introduces Holden Caufield who has segregated himself from all but a few of those surrounding him, and is deeply troubled by this. The alienation wrought by Caufield’s awkward ascension into adulthood is manifested in his fallacious attempts to casually interact with others. Because of their ages, Jerry and Holden feel threatened by the individuals whom they would normally associate themselves. This intimidation spurs the alienation and loneliness felt by Jerry Renault and Holden Caufield.
Jerry Renault, an average teenager, has an issue with confidence that influences him to doubt himself, and thus alienate himself from his peers. Because Renault has low self-esteem and feels little influence from his classmates, he refuses to sell chocolates “like every other kid in… school”(Cormier 66). He lacks the school spirit that others posses because he is excluded from them in his head. This reinforces Renault’s lack of influence felt as a result of others, and shows the fact that he is indeed alienated. In addition, after he refuses to sell the chocolates and is shunned by his classmates, “he [feels] invisible”(163). Jerry causes this himself, for his actions alone influence the entire student body to dissociate him from their ranks. Jerry who is suddenly forced to come to terms with the situation, instead, separates himself from his former peers even further. Also, even when the students realize that Renault is “some kind of rebel hero,” he refuses to respond to them and continues his self-imposed alienation (175). Jerry Renault, who at this point has lost all hope of being a normal student, continues his assault on all of that which he would hold dear. If it would not have been for his minuscule sense of self-esteem, he would not alienate himself from the rest of the student body. Jerry’s alienation from all the people that he would normally embrace has caused him mental and physical hardship concerning the interactions with others.
theory in which the people of the modern world suffer from a sense of alienation or disconnection from the other members of their society. Detachment from the surrounding world can be characterized by a strong feeling of the need to keep up appearances, self-loathing, feelings of condemnation, or social
Similarities - turned evil (contributes) because of their surroundings Growing up Loss Difference - what really made Anakin evil was his fear of loss but what really made Elphaba evil was that she had already lost everything Padme Fiyero, sister, etc. Fear vs grief Antagonists in literature and entertainment are immediately branded as being evil from birth. However, these villains have suffered and lost to become what they are in the stories you read. This pertains to the antagonists in both
Thompson. His book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream follows protagonist Raoul Duke in search of the American Dream. While he comes in bars, casinos and hotels, it seems that he never finds what he is looking for: the American Dream has failed him. The situations that Raoul Duke experience are a metaphor for the decaying American Dream and the corruption in American society due to growing social discontent. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a satiric
The Sophistication Found in the Simplicity of Tate James Tate in his collection, Memoirs of the Hawk, presents believable yet absurd characters in the most vulnerable of settings and uses them to push humanistic truths that come full circle at his poems closing lines which work as epiphanies. The connection is collected in the sense that the direction and format is concrete for every poem, narratively or structurally there isn’t anything sophisticated going on that was presented in Dorianne Laux’s
Stephen Chbosky, the main characters Holden Caulfield and Charlie are depressed and troubled teens. Although both teenagers grow up in different time periods they share many similar teenage difficulties. Both novels portray a male protagonist growing up while trying to find his identity, yet constantly loathing their lives. Both Holden and Charlie are full of self-loathing and depression, both experiencing the traumatic loss of a family member at a very young age. "I know he's dead! Don't you think
mother told him the reason Andrei falls under the category of psychological theory. His mother’s abusive relationship might have taught to be violent, as a result of inappropriate learning. Andrei also falls under the sociological theory. Chikatilo grew up as a bullying victim. His father allowed himself to be captured by the Germans during World War II and as a result, Andrei was bullied for his father's cowardice.Andrei was also bullied for his shyness and weak physical stature. Another reason Andrei
Cholly and Pauline’s second child, Pecola has a name that is a combination of the two. This combination in her name is symbolic of her mix of their racial self loathing, derived from both desire for beauty as well as the hatred of others. On a simple trip to the candy store, Pecola stops to look at the flowers. She looks at dandelions growing up from a telephone pole and “why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they were pretty” (Morrison 47). Pecola can not understand why people say
steady, on top of the continuous and pulverizing impacts of destitution, absence of training, medications, bigotry and misogyny. As Bloods and Crips contends, these different powers roused a level of self-loathing in people of color that drove them to isolate their own neighborhoods and take up arms against each other, a contention sponsored by numerous present and previous pack individuals, who express distress, outrage, dissatisfaction and renunciation over the continuous
the outside. People are often judged on first appearances, if we feel we look good our confidence increases and our first judgment improves. Primarily, with the economic issues we face today, millions of Amer... ... middle of paper ... ...elf-loathing, Disappointment, and Even Suicide | Mail Online." Home | Mail Online. 25 Jan. 2011. Web. 08 Feb. 2011. . Piercy, Marge. “Barbie Doll.” Literature and the Writing Process. Ed. Elizabeth McMahan et al. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River: Pearson, 2010. 3-7
Growing up, I was always one tough cookie. I was born into a military family, taught how to respect others as well as myself, and told that faith is the most important thing to ever exist. I fell, I cried, I fumed, and I stood back up again. I am strong, and I will overcome. As a kid, I was a happy-go-lucky type of girl. Nothing could bring me down, no matter how bad the situation may have been. This all changed in the fifth grade. That was when my parents started fighting, when I realized that
(Sylvia). Later on, the passing of him lead to the inspiration of her vivid poem “Daddy” (Sylvia). Being a gifted student, Plath won numerous awards as a teen for her writing and editing (Sylvia). Growing up, Sylvia had financial problems resulting in her moving to
so compelling, that the characters in The Bluest Eye loathe their own skin color and feel shame for their culture. These feelings of self-loathing and contempt pass on from the adults to their children, creating a continuous cycle of negativity and self-hate. “Here was an ugly little black girl asking for beauty…A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes” (Morrison, 174). By petitioning for white beauty, Pecola Breedlove is desperately
is never able to live a normal and happy life (even for a monster) because of his lack of an adult parent/influence during his childhood, his meeting with the dragon at a very impressionable time in his life, and the humans’ cruelty towards him. Growing up as a young monster, Grendel truly had no one to guide him or keep him on the right path. He literally lived alone in a cave, with his only interactions being with his
of the Nazi party says to Hans and his father “ what trash is this girl reading ? She should be reading Mein Kampf’’( zusak ). Mein Kampf my struggles is an autobiographical composition written by Hitler. It appears to be an opus of Hitler's loathing of Jews .The book symbolizes how Hitler spread his propaganda throughout Germany . The book serves as an unobtrusive way to deliver a key to max Vandenburg.
Part of growing up is the situation you are put into, but even with a similar childhood characters tend to vary. This is prevalent in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, in which the small town of Maycomb Alabama is home to the adolescents Scout and Jem. They are in the process of becoming two morally candid people. They are exposed to real world features like bias and social class. They learn and develop throughout the book and many events shift how they think, for example the trial of Tom Robinson