Being the “dominant discourse” in your family Wideman’s essay is different from the rest between his essay is about him and his brother and the struggle of the dominant discourse and the “other” in their relationship. Wideman is the dominant discourse and his brother Robby is the “other”. The problem is that Wideman is trying to understand his brother but he is having difficulties because him and his brother are two different people and they don’t have a common issues that they share. They are truly like those siblings that is no way are like each other. Wideman is successful and Robby is in prison. Wideman tries to understand Robby because after all they are sibling. How do you make sense of the differences that exist between us, even the …show more content…
They not only lived in different places but they had different experiences. Wideman was trying to figure out how he and Robby got to be so different. It is like an example of my sister and I, we lived in two different places most of my childhood and when we were actually living in the same place it was like we were stranger, we knew our friends more than we knew each other. So it is like that with John and Robby they just don’t know each other that well to see the similarity that they share. When I was younger my parents would tell me the tale of two squirrels. I was basically like the squirrel were standing on a rock and it spilt is two and one part drifted to hot south and the other went to the cold north, over time the squirrel became very different but they still retained some similarity. The whole point of that was to say that the Wideman boys might seem very different but they still have some traits that are the same. John would be the squirrel that drifted south because he had a greater opportunity to achieve greatness than Robby did because he left the life. The reason I say that he drifted south is because the sun is supposed to give people the warmth to do things and when it is cold people don’t want to do thing anything. Robby needed guidance and his older brother was not their to guide him so he did what …show more content…
In a way it is like my sister and I, she is seven years older than me and she moved to the United States when I was three. So when I moved here it was like we didn’t know each other because I was too young to remember her but she remembered everything about me. The basics of “Our Time” is the communication and the emotion that Wideman was trying to show through the story. He is trying to show that he is patient and understanding. He also incorporated Pratt’s ideals about the dominant discourse and the “other”. In a way he was showing that he was the dominant discourse and Robby was the “other”. Wideman also turn his focus to his mother and his brother. His mother is those that see the best in their children even when they do something
... was no middle ground only the very poor and the very rich and having no experience with one another's the classes perceptions on each other seem warped in both of these stories. Both of these characters would have averted tragedy had they only stayed within their own social circles but is this the message we want to walk away from these stories with?
In today 's society, how do we describe someone as "a good person". The judgment falls to other people and how they compare or contrast themselves to the person, who falls under questioning morality. Another problem can lie within the imperfections of the normal human and the few that see through and fix their problem can only improve. Here we will analyze and reflect the comparison between the author Wes Moore’s life pictured within his story of The Other Wes Moore, where Wes categorized his differences between his doppelganger, the Wes Moore in prison for a life sentence, and my life. Each step in the book concludes the beginning of early childhood to early adulthood stopping at the present of the book’s conclusion. Still, we are left questioning the perfection of “good” things in the author’s life, through his schooling, sports, neighborhood and household influences, and opportunities.
Two people with two completely different characteristics have something alike. Both Dally and Johnny are mentally tough because of their parents. Johnny and Dally’s parents both do not care for them and could care less about them. For example, during Dally’s childhood he went to jail, been in a gang, and has been in many fights and his dad still would not care for him even if he won the lottery. Dally also talks about his dad's disgrace towards him in the car with Johnny and Ponyboy, “‘ Shoot, my dad don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in a gutter...’”(88). Dally could easily live without his dad and he does for the most part. Dally just hangs around with his friends and stays at their place. Similarly, Johnny's parents use him like a rag doll to blow off steam, “his father always beating him up”(14). The gang knows what happenes in Johnny’s house. Once Ponyboy was witnessing, “Johnny take a whipping with a two-by-four from his old man”(33). Ponyboy talks about how loud and mean Johnny's mom is and,“you can...
The two brothers have both chosen different paths, one embracing his new society, becoming a part of the establishment, the other rejecting it and working for the oppressed immigrant community of the gang. These communities are often ignored in society and face a great deal of discrimination. The film does not attempt to sugar-coat their criminality or excuse their actions. It simply offers us a realistic look at their circumstances and asks the audience to judge for themselves what is right and wrong in
The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King is both a wonderful film and a brilliantly written short story. There are many themes represented in each form of The Shawshank Redemption. The one major theme that interests me in both the film and the story is freedom. Freedom serves a large purpose for both the story's writer and the filmmaker. Both use similar examples to signify freedom, not only in the jail, but also in a larger context about life. There are many events and examples in both the film and the short story that signifies the theme of freedom. The one main difference is when the film uses the director’s technique to portray a feel of freedom for the inmates. The overall three issues used in this essay are all linked to the feeling of the inmates feeling the sense of freedom with the prison walls.
...oncluding passage to his narrative for a specific purpose: to create a more profound connection with his audience on the basis of his experiences and thoughts. He creates a vision of relief in the beginning of the passage by means of diction, similes, and an impeccable amount of imagery. Douglass also applies an approach for the application of syntax, diction, and connotative sense to amplify the feelings of loneliness and paranoia presented after emancipation. The result is the masterpiece that fluently runs from one state of mind following his escape to another. It is a masterpiece with a timeless sense of moral values being unconsciously taught to its audience, whether or not they succeed in deciphering it.
A Separate Peace sustains several different conflicts throughout the novel, both internally and externally. The emotions are constantly on a rollercoaster ride, going from happy, sad, then to resentment. Gene and Finny both have conflicting emotions about each other, resulting in diverse thoughts on one another, and issues within the friendship. The internal and external conflict by Gene and Finny are created through jealousy, insecurity, and friendship.
Hallway Hangers and Brothers had entirely different way of living life with different perspective. Hallway Hangers believed that to gain respects from others one’s must be bad and fearless. In the contrary, the Brothers give respects without any physical strength. Their way of living life displays their individual personalities what they have. Juan is only the one from Brothers who had completed school and he was not physically strong. All the boys from brothers were good at extracurricular activities. They were good at sports.
He observes that he looks different from his brothers; they are all shapeless and repressed, while on the other hand, he is thin, strong and lithe. He finally understood why he always felt different. He never fully felt comfortable with them. Equality always felt like
Douglas starts begins defining freedom with his recounting of his mistress stopping his lessons. “Education and slavery were incompatible with each other” (Douglas, 25). This simple statement highlights the necessity of ignorance in maintaining slavery. Slaves, so long as they remain oblivious of their lacking freedom, will remain slaves. Much akin to Davis Wallace’s “This Is Water” speech, fish are ignorant of the existence of water, likewise slaves are ignorant of their status as possessions. How can someone possible comprehend that their existence lacks freedom and basic rights, if one doesn’t even know of these rights to begin with? It follows then, that as Douglas begins his self-education, he would learn of his disposition in the world. As Douglas so eloquently puts it, “in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell” (Douglas, 25). This statement presents the idea that the mere realization of one’s position allows one to begin the journey to liberate oneself from their enslavement. Douglas begins his own journey then, taking into his own hands his education, he befriends the local white boys and continues to learn to read. As his knowledge continues to improve, Douglas begins to make plans to escape and make for himself a new life. Thus, it can be drawn from Douglas’s argument that freedom is directly related to one’s awareness of one’s own existence. Through education we free ourselves from being trapped in a loop of inequality and gain the tools necessary to free ourselves from our bindings. The truest mark of this link between freedom and knowledge is demonstrated in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit
Are our differences as human begins so divergent that such extremes needed to be taken? In the novel “Harrison Bergeron” we explore the idea of a dystopian world ruled by differences. And in order for peace to be achieved different aspects of people’s mental and physical capabilities needed to be altered to become similar to an ideal majority of human society. In order for change and progression to happen in the world, humans need individuality. This gives society advancements and growth. Allowing people to express and debate upon what makes them contrastive to one another, and later encourages human development.
The homosocial relationship between the main character and their best friend connects these two novels by showing how the main character has the same purpose of taking revenge against the one who killed their loved ones, and the best friend who is always there to help and take care of the main character so he can complete his goal. The differences between them make the relationship closer and stronger, and it is proven by the authors through out the novels that no other person can take the place of their best friend.
In conclusion, the speaker comes to terms that the teacher is freer than he is. He thinks that there is no way for his paper to have the same truth as the white professor’s truth. He feels that during this time that the discrimination and hatred toward colored people could in no way help his truth be the same as the white people’s truth.
4) Write an essay that analyzes how Adrienne Rich uses the different aspects of her identity as a motif in “Split at the Root.”
... between the characters play the central role in the action of the story. These differences affect the ways in which these characters interact, they create the conflict in the story, and they affect the way the reader feels about and reacts to each of the characters. In making the issue of social class the focus of these two works, the authors successfully communicate to the readers their belief that, no matter how hard we might try to avoid it, class is indeed a major factor in today's society.