C. J. Jackson’s Challenges and Triumphs “The Journal of C.J Jackson” is one of the most interesting and educative books, both in the past and present-day circumstances. The main character and narrator, C.J. Jackson is only 13 years old when their family is forced to leave Cimarron County, Oklahoma in April, 1935 due to the harsh environmental conditions. The author begins the narration by providing the actual picture of what is happening in Oklahoma; life is bleak. The inhabitants lack food to eat, water to drink or clean air to breathe. There is extreme famine and drought. C. J Jackson, who hails from as a poor family, is bitten by a snake amidst many challenges affecting his family and society. In relation to the conditions mentioned above, …show more content…
In fact, things changed from bad to worse. Air to breathe turned out to be slow poison. The big and black dust storms increased with the wind flying in all directions. People are forced to run for their lives and the remaining properties such as trucks, cars, and wagons. The Jacksons decide to look for greener pastures by starting a tedious and rough journey to California. They face a number of challenges along the way ranging from unnecessary police roadblocks and harassment from the same police officers. The truck carrying Jacksons also breaks down severally. As a result, they leave behind the trailer carrying with some household properties. In essence, this is a tragedy and an additional problem altogether since on the arrival they started from zero, living in the squatters. At the squatters C.J Jackson, together with his parents, looks for jobs and only realizes that people are competing for the same. Furthermore, he is facing discrimination from the indigenous members that call him …show more content…
The Jacksons are faced with numerous challenges in their home state, Oklahoma, where drought and famine are the order of both day and night. The whole society is almost lacking air or water to breathe and drink respectively. The problems keep on piling up in C. J. Jackson’s family. They have just lost a grandfather, now the windmill used to pump and draw water is broken down something that even worsens the situation further. The family leaves for California, where the situation worsens. They get to learn that there is no job opportunity; discrimination and name-calling is an obvious undertaking by the locals. The harsh life in California replaces the family’s hope and wish for a better and comfortable
The Jump-Off Creek introduces the reader to the unforgiving Blue Mountains and the harsh pioneer lifestyle with the tale of Lydia Sanderson, a widow who moves west from Pennsylvania to take up residence in a rundown homestead. She and other characters battle nature, finances, and even each other on occasion in a fight for survival in the harsh Oregon wilderness. Although the story is vividly expressed through the use of precise detail and 1800s slang, it failed to give me a reason to care because the characters are depicted as emotionally inhibited.
Lives for Native Americans on reservations have never quite been easy. There are many struggles that most outsiders are completely oblivious about. In her book The Roundhouse, Louise Erdrich brings those problems to light. She gives her readers a feel of what it is like to be Native American by illustrating the struggles through the life of Joe, a 13-year-old Native American boy living on a North Dakota reservation. This book explores an avenue of advocacy against social injustices. The most observable plight Joe suffers is figuring out how to deal with the injustice acted against his mother, which has caused strife within his entire family and within himself.
Michael Lloyd Page 1 Mr. Blystone US History (G) 1 May 2014. Thomas Jonathan Jackson Thomas Jonathan Jackson, otherwise known as Stonewall Jackson, was a Confederate General during the American Civil War. He was born January 21st, 1824 in Clarksburg, Virginia and died 39 years later on May 10th, 1863.
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The struggles that many face while experiencing poverty are not like any other. When a person is experiencing poverty, they deal with unbearable hardships as well as numerous tragic events. Diane Gilliam Fisher’s collection of poems teaches readers about labor battles within West Virginian territories, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Some of these battles include the Battle of Matewan and Battle of Blair Mountain. The collection of poems is presented in many different manners, ranging from diary entries to letters to journal entries. These various structures of writing introduce the reader to contrasting images and concepts in an artistic fashion. The reader is able to witness firsthand the hardships and the light and dark times of impoverished people’s lives. He or she also learns about the effects of birth and death on poverty stricken communities. In the collection of poems in Kettle Bottom, Fisher uses imagery and concepts to convey contrast between the positive and negative aspects of the lives of people living in poverty.
“Quantie’s weak body shuddered from a blast of cold wind. Still, the proud wife of the Cherokee chief John Ross wrapped a woolen blanket around her shoulders and grabbed the reins.” Leading the final group of Cherokee Indians from their home lands, Chief John Ross thought of an old story that was told by the chiefs before him, of a place where the earth and sky met in the west, this was the place where death awaits. He could not help but fear that this place of death was where his beloved people were being taken after years of persecution and injustice at the hands of white Americans, the proud Indian people were being forced to vacate their lands, leaving behind their homes, businesses and almost everything they owned while traveling to an unknown place and an uncertain future. The Cherokee Indians suffered terrible indignities, sickness and death while being removed to the Indian territories west of the Mississippi, even though they maintained their culture and traditions, rebuilt their numbers and improved their living conditions by developing their own government, economy and social structure, they were never able to return to their previous greatness or escape the injustices of the American people.
As a result, their lives changed, for better or for worse. They were inexperienced, and therefore made many mistakes, which made their life in Chicago very worrisome. However, their ideology and strong belief in determination and hard work kept them alive. In a land swarming with predators, this family of delicate prey found their place and made the best of it, despite the fact that America, a somewhat disarranged and hazardous jungle, was not the wholesome promise-land they had predicted it to be.
Native American literature from the Southeastern United States is deeply rooted in the oral traditions of the various tribes that have historically called that region home. While the tribes most integrally associated with the Southeastern U.S. in the American popular mind--the FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole)--were forcibly relocated to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) from their ancestral territories in the American South, descendents of those tribes have created compelling literary works that have kept alive their tribal identities and histories by incorporating traditional themes and narrative elements. While reflecting profound awareness of the value of the Native American past, these literary works have also revealed knowing perspectives on the meaning of the modern world in the lives of contemporary Native Americans.
The accused, Jesse James Whyte (20) is not on probation and has no outstanding warrants or criminal charges.
Michael Jackson’s Life Span: Born on August 29th, 1958 and died on June 25th, 2009.
Jackson is proud of his heritage and throughout the story references the way of the Indians, whilst befriending and conversing with a number of other tribal relatives. Jackson, even admits, “Being homeless is probably the only thing I’ve ever been good at. at.” Despite his failure, he is still an Indian man, searching for a proclamation of his. heritage in his grandmother’s regalia.
What makes a hero a hero? A noble birth? Saving someone life? What makes one a hero? To me, there is much quality that makes a hero a hero and I believe that Bo Jackson shows much quality of an epic hero. Growing Bo Jackson did not have the ideal childhood. He was left without a father figure when his dad left him and his mother. The kid would bully him causing him to be the bully. Yet that was just a faze for Bo and he became to be a person that shows many great qualities of an epic hero. For example, he shows many traits like national heroism, is capable of deeds of great strength and courage, shows and the importance of humility.
As the workers stopped and moved to the factory cafeteria, Jackson hurried outside the factory, oblivious to any possible dangers and hindrances. At the factory gates, he had a better view of smoke which seemed to beckon at him as it towered and curled in the sky. Opposite him was the wall which barricaded the citizens from the outside world, as well as their freedom and their voice. He ran over and grasped the top of the wall, almost losing his grip. He pulled himself up and stoop on top. Jackson was about was to break his chains and unlock the door to a new world, a new
The story is told through the eyes of seven year old Luke Chandler. Luke lives with his parents and grandparents on their rented farmland in the lowlands of Arkansas. It takes place during the harvest season for cotton in 1952. Like other cotton growers, these were hard times for the Chandlers. Their simple lives reached their zenith each year with the task of picking cotton. It’s more than any family can complete by themselves. In order to harvest the crops and get paid, the Chandlers must find cotton pickers to help get the crops to the cotton gin. In order to persevere, they must depend on others. They find two sets of migrant farm workers to assist them with their efforts: the Mexicans, and the Spruills - a family from the Arkansas hills that pick cotton for others each year. In reading the book, the reader learns quickly that l...
...f their family (Jackson 867). In everyday life, we posses the same selfish attitude portrayed in the story. What is one of a child’s favorite words? It’s "mine!" We constantly say well "it’s better you than me" and "it’s every man for himself." It’s pretty scary _when you actually think about it, because you realize we really are that selfish.