EASY ON THE RELISH The two characters I have chosen to write about, apart from Tofler, are Ray and Brian. The reason for my choice is that both of these characters play a large and significant part in the play, particularly Ray. They compliment each other because, Brian is serious, whereas Ray is carefree and has a sense of humor. RAY is 18 years of age and was a butcher’s apprentice, until he lost his job. He is a cockney, fairly well built and a jack-the-lad type of character, who no one pushes around. He detests rules and regulations. In Act One, Scene 1 he says, ‘No smoking in the locker room. What is this, bleadin Alcatraz?’ Despite his objection to working in a burger bar instead of an organization that sells real meat not ‘donkey flavoured camel turds’, his lack of education gives him no option than to work at Binders. An example to support this theory is in Act Two, Scene 3 during a conversation with Kishori. ‘Well, I’m not sayin’ I’m not pissed off, cos I am. But no sense in causin a ruckus. I mean, I need the money. I’ll take money from anyone. Yanks included’. Ray is also a male chauvinist. In Act Three, Scene 1 he proves this because he has second thoughts about joining a union, as suggested by Kishori, when he says to Francis ‘Well she’s a bird’. Further into the conversation he continues his reasons saying ‘A bit of skirt stirring it up like that. Men’s work, unions. Always has been’. Ray is a racist. At the beginning of the play in Act One, Scene 1 he objects to wearing the hats provided as part of Bunter uniform and says that the hat reminded him of a fez. ‘I’m not wearin no gypo gear, ‘gainst my religion’. His racist attitude if further evident in Act Three, Scene 1. He not only objects to Kishori because she is a woman telling him what to do, but also because she is of ethnic origin and called her a Paki bird. Ray is a generally likeable but ignorant character, who is not very bright and whose lack of education is evident because of his poor use of English language and grammar. He is easily led into situations without thinking out the consequences first and generally likes to go with the flow of things. However, he appears anxious that Brian is also keen to join the union and picket the burger bar which suggests that he is not as confident as he would like those around him to believe and feels more self assured with Brian’s support.
Ray Budds is an antagonist. An antagonist is a character in a story(movie) who causes trouble for the protagonist(s) which Ray did. In the movie Ray asked Julius, a protagonist, if black people had fathers too and if they can afford anything. This supports my statement because it shows that Ray says things to purposely hurt people like Julius, a black person that Ray doesn’t like. During the movie in one of the games Ray purposely missed a block, so the opposing football player could tackle the quarterback Pete, a black person. This evidence supports my statement because it shows that Ray has a thing against black people and would like to cause problems for them. When Gerry just became friends with the black people in the movie Ray came by
America was founded, and has been very successful because of people like Ray, who want to leave their backgrounds or use them to learn from them in order to better their lives in the future; the kind of people that will do anything, whether it is leaving their homeland for a foreign soil in search of a new life and freedom, or tackling the boy with the football. Things have been changed, invented, and made better by people that will not take no for an answer.
In the passage `A Nonsmoker With a Smoker' written by Phillip Lopate, the writer discusses his hatred as well as his fascination with smoking. He tells a story about his girlfriend Helen, who was a smoker, and how her smoking bothered him not only in a distasteful manner but also in a manner of not understanding. Because he didn't smoke he didn't realize what it means to those who do. He couldn't understand why, although Helen didn't like the fact that she smoked, she couldn't quit. He couldn't understand the addiction aspect of it. He goes through many of his life experiences of smoking and tries finding understanding with in them.
However, his desire conflicts with the racial situation during the time of the play. The play is set during a time when blacks were primarily slaves and considered property. They also didn't own any property. His belief that he is of equal standing with a white man could probably be traced to his lineage with the piano. The piano had symbolized his ancestors since the piano has been around during his grandfather's ...
Racism is present throughout the novel, “racism is a belief of characteristics and abilities that can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that some are superior to others” (Shah). In the novel, the Walls family practiced only a few fine principals in their daily lives; it is clearly recognizable that Rex and Rosemary took a stand against racism (Rodriguez). They taught their children that racism is wrong and that you should treat other equally. The evidence of this first can be seen when Rosemary worked as a teacher in Davy Elementary School. On many instances, she demonstrates her impartiality. For example, “She'd tell the Mexican kids never to let anyone say they weren't as good as white kids. She'd tell the Navaho and Apache kids they should be proud of their noble Indian heritage” (Walls 71). This shows Rosemary’s drive and determination to get her students to have confidence in themselves, which shows her character. Another time racism was present throughout the novel was when the Walls family moved to Welch, West Virginia to live with their grandparents. Jeannette got upset at her grandmother because she was discriminatory towards black people despite this; her mother encouraged Jeannette to find her grandmother’s positive traits. Her
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In the novel ‘Deadly Unna?’ various discourses about racism are portrayed, exemplifying the individual’s belief, attitudes and the values of the characters. The reader is positioned to view Blacky as having no knowledge of how racist his friends are through the racist comments that are made amongst them and Blacky's going along with it. At the start Blacky may not have been aware of the racism around him as he previously laughed and even told racist jokes. The statement “And the priest says I got the black bastard with the door. And they all laughed all the regulars. Especially Slogsy. But I didn’t. I don’t know why, I’d laughed at the joke bef...
Being the only different person in the room is hard; constantly being judged, and never actually fitting in; it can drive even the most normal person insane. The Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare is a play about a general who is different: the only one who’s black. No one else in Venice is from Africa, and with such a high position in the Venetian military, Othello’s race is almost non-existent, he appears to actually fit in along with the rest of the fair-skinned people. In this play, Shakespeare develops the motif of racism as a seed that grows, and eventually creates a sociopath full of hatred. Overall, racism is a viral disease that encircle us, and subconsciously controls our actions.
Act 3 Scene 3 lines 36 "O, my offence is rank, it smells to the heaven”
due to his race are vast, for example at the start of the play when
I think this play is a lot about what does race mean, and to what extent do we perform race either onstage or in life:
Racial discrimination is defined as the act of treating a person/group differently then another solely based on their racial background. The play as its self-receive racial discrimination, because its author make history, and because of what she did she was talked about it. An historical significance about A Raisin in the Sun, is that Lorraine Hansberry earned the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as the year’s best play. “A Raisin in the sun brought African Americans into the theater and onto the stage.” The word is that “the reason was tha...
Mr. Raymond is “not much of a drinker, but…they could never, never understand” that he acts like a drunk so that he can live how he wants (200-201). People will judge others badly based on their opinions or biases. “Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation” these laws separated whites and colored people. The Jim crow laws made it legal to separate whites from other races, in 1896 the supreme court ruled that “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional, this helped to uphold 58 more years of legal
Shakespeare’s fictional character Othello, General of the Venetian Army, has an eminently respectable reputation as a result of his plentiful exploits in battle and because of his notoriety to command “Like a full soldier”. Nevertheless, the rough-and-ready commandant is not as emotionally callous as, not only his war-time resume would suggest, but also how Iago and Roderigo portray his as a character in Act 1, Scene 1. Despite his triumphs, numerous characters throughout Othello do not shy away from the casual racist jab towards their black-skinned General. Exposure to repetitive, often overt, verbal-degradation leads Othello to believe that he is racially inferior as the play progresses – this infectious discrimination of Elizabethan racists