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Before I start this essay I want to go over some of the characters names. Mom-Clea,Dad-rex and their kids are, Eli.lexi,eddy,teresa,graham,lucas,cara,quinn and Finnegan. A Lot of the culture in this book was very different to my culture,but some of which was very similar For example, Eli,which is the main character,liked to play Basketball. Every day,for six years, he would shoot up to three-hundred hoops a day;his shooting percentage when up by eighty-four percent those six years. “My...Eighty-four”(Bodeen 16) This compares to my culture Because, I used to play basketball in seventh grade and,really liked it. We would practice but, we did not practice for that long and, I was certainly not that
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skilled compared to Eli,the main character in the book.
The most crucial part of the culture inside this book to mine is They live in a compound and, we don't. This is very different than mine because, Eli and his family live underground in a concealed box made out off metal. On the other hand I live in an house above ground with my family where I can go outside and enjoy the fresh air and,play with my friends,while eli’s family is trapped inside the compound and not able to see the outside world. There was one law/rule that I caught while reading is they could not leave the compound for another fifteen years. This was said by Eli’s Dad Rex,which is the one that basically screws over the whole family over and ends up lying to them the whole time. This is very different the way my family lives. My family and I have the freedom unlike eli’s family to walk outside our home and don't have to fear about the outside world. The foor that we eat is duratcilty diffretn than teh food Eli’s ate in the book. They ate more healthy because they lived …show more content…
underground and did not have access to fast food. They had to either can or grow their food. Every once in awhile Eli would sneak a min snicker bar to eat saved before he got into the compound but, other than that they ate pretty healthy.
Our family eats very similar to the family in the book. The thing is that we have fast food places,sugary drinks,and candy that Eli’s family didn't necessarily have. “Before...balls”(Bodeen 19) The clothes in the book to the clothes I wear are a little different. In the book it talked about how they wore yellow jogger suits around the house. This is different because I like wearing like Nike,under armour and cargo shorts. I firmly believe in that the Vikings are one of the best football teams in the league and, are my favorite. In the book The Compound that says otherwise. According to Eli’s family the seahawks are their favorite team. This is a contrast because my family and I are die hard vikings fans and believe they can defeat any team that stands ain their way. Well maybe some of them. “his...phone”(Bodeen 57) This going to be a contrast example. In the book The Compounds They said that Eli’s family is methodist. This is contrasted to my culture because I don't really go to church nor, do I really have a religion I follow. My family does but I really don't get into that boring stuff. My family is christian and Eli;s
family is methodist. “Even...seattle”(Bodeen 51). Work cited Author:S.A. Bodeen Name:The Compounds Publication place:R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company, Harrisonburg, Virginia. For Information, address Square Fish, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Originally published in the United States by Feiwel and Friends Square Fish logo designed by Filomena Tuosto. Publication Date:The book The Compound was released on April 29,2008
In this analysis includes a summary of the characters and the issues they are dealing with, as well as concepts that are seen that we have discussed in class. Such as stereotyping and the lack of discrimination and prejudice, then finally I suggest a few actions that can be taken to help solve the issues at hand, allowing the involved parties to explain their positions and give them a few immersion opportunities to experience their individual cultures.
The lngles family from Little House on the Prairie, a popular television series, demonstrates the working class. Mr. Ingles works while Mrs. Ingles takes care of the household duties. The family displays a genuin e happiness. They have no modern utilities, but they have each other. They have a strong love within their family, and worldly materials serve little importance to them. A typical family today displays tremendous difference s compared to the Ingles family. Jealously and competitiveness play a major part in showing these varia...
James McBride’s mother, like Tateh before her, clasps the values of education and religion close to her; according to McBride’s depiction in The Color of Water, she enforces them with an iron fist, instilling them in her children as Tateh did to her, Dee-Dee, and Sam, though more out of tough love than for pride. Despite carrying on Tateh’s materialistic tendencies, Ruth keeps the balance by inheriting his recognition of the predominance of education and religion over wealth in terms of resulting quality of life. Ruth’s and Tateh’s worldview is passed on from generation to generation, from parent to child, like all values, whether or not parent and child consent to the continuation of the morals’ journey through time.
Wes (the author) has a family who wants to see him succeed. Although Wes didn’t know his father for long, the two memories he had of him and the endless stories his mother would share with him, helped guide him through the right path. His mother, made one of the biggest effects in Wes’s life when she decided to send him to military story, after seeing he was going down the wrong path. Perhaps, the other Wes’s mother tried her best to make sure he grew up to be a good person, but unfortunately Wes never listen. His brother, Tony was a drug dealer who wish he could go back in time and make the right decisions and he wanted Wes to be different than him. He didn’t want his brother to end up like him and even after he tried everything to keep Wes away from drugs, nothing worked and he gave up. As you can see, both families are very different, Wes (the author) has a family who wants him to have a bright future. Most importantly, a family who responds fast because right after his mother saw him falling down the wrong hill she didn’t hesitate to do something about it. The other Wes isn’t as lucky, as I believe since his mother already had so much pressure over keeping her job and her son Tony being involved in drugs. Same thing with Tony, he was so caught up in his own business that no one payed so much attention to
The struggle of sibling rivalry over ability and temperament has taken East of Eden in a whole new perspective. Steinbeck’s portrait on sibling rivalry shows the good vs. evil of each character in the story. The nature of good vs. evil as natural selection is also seen in siblings, as a compete for something physical, mental, or something emotional. The sibling rivalry from the biblical characters embraced Steinbeck’s characters throughout every concept in the novel, the good vs. evil confines the characters personality in every idea of Steinbeck’s novel. From the biblical story of Cain and Abel to Adam and Charles to Cal and Aaron the story continues through out every generation.
We also learn how the American Dream has changed for Perry, Dick and for everyone living in Kansas, throughout the book. The American Dream is very important, as we learn how it differed for each character depending on their portrayal of their families. The importance of the author using the portrayals of the characters families was to emphasize the American Dream for different types of people.
The country club gave the Patimkin’s a replica of middle class life in America. Since the Patimkin’s were Jewish they didn’t have the opportunity to belong to a regular country club, they belonged to the Jewish one, which is why it was the closest replica of the American dream to them, because they were not allowed to be part of the non-Jewish country clubs. The Patimikin’s represent the new world, they achieved higher success and they are able to identify with the non-Jewish part of middle class society a lot more then their fellow Jewish immigrants who have not fully assimilated to society. On the other side of the coin there is the Klugman family. They represent the old world. They live in the valley with the rest of the Jewish immigrants and they live meagerly because they do not have that much and they have not gained much success in their lives while living in the United States. The two characters that represent the old and new world are Brenda Patimkin and Neil Klugman. To Neil, Brenda represents what he doe...
My recommendation for this book would be that this book is just a fun read, nothing to serious. But yet it's a book were its easy to relate to were a lot of the situations that happen in the book happen in young teenage life as well. Like for example the desperation to fit in. kids will do most likely anything to be part of "the cool group" hopefully not take some sort of pill that will talk to you in your head. But other things like being pressured into talking drugs. Sneaking out of the house to go to some party and not coming back until the next day at dawn without getting caught. These days we do so much and our parents know so little.
From the first Colonial settlements to the Civil War, a great many changes took place within American society. Increasing industrialization in the North and an increase in large-scale farming coupled with reliance on slave labor in the South led to very different values and socially accepted lifestyles than were commonplace in the early colonies. In both of these societies, there was a shift from a community subsistence existence to one of markets and wages. These changes are reflected nowhere more distinctly and thoroughly than in the individual “microcosms of society:” the American family.
Having a harmonious family is a part of the American Dream. In The American Dream, written by Jim Cullen, a soldier wrote to the newspaper that he would “relate to” their “wives and children, parents and friends, what” they “have witnessed…” (Cullen, 114). Willa Cather introduces Rosicky’s family, which emphasizes on close relationships and positive community impacts in “Neighbor Rosicky”, and F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that Charlie wants his role as a father back in “Babylon Revisited”. Even though both Cather and Fitzgerald value intimate families in integrity, they have different attitudes toward life.
life in the mid to late twentieth century and the strains of society on African Americans. Set in a small neighborhood of a big city, this play holds much conflict between a father, Troy Maxson, and his two sons, Lyons and Cory. By analyzing the sources of this conflict, one can better appreciate and understand the way the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work.
And choose wrong?” (P.98). From reading this, I feel that the community was able to control problems such as divorce, rape, teen pregnancy, and AIDS. They all are given a life that is predictable, orderly and painless. Mostly, they have no memory or experience. In reality, we learn from our mistakes to be better each day. Experience is the best teacher in the world; unless one goes through sorrow, he or she will never know how it feels. “Warmth, Jonas replied and happiness. And let me think. Family, that it was a celebration of some sort, a holiday. And something else I can’t get the word for it. Jonas hesitated; I certainly liked the memory, though. I couldn’t quite get the word for the whole feeling of it, The Giver told him the feeling that was so strong in the room is love” (P.125). Family in the novel is described as a group of people that have a unit or bond that they share each day together.
...hut the child out of their lives. Rather than dealing with the mistake or misfortune as a parent should do and stand by their child’s side, both parents ran away and tried to hide from the problem. The feelings of each character were completely forgotten and lost. Each were treated as some sort of object that could be thrown away and replaced. And ultimately, the outcomes in their lives reflected their poor parenting. The choices they made unfortunately came from the lack of skills they were taught when they were young and impressionable. Neither character knows what it is like to be a part of a loving family because they were both used as objects for money or fame. Sadly, the lack of parenting led to the demise of each and we are reminded, from over a hundred years ago as well as today, that successful parenting today will lead to successful adults for the future.
...ives. These differences are direct by-products of the countries the children live in. One group lives in a world of peace, the other group in war. Each group will grow up with the skills they need to survive their surroundings, but of they were tossed in the other relm they would not succeed.
...must consider the cultural, historical and social context of the literature. Historical contexts are important to keeping our history, remembering events, the people associated with them and their viewpoints of what happened. Cultural contexts are important for the continuation of traditional cultures; encouraging people to accept the views of people from other cultures with different beliefs and values. Social contexts are important to understanding the variations in people’s lifestyles; family structure, culture, their personal history and their interests. Through the use of critical literacy, contextual forces that shape a text can be better understood, thus engaging the reader in the text. To better understand all aspects of the contextual force a reader must take all viewpoints into account and accept the variations of historical, cultural and social contexts.