Fiction and Novels Have a Place In The Curriculum
Angie Thomas, the author of The Hate U Give once mentions in her novel that “Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.” Like many of her other quotes she expresses real life situations through her book. One of Angie thomas’s quotes in her novel that also refers to real life situations are “When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me. One was the usual birds and bees...The other talk was about what to do if a cop stopped me.”The process of reading or writing fiction is not only for the entertainment or education but can also help one discover the creativity and imagination of their own mind.
In the Novel The Hate You Give,
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Instead of Starr asking other who she is and what she should be, she asks herself. “If I face the truth, as ugly as it is, she’s right. I was ashamed of Garden Heights and everything in it. It seems stupid now though. I can’t change where I come from or what I’ve been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me? That’s like being ashamed of myself.” (Starr p.441). Ever since Starr began attending Williamson Prep she felt as if she was living a double life. Both these “different worlds” she lives in causes her to speak differently and act differently depending on where she is. Starr accepts that she can't forget or change what she has seen and she shouldn’t be ashamed of that. “Others are fighting too, even in the Garden, where sometimes it feels like there’s not a lot worth fighting for. People are realizing and shouting and marching and demanding. They’re not forgetting. I think that’s the most important part.” (Starr p.443). Toward the end Starr begins to realize what is right and what she needs to stand up for. This is a lesson that is showing us the importance of speaking up and using your own voice and showing others what you believe in. When a death such as Khalil's are forgotten most people give up but in Starrs case instead of giving up and leaving the violence of police brutality unfixed she fights till she sees sunlight. Novels not only like The Hate U Give, show people how important it is for others to do the right things. Novels show you the mistakes or lessons others have learned and through fiction you can use your imagination to create so many magnificent
During his years of depression he was very dissatisfied with himself, but while he was recovering, he had the time and space needed to learn about himself and appreciate himself. “ ’ This means that you will be going back to school… No one will be able to control what they say. Do you think you’re ready? You’ll be on your own.’
The novel Nukkin Ya is a compelling book, written in the perspective of the character Gary Black, the author of the text is Phillip Gwynne. The novel is set in rural South Australia for Australian readers. The novel conveys a number of themes and messages including racial difference, love verse hate and the ability and choice to move on. These are depicted by the literally techniques of imagery, literary allusions and intertextuality.
“Every war is everyone’s war”... war will bring out the worst in even the strongest and kindest people. The book tells about how ones greed for something can destroy everything for both people and animals leaving them broken beyond repair, leaving them only with questions… Will they ever see their family again? Will they ever experience what it’s like to
The film starts with an uprising after a white storeowner kills a black teenager. This incident Highlights Prejudices. The teenager was labeled a thief because of the color of his skin and the unjustifiable murder causes racial tensions that exist as a result of the integration of the high schools.
Last but not least, O’Connor confirms that even a short story is a multi-layer compound that on the surface may deter even the most enthusiastic reader, but when handled with more care, it conveys universal truths by means of straightforward or violent situations. She herself wished her message to appeal to the readers who, if careful enough, “(…)will come to see it as something more than an account of a family murdered on the way to Florida.”
"Unit 2: Reading & Writing About Short Fiction." ENGL200: Composition and Literature. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011. 49-219. Web. 19 Apr. 2014.
“And into our pierced and shattered souls bored the torturing image of the brown earth with the greasy sun and the convulsed and dead soldiers, who lie there - it can't be helped - who cry and clutch at our legs as we spring away over them.” (remarque
are no winners in a war just death and sorrow. Palmer explores the theme of death and how
Although Sarah is only a freshman, she has completed just about one semester at the University of Miami, is quite aware of her surroundings, and is extremely honest and understanding of the position she is currently in.... ... middle of paper ... ... Not only were Sarah’s grades affected, but the way in which she perceives people, and the way in which she makes friends, also suffered.
This opening paragraph is a simple, poetic version of the main theme behind All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. The point of the story is to show that war is not romantic, glorious, or fantastic. In fact, those words could not be further from the truth. War is a disgusting competition of human instinct, fought by the wrong people. It brings out the worst in everyone; it destroys their compassion, honesty, and ideals. The beginning chapters of All Quiet on the Western Front are devoted to showing that warfare hardens soldiers against true emotions. Their main priority is survival, second is comfort, followed by gain.
...ar-mongering patriots, it sympathizes with mankind. The tale never deviates from this antiwar thesis, ingeniously allowing the everyday person to comprehend the stupidity of the bloodshed pervading world history. There is no real group designated as an enemy since the true culprit of wartime horror is war itself. Though this pacifist statement is made quite epigrammatically, it takes the reader until the end of the novel to understand the true power of such an idea. In the last few lines, the inner battle one fights in a war is linked to the inner battle we fight with life itself. No matter how hard we try, “so long as it is there, [life] will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within” (295). It is the human plight to unconsciously fight for survival. All Quiet on the Western Front suggests that there are cases where surviving is another form of death.
The oppression and invasion of the conquerors arouse, instead of crush, the desire of the defeated for freedom. These people, who have lived with the idea of a free rule of democracy, refuse to be chained down under the oppressive rule of the conquerors. It is for this reason that they strike back at their invaders. As said by Mayor Orden to Colonel Lanser of the aggressors, “ ‘The people don’t like to be conquered, sir, and so they will not be. Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat.
Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. 5th ed. of the book. Boston: Heinle, 2004.
Zailckas has very low self-esteem and confidence. Two of the most important things a woman struggles with while growing up, and here we find the author still struggling with these problems in her adult life. Zailckas experiences a regression that keeps taking her back to her teenage years before the drinking, which demonstrates she was never able to mature. She keeps going back to that regression because it was the time in her life before the alcohol, that allowed her to believe in her own confidence. Alcohol was her self-medication, she believed it helped her become herself.
Thomas Pain and Naomi Shihab Nye try in their protest literature to free their people days from the dark while whispering in their audience(s) mind the belief that if they today fight against the injustice which they are facing, they someday will all be able to look back at their life and wish that everyone could have had a life as fun as theirs because, they all as one by believing in injustice as not being source of as much proudness and happiness as their love for justice, they will all be able to reach in their hearts, and whole being the infinite limit of peace, justice and happiness and so will be at the same time, be able to exterminate the most hazardous and appalling human creation in the nature of injustice.