Before I start talking about the chapter 5 “That Train Is Very Bad” I would like to talk about my experience in train. I have travel a lot in trains in India, but that trains were not that scary or dirty like Carl Hoffman is describing in this chapter. My experience were not that good before because I am not use to travel in trains, but I will agree with Carl Hoffman and with the guy who said that trains are very bad. Trains are scary and bad too because it has a lot of different people with you and it’s is also very suffocating to travel with hundreds of people in the same couch. Nobody cleans the trains and it is so dirty to seat on. But the fact is, there are cores of people in this world who has to travel daily for their work in the trains. …show more content…
And then he said the quote, “But remember you never know when you die, so you must be happy all the time.” This guys is very positive I think because he talks so positive to other people and he also giving some truth of the life. I really like that guy a lot. At the bottom of the page 100, a man named Guindo says about the train situation. “There are no fixed dates. Maybe it will leave on Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday. You will know when the train when is here when the train is here. You must come every day. My friend, this train is very bad.” I can totally feel this situations because there is one place in India where the trains come late sometime. It dont take days to come but it comes late about one hour or sometime five hours. Waiting for trains is headache because you have to check every minute if the comes or …show more content…
Everyone was shouting and police was after him. That’s really scary moment to all those who was traveling. In the first line of page 106 carl hoffman said it was the worst in Africa and may be in the world. I wonder how was the train? I really want to know how it feels to be in world's worst train. I like when Car Hoffman told his past story of him and his dad, and his dad told that “These people are not different from you and me, except they’re poor. That's all.” I really like that quote and i like how his dd is teaching him the truth about the people. I felt kind of weird when the man in train came and ask carl Hoffman, “Do you believe in God?” It was weird but by the description I can tell that man was a Muslim who was praying in the train. When he said, “People must live the way they must live.” That’s true and I totally agree with
Moreover, the trip in the train gives an example of the loss of the humanity. In the train, a
“I envied the people in the train because they seemed to be going somewhere” (Lesley,7).
Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the greatest American novels ever written. The story is about Huck, a young boy who is coming of age and is escaping from his drunken father. Along the way he stumbles across Miss Watson's slave, Jim, who has run away because he overhead that he would be sold. Throughout the story, Huck is faced with the moral dilemma of whether or not to turn Jim in. Mark Twain has purposely placed these two polar opposites together in order to make a satire of the society's institution of slavery. Along the journey, Twain implies his values through Huck on slavery, the two-facedness of society, and represents ideas with the Mississippi River.
“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”(1) This is a quote from author Mark Twain in response to the banning of his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from public libraries. Huckleberry Finn has proven to be one of the most controversial books in the United States since its first publication in the 1880s. Many people disagree with the language and themes of this book, and bemoan the teaching of it in public high schools. Others argue that Mark Twain’s narrative is an important work of American literature and students that are mature enough for these topics should be exposed to it. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain should not be banned from public high school curriculums because it teaches students about Southern culture in the 19th century, introduces students to information for learning and discussion, and brings up social issues that need to be addressed in today’s society.
The New York City Subway System, or the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), has become the “life line” of New York City (NYC) since people are reliant on the subway system for commuting to different places within the city. One such person, who buys this fact, is a person by the name of SunDo K, who runs and owns a restaurant business in Cypress, California. He claimed in his profile on Yelp that, “One of the best part about New York City is traveling via the subway.” Now there are also acid twists and turns into this. Precisely there are many others out there whose judgment matches flawlessly the same with K. They find the MTA quite advantageous of there way of going around town, while there are other people, who find the system comparatively exasperating, and disappointing for its following: punctuality, fare, overcrowded, and filthiness. Though few peoples’ psyche has been launder by the term “detestation” for New York City’s subways (Tubes), they are the ones who are going to notice a hole in their pocket as other approach of transportation call for more money in addition to not being safety as well. One such example can be found at NYC’s taxi cab. Periodically few New Yorkers tends to believe that Tubes makes their ride trouble-free, efficient, inexpensive, as well as comfortable experience. Some people also trust the city’s subway as one of safest way of roaming around the city than other transportations. What’s more gossiping is the fact that, both safety and security happens to be Subway’s primarily concern according to the MTA.
witness to the murder of this man. You can't believe what he said. The train
Mark Twain, a famous American writer-satirist wrote many books highly acclaimed throughout the world. For his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the literary establishment recognized him as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. This novel is about a teenage boy by the name of Huck Finn whose father is an alcoholic. Because of his violence, Huck runs away and finds a runaway slave Jim. Instead of turning Jim in, Huck goes against society and makes a decision to help Jim break free from slavery. As they travel together, Huck learns more and more about Jim and starts to understand that the common stereotype of black people is wrong. Huck sees there is no difference between Jim and any white man he knows except for skin color. Risking his life and overcoming many difficulties on the way, Huck succeeds in freeing Jim. Focusing on racism, alcoholism and mob mentality, Mark Twain uses his enthusiastic style of writing and satirizes the three traits throughout the novel.
In “On the Subway” by Sharon Olds, the author contrasts two divergent people. Olds come to many conclusions as a result of the experience. Sharon Olds utilizes tone, poetic devices such as metaphor, and finally imagery.
The imagined community at the front of the train has little knowledge of the conditions that the less fortunate passengers of the train are subjected to. The existence of the imagined community that is comprised of ticketed passengers is integral to the sustenance of the train. Nixon writes, “the modern nation-state is sustained by producing imagined communities” (Nixon 167). While the train is by no means a modern nation-state, the privileged passengers are vital. Unlike the unimagined community in the back of the train who are decidedly rebellious, they seem to have largely submitted to the authority of Wilford. Without this submission the train would not be the microstate, it is. Rather, the train would be little more than a shelter from the icy wasteland earth has become. This reliance on an imagined communities is paralleled in all nations today. Without a submissive faction that realises and legitimises their government, the state holds no actual
The train moves faster and faster to represent the growing and consuming nature of industrialization. The train has identical cars to emphasize a loss of individuality. When people are no longer ignorant to the societal rules, they become self conscious, comparing themselves to one another until they meet the standard and conform. The train is not silver and shiny, but brown, rusty, and worn. The innocence of the people in Powaqqatsi has rusted away, leaving corrupt and exhausted clones in the aftermath.
However, the 4 train resides with me because it gives me the chance to explore the subway thoroughly. It’s always a scary feeling as the 4 train approaches the train station because it sounds like a pack of Rhinos crashing into a halt. I enter the train and quickly gaze of a seat because I know people will be racing to any open seats available. Luckily I found two empty seats and that’s where my luck ended because right next to me sat a drunk who smelled like he had been drinking gallons of liquor. Everyone around him decided to get up and move somewhere else. I decided to move carts because I can’t stand the smell of liquor. That might have been a good thing because I walked right into someone signing “Barcelona by Bill Newman.” After he finished signing I was the only one who clapped and the man turned around and gave me a big smile that I still remember till today. Most people were far too busy listening to their earbuds and didn’t even acknowledge him singing. There were no chatter or laughter, everyone is minding their own business. The mood gradually became positive as more teenagers and kids entered the train. The train ride just became a news source because you can year the gossips or the latest
In “on the Subway” the author Sharon Olds talks about two characters on a subway, by using similes and imagery.
After being encouraged by “Train Man” he’s able to put on a uniform, leave not only his room but his house and venture outside where he meets a girl that asks to sit next to him on the bus, even though you can see an empty seat in that shot. Basically this is too much of an unrealistic thing. This is of course because this is a “feel good movie” but it still poses a problem. The people of Japan are undoubtedly worried about this ever increasing number of people that start becoming horribly reclusive. By seeing Train Man get the girl and clean himself up it makes real life otaku or those on the less popular side feel good because they are watching someone in similar circumstances succeed and do what they may want to do.
He starts off wanting to know all about this train he keeps hearing. He says, "I read in the papers about the Freedom Train. I heard on the radio about the Freedom Train." He wants to know everything he can about this train. Its almost as if everybody knows there is such thing as a train, but its almost as if no one knows what the train is.
On the contrary, using private car is the same convenience of travelling as public transport. When people are in a hurry, they can suddenly go ev...