Silver Star Informational Text

797 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Abusive emotional relationships essay

Using Informational Texts to Give Me Perspective on The Silver Star Having informational texts has given me a better understanding of The Silver Star. As I read novels before I never thought about the information provided. I didn’t think it was important to know why a character acted a certain way. Or the new setting they’re in. Although having background informations from different texts has helped me gain a better perspective on the novel. While reading The Silver Star I understood topics like racism, depression, and abusive relationships with the help of variety informational texts.

There are several scenes where people of color have been mistreated at work and or school. The first time we see this is when Bean and Liz go to Byler high school. On page 133 it states. “The school was a big brick building three stories high, …show more content…

Clearly towards the end of the novel Uncle Clarence shoots Maddox. But when I was reading the text it helped me better understand the character of Maddox. In the novel we see that Maddox is manipulates his wife Doris. But she thinks what he’s doing is right when it’s not. We see this on page 175. ‘How dare you? How dare you after all we’ve done for you? No jury’s going to believe you lying sluts’ (Walls 175). This helps me see Maddox is manipulating her because she lost her own sense. Instead she accuses the girls for his reckless behavior. Which is a very childish thing to do. He has clearly taken over her. The article states “Psychological abuse occurs when a person in the relationship tries to control information available to another person with intent to manipulate the person's sense” (Warning signs of an Emotionally Abusive Relationship 1). This helps readers understand Doris’s actions because Maddox is making her own decisions and bossing her around. Which isn’t a pleasant way to treat someone in a serious

Show More
Related

  • The Devil in Massachusetts Book Review

    790 Words  | 2 Pages

    ...onally transposing indirect to direct quotation, putting words into people mouths and blending two separate eye witness's accounts. How can one read a novel for knowledge gaining purposes when the structure appears so flawed? The use of modern and old English are combined in the sentence structure. The highly academic vocabulary not only is confusing, but breaks the flow of the book when that is the evident purpose for the format of the book. The confusing order in which Starkey retells events and the ineffective and useless information that is put in for building character personalities.

    Read More

  • On The Rez

    1146 Words  | 3 Pages

    with no dignity all because of your color and ethic group. The author then tells us various types of racial

    Read More

  • Racial Discrimination In Brent Staples's Black Men, And Public Space

    1582 Words  | 4 Pages

    In Brent Staples essay, Black Men, and Public Space the author talks about the ways he was discriminated against because of his race. In a few incidents when walking down the street many women thought because Staples was African American he must be a rapist mugger, etc. In addition, another

    Read More

  • To Kill A Mockingbird Essays: Discrimination and Prejudice

    1388 Words  | 3 Pages

    Discrimination is prevalent when people that are different are called names. Some people thought blacks were automatically dumb because of their color. They weren't allowed to do anything but menial tasks (such as chopping wood) and hard labor because they were thought too dumb. The novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee has numerous accounts of racism and prejudice throughout the entire piece. The novel is set in the 1930's, a time when racism was very prevalent.

    Read More

  • Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

    430 Words  | 1 Pages

    The first example that shows racial conflict between the blacks and whites is the Jefferson Davis School bus, which is full of white children. Blacks do not have a bus so Cassie and her brothers have to walk to school.  However, each morning the children would be threatened by this bus, "a bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge yellow dragon breathing fire".  This is surely because of racism.  The whites in the bus seem to find it amusing with "laughing with faces" to see the black children run for their lives.

    Read More

  • Coming of Age: A Thematic Unit Plan

    3047 Words  | 7 Pages

    The first type of text is the aforementioned classic novel. For this unit, two texts in particular will be utilized. One is J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher In the Rye. This novel focuses on the experiences of a cyn...

    Read More

  • African American Living in the Past: A Raisin in the Sun

    1267 Words  | 3 Pages

    It is already a very well known fact that African Americans went through a lot of torment through the 1920s until the later 1960s. Even as time went by, only a small amount of things changed. Racism may have died down a bit, but remains in existence. The play A Raisin in the Sun by African American female, Lorraine Hansberry, depicts the real life of African Americans between the 1920s and the 1960s. This time period for an African American was rather tough. The living situations for African Americans were made even more difficult than they would have already been due to their skin color and the government's decisions (ex. Jim Crow laws).

    Read More

  • Comparison Of Alice Walker And Zora Neale Hurston

    1034 Words  | 3 Pages

    In southern place of Rural Georgia there were racial issues. Walker discuss stereotypes that Celie went through as the daughter of a successful store owner, which ran by a white man Celie did not have no right to. The black characters and community were stereotyped through their lives to have human rights (Walker 88-89). Walker engages the struggle between blacks and whites social class, blacks were poor and the whites were rich. This captures the deep roots of the south discrimination against blacks. African-American women went through misery, and pain of racism to be discriminated by the color of their skin. Another major racist issue Hurston represent in “The Color Purple” is when Sofia tells the mayors wife saying “hell no” about her children working for her, Sofia was beaten for striking back to a white man (Walker 87). Racism and discrimination in the black culture did not have basic rights as the whites instead they suffered from being mistreated to losing moral

    Read More

  • Institutionalized Racism In Public Schools By Zz Packer

    1679 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the article “Disguised Racism in Public Schools,” Samuel Brodbelt goes into great detail about how institutionalized racism is seen in many public schools today. He also further explains how the effects of institutionalized racism may cause segregation between the races. Brodbelt states “today, the public schools serves as an example of the extent of institutional racism” (Brodbelt 699). In public schools, students are subjected to acts of institutional racism that may change how they interact with other students. In the short story “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by Packer, readers are allowed to view firsthand how institutionalized racism effects Dina who is the main character in the story. Packer states “As a person of color, you shouldn’t have to fit in any white, patriarchal system” (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere 117). The article “Disguised Racism in Public Schools” Brodbelt states “first, the attitudes of teachers toward minority group pupils” (Brodbelt 699). Like the ideas in the article “Disguised Racism in Public Schools” Dina encounters institutionalized oppression on orientation day at Yale. Because the counselor sees that Dina is an African American student in an all prominent white school, she assumes that she cannot fit into the white patriarchal system which includes playing “frustrating games for smart people” (Drinking Coffee Elsewhere 117). The counselor assumes that

    Read More

  • Ethnic Inequality In To Kill A Mockingbird

    915 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee it showcases many ethnicity inequality that was written in the 1930s. The first situation that showed ethnicity inequality was Calpurnia being the maid for the FInch’s household. Calpurnia is was an African American woman that worked for the Finch’s when Scout and her older brother, Jem were young. She was like their second mother since their mother had passed away when Jem was six. She was paid for being their maid which indicated that African

    Read More

  • Silver Star Informational Text

    1028 Words  | 3 Pages

    On page 104 “Those are my clothes,” she said. “ I don't have anything to wear” “They're not your clothes,” Mr.Maddox told her. “ They're Jerry Maddox’s clothes. Who bought them? Jerry Maddox. Who worked his butt off to pay for them ? Jerry Maddox. So who do they belong to ?” “ Jerry Maddox” Dorris said.” It is clear that Mr.Maddox is a very disrespectful given the way he is talking to his wife Doris. However after reading Marni Feuerman’s article “ Warning Signs of an Emotionally Abusive Relationship” that I was able to see that Mr.MAddox is more than just “disrespectful” he is emotionally abusive. The informational text reads that “Psychological abuse can look like, Using money to control”.(Feuerman) Given the way Mr.Maddox verbally manipulates his wife, Doris we see that she becomes submissive to Mr.Maddox. Considering the

    Read More

  • How Does Lee Use Injustice In To Kill A Mockingbird

    546 Words  | 2 Pages

    In Mayella Ewell’s case we see many examples of discrimination because she makes up a whole story that Tom Robinson rapped when it clearly wasn’t true. She made up the story because her dad saw her when she was asking a black man to kiss her, when she came back inside her dad beat her and even threaten to kill her and that's when she made up the story of Tom Robinson it was because of her reputation if Tom Robinson was white he would of never been to the trial but just because he is an African American people see him as being bad or dangerous

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Freedom's Children

    1169 Words  | 3 Pages

    For example Ben Chaney was nine years old at the time and played with the white kids. But as soon as he turned ten the parents came straight out to Ben and told him he was not allowed to play with their kids to his face. This was solely based on the complexion of his skin. Another example was Gwendolyn Patton. She grew up in Detroit but spent summers in Montgomery. She used to ride the bus on sundays after church. She would only ride the bus once a week. She got off the bus to get a treat and went to the stad. She bought a cone of water and she sat down to drink. The lady at the stand said she could not sit there (the women did not say why but it was because she was black but it was heavily implied) so Gwen proceeded to pour her water on the counter of the stand and walk

    Read More

  • English Learners Chapter 8 Summary

    294 Words  | 1 Pages

    Chapter 9 of our textbook offers great strategies that help with reading and literacy instruction for English Learners. One strategy that I connected with the most was the literature response journals. The literature response journals are “personal note-books in which students write informal comments about the stores they are reading, including their feelings and reactions to characters, setting, plot, and other aspects of the story; they are an outgrowth of learning logs and other journals (Atwell, 1984, p. 372). This strategy will allow students to describe in their own words their perspective of the story. It gives them the opportunity to help increase their skills in writing, speaking and listening. A way to help enhance this strategy is

    Read More

  • Mini Lesson Analysis

    494 Words  | 1 Pages

    Mini-lesson: Readers learn to find clues in the text to support their thinking about what a character is thinking, feeling, and acting

    Read More

More about Silver Star Informational Text

Open Document