In “ The Jacket” by Gary Soto, the boy is ungrateful for the jacket he received from his mother. One person should not be ungrateful for what they recieve. “I wanted to cry because it was so ugly and so big that I knew I’d have to wear it a long time.” This quote shows how the boy feels towards the jacket. He is hateful towards the jacket. Hateful is where someone strongly dislikes something/someone to the point of where they would want to destroy/hurt them. He doesn’t like the jacket because it isn’t the one he wanted. First, people shouldn’t get depressed because they didn’t get what they desired. In “The Jacket” by Gary Soto, the boy starts getting depressed because he got an ugly jacket. “...and then climbed it to sit looking into the
alley.” He starts thinking lowly of himself by going to a gross alley and hurling orange peels at a trash can. He doesn’t like the jacket so he blames the jacket for anything bad that happens. He disapproves of the jacket because it isn’t the one he wanted. He wished for a black biker jacket, not a cheap, guacamole colored one. Second, everyone should be grateful for what they get. The kid in “The Jacket” wanted a black bikers jacket. But instead he got a guacamole colored one. He didn’t like it at all. He blamed anything bad that happened to him was the jacket’s fault. “I blame that jacket for those bad years.” The same day he gets it his dog rips a piece of his jacket. Then, over the years pieces of the jacket fall of making his brother call him “Camouflage”. Thirdly, Gary Soto speaks a lot of imagery in his writings. For example, “I closed the door to her voice and pulled at the rack of clothes in the closet, hoping the jacket on the bedpost wasn’t for me but my mean brother.” This sentence by the kid in the jacket shows that he closes the door and pulls a rack of clothes to see if the jacket is in the the closet. Then he puts the guacamole colored on the bedpost. He is hoping that the ugly guacamole jacket isn’t for him but his mean brother. All in all, someone should not be ungrateful, nor depressed when they get something that wasn’t what they wanted. The boy in “The jacket” is ungrateful and gets depressed when he gets a guacamole colored jacket that is too big for him so he knows he is going to have that jacket for a long time. Just because someone didn’t get what they desired, it doesn’t mean that someone should get all depressed and act gloomy because the jacket or whatever item it is, is ugly. Be happy for what you get.
In book " black man in the white coat", the author has been mistaken as the electrician by his professor in medical school. It's unfortunately very common experience for our black fellows. I really admired his way to deal with this discrimination. He worked his butt off and became the second in that class. The professor was shocked by his accomplishments and invited him to work in his lab. Of course, he politely refused. The professor had no words about that incident (maybe every black looks same in his eyes). The stereotyping thing is detrimental to the people who came from different race background. Now the in-between biracial people are treated even worse because they do not belong to any categories..."others". Being marginalized is hurtful
The All-American quarterback; a past life for Neely Crenshaw who returns to his home-town in Messiena and finds himself dealing with the problems he thought he ran away from. In the book Bleachers, John Grisham tells the story of a former star high school football player from a small town where football was more sacred than a Sunday Mass. Being back where it all started, sitting on the bleachers, Neely awaits the death of his former coach. Throughout the story Neely is able to find himself by realizing that greatness has its costs; running away from your problems doesn't make them go away and by deciding to forgive Coach Rake.
“The Jacket” when the young boy is placed in the unenviable position of wearing a jacket
In unit one of Interactions, the authors Ann Moseley and Jeanette Harris showed a number of readings about the idea of the self. The self-concept is an important matter because people change with age constantly and their thoughts change as well. There are many factors that can affect any individual’s thought of self-concept such as growing up, life experiences, friends and family, and meeting new people. Moreover, a number of readings in unit one by different authors showing their experiences and struggles with self-concept such as ethnicities, economy status, and self-esteem issue. I have had similar experiences with several authors, which are, “Zero” by Paul Logan, “Living in two worlds” by Marcus Mabry, and “The Jacket” by Gary Soto.
I thought that the theme of Growing Up by Gary Soto was to appreciate what you have. Maria's father said "When I was a kid, we didn't have money for vacations. I would have been happy to go with my father." It shows how her father is working hard to make Maria's life better. He is trying to make his whole family happy and make her childhood better than his. It shows later in the story, when Maria thinks that her family is dead. It shows her second thoughts to her
Everyone has the ability to look at where the world is today and picture what the future might hold. That’s exactly what Huxley, Orwell and Bradbury did in their futuristic novels, though exaggerating quite a bit. In Huxley’s novel Brave New World, he depicts a society where people are decanted from bottles instead of being born from mothers. George Orwell gives us a glimpse at a world where everything is regulated, even sex, in his novel 1984. Bradbury foresaw the future in the most accurate way in his novel Fahrenheit 451; writing about a future without literature to guard the people from negative feelings, just as our college campuses in America are doing by adding trigger warnings to books with possible offensive content.
The hero’s journey is a common template of many stories, where a hero goes on an adventure, and returns with clearer vision, awakened, or transformed by new knowledge he or she had not had before. In the dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, set in the 24th century, the main character, Guy Montag, goes on his own hero’s journey to learn of literature that has been long outlawed and burned by firemen, while occupying a job as a fireman himself. In the oppressive society that is his world, reading and owning books or any form of written works is illegal. Montag goes through a series of transformations in each stage of his journey, from the dissonance he experiences when he realizes he is not content with his life, to the trials of
In the book Bleachers by John Grisham, Rake was a long time hero because of the winning streak of 84 games and the 13 state titles Rake, but despite the legacy and popularity of Coach Eddie Rake, he is a horrible person.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger has many different possibilities when discussing possibilities for theme. Salinger focuses heavily on innocence in this novel this leading us to the theme loss of innocence. The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman and Holden Caulfield is a teenager looking for his identity therefore we can conclude that searching for identity could be a theme in this story. Holden has suffered a death already and it has affected him greatly coping with death is another possible theme for this story. Salinger left many possible themes for this story.
“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” This is an excerpt from “In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz”, a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeat’s. Eva and Con were two sisters whose beauty had entranced a young Yeats. They are remembered in the poem as “Two girls in silk kimonos, both/beautiful.” As both girls become active in politics and the women’s suffrage movement they become exposed to the corrupted reality of life. The problems the two sisters endure eventually strip away their physical and spiritual beauty. Yeat’s poem indicates that time brings new and bad experiences. Experiences that strip beauty and innocence away from people. This is a recurring theme in the classic novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by
“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” In this book, reading books are against the law, but without books, people are imbeciles who rely solely on advertisements. In a way, the people are afraid of books, since people sometimes do not understand them. This powerful statement was written in Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451 clearly states that books may have a powerful influence over society; even if the people try so hard to ignore it.
Throughout history, there have been many noteworthy events that have happened. While there are many sources that can explain these events, historical fiction novels are some of the best ways to do so, as they provide insight on the subject matter, and make you feel connected to the people that have gone through it. An example of a historical fiction that I have just read is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, a story about the life of a German boy who becomes friends with a Jewish boy in a concentration camp during the holocaust. The author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas portrays the historical period well,and uses many details from the real life holocaust to make his story more believable. This book is a classic, and is a very good look on how it feels to be living in Nazi Germany.
Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 lived in a time where censorship happened perpetually. He showed a dystopian, authoritarian and futuristic society where censorship was a regular action taken by the government. This mirrored the changing times happening in mid 1900’s. To continue, he shows how this can affect characters in his book, such as Mildred, Beatty, Clarisse and Guy. To add on, he exhibits how different and numb civilization can be with extreme suppression. Ray Bradbury explored the negative idea of censorship on humans and society with his book, Fahrenheit 451 while proving his point are still relevant in today’s civilization.
As Beatty continues his lecture, Faber speaks to Montag through their secret radio asking what goes on and telling him to run away. But, Montag explains he's trapped. Any attempt to escape will ship the Mechanical Hound after him. Beatty orders Montag to burn down the residence on his personal, room thru room, with a flamethrower. As if living a nightmare, Montag complies, methodically destroying all his possessions. While completed, he stands within the front of Beatty, numb and dejected, but nonetheless defensive at once to the flamethrower. Beatty asks why Montag felt the need to keep books. Even as Montag does not answer, Beatty hits him, knocking Faber's mystery radio from his ear. Beatty picks it up, announcing he's going to want to trace
Hatred or hate is a deep and emotional extreme dislike. It can be directed against individuals, groups, entities, objects, behaviors, or ideas. Hatered is often associated with feelings of anger, disgust and a disposition towards hostility. What caught my attention in reading Howard Thurman, the paragraph where he talks about the family with the five kids.My mother had four children, one boy and three girls.