“Always stay true to yourself and never let what anyone says distract you from your goals.”- Michelle Obama. In The Hate U Give, there are many themes that are presented. Some of them include racism and justice, family, standing up for what you believe, and many more. One of the most prominent themes is community and being true to yourself. The main character, 16 year old Starr Carter, is surrounded by different communities such her neighborhood, her school, and her friendships. Each of these are different from one another and represent Starr trying to “code switch” in different aspects of her life in order to change to fit in with people in each community. Only when these two communities intersect is when Starr feels free. Starr and her family …show more content…
In the opening chapter, Starr goes to a party in her neighborhood with her friend Kenya. Even though Starr has lived in this community her whole life, she feels uncomfortable as if she isn’t “black enough” because she goes to Williamson Prep, a mostly white private school. In the quote, “There are some places where it's not enough to be me. Either version of me” (Thomas, 2017, p. 3). Starr feels like she doesn’t fully fit in with the people of her community because she doesn’t go to school with them and also because she has other character traits and interests that make her more similar to her white friends. Being different makes Starr feel kind of insecure about herself. Another community represented in the book is Starr’s school. Williamson Prep is a mostly white private school that Starr and her brothers Seven and Sekani have been going to since they were little. In the text it states, “I just have to be normal Starr at normal Williamson and have a normal day. That means flipping the switch in my brain, so I’m Williamson Starr” (Thomas, 2017, p.71). This serves as another example of Starr's code
When Calpurnia was confronted by Lula about bringing Scout and Jem to a black church, Jem says, "Let's go home, Cal, they don't want us here.'" Zeebo, a black man who attends the church, says, "We're mighty glad to have you all here. Don't pay no tention to Lula... she's a troublemaker from way back, got fancy ideas and haughty ways.'" Even though it is a black church, most of the congregation welcomes the white children. This identifies with line 10 of "Two Worlds."
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.
There were many themes illustrated throughout the memoir, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael beah. These themes include survival/resilience despite great suffering, the loss of innocence, the importance of family/heritage, the power of hope and dreams, the effects of injustice on the individual, and the importance of social and political responsibility. Every theme listed has a great meaning, and the author puts them in there for the readers to analyze and take with them when they finish reading the book.
Short Term 12 is an independent film that was released in 2013 and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. The film takes place in a group home and shows the focuses on the journey of Grace who was physically, mentally, and sexually abused as a young child by her father and her boyfriend/fiancé Mason who grew up as a “punk kid” in foster care. The two put attempt to put their own lives aside when they both work at the group home in an attempt to better the lives of the troubled youth they work with at the home.
In one of the most famous sports movies of all time, Remember the Titans is not only a great football movie, it is also a movie that depicts what life was like back during the high racial tensions. The movie shows a group of black and white high school football players that have trouble getting along because of their skin color. They have to learn to cope with each other though summer camp that really tests the kids patentice and their willingness to respect one another.
The Illegal, and Some Great Thing by Lawrence Hill both contain several important themes. To explain, The Illegal features the main character’s loss of innocence, and the racism towards people because of their country of origin, and ethnic background. Next, Some Great Thing includes the themes of racism and prejudice towards not only the protagonist, but also to French Canadians because of the colour of their skin, or the language they speak, and the courage of characters to stand up for what they believe is right.
Fallen Angels is historical fiction book, written by Walter Dean Myers, set in New York and Vietnam. Many experiences in the book draw off events that the author has experienced in his own life. The main character is Richie Perry, who is a African-American boy, around 17-20 years old. He is intelligent enough to enter in the State College, but he lives in single-parent family,so he can’t afford to go to college. Instead, he decides the best alternative is to join the army, which would provide money for the family, especially for his brother Kenny’s future education. He also believes due to his bad knee, that he would be shielded from direct combat. When he arrives in Vietnam, he meets Peewee and Jenkins. Peewee, who grows to be Richie’s best
Gender Emergence in England’s History. "Historicizing Patriarchy: The Emergence of Gender Difference in England, 1660-1760" by Michael McKeon is a powerful and original hypothesis as to "how and why the modern system of gender difference was established during the English Restoration and eighteenth century" (295). McKeon, a professor of English literature at Rutgers University, is also the author of several essays, including "Politics and Poetry in Restoration England" and "Origins of the English Novel. " McKeon uses the term 'patriarchalism' because it attaches itself to a "traditional regime" which will in later centuries be replaced by the "modern conception of gender" (296).
Are classic novels still being referred in modern society? Yes. Yes they do. – David Ngo claims
...ess. Jennifer shows that she is not really willing to adapt to her new environment because she continues to only stay in contact with her friends back home. The majority of Jennifer’s issues deal with her egocentric and individualistic thinking. Jennifer feels that everything should revolve around her which is why she cannot understand why Kerri wants to hang out with other people. She specifically says she doesn’t understand why black people have to hang out together all the time. It is Jennifer’s thinking that will stop her from having a healthy social life at this particular college.
“Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque”(Krishnamurti). Nature is pertaining to humankind creating unique individuals with how they’re raised and what they are raised to believe. Humanity’s culture has has invented a way everyone should be through magazines, commercials, movies, and other means of communicating ideas to people. Rainsford is represented by the culture that has invented a custom everyone needs to live by. He and civilization believe killing our own civilization is wrong. Killing people is wrong, unless it’s in war because army men and women are fighting for our country and know there’s no end to what
Another example of total racial segregation is the fact that Jem and Scout have never been to “that part of town,” so they are unfamiliar with the Church’s way of singing hymns (“lining”), and they don’t understand “nigger talk.” Even Lula, one of the black church members, says, “they got their church, we got our’n.”
Would you have ever thought that a friendship or relationship could tremendously alter your entire life? Friendships and relationships can positively or negatively impact an individual’s life is the theme expressed in the three selections. In the Uglies, written by Scott Westerfeld, Tally faces a life- changing situation which questions her chance of becoming pretty. Furthermore, E. E. Cummings expresses the speaker’s feelings of love in [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]. In The Third and Final Continent, written by Jhumpa Lahiri, an Indian man strives for a successful new life in America with the assistance of acquaintanceships. Undoubtedly, the theme-friendships and relationships can positively or negatively impact an individual’s
While these scholars discussed some excellent points about the movie Remember the Titans, they failed to emphasize on the importance of all three debates as a whole in order to have a successful football team. The themes previously stated included the importance of racial interactions, the effects sports have on a community, and also the importance of leadership on a sports team. These three themes all have to do with what it takes to have a successful football team back in the day while dealing with racism. Each scholar includes their thoughts on why their theme gives the team the best chance to win. These themes play an important role on the football team itself, however they also play a huge role on the community as well. What these themes
Ernest Hemingway uses the various events in Nick Adams life to expose the reader to the themes of youth, loss, and death throughout his novel In Our Time. Youth very often plays its part in war, and since In Our Time relates itself very frequently to war throughout; it is not a surprise that the theme of youthful innocence arises in many of the stories. In “Indian Camp” the youthful innocence is shown in the last sentence of the story: “In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.” (19) When this sentence and the conversation Nick and his father have before they get on the boat are combined in thought it shows that because of Nicks age at the time that he does not yet understand the concept of death.