Tortilla Curtain: Jack Jardine
Jack Jardine is a very interesting character in the story Tortilla Curtain. He has a very strong influence on Delany Mossbacher, one of the central characters in the story. His influences, along with the tragic string of events concerning Delany and Candido, produce a complete turn around in the ideals of Delany by the end of the story. At the start of the story Delany is a 'liberal humanist';, albeit a hypocritical one, but by the end of the story Delany is carrying a gun looking for Candido.
It is easy for readers to categorize Jack as a cruel, cold hearted, upper class bigot considering his actions and words. I have to admit I think he comes off that way sometimes. But he also is a lot more than just that. He isn't stupid. In many ways his reasoning about illegal immigrants makes a lot of sense. Illegal immigration does hurt the economy. Illegal immigrants do take away jobs from citizens. But Jack takes it to such an extreme that it is hard for one to feel that his views of illegal immigrants and his sentiments about them are purely a result of his concern about the economy and the state.
'Don't be surprised, because this is only the beginning. We're under siege here-and there's going to be a backlash.';(pg. 146)
Jack acts like citizens are in some kind of war with illegal immigrants. With sentiments like this it is hard to deny that he has a bit of paranoia. It is very interesting that he says citizens are under siege from illegal immigra...
The opinion of the court was held by Justice Kennedy, in that the Colorado amendment was held unconstitutional on the basis that it violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment on the United States Constitution. Kennedy argued the amendment singles out a specific group in which, it would make it so only homosexuals cannot receive the protective rights that are available to anyone else. This idea makes homosexuals unequal to everyone else because they are not guaranteed the same protection that anyone else could get if they needed it. Furthermore, the amendment burdens the homosexual community by not allowing them to seek protection against discrimination though the use of legislation. Additionally, Kennedy claims “In and ordinary case, a law will be sustained if it can be said to advance a legitimate government interest…” (632) By this he means that a law will be considered valid as long as it has a ...
He refers to all the immigration groups in a judgmental way. He complains about the intelligence levels of the Italians, how dirty and deceitful the Jews are, and even the immaculate cleanliness of the Chinamen. Although he does possess quite a bit of bigotry that boarders on the line of prejudice when it comes to African Americans he recognizes that they are suffering from racism and he sympathizes with th...
Meyer v. State of Nebraska. 262 U.S. 390, 399, 43 Sct. 625, 626, 67 L.Ed. 1042. (1923)
After a moment, Daisy went to sit back in her chair and stared at the cold chicken that lay on the table again. She then faced Tom with a struggle to keep a convincing face. “Tom, it was an accident,” she finally said.
He then found himself drifting away from being this typical American by getting into dirty work that was against the law. Most Americans do find themselves in a set back on their way to achieving their goal; but most do not encounter this set back as a penalty for breaking the law. Along with being a typical American at first Jack was very different and self-reliant, when he was 18 finishing up school he stayed behind while his family moved to St.Croix. He got a job and payed for rent, food, and gas for his car. Although he started providing for himself he did start to get involved in drugs and alcohol. He later moved to be with his family and got a new job down
First of all, was when the idea of having a chief was brought forth in the first meeting, the narrator stated that Jack arrogantly nominated himself. Speaking of designating chief, when the idea of voting for a chief was brought forth he protested it. This presented his true intentions of being a leader, self-fulfillment and pride. Moreover, Jack was quite inconsiderate. According to the text, when Jack wanted to continue to move to find the supposed beast, Ralph told him to wait for the younger children. He replied with, "Sucks to the littluns!" How can one be a leader of he/she does not care about the welfare of others, especially those weaker than him? Nonetheless, in seek for the thrill of power Jack actually preyed on them; for example, everyone got a piece of meat from Jack's first hunt, except for Piggy, the hunter wanted to leave the younger child in doubt. He does this to intimidate and flaunt his power. In addition, he would do anything to gain it. In the eighth chapter, Jack twisted Ralph's words about the hunters, attempting to sway them on his side, rather than the actual chief. Also, he attempted a coup and forming an alternate group. Plus, when confronted by Ralph in the eleventh chapter, he stabbed him and eventually tried to hunt him down wishing to kill him, attempting to affirm himself as the "true" leader. Moreover, when Jack was chief, he could never be questioned; people solely followed him due to fear. When
Like Ralph, Jack is charismatic and inclined to leadership. Unlike Ralph, he gets off on power and abuses his position above others so, he's basically an uptight spoiled little boy that can't be without his rich dad for long.
My response to chapters 1-3 This novel made me remember when came in to this country and how everything was at the begging in California. We didn't know anything about here everything was so different from Mexico but my family and I had dreams just like America and Candido. When Candido got run over by Delaney it king of made me upset, because it wasn't Candido's fault and the First thing that Delaney thought of was his car, insurance discount, and the last thing was the victim. Those king of thing are thing that us Mexican have to deal with for coming to a new country to have a better future. What made me more upset was when Delaney gave hime twenty dollars. Is it that how much a life of a person worth? What if thing would of happened the
Griswold vs. Connecticut came before the Court in March of 1965 and was decided in June of 1965. This case involved a Connecticut “Comstock Law” and was about a right to privacy. Griswold, Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and Dr. Buxton, a physician, were charged with giving information, medical advice, and instruction to married persons on how to prevent conception. This violated the Comstock law that prohibited any persons from using “any drug, medicinal article, or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception”.
While Douglas acknowledges that this freedom is not “expressly included” in the Bill of Rights, he believes that the existence of the freedom of association makes the First Amendment “fully meaningful.” In other words, the Bill of Rights is only as powerful and symbolic as it is because the American people and the Court believe that certain freedoms are implied by the Constitution. Though, it is the job of justices to make assumptions about what certain laws mean by using their prospective judicial ideologies to interpret laws, in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut, this was not the case. In order to defend the argument that freedom of association and the right to privacy are implied by the Constitution, Douglas writes that these guarantees are necessary to give the obscurities of the Bill of Rights “substance.” This demonstrated the Court’s weak grounding in the Constitution because since it was evident that the Bill of Rights did not guarantee privacy to married couples, the Court had to essentially create their own guarantees and add more substance or meaning to the original freedoms of the First
Around June of 1961 the law was suddenly challenged by the state and griswold and baxter were getting a court trial in Appet division of the circuit court and they were fined 100 dollars each.
I chose Jack as the most powerful character because most of the kids follow him and listen to his order. After every hunt, Jack and his group tend to pick on the smallest kid, Jack forced the kid to pretend like he’s a pig and then Jack started to poke him with a spear, this is an example of him showing how powerful he is using physical violence. Jack is also known for using intimidation when Bill asked him, “what will we use to light the fire”, he responded, “we shall take fire from the other” (page 161). In this sentence, he is showing his intimidation by invading Ralph’s property and steal his supplies such as woods, Piggy’s glasses to make his own camp fire. Even though, Jack has a lots of power, he is lack of responsibility, on page
One of the most controversial topics regarding women in the United States and across the globe over the last 100 years has been their health and reproductive rights. One of the first events of this type took place in 1916 when Margaret Sanger tests New York’s anti-contraception law by establishing a clinic in Brooklyn and in turn arrested. This discussion came back onto the scene in 1965, when in Griswold v. Connecticut the Supreme Court rules that Connecticut's ban on the use of contraceptives violates the right to marital
In T.C. Boyle’s The Tortilla Curtain Kyra’s generally apathetic in her personal life, but her world turns upside down after the dramatic loss of her beloved pets as she tries to prevent more loss. From a property moving machine to a wistful sentimental, Kyra’s work suffered from her grieving state. While showing a house far from the hustle and bustle of city life and even apart from the suburbs she was, “not herself at all…she had never felt this way about a house before…cushioned from the hot, dry, hard-driving world…she began to feel it was hers”(110). The distance of this house from the dangers of the city and even Arroyo Blanco make Kyra wistful towards owning this behemoth of a house. In trying to protect what she has left Kyra endangers her relationships.
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