In the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, Chua pushes the limits of her daughters’ happiness in order for them to be successful. Many people believe that because of this, she is risking their happiness. I, on the other hand, personally believe that Chua is raising her children without much risk. In the book, Chua tells us a story about how Lulu and Sophia made her birthday cards that were unsatisfactory and how she forced them to make better ones. She further explains, “I gave the card back to Lulu.…
What do you think of when you hear “death sentence”? Probably someone being injected with lethal fluids and toxins with a sole purpose of immediate death. Another idea that might come to mind would be the classic electric chair. Somebody sitting there expressionless, waiting for the electric bolts to pulse through their body leading to a painful death. Maybe also a gas chamber, or hanging that was used in movies that take place many years ago.…
My project consists of a PowerPoint with slides that contain images and text that visually represent “The Hate You Give” by Angie Thomas. These images include colors and symbols that allow the audience to see the meaning and purpose of the text. These images are also placed in a chronological order that allow the audience to experience danger, violence, power, unity, and corruption as the story unfolds. Overall, the author, Angie Thomas, wrote the story to present events from a perspective of a Black teenage girl to help see things through a different telescope. The second slide contains an image of the cover of the book.…
Anthem Relationship Theme Imagine a world with everyone equal. Everyone is taught and respected the same way. You are not allowed to show love or preference to certain person or any thing. Well that's what the novel Anthem by Ayn Rand is about. It is a science fiction type of book and is revolved around one to two characters.…
Radical Movement through Revolt In Anthem and Fahrenheit 451, two characters have their intelligence confined, become rebellious, and they are derided from society. Anthem is confined with the past and evolving towards the very last creation to keep themselves from being destroyed again. Anthem comparison and contrast to Fahrenheit 451, is a society where the people are driven towards the advancement of technology while destroying the knowledge that created it. Each book keeps their society intact by diminishing certain criterias of knowledge. Each society is scared of change, and for everyone to do something for their own sake.…
Individuality in Anthem Society influences the way people think and behave throughout their entire lives. However, the dystopian novel Anthem by Ayn Rand presents a society that controls the behaviors, actions, and even thoughts of their citizens. Rand’s two main characters Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000 represent common archetypes found in many other literary works. These archetypes help Rand develop the theme that suppression of individuality depletes peoples’ happiness because it is an essential part of humanity.…
Although Ben starts off as an insecure teenager, after meeting Mrs.Carver, he gains confidence in who he is and realizes that there’s more to him than his scars. In the beginning of Scars by Sarah Beth Martin, it is clear that Ben’s lack of confidence affects the way he acts around people, even those he is familiar with. “Even those who saw him everyday stared”(1). Constantly being stared at because of his scars, causes Ben to feel insecure about the way that he looks and has led him to fixate on how to cover his scars. Ben doesn’t feel comfortable showing his scars in public anymore, since he knows that someone will always be staring at him.…
Copulation, formation, and gestation, are the stages needed to create an entirely original individual. Inside the mother’s womb, the fetus is holds boundless potential. All men are created equal, but not all men are treated equal. As soon as the baby pops out, it is shackled and branded with labels of sex, religion, race, region, labels that cast babies into the minority or the majority just after birth. The baby then grows up into a world where it may discriminated against, shunned away, treated unequally.…
Anthem is a book that was written by Ayn Rand in 1938. The setting is in a communist community in the future where man has entered another dark age. One man in the community, Equality 7-2521, is different from all his brothers and tells himself that he is cursed because he speaks unspeakable things and wishes for things no men wish for. The community they all live in has many rules and nobody has any freedom. The new society that Equality will create will have three main rules that are free agency, anyone can think anything, and you can refer to yourself as “I” and not “We”.…
Media plays an important role in today’s society, from the shows we watch on television, the music we listen in the radio, and to the magazines we read. Let’s say most people have goals and expectations for their future. They set specific requirements, they work hard, and hope for the best. However, individuals happen to set their goals based on media and advertisement that is approached to the world. “In the Shadow of the Image” by Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen, is a piece developed to describe the constant effects of advertising representation throughout our lives.…
Ayn Rand had written a story called Anthem as her way to warn that depending on others will be our downfall, but I disagree. Her ethical egoism outlooks on life is what drives her to believe that man should be self reliant, using others makes you a “looter,” and accusing conservatives of being, “Futile, impotent, and culturally dead,” (Ayn Rand’s Long Journey to the Heart of American Politics, paragraph 7). This idea is, to me, flawed because this country and it’s developments have come from sharing ideas.…
Foreign cultures are stigmatized, or shamed, for possessing different lifestyles and physical features because they don’t fit into the mainstream society of the culture. Many of these foreign people conform and find different ways to blend in with the culture. Kenji Yoshino, author of “Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights,” discusses several instances where people try and “cover” or tone down a disfavored identity (293). On many occasions, people cover a disfavored identity to assimilate themselves into a more accepted society. Yoshino suggests that we cover based on four axes where we assimilate to a culture: appearance, affiliation, activism, and association (305).…
All the Light We Cannot See In the novel All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, many different themes occur. Both characters deal with struggles they must overcome. Maurie-Laure and Werner Pfennig have moments where they are happy, and moments where they are stuck and need help.…
The struggle to be oneself has always been just that, a struggle. There is always a great deal of pressure to be what others expect of you. In real life it is parents, siblings, coaches, and teachers that expect more than you can offer. In the case of Ayn Rand’s book Anthem, it’s not really what people expect of them it is what they don’t. The main character, Equality 7-2521 is supposed to never ask questions and to accept things as they are.…
In the book, Anthem, by Ayn Rand, one of the main themes revolves around relationships. The relationship between Equality and the Golden One is very special because in their society they are not allowed to talk to the opposite gender, let alone look at one another, but they feel a connection so strong they try making it work. Equality knows how special the Golden One is and tries to forget about her, but he knows he can’t and needs her in his life. Throughout the course of the text, the theme of relationships has progressed and developed in many ways. Relationships is a big part of this book especially the relationship between the Golden One & Equality and how it changes.…