The first chapter in How To Read Literature Like A Professor is based on the vital knowledge of how to identify a quest based on a series of given details. The author, Mr. Foster, starts off by telling the reader to picture a young boy running an errand for his mother. He then builds on the plot by giving a few details of his teenage life, such as the girl he likes, the boy he despises, and the dog he escapes from. This misshapen short story seems like it might not go anywhere, but this is when the author’s main claim is expressed. Mr. Foster claims that this ordinary plot line is actually the foundation of a quest due to its incorporation of all the key elements of a quest.…
Jose Flores Rodriguez Block 6 Mrs. Daniels English III - Dual Credit 1 December 2015 Their Eyes Were Watching God - Chapters 11-15 Socratic Seminar Questions Chapter 11 What are some reasons of why Janie has decided to pay attention to Tea Cake after she had told herself she would ignore him and treat him coldly? How are Tea Cake and Joe Starks different from one another, specifically with how they each treated Janie?…
Chapters 17 -18 Why does Tea Cake whip Janie? How does he justify it? How does Janie and the other people react to the whipping? What does this reveal about the time period?…
Alice Walker states,“While many women had found their voices, they also knew when it was better not to use it.” Janie Crawford must find her voice in a world where oppression of women is common. For Janie, finding her voice does not only mean being able to speak up for herself, but also realizing who she is as a person. In her early years, people limit Janie’s voice because of the belief that a woman’s opinions are not valuable. As she grows older, Janie finds her voice, and she also learns how to respect others’ opinions.…
The Scottsboro Case A case that was unfair to the defendants and to the society of mankind. The Scottsboro Case first started on March 25,1931 9 young black men were wrongly accused.…
‘Things are easier said than done’ is an extremely cliche term that could not hold more symbolism in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. The novel follows the journey of Janie through her various struggles and relationships. Janie, although highly obsessed with falling in love, is an individualist who is not afraid of showing the world who she really is. Throughout Their Eyes Are Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston creates an enriched and in depth story of a great, strong woman who is able to find herself while enduring the cruel ridicule of the superior male.…
Injustice of Women Women have suffered and dealt with the tragedies of what is American history. Inequality is the most important struggle that women have had to overcome. Gender inequality is the basis of which this novel lies around. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, the women are portrayed as housewives who can only depend upon the power of their spouse.…
The Truth Janie never gives up on what she believes in and her family stands by her through it all and supports her with love. Janie did not let what anyone say get in the way of what she thought was right. Love and determination is apparent three times in the book The Face on The Milk Carton. The first time determination is illustrated is when Janie kept searching for answers and did not give up on finding out her past or else she would have never found out the truth.…
In the movie, A Time to Kill, the main character Jake Brigance who is an attorney in the state of Mississippi describes the danger he faces when he takes on a murder case. During this period, there was still racial tension between whites and African-Americans in the state of Mississippi. The murder case that Brigance takes on involves two Caucasian men who were murdered by an African-American named, Carl Lee Hailey. Hailey murders the two white men because they raped and assaulted his 10-year-old daughter, Tanya Hailey. In the movie, Brigance is threatened by community members to drop the murder case.…
The great majority of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston revolves around Black characters in essentially all Black communities. Despite the oppression of Blacks in America continuing long into the 20th century, Janie’s oppression is hardly on the grounds of her race. Though race is a central basis of the novel, Janie is often mistreated and oppressed due to her gender, not her race. The majority of Black Americans in the early 1900’s yearned for civil rights above all else, placing women’s rights and the role of women in the backdrop, especially in the rural south. Janie, as a female protagonist in a male-dominated society, has to fight against mistreatment and abuse to ultimately find her happiness, employing feminist ideologies…
Adapting history to the movie screen is not a novel concept. Many movie productions have captured audiences ' attentions and shed light on historical happenings. However, there is the occasional movie that goes above and beyond being a simple historical flick. Inherit the Wind is a perfect example of this exceptionalism. The movie, a classic take on the social issues of 1920 's America, is directed by Stanley Kramer and features stars like Gene Kelley, Spencer Tracey, and Fredric March (IMDb).…
“Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” narrates a story of a peculiar man, Bartleby, who initially works as a “subordinate clerk in the Dead Letter Office in Washington” (29). Every day, he holds the responsibility of handling cart-load of “dead letters” and “assorting them for the flames” (29). One day, a sudden change in administration forces Bartleby to forsake his position at the office. In search for a job, Bartleby appears in front of a lawyer’s “office threshold” (6), hoping to secure a position as a scrivener in the lawyer’s “law chamber.” Although Bartleby’s “motionless… pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn” figure reflects the characteristics of a corpse, the lawyer still decides to hire him, believing…
He is a nervous, unassertive bank teller. He claims the defendant is guilty hoping to avoid conflict with other, more opinionated jurors. They begin to review the evidence and discuss eye-witness accounts. The turning point comes when the jurors discuss how rare the knife is that is used in the murder. The architect carries the same knife, which he pulls from his pocket.…
Mississippi Burning takes place in the 60s and there was a great lack of justice back then. White people judged the black people by the color of their skin and the police department was corrupt. Another theme in the movie could also be friendship, because of the main characters’, Ward and Anderson, development of their friendship. In the beginning of the movie it is not easy for them to work as a team, mainly because they are from different places and have different opinions on how to solve the case. Throughout the movie they get to know each other better and actually end up calling each other by their first name.…
Buffalo Creek Disaster Rough Draft The buffalo creek disaster is one of the worst coal mining incidents in the history of the united states. The Book Buffalo Creek disaster written by Gerald Stern is an expose on the wrongdoings of the NewYork based Pittston company but also a summation of the events leading to the 13.5-million-dollar settlement awarded to the victims. The book also serves the purpose of a basic depiction of how the court systems in America work. Gerald Stern served as a champion for the victims of the flood.…