Everyone looks different. There aren’t two people that look exactly alike. Everybody has differences, but that is not the way we should look at them, all appearances are different. From a few books we read and movies we watched in English, there are some examples of appearances from each.
In The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold looks a little different from the other kids and he gets teased and beaten up from it. He has a bigger head, hands and feet. He’s called a retard everyday, multiple times. They pants him and stuff his head in the toilet. “Do you know what happens to retards on the rez? We get beat up. At least once a month. Yup, I belong to the Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club. Sure I wanted to go outside. Every kid wants …show more content…
I mean, he could, but he would rather stay inside reading and drawing cartoons. This isn’t right. He doesn’t deserve to life this poor of a life. He suffers enough with family problems. He doesn’t need anything else to distract him. Junior switches from Wellpinit, the school on the rez to a school called Reardan, a school for rich white kids about 22 miles outside of the rez. He was ignored by all the white pretty girls, ignored by the boys, but the big jocks paid attention to him. None of them got violent or punched him. “After all, I was a reservation Indian, and no matter how geeky and weak I appeared to be, I was still a potential killer. So mostly they called me names. Lots of names.” -Junior (Alexie, 63) The boys called him lots of names and made jokes about him. One particular kid, Roger, makes a really dirty and racist joke about Indians, so Arnold punched him. Arnold was expecting him to stand up and fight back but instead, Roger was shocked. He couldn’t believe that he had just been punched and knocked to the ground. All of Rogers’s friends couldn’t believe it either. Arnold had punched …show more content…
“It ain’t right,” he muttered. . . “It ain’t right, Atticus,” said Jem. “No son, it’s not right.” . . . “How could they do it, how could they?” “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep.” (Lee, 212-213) In this quote, Jem doesn’t quite understand that even after a long trial and almost proving Tom not guilty, he is still put on charges. I think that little kids will be most affected by this, because they will grow up thinking the world is a bad place. Another quote that explains how bad that blacks were viewed, “Tom Robinson’s a colored man, Jem. No jury in this part of the world’s going to say, ‘We think you’re guilty, but not very,’ on a charge like that. It was either straight acquittal or nothing.” (Lee, 219) When slavery was still going around, the blacks were blacks and the whites were whites, and there differences that people made very clear about them. If a black man and a white man are against each other in anything, the black man will lose, because he is black. The black man will especially lose if he is accused of doing something to a white lady. And that is what happened to Tom
In The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Arnold looks a little different from the other kids and he gets teased and beaten up from it. He has a bigger head, hands and feet. He’s called a retard everyday, multiple times. They pants him and stuff his head in the toilet. “Do you know what happens to retards on the rez? We get beat up. At least once a month. Yup, I belong to the Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club. Sure I wanted to go outside. Every kid wants …show more content…
I mean, he could, but he would rather stay inside reading and drawing cartoons. This isn’t right. He doesn’t deserve to life this poor of a life. He suffers enough with family problems. He doesn’t need anything else to distract him. Junior switches from Wellpinit, the school on the rez to a school called Reardan, a school for rich white kids about 22 miles outside of the rez. He was ignored by all the white pretty girls, ignored by the boys, but the big jocks paid attention to him. None of them got violent or punched him. “After all, I was a reservation Indian, and no matter how geeky and weak I appeared to be, I was still a potential killer. So mostly they called me names. Lots of names.” -Junior (Alexie, 63) The boys called him lots of names and made jokes about him. One particular kid, Roger, makes a really dirty and racist joke about Indians, so Arnold punched him. Arnold was expecting him to stand up and fight back but instead, Roger was shocked. He couldn’t believe that he had just been punched and knocked to the ground. All of Rogers’s friends couldn’t believe it either. Arnold had punched …show more content…
“It ain’t right,” he muttered. . . “It ain’t right, Atticus,” said Jem. “No son, it’s not right.” . . . “How could they do it, how could they?” “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep.” (Lee, 212-213) In this quote, Jem doesn’t quite understand that even after a long trial and almost proving Tom not guilty, he is still put on charges. I think that little kids will be most affected by this, because they will grow up thinking the world is a bad place. Another quote that explains how bad that blacks were viewed, “Tom Robinson’s a colored man, Jem. No jury in this part of the world’s going to say, ‘We think you’re guilty, but not very,’ on a charge like that. It was either straight acquittal or nothing.” (Lee, 219) When slavery was still going around, the blacks were blacks and the whites were whites, and there differences that people made very clear about them. If a black man and a white man are against each other in anything, the black man will lose, because he is black. The black man will especially lose if he is accused of doing something to a white lady. And that is what happened to Tom