A Man of the People

Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Old Man Warner: The Custodian of Tradition Character: Old Man Warner Plot: The Lottery follows a community detached from its humanity that allows cruelty and its blind faith in tradition to drive it into making inhumane decisions. Setting: The early hours of June 27th in a monotonous town with a population of about three hundred people. Old Man Warner is a symbol of the conservative archetype that dominates the plot of the short story as a central character in The…

The nature of man and the state of nature have varied and contrast immensely throughout different societies. Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau’s ideas about the state of man clash in the form of politics and social contracts. Locke’s view involves the power residing within the people, and the government is there to protect their property, life, and liberty. Hobbes’ ideas are in favor of a monarchy in order to keep the citizens secure and free from harm. Rousseau’s ideas on the politics shares a…

As it is shown throughout past events, some people suffer through a type of evilness or loneliness in their life. The struggles that one goes through in these problems affect their daily life and affect how people react near him. In Hemingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place a dark loneliness fills the void of man’s solitary existence, while in O’Brien’s 2006 film Isolation, physical remoteness allows for the entrance of a sinister shadowy evil, each demonstrating, in its own way, nature’s need to…

“Hold your breath as you pass the graveyard, then the people won’t come back and kill”. If you see a black cat, you’ll have bad luck for five years.” What do these all have in common? They are both negative superstitions. Do you believe in them? Do you follow them and their rules? Are they an important part of your life? How far do you go just to believe in them? For similar reasons, people do strange acts just to follow superstitions in the short story, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. In the…

In the United States, people usually talk about guys like Bill Gates and then famous people who act or sing, basically anyone who has a big sum of money; but there are also tons of poor people who have close to nothing that nobody likes to mention. There is a top one percent who has most of the money in the nation, and then there is the rest of the ninety nine percent. Some of the people in that ninety nine percent have to go to the government for help and get things like food stamps and…

Easy masculinity definition and how different characters fulfill it In the nineteenth century, a man is defined as educated, fearless, and head of a household. Most of them were expected to go to war, fight and prove their masculinity. These characteristics of a man were described in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress main character- Easy Rawlins. Easy Rawlins considers himself as a man, he defines himself as a veteran, and a proud property owner. He believes that males should fulfill their…

been whether Socrates should be considered Man Thinking, as termed by Emerson. On one hand, some argue that because Socrates was unable to use his ideas to act and become powerful in his time, he cannot be considered Man Thinking. From this perspective, Socrates is not Man Thinking because he only thought but did not act upon his ideas, being more like the scholar than Man Thinking. On the other hand, however, others argue that because Socrates was Man Thinking because he did stood by his ideas…

stupidity”-Martin Luther King, Jr. In countless stories throughout the years, there are characters who symbolize the ignorant people within our humanity. Within our society there are people who fail to try to understand those different things, and we even have people who believe they are “good” while ignorantly and unsurprisingly having their own flaws. In both Cathedral, by Raymond Carver, and A Good Man Is Hard To Find, by Flannery O’Connor, the central characters are forced to deal with…

During the Simon Winchester: When the World Goes Mad talk, he started his talk by telling a story of how a man whom influenced him to become a writer for a newspaper so he would have the chance to travel the world and experience all the good and bad the world held. Simon took the man’s advice and quit his job. Assuming that as soon as he applied for a job for a newspaper company he would be hired, he was met with disappointment. During his wait to be hired for a newspaper company he assumed a…

Most people perceive music and songs as just another recreational pastime, however they are so much more than that. We use them to communicate opinions and emotions about certain causes to generate awareness. Over time, there have been many songs that were classified as “Songs that shape us”, however there were those special ones that made an emotional connection and social impact on the audience. Those are the ones we remember today and the ones that should be featured in the Triple J radio…