Ang Lee

[2] Five years after hooks’ published her essay, artist Kara Walker’s etching “Untitled (John Brown)” expands the essay’s ideas to apply to more mediums than simply cinema. Walker’s piece is a physical embodiment of the very skepticism hooks has theorized. The seemingly unfinished sketch is her take on the moment when radical white abolitionist John Brown is being led to his execution for leading the infamous Harper’s Ferry raid. A famous lithograph that was distributed throughout the nation…

in reality, Dolphus drinks not alcohol, but merely coca-cola. He confesses this to Scout: “Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live” (Lee 200-201). This shows that what is most outwardly transparent and unlikable in a character may truly be interesting and good-natured. In Maycomb’s society, white men do not usually associate with colored people, let alone live with them. The fact…

amazing performance if he’s covered in 15 layers of the thickest blue makeup you’ll ever see. For example, take a look at Ronan the Accuser from Guardians of the Galaxy. While Guardians of the Galaxy was a smash hit, it’s villain was shockingly bad. Lee Pace, the actor of Ronan, is a talented actor with lots of potential. But, all that potential gets thrown away when you can’t even recognize him. All of the makeup on Pace’s face ruins his performance, and takes away from the otherwise great…

Shades of OutrageIda B. Wells, a brave journalist in a troubling time, wrote “Southern Horrors: Lynch Lawsin All Its Phases” and “A Red Record” to illustrate the unjust lynching of African Americans in the south. In these pieces, Wells uses an objective tone and indisputable evidence to argue against the unjust and brutal practice of lynching African American men for any crimes, proven or otherwise. Horrifyingly, in several cases, there is no crime involved at all. In her arguments, she uses…

IKWTCBS Essay Adversity, a word that simply means bad luck or a bad situation. Imagine being an eight year old African American girl living in the south in the year of 1969, that alone is a bad situation. In the novel I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou, Marguerite Ann Johnson is the eight year old girl that goes through countless hardships. She was moved from Arkansas to Missouri, to multiple cities in California, from living with her grandma to her mother then to her…

In the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, we are introduced to the sleepy yet racist town of Maycomb, Alabama. It’s here that author Harper Lee explores topics such as race, gender, and class discrimination through the eyes of a child. It’s also here that our Narrator Scout Finch is taught various lessons about theses forms of discrimination. Along with these topics, there is also a lot of prejudice against certain characters like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson that greatly affect other characters…

In the first 55 pages of Blindness, I believe the the loss of the thief’s sight does not change the thief’s sense of self at all. The thief is the first person who contracts the white blindness, as he was the first person to directly interact with the blind man. At first, the thief seems like a good Samaritan, as he is the only one to volunteer to drive the blind home and help the blind man get into his house. He even offers to look after and keep the blind man company until his wife comes home,…

seen as unfeminine, causing the people of Maycomb to want to make Scout more ladylike. As the novel progresses, Scout starts to realize the gender role set up in Maycomb County and the role that is required of Scout. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee focuses on Scout’s point of view because society has dictated Scout’s change as a female through Scout’s inexperience, tomboyish attitude, and authority. Scout, an innocent child is inexperienced with, society dictating strict…

Why would an old-school barber have the thoughts about killing their customer? Why would a dentist make the removal of a tooth so painful for a mayor? The story “Just Lather, That’s all” written by Hernando Tellez and the story “One of These days” constructed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, both of these stories have strong similarities between both of them but what really sticks out is how similar both the Barber is just as similar to the Dentist. Both of these stories have hatred in them either if…

Racism has always been such a big problem. It is a big problem now, in 2015, and it was a big problem in the 1930’s when Harper Lee wrote the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Racism was shown in the Scottsboro trials, where nine boys were accounted for raping two women (Kindig). Racism was also shown in the Emmett Till trials, where two white men killed a young boy but were not punished (Linder). Racism is a horrible problem, it has caused many deaths and false accusations. Another case that has…