Ang Lee

The accusation of rape upon nine Negro men in Scottsboro, Alabama was a racism-driven tragedy in American history. Two young women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, accused nine young Negro men of raping them on the train ride from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Paint Rock, Alabama. The rape accusation came about when Haywood Patterson’s hand was stepped on by a white on top of the train, leading to the blacks fighting the whites off of the train. The fight was triggered when one white said “This is a…

book there are also many ways that the community is separated through communities actions, especially because of the setting of the book and all the discrimination that happened in that time period. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee argues that community can be an ugly and evil place. One event that shows that community an evil place, was when Tom Robinson got the guilty verdict during his trial. There was plenty of evidence showing that Tom Robinson shouldn’t have gotten…

People are often irresponsible, intolerant, and quick to judge. Atticus Finch is the complete opposite of such person as seen in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird is the fictional story about a young girl named Scout. It is the narrative of a girl being shaped and realizing that not everyone sees things as she does. Throughout the novel, with Atticus’ help, Scout matures in understanding that people and things are not what they seem. As revealed in the…

Calpurnia and said, “I want to know why you bringing white children to nigger church” (Lee pg.119). This clearly shows that the black folks don’t like it when white children enter their church. Than, another colored woman named Lula confronts Calpurnia with the same rude attitude, “You ain’t got no business bringing white children here - they got their church, we got our’s. It is our church, ain’t it, Miss Cal” (Lee pg.119). There are some that welcomed them, but most of them despised them.…

The film Dope highlights many social characteristics affecting our young generations throughout the entire movie, but none as prevalent as delivering the message of a growing, aspiring leader, in a disruptive and challenging environment overcoming all odds to become successful. The movie focuses on the concept of leadership all throughout, and within many different character types. Out of the many different characters illustrated in the film, the first three we meet show three different types of…

Child of God is a novel by Cormac McCarthy. The book is loosely based off of real life events. Child of God follows the story of Lester Ballard, an outsider in Sevier County, which is in Eastern Tennessee. The novel follows Lester's obsession with pedophilia as well as his decline into necrophilia and murder. The novel begins on Lester's family's property. There is an auction being held to sell his land. Lester breaks into the scene. He is very angry that the auction has started. He threatens to…

Kill A Mockingbird In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus, the lawyer of Maycomb and father of Scout and Jem Finch, is a relatively complex character. He teaches the children life lessons and does not always conform to the thinking from the rest of the town. He tells Scout “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”(Lee 33). This is one of the first important lessons Atticus…

Countless literary works throughout history have been deemed ‘classics’, but what makes a story a classic? They all have universal appeal. People from all over the world can relate to the theme no matter what time period it is. Classic stories remain timeless because their messages stay constant in today’s society. One theme defined in literature is that love doesn’t always have to be perfect. In “Sonnet 130”, the main character says, “I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a…

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”(Lee 39). To Kill a Mockingbird shows its true meaning in every character. The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, tells a story of two siblings, Jean Louise Finch (a.k.a Scout) and Jeremy Atticus Finch (a.k.a Jem), plus their friend, Charles Baker Harris (a.k.a Dill), during their summer adventures. In the novel, they make many…

Barack Obama once said, “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope”. (“Barack Obama, Goodreads”) Shawn Grim and Rudy Ruettiger were both young men that wanted to prove someone or something in their life wrong. Shawn wanted to break the stereotype of the people in Appalachian Mountains. He also wanted to be the…