Ang Lee

Was America A Dream For Everyone? Was America a dream for everyone? In two poems, “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes and “ I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman, both describe two completely different worlds. Langston Hughes’ poem makes America seem like a nightmare that people have to survive in. Walt Whitman took a completely different bias by describing America as the perfect home where everyone wants to live. Both writers showed entirely different biases about America, so…

Boo Radley was an individual in To Kill a Mockingbird that was discriminated. He was an outsider of the community. Because of the rumors made about him, he never came outside, and grew up with social development issues. In this essay, i’m going to show you how Boo was discriminated. The first of many times he was discriminated was, being accused of biting off his mothers finger. “Boo bit off his mothers finger one night when he couldn’t find any cats or squirrels to eat it.” This rumor shows…

In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee suggests the prejudice attitudes of most citizens in Maycomb affect Atticus by motivating him to share and spread his substantive grip on reality in hopes to change the common man's…

Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee portrays Southern Alabama life during the great depression. The great depression struck during the 1930s, many people lost jobs, were living in poverty and debt, and had no source of income. Many were affected during this time, especially farmers in the south. The characters lived in Maycomb County, Southern Alabama. During this time, people of color were separated and racism was a big issue. In the title To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee uses the mockingbird to…

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch teaches his children the importance of empathy before judging others. Atticus, a main protagonist in the novel, teaches his children, Jem and Scout, that looking at their perspective and never others is horrible. Scout, the main character of the novel struggles to understand the importance of empathy, making the story bias at times. In the first few chapters, Scout is told not to judge others, however she does not fully grasp the…

isolates few. Prejudice negatively impacts and isolates generations of humans by letting fear of wealth, male dominance, and race influence. Throughout the novel, Harper Lee demonstrates the many forms of prejudice, the three most prominent forms were sexism, prejudice against status and racism. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee illustrates the cruel outcomes of prejudice through the characterization of the citizens in Maycomb…

Throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee describes Boo Radley in several ways. However, the three characteristics of being caring, protective, and afraid really stand out more than the others. This is due to specific events and quotes that happen throughout the book. Starting out with these characteristics we have the obvious one of Boo being afraid. Now throughout the novel were told that Boo is forced to stay inside, which supported by the fact that he is never seen outside of the…

People never really know what an invasion feels like until, they come face to face with one. An invasion that is almost impossible to stop. When attaching birds cover the sky in England during December. In the short story "The Birds," by Daphne Du Maurier the main character, Nat hocken, repeatedly lied to his family because, they needed to remain calm, the children were too young to understand, and he knew that him and his family was in danger. Nat Hocken had a family and he needed them to stay…

All four characters are present in the first pages of the novel. Even though the author decided not to give a long description of each character, it is easy to understand that unlike his brother and his sisters, Edmund is an ambiguous character who can be perceived as mean, grumpy, and nasty. The author described the personality of each child, in a subtle manner. Indeed, in the first chapter, the children discuss which animal could be hidden in the mountains, each child thinks of a specific…

Everyone goes through a dreary point in their lives. In these times, it is critical to remain hopeful and search for the light at the end of the tunnel. To remain focused on the silver lining in the dark rain cloud. “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier conveys imagery by contrasting hope in dark times through yellow, hopeful, marigolds against a decaying, rotting, town. Mrs. Lotties beautiful, flourishing, yellow marigolds contrast against the rotting house they stand before. Yellow, representing…