Boxcar

her light at the end of the tunnel, especially after Connie left her. She had nothing else to look forward to except for her future child. After this loss, she no longer whines as much. She is much more quiet. Then, the Joads are forced out of their boxcar homes after they begin to flood, and they take shelter in a barn. When they enter the barn, they find an old, starving man, and his child. The old man gave all his food to his son and began to starve in the process. Now he is on the brink of…

Why the Trail of Tears? The Trail of Tears was the name, given by the Cherokee Indians, to the forced march from their lands in the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory during 1838-1839. This event is a huge black spot in American history. This is only one instance in the history of man where domination of a weaker race of man occurred. Through enslavement, mandatory assimilation or just the taking of the resources of these people, the white man roamed the world conquering others…

The Collapse of the Great Nation During the economic boom of the twenties, traditional values of America wore out and, now faced with jazz age, women smoking, drinking, and wearing short shorts. The average American were busy sending their hard earned money on automobiles, household appliance, and the guessing game of the stock market, where big money was made. Those in the American dream howere bought their good with credit. As more and more products came out the more people were in debt,…

Thomas Alva Edison possessed a tremendous amount of skills as an inventor and dedicated a great amount of time and efforts in his laboratory. Edison realized at a young age that creating and inventing intrigued him. He drafted a great amount of notebooks containing sketches, ideas, and explanations for his inventions. His ambitions and aspirations led Edison to own many companies and accumulate over 1,000 patents for his inventions. As an inventor, Thomas grew up with a mindset that he would…

According to the Department of Homeland Security, there are approximately 11,400,00 illegal immigrants, existing in the United States in 2012. It represents that 3.7% of the total population of U.S illegally live in the United States. Most illegal immigrants, roughly 60 percent of them, come from Mexico, and the number of them is 6,720,000 illicit immigrants in 2012. 24 percent of them are other Latin Americans, and about 16 percent of them are Asian, European, and African. Illegal immigration…

Mrs. Thomas-5 DC English October 23, 2015 The Grapes of Wrath: Through the Lens of Feminism Since the beginning of civilization women have lived their lives subjecting to males. They have been excluded, oppressed, and discriminated against. This patriarchy imposes women the tasks of satisfying their family, being housewives, and not participating in any decision-making due to the belief that women lack intelligence. During the 1930’s Dust Bowl, this patriarchal ideology was slightly…

Author’s craft is a commonly used method in which the author uses literary devices to help tell a story. There are many different examples of Author’s Craft within the novel Night written by Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor. I believe that Wiesel is using Author’s Craft to help illustrate the story within the reader’s mind, as Night is a reflection of Wiesel’s personal memories with the Holocaust. Based on the different examples of Author’s Craft, I can conclude that the theme that Night is…

can leave her and her children homeless. Substance abuse users and multiple mental illness can also be a factor that causes homelessness. Homeless people can easily remain faceless, nameless, invisible, and inaudible individuals. They sleep in the boxcars, on building roofs, on doorways, along the bushes, under freeways, or pedestrian…

For example, a hobo-soldier dies unexpectedly on the prisoners’ boxcar, “so it goes”; Billy and his friend, Weary, were forced to wear wooden shoes during captivity, and Weary dies of gangrene mangled at his feet, “so it goes”(McFarlane). The setting that Vonnegut places Billy reflects the subtheme of death in his early…

brave and determined he was to survive till the end. Sixteen year old George Braddy, born in Terizen, was moved to Auschwitz in time of the holocaust. Hungry as he remains, and numb from having travelled a day and a half with no food, locked into this boxcar, practically suffocating in the congestion of how many people crammed into one small place, George lined up with with other prisoners, taking careful note at what was happening up ahead. The Nazi soldiers inspected each prisoner, and then…