Escape from Alcatraz

working-class households in the Midwest and West during an age of increasing mechanization for upper-class. Steinbeck’s female characters, especially, convey his message of working-class unity. The Joads are typical 1930’s tenant farmers, forced from home because “one man on a tractor can take the place of twelve or fourteen families.”(32). Upon reading advertisements of work available in California, the Joads buy an old truck for the journey. The trip quickly kills lifelong Oklahoman Grandpa…

A well known, inspirational racial activist, Martin Luther King Jr. is persuasive in his letter entitled “Letter From Birmingham City Jail.” In his letter, he demands that there should be equality for all people. King’s purpose is to persuade the other clergymen to fight for freedom for all the people of color. In his letter, King develops a bitter yet hopeful tone in order to accomplish equality amongst everyone. King effectively achieves his goal of persuading the others through his use of…

changes upon the life-changing journey into the dark forest. This story is not only indicative to evil within humanity but also, the Dark Romantics Era that helped illustrate this story. “Young Goodman Brown” constructed a story of a man suffering from a lack of faith in him, which then gears into discovering sin surrounding him at all times. Firstly in the beginning of the story, Faith (Goodman’s Wife) is demanding Goodman to stay beside her of all nights as he is getting ready to…

type and a symbol, and I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before the gaze of multitudes, and as with strangers, so with my familiar friends. No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must separate me from the world” (Hawthorne 641). This is a very literal translation of the symbol that Hawthorne is trying to convey by having the minister wear the veil in his work. But in Young Goodman Brown, the symbolism is much more discrete, and a part of the…

friction in the south during the 1950’s and 1960’s was becoming increasingly worse. On April 12, 1963 eight clergymen from Alabama wrote a statement that was published in a newspaper titled “A Call For Unity”. These clergymen criticized Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., saying that his demonstrations were “unwise and untimely.” Urging their black citizens to withdraw their support from the demonstrations being led by Dr. King, an “outsider”, so they said. To solve the problems of racial injustice the…

Kennedy’s Inaugural Address and from Letter from Birmingham City Jail. These two documents are very influential towards many different freedoms. This is because they are telling what they believe the many freedoms should be for the poor. They believe that the poor and the needy deserve the…

For those who are religious, the New Testament defines evil as an entity that opposes God and God 's people. Webster Dictionary defines evil as having poor natural qualities; harmful; unpleasant; vicious; corrupt; wicked; hopeless. In religion, evil is an entity that hovers over the dark side of the battle between black and white, while the definition of Webster humanizes evil leading to the gray area of human nature. Nathaniel Hawthorne, in Young Goodman Brown, addresses the definition of evil.…

He sees all the people from the ritual just going about their daily lives. When he sees his wife—who is happy to see her husband back from his journey—he just looks at her sadly and passes on without greeting her. He ends up staying with Faith, and they have many children and grandchildren. However, Young Goodman Brown left that forest…

Rhetorical Essay of “Letter From Birmingham Jail” In Martin Luther King Junior’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, King responds to the criticism of the eight white clergymen by stating that he isn’t affiliated with the problems of racism in Birmingham. He states the he usually never takes the time to respond to criticisms, or otherwise, “his secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day” (King par.1). King believes that his fellow…

In today’s society evil takes many forms, many of them motivated by political goals. In the past, particularly in a new and growing society, America, evil was hidden from public sight and harder to fathom for a hopeful populace. The two stories used for this essay: “The cask of Amontillado” and “Young Goodman Brown” features two examples of evil with different motivations. Edgar Allen Poe’s story is motivated by the need for retribution while Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Goodman Brown’s motivations are…