Head Boy

are two very similar stories about a young boy’s experience with lust over a girl. The two boys are different ages and go to different lengths to impress the girl they want; however, each story has a similar theme, inciting incident, and final ending. A theme in both of the stories is immaturity, or ignorance. The narrator of Araby is an unnamed boy who is probably not yet an adolescent. Being a young boy in a dull town with little exposure to anything from the world outside of his, he is, by…

The Precious Day: Life is Based off of Decisions and Actions People make choices everyday, whether or not a person is willing to take part in something that will affect their lives in what kind of choices the individual makes. Not everyone is going to agree with what decision someone will make, but a person has to make a decision that will influence his or her life. Individuals have a desire to have a vigorous life, so that the choices the people make will influence their future. Timing plays…

whether we realize it or not. They become ingrained through our parents, off-the-cuff comments, media stories, racial jokes , and so on. We are told at a young age what is normal for girls and what is normal for boys. For example when a child is born we associated pink for girls and blue for boys. Pink represents feminist and blue represents muscular. We find ourselves molding our children into these stereotypes not realizing the harms of doing so. People tend to live up…

America was still dealing with some racism at this time, but it was becoming a thing of the past and unexcitable. Amir was obsessed with pleasing and proving to his dad that he was a worthy of attention; therefore, Amir did not try and stop the boys attacking Hassan. If Hassan kept the kite Amir could bring it to his father as a trophy. Amir realizes that even though his father is proud of him now, he feels this guilt everytime he sees Hassan. Amir becomes numb when around Hassan, and tries…

It seems clear to see in the ad that the different forms of masculinity are constructed by the dominance over women. In the first scene, while the white young man chats with his date in a car and receives admiring glances from the girl, he turns his head to the camera with a confident smile. Such action suggests that the man’s confidence as being unique individual is built upon the admiration and sexual attraction from the woman. As the ad continues, the image of a man walking proudly on the…

actually happened throughout the roaring 1920s. Although the film focuses on a young boy trying to care for his sister and finding anything to eat or drink, I believe the main focus relates to The Great Depression of the 1920s. Although that is not mentioned in the film, the main focus is poverty and how children got around few things. There was one young girl that was part of the higher class and the young boy notices how she is taken and wants to help. The whole idea behind the upper class…

dinner and gets ready to start the laundry. A little boy comes in acting as if he had a long day of work asking her if dinner was ready and if his cloths were ready. When you were younger the girls were told to play with dolls and Barbie’s. Our parents brought us little kitchen and told us the importance of being a lady. We had to sit with our legs crossed and wear certain clothing’s that met societies standard of being a girl. As for the boys, they were different. They were told to play with…

if that the boys education around them is more important then their own, seeing as they must leave to change their clothing before the can return back to class and learning. It is most common that these issues are occurring when the warmer months begin to approach, girls begin to make use of tank tops and cooler clothing options then those that may begin to get too warm. High school dress codes are beginning to over step boundaries and are becoming unfair to adolescent girls; while boys are…

the fact that she addresses and shows her diaries to her mother, and discusses how Anna attends three different schools in order to learn to write, sew, and dance. Anna had to attend writing school after the boys had left, an example I can use to show that girls were not considered equal to boys even if they receiving comparable educations, and how a push for girls to be humble led to Anna to talk down on her own writing and calling it useless gibberish. In this way, even if girls were educated,…

on a preconceived narrative as to what it means to be a man and how to present oneself in order to be perceived as manly by others. Media and literature have branded a hyper-masculine image of men that has in time become what is expected for young boys to follow––be it relayed to them or not. Often times, whether in TV or movies, men are portrayed to be standoffish, selfish, incapable of conveying or even understanding their emotions, and are yet expected to be the…