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“What You Pawn I Will Redeem” is an interpretive short story about Jackson Jackson. In this story, Jackson Jackson has found himself in a situation where he struggles with many conflicts to recover his grandmother’s stolen regalia. He becomes very persistent in fulfilling this mission on his own despite the adverse circumstances he has to deal with. The author of this story, Sherman Alexie, created the character of Jackson Jackson with a few similarities between them. They are both Spokane…

But their daughter tosses him in the trash. On page 80 when the daughter, Lolly was throwing him out “Edward felt a sharp pain somewhere deep inside his china chest.” A hobo retrieves Edward, then an old woman uses him as a scarecrow until Bryce, an abused boy, rescues Edward for his little sister, Sarah Ruth. She calls him Jangles, and Bryce strings up the china rabbit to dance for money like a marionette. On page 126…

It cannot be denied that almost all entertainment is a form of escape. Watching movies involving many senses can easily take the viewer on the real adventure. However, reading books demand healthy imagination because a reader is forced to think, create, and produce the world by using the author’s words. Therefore movies tend to attract us more rather than books. When great books are converted into movies, their themes of the stories and plots are altered to give the audience a new version of…

economy and culture of Alabama in the 1930s fed directly into the initiation of the Scottsboro case. The Great Depression ravaged the state. The economy took many hits, from extremely low wages to massive unemployment that spanned across all races. Hobos frequented the railroads, and many people resorted to drastic efforts to stay alive. During these stressful times, the lines of racial boundaries began to blur, but the stereotypes were fueled in an intense way. Black men had stereotypically…

Los Angeles is known as “The City of Angels”, but what’s hidden underneath is the town of Skid Row. There is always an unpleasant side to a beautiful city and in this case, Skid Row happens to be the prime example. Skid Row is showered with hobos, impoverished people, and homeless individuals in a total range of 54 blocks (Union Rescue Mission). There are many factors that need to be considered with homelessness such as the hygiene of the homeless people, the sanitation around the area,…

garages, until I got to the bus stop. There are no school buses in Russia, so I would pay 13 rubles (about $0.35 at the time) to stand in a public bus for 20 minutes, pressed on all sides by fellow schoolchildren, adults rushing to work, or just some hobo. Next stop: city center. I walk under a highway underpass, which reeks of cigarette smoke, past a supermarket and a couple construction sites that seem to be untouched for years, and along the snowy streets of another residential area. As the…

lost their homes, began to build ‘Hoovervilles’ or ‘shantytowns’, built of packing scraps of crates, abandoned cars, or anything they found to be useful (McElvaine, Robert S.) (Leuchtenburg, William E.). Clusters of families would roam the rails as hobos in search for work, but in actuality, there was no place to go that offered relief from the Great…

In the book Fahrenheit 451 it shows many examples of knowledge and how it is important but at the same time bad. The government sets everything from the rules to the schedule of everyone’s life. There is no education or knowledge being taught in their schools and no one questions anything. All they do is play sports and watch TV. They watch the TV for hours at a time and can buy attachments to say their names at home so they can watch more of it. The TV’s are screens that replace walls in your…

Murderers Shaped by Society Carl Panzram is one of the most horrific killers in history. Driven by an extreme hatred for humanity, Panzram has admitted to murdering at least 22 people and raping 1000 men. In his last years of living, he had written a memoir to document his life. The Spirit of Hate and Vengeance, Panzram’s published autobiography, described his cruel childhood, his barbaric crimes, and life up until his sentence to the death penalty, which he gratefully accepted. When faced with…

“That’s right. I get to decide whether you stay hooked up to this machine or if you meet your maker. I knew that God would fix you for treating me so badly; I just didn’t know that it would happen so soon. All I ever really wanted to know was why. Why did you treat me the way you did? Wasn’t I a good wife to you? I cooked, cleaned, worked, raised our boys, and I had sex with you even when I didn’t feel like it. If you can hear my voice and you want to live, blink once or move your finger. I’ll…