John Hope

John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin was a highly admired American historian and social activist, he is best known for his scholarship that focused on Southern history and racial politics. His groundbreaking work, From Slavery to Freedom, was first released in 1947 and sold more than three million copies worldwide and with many other titles to follow (Yarrow). Apart from being an historian and author, Franklin was also former president for many honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa, Organization of American Historians, and the Southern Historical Association. In order to recognize his contribution to society and culture in the United States, Franklin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor in…

John Hope Franklin tells a story of something that happened when he was only seven years old in the story of “The Train from Hate”. It involves Franklin’s father which had moved to Tulsa to be able to support his family, while John, his mother, and his sister had still lived in Rentiesville Oklahoma. After researching more into the story I found that Charles Haskins, had done a lecture on Franklin, explaining Franklin’s father did not feel safe with his family being around the racial riots…

Hope enables people to get through difficult times. In John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family is forced to leave their home in Oklahoma and move west to California in the hopes of finding work. Throughout their journey to California, the Joads are faced with many obstacles and are forced to make tough decisions along the way. The hope for a better life in California and the promise of the new baby in the family allows the Joads to overcome these hardships. During their entire…

The future can hold many things, but not without hope of what those things might be. John Steinbeck makes it very clear that hope is a very important idea in his novel Of Mice and Men. The characters try to hold on to hope for the future because they have nothing without it. He tries to tell us that we must hold on to hope even if all else is lost. Hope gives us a positive outlook for the future, even if the present isn’t going so well. Candy was forced to let go of his only true companion the…

have a family, a successful career, a nice home, etc. And those dreams are powered by one thing, hope. As one quote puts it, “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible” (Christopher Reeve). However, in the thrilling story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the American Dream is crushed by reality. Making a point that life is hopeless. Showing more that, “hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments” (Friedrich Nietzsche). But throughout the book Of Mice and Men, there are…

Is it better to have hope, but risk being disappointed, or to just abandon hope? In the story Of Mice of Men the main characters Lennie and George have a plan to buy a house where they would farm and raise animals/rabbits. Is the plan that important though, could they even achieve it? Lennie and George’s dream was important, even though it wasn’t likely it would happen, because it gave Lennie hope, gave George something he could use to control/guide Lennie, and made Lennie cheerful thinking…

“Hope is not a dream but a way of making a dream become a reality” said L.J. Suenens. In the story Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the characters Lennie Small and George Milton have an “American Dream”, at this time dreams were needed to help give you hope that the depression will be over soon. Lennie and George each wish to live in the same ranch house but for different reasons, they both have different goals that they want to achieve in life. George always looks to his American…

However, despite George’s frustrations, he remains hopeful. Many times throughout the novel, he tells the story about the farm where they will live. His dreams become momentarily possible when Candy offers to put up the money to buy the farm. “This thing they believed in was coming true…” (60). This built up hope only makes the ending truth more devastating. However, these hopes are only what they are: hopes. False hopes that render despair and misery. When George hears of what Lennie did to…

In our lives, there are a lot of parts that we don’t know and there are a lot of questions that we don’t know the answers to. Maybe we aren’t in the best place in our lives and we don’t know where we will be next year, let alone the very next day. It’s a natural human instinct to want to know, to be curious, and to try to fill in the blanks. When there is suspense, there are two common instincts: fear and hope. In any given situation, when we look to the future we can either dread, or look…

In the novel “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, the theme of broken dreams and false hope is expressed greatly. Steinbeck conveys the difficult conditions of living as a migrant worker, and the harsh society at the time. Dreaming and hoping is part of human nature, everyone at one point had a goal, or a dream. In the end many give up their dreams or realise that they are not realistic and they continue their life as a migrant worker, going from place to place. The life of a migrant worker…