Shunning

Tang Yin (1470-1523), also known as Tang Bohu or Tang Ziwei, was a famous artist of the middle Ming dynasty. Interestingly, his names are not only associated with the historical figure of a recognized painter and poet, but also with numerous fictions that feature him as the protagonist, ranging from Ming dynasty novels to modern television shows. Within the Tang Yin scholarship, studies are therefore sometimes divided into the ones on his biography and oeuvre and those on the fictional or…

Ostracism is a common experience among individuals in a social group or community. Many of these outsiders often question the reason for their exclusion – is it because they are misjudged or misunderstood by their peers? Franz Kafka’s short story “The Metamorphosis” and the Christmas song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” demonstrates that outsiders are those with unique qualities that cannot contribute back to their community as opposed to those who are misjudged or misunderstood. In “The…

it's mostly not taught to be immoral as if it were second nature. “What Makes Us Moral” by Jeffrey Kluger, Sula by Toni Morrison, The Help; director Tate Taylor are main sources based on the elements of morality. All of the elements of literature; shunning, moral entrepreneur, reciprocal altruism, empathy, ought, insider/outsider and moral grammar from “What Makes Us Moral” are expressed within the given sources where evil presides mostly in Sula and The help is based on morality as to numb the…

over time, whether due to their own actions or the actions of external forces. Characters may also have felt a sense of helpless isolation. This need not always come from society shunning the character. In fact, the separation from society could have been due to a self-imposed isolation. The character could have been shunning themselves from society for deeds he or she committed. Or it could be that he or she shunned society as he or she felt that society could not meet his or her expectations.…

All cell organisms have this chain of nucleotides that give them a unique coding that helps everything differ from one another. Whether within plant or animal cells, these coding strands contain our genetic information. The creation of our genetic codes derives from a mixture of our parent genetic codes. These codes we contain are called DNA, also known as deoxyribonucleic acid. These DNA strands carry all our information. Skin color, eye color, body shape, hair type, etc. This creates us…

Shunning can be social rejection or distance while persistently avoiding, ignoring someone. A person many of us have heard about is Monica Lewinsky. She was shunned by society because she had an affair with a married man who was also the President of USA. She admitted having had sexual acts with then-President Bill Clinton. When authorities saw the closeness between the two, Lewinsky was from the White House to The Pentagon. While working there, she entrusted a co-worker Linda Tripp about her…

In the book to kill a mocking bird there were a lot of trials and tribulations. Scout, Jem, Atticus, Calpurnia went through a lot, through this book all the racism, discrimination, shunning, and through it all they manage to get through it. Scout introduces us to Maycomb, “a tired old town” where people shuffle around with nothing to do, and to Calpurnia, her family’s servant, an African American woman with a hand as “wide as a bed slat and twice as hard.” Calpurnia is the…

Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, which has started raising awareness. Within the book, Cain writes about the “Extrovert Ideal”(Cain 23). The ideal is in reference to the rise of people desiring a more extroverted personality and essentially shunning an introverted personality. Also, in the book are chapters about experiments and studies that can be related to introversion. By using news stations, newspapers, and social media, a gradual shift in society that removes the “Extrovert…

Everyone, at some point in their lives, has felt like an outsider. They feel somehow disconnected from everyone else, whether it was based on gender, race or religion. That feeling of isolation and detachment is constantly seen throughout literature. Specifically, in Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger, Meursault is a stranger to society, himself, and his natural environment because he is psychologically and emotional detached. It never occurs to Meursault that he may be different than anyone else,…

depiction of the blatant racism that happened and still happens in places like rural Mississippi today. Racism now is not shown in things like making one maid clean a whole house for two dollars an hour. However, it is shown in things like alienating or shunning people because they are friends with or simply associate with people with colored skin. The Help did a great job with showing this kind of racism. Another big strength of this book was the ways it showed the non-racists. The characters…