Sideshow

to obtain a defined identity or personality there is always something or someone that repress his ideas and his opinions. “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows… When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination – indeed, everything and anything except me”.(Ellison 3) This state that even thought the narrator is there and people can see him, they…

even when it is a strong independent character, deepening the idea of women are catty creatures. Before one can fully grasp women's repetition in modern film, they must understand the history. In George Lipsitz’s “Popular Culture: This Ain’t No Sideshow,” it illustrates the way the entertainment industry began. The theater was a way for women to escape from the Victorian Societal norms (9). Being an actress gave women the opportunity to have a profession. As show business grew, women began to be…

A rollercoaster ride is an experience few can forget. Most people have felt the rush of adrenaline right before the final drop, some crave it while others are terrified of it. Literature is not different from roller coaster when it comes to the buildup and rising and the falling action. Not only does the plot development chart looks like a physical rollercoaster; it describes a person’s emotion throughout the ride. In Candy’s Gourlay’s Tall Story, it presented a story about a tall boy who moved…

an interview with one of those late night gigs, and came home to a spectacularly moody scene. Dim lit, in the foreground, radiating with the hopes of a future lost, unable to laugh, cry, and talk, was my baby. Oh she was there too, but she was the sideshow, the carrier of my great possession, something that could be overlooked in the past. Yet now, in the center of it all, I realized now that she had taken away from me what I had longed for all my life, a…

For hundreds of years dwarfism has been a fascination of society. Historically people with dwarfism were used in circuses and sideshows because people were in awe of their stature and proportions. Dwarfism is most commonly caused by the genetic condition Achondroplasia, which accounts for 70% of all dwarfism cases and occurs in one out of every 25,000 live births (Pauli, 1998). Achondroplasia (ACH) is one of many genetic anomalies which causes the condition dwarfism it is an autosomal dominant…

leaving the funeral parlor no choice but to embalm him. Since he was a huge historical figure in Plain Township now, his body was publically displayed at the parlor until several years later. Several years passed until Kapler's body was sold to a sideshow operator in San Francisco. Month later he was then sold to to a collector before it ultimately was sold to the Smithsonian in 2003.…

Many of the short stories in Elizabeth McCracken’s HERE’S YOUR HAT WHAT’S YOUR HURRY (1993) contain characters so abnormal that they are seen in circus sideshows. However, the author’s focus is on the response of ordinary people to their encounters with the extraordinary. The subject of McCracken’s first novel is the same, but the approach is different. THE GIANT’S HOUSE is appropriately subtitled “A Romance.” Not only is it a story of romantic love, but it is also the kind of fiction which,…

American ship captain Samuel Barret Eades first heard of the specimen from a Dutch West Indies trader, who claimed it was a genuine mummified mermaid that had been caught by Japanese fisherman. So intrigued by this bizarre discovery, Captain Eades sold his ship in order to purchase the specimen for the exorbitant price of six thousand dollars. Then he bought passage on a ship to London, and brought his new acquisition with him. He had high hopes of making a fortune exhibiting the mermaid. Eades…

Throughout history there is always one prevalent factor which we as individuals are oblivious to. What? You might ask. It is how our government, peers, and even our loved ones tend to circumscribe us to limited information due to numerous reasons. Throughout this book you will notice the specific forms of how deception, racism, secret government experiments and extraordinary characters impact the theme of hidden secrets in various situations. Author Chris Abani an exhilarating African American…

David Brooks article “The Limit of Empathy” explains Brooks views on empathy and how it has its limits on making “…the world a better place.” Brooks starts off by talking about how people in society have become so consumed with the idea of empathy that they are trying to make a change in the world and have a better understanding of people and their feelings. He continues by explaining how empathy works scientifically and how it can allow a person to put themselves in another’s shoes. Brooks…