White trash

prosperous middle class suburb amidst the boon of a thriving motor company’s influence, to a poverty-stricken, immigrant dominated zone. Many scenes of the neighborhood throughout the movie lead the viewers through familiar sites of a poor ghetto: trash littered dirt yards, abandoned buildings, and chain link fences all set the tone. The hero of the story is Walt Kowalski, who is accompanied by a complex set of Hmong characters who create the heart of the neighborhood’s plight. Walt’s property…

The chapter starts with a conversation about Atticus and Bob Ewell where they are on the street after Atticus left the post office that morning. Bob Ewell is racist and hates black people, and now Atticus is on the black side, Mr. Ewell is going to deal with Atticus much like how he deals with a black person in the town of Maycomb. Mr. Ewell approaches Atticus and starts to punch him, curse him, and threatens to kill him, but it doesn’t work for Atticus. Bob Ewell realizes and says, “Too proud…

does not depend on how happy you are, but how happy others can be because of you” -Anonymous. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book about the life of Jean Louise Finch when her father is assigned a case about a African American man convicted for raping a white woman. Through the book we see Jean’s father, Atticus Finch, character come to light while he deals with the case. He is a role model, a loving father and a honest lawyer. Atticus is never acts fake and always consistent. Atticus is a humble man…

That idea of white trash is prevalent in the south, and it’s possible her family was the definition of it. Parents that married straight out of high school for the mother to escape an abusive family. A family with a father that openly cheated on their mother, and a mother who stayed at home, running a beauty shop from their basement, whose reactions to her husband's actions were the talk of the small Baptist church. Growing up on a street of only the Call and Baldwin family, she was surrounded…

written by the marvelous Harper Lee. The father, Atticus, is a lawyer in the 1930’s and is given a controversel case in which an African American man (Tom Robinson) is accused of raping a daughter of who is considered in the community to be “white trash”. Unfortunately, many schools have banned this book, because of the issues it discusses even though events like this have occured in the past of our shattered society. Even though this is a piece of fiction it contains examples of our past and…

bus boycott, and she was an African American civil rights activist, just like Mandela. During the ´50s in America, the buses were divided into coloured and non-coloured sections. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the coloured section to a white person, because she thought that giving it up was the wrong thing to do. She knew the consequences; nevertheless, she stood up for herself because she knew that was the correct thing to do. She shared this mindset with Mandela. This led to massive…

lie to cover up your shame, or would you face the rest of the world and own it? In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout are the children of lawyer Atticus Finch, but they are not the problem. Mayella Ewell is a 19 year old poor white woman who claims that Thomas Robinson, a black man, beat her then raped her. But, this might not be the case. As Atticus goes to work to prove Tom innocent, you can recognize that Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father, chose to lie his way out. In an…

corruptive system of Duvalier. Marie Chauvet through this excellent novel reflects the barbarities that were committed by Papa Doc during his regime.She encourages Haitians to get united and overthrow the martyr that seem to be fighting with the white imperialism.But in reality Duvalier is destroying the country though his mulato economic elite and American business interests. Claire and Annette are two relevant characters that express the harsh Haitian situation during Duvalier dictatorship…

A person, typically a man, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is set in Maycomb County, Alabama in the 1930’s. One particular man named Atticus fought for what he believed in or felt was right even though many people were against him or trying to bring him down. He was on a mission to prove them wrong and make sure justice was served. Both Atticus and Boo Radley show traits of being a hero, they are admired…

redemption, so he took Cee’s healing quilt and retrieved the bones of the man who gave up his life to save his son. Frank and Cee witnessed the man being buried when they were children, but he was not given a proper burial, just dumped in the hole like trash. The quilt became the shroud of lilac, crimson, yellow and dark navy blue (Morrison 143). They found the sweet bay tree—split down the middle, beheaded, undead-spreading his arms one to the right and one to the left, and there at the base…