Crooks is lonely because he is the only black man on the ranch. ... " I can't play because I"m black. ... "You got no right to come in my room Nobody got any right in here but me... Spends all his time sayin" what he's gonna do to guys he don't like and he don't like nobody... Throughout the books, he's worrying that he will be seen as being useless like his dog. ...
She would not look at me" -Pg. 163. ... Give me some answers. Give me some answers -today. ... Vivian retorted, "Who is me?" ... This inevitably would bring the white and black community together making Grant and her own marriage more of a reality. ...
The character I liked the least in this novel was a man known as the "curate". ... Right from the start I did not like him because he was portrayed as a mindless drone . ... Soon these machines began to exterminate the human race using "Heat Rays" and gigantic tubes of a black substance. If this black substance was inhaled by humans, it killed them instantly. ... First of all, this paragraph struck me as extremely well written. ...
Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. ... The face paint starts out as a camouflage for Jack to use while hunting. " They don't smell me. They see me, I think. ... Like in the war. ... Like things trying to look like something else-"(63). ...
He is a black man, therefore he had to live a much more difficult life. The prejudice shown towards black people during this time, led to a much more difficult life with many more obstacles than that of a white person. The quote, "There's a black boy dead for no reason," reflects on that notion that unjustified mistreatment is brutally shown towards people of color. ... During the time in which the novel takes place, racism was "spread like a disease" in a predominantly white world. ... Justice for Robinson, at this time, is extremely unlikely because he, like many oth...
She complains about Maggie's "brown skin as it makes her look like a mulatter"(13). and her hair that will not hold a curl. Maggie sits, "tossing her head to keep the dark, heavy locks out of her gleaming black eyes"(13), while her mother complains to her father stating that Maggie is "a straight black-eyed wench"(13). Throughout the novel, words like "black" and "dark" are common in Maggies descriptions. These words are uncommon when used to describe characters like, Lucy, and even Maggie's brother Tom. ... [] Folk'ull think ...
Bravery is an important theme shown by many different characters in the novel, like Scout, Atticus, and Mrs. ... Dubose is a symbol of everything wrong with Maycomb: she is extremely racist, curses the children, and denigrates Atticus for representing a black man. ... Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more. " (Lee 74). ...
At times, the relationship between the two is almost like father and son, and Crusoe seems to have respect and trust for Friday. ... This is shown when Crusoe states, "at last he lay his Head flat upon the ground, close to my Foot; and sets my other Foot upon his Head to let me know, how he would serve me as long as he liv'd " (Defoe 218). ... Friday was very willing, and Crusoe's passing on of skills was much like the passing on of knowledge from father to son. ... Friday does all of Crusoe's hard work, like cultivating, planting and harvesting crops. ... He admires how he...
Jem lives with his father, Atticus, his sister Jean Louise or Scout and their black housekeeper, Calpurnia during the day. ... As a child, he could not grasp the concept of black people being not as well respected as whites. Since there was absolutely no racism coming from Atticus, and he having Calpurnia working at his house most of the time, he could not understand why some people hated blacks. ... His appetite was appalling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus." ... It shows that even bad thins like racism and discrimination do exist. ...
Also, Nurse Ratched doesn't like the patients to ask questions or have any other thoughts about her authority. ... Christ, I can see that they're pills" "Just swallow it all, shall we, Taber-just for me?"... "The black boy's dwarf head swivels and comes nose to knuckle with that hand. He frowns at it, then takes a quick check where's the other two black boys just in case, and tells McMurphy they dont open the cabinet till six-forty-five. ... One day, McMurphy woke up early and wants to brush his teeth, but the black boys wouldnt let him to take the toothpaste in the cabin...
Objects are used to symbolize various ideas, and inanimate objects are sometimes given human-like characteristics. ... Nanny tells how her master "made me let down mah hair for de last time" (17). ... When Janie and Logan's marriage is at its end, the narrator says, "He had ceased to wonder at her long black hair and finger it" (26). ...
"The thick black cloud slowly rose toward the sun until it blocked it completely" (54). ... Another distinct characteristic of thriller novels like Monument 14 is that they tend to move at a very high pace; the pace adds a disquieted urgency to the text. ... "By the hair on my f--- chin, let me in or I'll blow your effin' Greenway down" (67). ...
When speaking of Kurtz saying "My ivory, my intended" Marlow mentions, "It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into a prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places. ... This metamorphosis is portrayed in detail in Apocalypse Now, an example is the black soldier reverting to primitive, Zulu- like war styles and the white soldier being a part of the Vietnamese ritual in the final scene. ...
"The hot wind beating in my face made me think "without any connection that I can trace of a summer day in Kentucky, of a meadow that seemed as big as the ocean to the very little girl walking through the grass, which was higher than her waist. ... She felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known. ... (Chopin 19) Throughout the story it is stated that Madmoiselle Reisz is dressed in all black and never changes her clothes. ...
Steinbeck also induces a sense of danger from this character because we know from our previous knowledge that Lennie tends to get into trouble, and has already had problems with a lady in Weed which also had a red dress; just like Curly's wife, thus when George says "Looks like we was gonna have fun" the reader thinks of the problems Curley's wife may have on Lennie or George, or how she might be trouble for any of them, specially Lennie who isn't always able to control himself and is also the character who most problems has with Curley. ... The way Curley's wife ...
Our first picture of Huck at the beginning of the novel was a young innocent boy who doesn't like to work and is also superstitious. ... So things like a Negro being a slave was quite normal. ... Huck felt really bad about it because he didn't mean to and swore he wouldn't do something like that again. ... Huck's socially learned response tells him that this is wrong, that life was white over black and that a runaway Negro that Huck could hand in anytime is planning to steal other Negroes. ... He said, "My conscience got to stirring me up more than ever." ...
In the first book, Wright tells the reader "these were the rhythms of his life: indifference and violence; periods of abstract brooding and periods of intense desire; moments of silence and moments of anger -- like water ebbing and flowing from the tug of a far-away, invisible force" (p.31). ... The society seems to bear down upon him like a weight, and only by being nonconformist to all philosophies does Bigger feel that he can throw off that weight of oppression and misunderstanding. ... Both the white and the black communities have robbed him of dignity, identity, and individuality. ......
In the first book, Wright tells the reader "these were the rhythms of his life: indifference and violence; periods of abstract brooding and periods of intense desire; moments of silence and moments of anger -- like water ebbing and flowing from the tug of a far-away, invisible force" (p.31). ... The society seems to bear down upon him like a weight, and only by being nonconformist to all philosophies does Bigger feel that he can throw off that weight of oppression and misunderstanding. ... Both the white and the black communities have robbed him of dignity, identity, and individuality. ......
