At 5:30 AM, the young, naive, Jenny Drpich is all dressed up finally ready to leave her home and head to her job for the first time. On her way, she grabbed a copy of West Australian newspaper, a leftover of cinnamon bun from last night and a freshly brewed cup of Long Black Arabica. The placidness of her home is unwieldy; the constant sound of the dead air seems remind her of pure elation of her little farmhouse in upper Swan Valley. These reminiscing values seem to ponder in her mind as she heads out of the driveway. It was a heinous drive from her house to the suburb.…
As the family’s living expenses increased, Ona and Stanislovas, one of Teta Elzbieta’s youngest children, are forced to look for jobs. The jobs in Packingtown, the town in which most immigrants reside and where they live, involve back breaking labor conducted in unsafe conditions with little regard for individual workers. Furthermore, the immigrant community is fraught with crime and corruption. During the winter season, it is the most dangerous season in Packingtown, especially in the work field. Jurgis is forced to work in an unheated slaughterhouse in which it is difficult to see and he risks his life every day by simply going to work.…
Psych Experiment: Group Studies The farmer wall. The almost infamous meeting place of all things country. Ask almost anyone in the school about it, and they’ll know exactly what you’re talking about. If you get lucky, you might even hear a story about it from some brave souls.…
In chapter 11 of John Steinbeck’s novel, “The Grapes of Wrath”, there are many different things going on that may seem pointless and/or out of place. However, when looking closer and digging a little deeper into the text, you will find that much more of this specific literature’s meaning will be revealed. Steinbeck’s use of syntax in certain places and parallelism helps to explain to the audience the density of the feelings the farmers had when they had to leave their homes and watch them rot and decay over time during the Dust Bowl period. Steinbeck shows how bad it was, and how much the houses wore out when they were left vacant and empty.…
The novel The Grapes Of Wrath begins with solidarity between farmers, all of whom are interconnected through the land they till. This unity ends up transcending the boundaries of both physical and communal planes, as the farmers’ identities turn to those of migrants’. The removal of the farmers’ security, coupled with a communal sense of ostracization from society, created an identity of migrants that was both unique and similar to the community that was created by the farmers prior to the Great Depression. The tenants forced off their land shared a near indistinguishable plight, stitching together a new era of life on the road. The intolerant treatment of these migrants generated a greater sense of community, built on both a sense of responsibility…
Human emotions such as guilt and fear can affect a person’s mind so deeply that it can cause a complete change in their behavioral aspect. A person’s conscience is something that is not really in their control. However, people still try to change that fact by overthinking, not committing sins and doing good deeds so they don’t end up having a guilty conscience. Julio Cortazar an Argentinian novelist famous for his ability to merge realism with imagination does a great job in bringing out a very important topic about human psychological behavior caused due to their consciences in “House Taken Over”. In this short story, it is seen that the protagonist and his sister Irene are suffering from a guilty conscience which is forcing them…
Fences can mean one thing or multiple thing throughout the duration of the play. Wilson finds a way to take something as simple as a fence and put greater meaning to it. The audience sees how the hardship suffered during the years of segregation and racial inequality affects families. Like with the Maxson families and Troy’s determination to prevent his son from playing sports; all because he was discriminated on when he was younger. Troy built a fence around his house and refused to move forward with the times.…
Starting from his father’s cruel and abusive actions to the racism that thwarted his professional baseball career that he had rightly deserved, Troy’s journey through life reflected the dreams unattained of black America in a predominantly white world. Such damaged incidences followed Troy throughout his life and constantly made an appearance in his relationship with his wife and son in the form of a fence. In Act 1, Rose persistently mentions, “you supposed to be putting up this fence” to Troy, but just as Troy never was given the opportunity to completely fulfill his dream, he puts off finishing the fence (Wilson 1041). Troy’s lack of commitment to finishing the fence symbolizes his lack of commitment in his marriage and his marred emotional connection to his son. Instead of working on the fence with his son, Cory, Troy ventures to the bar every time to which Cory describes his father as “don’t never do nothing, but go down to Taylors” (Wilson 1040).…
In Novella Carpenter’s book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, the author describes her adventure of creating a farm in an urban area she called “Ghost Town Farm” on a dead end street in the ghetto of Oakland, California. This non-fiction book is based on a true story of Carpenter’s life of creating a sustainable farm in an abandoned lot next to her apartment. Carpenter is the daughter of two hippies and believes that she is connecting to her roots by living out this farm city dream. She is an experienced writer with a degree in biology and English at the University of Washington. She has several odd jobs, one being a bug handler.…
In the beginning of her memoir, Wall’s writes about her lifestyle in positive light, using words such as “adventure.” and “love.” On page 18 she writes, “We could live like this forever”(18), to describe her excitement towards sleeping under stars without any pillows. Another quote describe her bright outlook on living in the dessert is, “I loved the desert, too. When the sun was in the sky, the sand would be so hot that it would burn your feet if you were the kind of kid who wore shoes, but since we always went barefoot, our soles were as tough and thick as cowhide”(21).…
Positives In Change Change: it’s something that many people don’t like, but also something that people all have to live with. In This Side of Home, the main character, Maya, sees her community changing, and she doesn’t like it. But, as the story develops, Maya realizes that change doesn’t always have to be a horrible thing. The theme “you can always find something positive in change” is present in the novel This Side of Home by Renée Watson. This can be seen through the main character realizing that the change in her community will make it safer, and realizing that her sister changing also helped her to look at things in new ways.…
“House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar is about two middle aged siblings living in their ancestral house together and describes their daily routines during the tragic time when everything was magically taken away from them, including their house by an some entity that represents fear. The story presents the loneliness, love, and the fear that takes place in both Irene and her brother that contributes to the overall depiction of the story. Irene and her brother are presented as very secluded people that don't want to change their lives, unless they are forced to. From the start they both were more introverted because they don’t go out and socialize with people; they also just stay home. They didn’t have jobs because they were given money from…
The Setting - Settings are major components of any story written. When reading a story it is often times the first important bit of information one will receive. The setting lays the framework for the entire story by introducing the mood of the story, and foreshadowing future events. The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is set in the late 1800s.…
The Field (1990) captures one rural Irish man’s attachment to his land and the life-threatening lengths he will go to in order to keep it in his possession. The Field not only tells a story of extreme passion and the importance of place in relation to identity, but it also gives the viewer significant insight into Irish masculinity. Through analysis of Bull McCabe’s actions, one can clearly see how land, violence, fatherhood, and sexuality are tied to the construction of masculine identity and how the dire pressure it places on McCabe’s son to conform ultimately results in his death. Bull McCabe nurtured a patch of barren landscape into a small field that supports his sheep, cattle, and family.…
The Beggar in The Living Room is a short story which deals with a common but rarely talked about topic in American culture, the desensitization of the public to violence and other horrific images. Throughout the story there are 4 images involving something horrific, that make the daily news. The first being the car crash the narrator is involved in, followed by the starving African child, the Korean student being beaten, and lastly the people being gassed. The recurring theme in the holograms is that the narrators adoptive family doesn't see the holograms as actual events, but rather simply as a news broadcast. The views of the adoptive, rich family are a stark contrast to those of the narrator who has lived through both poverty and violence…