Sarah Calamari
Ms. Koulouris
SAC Period 1
12/4/15
Defiance By the Day
Throughout history our society has experienced many acts of indiscretion and ignorance, this most naturally followed by defiance. Rebellion becomes an indispensable response once basic human rights are no longer met whilst being accompanied by injustice, cruelty as well as discrimination.
Injustice is defined as a lack of fairness greatly showed throughout much of Martin Luther King Junior’s A Letter to Birmingham Jail. He thoroughly expounds how blacks were treated with little respect and how “[he is] in Birmingham because [of the] injustice [that was there]” (1). He states how the people “have waited for more than 340 years our constitutional God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetliner speed toward gaining political independence… when you are humiliated day in and day out nagging signs reading …show more content…
When people are left out there is often a common desire to fit in and be of the social normality. As Ralph Waldo Emerson states in his work On Self Reliance “it is easy for the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude” (1). Emerson makes a wonderful point that if only people stood up for what they truly believed in rather than what society collectively thinks as a whole, there would be much less discrimination to deal with. Most conflict emerges from social stigmas and individuals not wanting to be judged for having an opinion that may be different from others. Throughout the entire book of Fahrenheit 451 the government discriminates against literature, driving all of the conflict and rebellion in the whole story. When the characters who valued reading stood up for it a rebellion began, thus showing how discrimination can also be a driving
Ms. Koulouris
SAC Period 1
12/4/15
Defiance By the Day
Throughout history our society has experienced many acts of indiscretion and ignorance, this most naturally followed by defiance. Rebellion becomes an indispensable response once basic human rights are no longer met whilst being accompanied by injustice, cruelty as well as discrimination.
Injustice is defined as a lack of fairness greatly showed throughout much of Martin Luther King Junior’s A Letter to Birmingham Jail. He thoroughly expounds how blacks were treated with little respect and how “[he is] in Birmingham because [of the] injustice [that was there]” (1). He states how the people “have waited for more than 340 years our constitutional God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetliner speed toward gaining political independence… when you are humiliated day in and day out nagging signs reading …show more content…
When people are left out there is often a common desire to fit in and be of the social normality. As Ralph Waldo Emerson states in his work On Self Reliance “it is easy for the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude” (1). Emerson makes a wonderful point that if only people stood up for what they truly believed in rather than what society collectively thinks as a whole, there would be much less discrimination to deal with. Most conflict emerges from social stigmas and individuals not wanting to be judged for having an opinion that may be different from others. Throughout the entire book of Fahrenheit 451 the government discriminates against literature, driving all of the conflict and rebellion in the whole story. When the characters who valued reading stood up for it a rebellion began, thus showing how discrimination can also be a driving