Stratton's Use Of Conflict In Literature

"It is every boys dream to own a pony and a .22" those were the exact words

The book goes through Jeannette’s life exposing the mistakes she, her siblings, and her parents made to become the family they were. As her life grows older, Jeannette finds herself in more responsible positions in the world, with editing school newspapers, to writing columns in a small New York newspaper outlet. Her troubles have raised the issue of stereotyping, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Due to her status in her childhood, it was not hard for her to fit in with the other members of the poor community. “Dinitia explained that I was with her and that I was good people. The women looked at one another and shrugged.” (Walls 191) The quote talks about how members of the black community in Welch accepted Jeannette to go swimming with them in the morning hours before the white people went in the afternoon. The people who knew Dinita, Jeannette’s friend, knew that Dinita was trustworthy, and let Jeannette pass. This relates to the thesis because it shows how she was accepted amongst the people who were

Conflict is a struggle between opposing forces. There can be multiple conflicts in a story. This is the case in Of Mice and Men. In chapters three and four, there are man vs. man, man vs. self, and man vs. society conflicts. As George and Lennie interact with the workers on the ranch, sometimes conflicts arise between them.

Dickens uses Carton to symbolize resurrection in numerous parts of the book. "I am the resurrection," Carton calls himself. Dickens uses this specific character to symbolize that because of how Carton got Charles Darnay out of prison, and saved him from death therefore he symbolically resurrected him, by saving his life.

A movie by Pixar, The Incredibles was very well thought of by audiences. In 2005, it won an Academy Award for "Best Animated Feature Film of the Year" beating the movies "Shark Tale" and "Shrek 2". The film starts off as an interview with three superheroes known as Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Frozone talking about why they have secret identity. They all love their role as superheroes and enjoy helping people. While the start doesn't necessarily show conflict it does provide the audience of some tension by having Elastigirl mention that she fights crime because it's typically a male only thing, and she doesn't believe that men should be the only ones able to save the

Everyone knows that poverty can lead to feelings of shame and humiliation, but what many people don’t realize is that sometimes overwhelming feelings of shame and humiliation lead to poverty. In her article “In the Search of Identity in Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street,” Maria de Valdes goes as far as to refer to shame and poverty as a “syndrome” because she believes they’re so closely associated. “It is a closed circle,” Valdes asserts. “You are poor because you are an outsider without education; you try to get an education, but you can’t take the contrastive evidence of poverty and ‘it keeps you down.’” In other words, poverty and shame are an endless cycle because a person will be ashamed to be impoverished, but won’t be able to move up because shame will always hold them back. This can be seen in Esperanza’s mother, who didn’t finish school because she was too ashamed that she didn’t have nice clothes like the other girls. “Shame is a bad thing, you know,” she warns Esperanza. “It keeps you down” (91). Shame kept her down by preventing her from finishing school, and in turn her lack of education kept her from pursuing her dreams. Instead, she settled into the housewife life, which she still regrets: “I could’ve been somebody, you know” (91). She says it sadly, like she’s mourning the loss of what

     Upper society need to place the blame on someone for the corruption that prostitution has on men. There needed to be someone who was responsible for the to corruption; so lets blame it on the prostitutes. The book touches on this a couple of

The stories she reports and critiques are characterized by 1) a fundamental circumvention of agency for the appropriated test subjects--primarily, working class Puerto Rican women and the placing of all blame for social problems upon "them"; 2) though she doesn't name it as such, a historical employment of misconceptions of genetics and hereditary in exerting control over "colonized subjects," "the poor," and women's reproductive and sexual histories**; all of this located in a "transition away from frank colonialism" (198). This is also a story of the displacement of poverty caused by colonialism onto disease, difference, "over-population", and the need for public health regulation from the mainland U.S among others

In the story “A Choice of Weapons” the author chose the camera as his weapon the expose the racial unbalance of freedom present in society. The author use his camera by showing society’s symbol of “freedom” but contrasts it with an African American women who is not given the freedom the flag represents. The photographer was told by his boss to go and follow the African American woman and see what her life is like and truly discovered the freedom she is deprived of in life. He discovers that her life has been full of tragedy, loss of opportunity, and sadness. The woman had to live without her parents, her husband was killed, and she had taken on 3 children that are not hers. She cares for the children even though she

In the speech, the Danger of a Single Story the writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells us the dangers of believing just one thing about a stereo type. In the speech Adichie repeats the phrase ‘single story’ as I think it is very important to her and by saying it repetitively she gets it to stick in peoples minds. I think the main point of the speech is to tell people the dangers of believing just one story about a country, a person or a religion etc. and to see past the stereotype we can be tricked into believing and instead see past it to see for example the person for who they are, for example, she as an eight year old girl believed a single story about their houseboy, Fide she says, ‘The only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor... when I didn’t finish my dinner, my mother would say, “Finish your food! Don’t you know? People like Fide’s family have nothing.” So I felt enormous pity for Fide’s family. Then one Saturday we went to his village to visit, and his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket made of dyed raffia that his brother had made. It had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something. All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor.’ This was her single story of Fide’s family, because all her mother had told her was that they were poor she did not see past that and had no idea that anyone poor was capable of creating something so beautiful.

The camera focuses on a very physically depleted Andrew who is seeking legal counsel to sue the law firm that fired him because he believes that he was fired for having AIDS. He believes that his boss deliberately sabotaged the documents to make him look bad so they could fire him for incompetence rather than his illness. Many lawyers turned down his case. He sought help from an African American man named Joseph Miller and Miller turned his request down because he was gay and he was afraid of getting the AIDS virus from Andrew. During the time Andrew was in Miller’s office, Miller’s face was visibly fearful

The film Lord of the Flies clearly depicts how easily a group's values can shift depending on their given surroundings and given situation. The movie begins when a plane filled with young boys enrolled in a private school crash's, landing on a isolated island, and leaving the young kids unsupervised from any adult figures. Ralph, one of the young boys involved in the plane crash finds a conch shell on the beach. He blows into this shell, calling all of the other boys along the beach to gather in one area. At first, the boys were willing to listen to Ralph and acted in a civil manner. However, throughout the movie the boys progressively demonstrate more savage actions and by the end of the movie, have managed to kill 2 boys and are hunting a 3rd before a boat of adults pulls up to the island and saves the boys. The film Lord of the Flies, directed by Peter Brock, demonstrates the conflict perspective, through the use of depicting sanctions,values, leadership styles, and conformity.

The play Nina Simone: Four Women accentuates the importance of individual responsibility to evoke change. Throughout the piece the viewer can see the theme of power introduced as an act of standing up for what you believe in, putting aside how difficult or impossible it might seen. Saffronia and Peaches have decided to fight for their identities in two very distinctive ways. In comparison to Aunt Sarah and Sweet Thing these women have taken a step against the system that is oppressing them, rather than staying quiet and conforming. Saffronia claims her identity and fights for those part of her community, even though she has the privilege of being “mixed.” While she could ignore the struggle, she chooses to use her privilege to help herself and those who are part of her community. On the other hand, Peaches (Nina Simone) decides to use her music as an outlet to express the struggle of brown women. She was born privileged in a sense of economic stability and racism was never talked about in her household. However, this did not protect her from the racial inequalities she experienced and suffered. This is the reason why she takes a stand. She used to keep all her insecurities and struggles to herself, but now she intents to make music that fights oppression and exposes the real experiences of African Americans.

In my understanding, the poem pre-dominates the theme “horrors of slavery”. The poet, in a clear tone, illustrates the lives of slaves and the challenges they go through. “And the mother’s shriek of wild despair”, “And I saw her babes torn from her breast” and “If I saw young girls from their mother’s arms” are some examples of indignities that the poet describes. The persona states that she could not rest in a place where people were forcefully subjected to any form of indignities. She uses statements such as; “I could not rest if I heard the tread”, “Of a coffle gang to the shambles led” and much more to elaborate her dislike against slavery; the abuse and terror.

“However, looking at the story of "crick crack monkey" through the eyes of a young white girl, rather than a young black girl, the reader might see the injustice and the ethnic discrimination that a black person must endure. She would not be accustomed to being called a "little black nincompoop" (Hodge 457), and she would most likely not have to suffer a physical beating with a ruler (Hodge 456)” Tee becomes the narrator and Hodge guides the reader through an “intensely personal study of the effects of the colonial imposition of various social and cultural values on the Trinidadian female.” Tee narrates the diverse problems in her life in such a way that it is often complicated to split up “the voice of the child, experiencing, from the voice of the woman, reminiscing; in this manner, Hodge broadens the scope of the text considerably.”