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- 4961: Snow Falling on Cedars
- ... novel it is clear that feelings of prejudice and resentment are felt towards the Japanese of San Piedro. During the war the island's Japanese community was incarcerated in a relocation camp in California. The American community did not trust them and most were thought of as spies "You can't trust a Jap can you ?". Hostility against Japanese still ran high, even if, like Kabuo, those Japanese were born and ... The people on San Piedro Island are mostly of varying descents, with the most prejudice lying towards those of Japanese descent. This comes mostly from the war and the imprisonment in 1942 of all Japanese American's. The novel displays throughout the trial and the back flashes, the racial prejudice "bloody Jap bitch" "fighting you goddamn Jap sons a -" held by the residents of the town. The author also recreates the ...
- 4962: Yamileth Lopez
- ... out cast by others. No one there in Oregon treats them as undocumented immigrants. And it also gave Yamileth a better life and also gave her the chance to speak out her mind about the revolution since she was involved with the party and so on. There are many things that happened on the way to US and in US. Because of the modern technology and the environment are so different ... have no idea about. The cultural shock that they faced in US and in comparison to their native country. Yamileth felt misplace in US where she really miss her own country, Nicaragua, although there is revolution going on, but still, she is used to that type of environment and that is where she lived for all her life. Although everything in Nicaragua is not as good as in the US but ...
- 4963: Their Eyes Were Watching God: Janie Crawford
- ... is crucial; it is through the beautiful self- made idiosyncrasies of southern speech and storytelling that Janie expresses her own will toward self-definition. Their Eyes Were Watching God has been called the first African American feminist novel because of its portrayal of a strong black woman rebelling against society's restrictions &mdash and the received wisdom of her Nanny, no less &mdash to seek out her own destiny. But ultimately ... different from any woman character they had ever before encountered in literature." Janie Crawford is defiant; she defies men, but most importantly, she defies our own preconceived notions of what the role of an African-American woman should be in modern literature.
- 4964: Gatsby As F. Scott Fitzgerald's Self-Portrait
- ... to as anti-Semitic. The portraits of Wolfsheim and his gonnegtions in The Great Gatsby were not flattering. In the novel, Fitzgerald used a Jewish character to emphasize some of the most inferior aspects of American life. Fitzgerald always felt that his wife, Zelda, was a detriment to him. Despite all of his love for her, he ignored this feeling and it never wavered. A letter from Fitzgerald to his daughter ... Graham. It is, in fact, not too farfetched to say that Sheilah Graham was a female Jay Gatsby come to life. When she and Fitzgerald met, Sheilah Graham, the breathtaking blonde columnist for the North American Newspaper Alliance, was celebrating her engagement to the Marquess of Donegale. Fitzgerald had come to Hollywood in a final attempt to pay his debts and reestablish himself as a respected author, his expertise. Swept off ...
- 4965: Huckleberry Finn: Prejudice and Intolerance
- ... some African Americans from the boondocks used to talk, Clemens only applied the argot to Blacks and not to Whites throughout the novel. There is not one sentence in the treatise spoken by an African American that is not comprised of broken English. The but in spite of that, the broken English does add an entraining piece of culture to the milieu. "Against this tone, there is that of the witness ... 171) The second way Clemens differentiates people in the novel of different skin color is that all Blacks in the book are portrayed as stupid and uneducated. The most blatant example is where the African American character Jim is kept prisoner for weeks while he is a dupe in a childish game that Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn play with him. "Huck discards the moral code he has always taken for ...
- 4966: House Made of Dawn: Religious Names
- House Made of Dawn: Religious Names Throughout N. Scott Momaday's novel House Made of Dawn, there are many religious references, mostly Catholic names. One must wonder why the story of a Native American's struggle to return to his cultural roots would be laced throughout with Catholic references, especially predominantly Catholic character names. However, these same religious characterizations go far in giving the reader a structure for understanding ... about her son and how she tells her son the story about a bear and a maiden (Momaday 187). This attitude is very different from her former contempt for Abel because he is a Native American. She now seems to revere him almost, and at the very least wishes her son to grow up in the image of Abel, who she sees as having a strong character. Angela's last name ...
- 4967: A Literary Analysis of Jack Kerouac's On the Road
- ... to come out of the Beat generation of the 1950s. The ideas that are expressed in this book have not only influenced many great modern thinkers, but have also penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. The book has no doubt achieved this elevated literary status through its use of vibrant imagery, vivid description, and witty characterization. Throughout the novel, Kerouac uses a great deal of imagery to ... appreciate being able to experience the escape realized through the talents of authors such as Jack Kerouac, books such as On The Road will always be remembered as one of the best examples of modern American literature. His trident approach in emphasizing keen imagery, detailed description, and clever characterization capture the reader from the onset and keeps the saga moving to its final outcome.
- 4968: The Joy Luck Club: Journey to Adulthood
- ... promised her family she would learn to be a good wife and a good daughter-in-law as well. This kind of honor is common in Chinese families but culturally not as common in the American household. Promises are easily broken in the American family but it is a matter of honor when the same happens in a Chinese home. When Lindo finally does marry Tyan-yu he is afraid of her and afraid of sexual intercourse. They are ...
- 4969: The National Anthem
- ... they could still see the flag that the United States still was holding their ground. This gave Key some ideas for the National Anthem, because at times in the battle he could not see the American flag through the mist, and drizzle, even though the night was lit by the bombs bursting in air. In the morning to his relief, Key saw that the American flag was still flying above Fort McHenry. He took out a letter that he had in his pocket to write down the ideas that came to him that night. Later he rewrote the poem and ...
- 4970: The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
- ... have chosen to remain within the HPL in defiance of 1974's P.L. 93-531. "The Navajo traditionalists view their land as representing the essence of their being," says Jennie Joe of the Native American Research and Training Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who conducted a study from 1981 to 1984. "They view themselves as an integral part of the environment - the mountains, the vegetation and the ... of compromise will infiltrate both tribal councils as they battle their true enemy for sovereignty. Bibliographical References Benedek, Emily 1993 The Wind Won't Know Me. New York : Alfred A. Knopf. Brugge, David 1994 An American Tragedy : The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press. Castello, Suzanne. 1986 Hopi and Navajo Cultures Threatened by Mining Interests. Sierra Club Yodeler. June. Dougherty, John 1997 Dark Days on Black Mesa ...
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