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- 641: Farewell to Manzanar
- ... try to make Jeanne into a woman with Japanese values. Analyzing gender, if Jeanne was a male, I think it would have been a lot easier for her to fit into white, mainstream culture. Because sports and athleticism among females during the 1940s was not promoted Jeanne could not gain acceptance this way. In school, high school in particular, race and race discrimination play a very big issue. Minorities in a ...
- 642: Ambushed Tradition
- ... They don't want to sit around with the elders and listen to stories. She said that the main thing the kids of the tribe are interested in is going to the gym, and playing sports. (Abrahamson) The second character from the trinity is Victor Joseph, the former basketball player, who when sober sits on his front porch watching life and future basketball stars of the Reservation go by. "I was ...
- 643: Fahrenheit 451: Criticizing The Modern World
- ... hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs. Go take the beetle” (64). Here Mildred tells Montag to take the car out and hit animals to relieve stress and anxiety. Schools no longer teach core subjects, only sports and ‘fun’ things. Bradbury’s society hasn’t the time, nor the desire, to actually learn or better themselves. Society is perverted. Today, the computer games, television programs, and other such entertainment possesses more attention ...
- 644: Remember Me: Review
- ... a carefree girl who lives for the moment. She has the ideal life of sex, parties, friends, and a handsome boyfriend. Her parents are rich and did not hesitate to buy her an expensive, red sports car. She can't imagine her life getting any better. She has the immortal feeling of most teenagers until she is pushed from a balcony at a party and killed. Her soul does not leave ...
- 645: A Separate Peace
- ... did it to Finny. This thesis brings an important topic and one of the possible themes for the book, Jealousy. Gene’s motive was purely Jealousy, It was very clear that Finny was better at sports, and better at school than him, Gene wanted that glory like he did. He wanted to stand out. He felt like a shadow behind Finny, always following what he did and being second best. So ...
- 646: The Sun Also Rises: Thoughts of the Lost Generation
- ... his adolescent idealism and Cohn still conducts himself like a boy. At the opening of the novel, Hemingway illustrates the differences between the values of Jake and Cohn. The differences involve a contrasting view of sports and their functions, Cohn’s inability to be self-critical, and Jake’s disgust with Cohn’s romanticism. Furthermore, there exists a dislike of Cohn’s passivity from Jake, revealed to the reader through Jake ...
- 647: “Playing Solo Through Life”
- ... going to keep it that way so he can be the best at his talent. In school he was different from other kids because he loved music and he wasn’t that interested in playing sports, his mother forbidden him to play. She excluded him from contact with other children after he moved to Germany with Von Kempen. Renne was forced to be alone and that is all he knew. It ...
- 648: Willy Loman and Troy Maxson: Tragic Heroes
- ... mixture of bitter jealousy and protectiveness, about his younger son, Cory, who has been recruited for a football scholarship. Troy fears that the boy will be hurt, as he has been, in the world of sports. Beside himself with envy, he refuses to let the boy accept it. He refuses to believe that even though he himself has worked hard all day long to supply food, a roof, and clothing to ...
- 649: A Date with Kosinski
- ... through. Tough to deal with, Levanter cannot face his pain. "The death of his friends was incomprehensible to Levanter. He tried to make himself believe that they had all died in a crash in a sports car or were buried in a house in one of the landslides so common in the area" (Kosinski 182). For the first time in the novel, Levanter expresses deep feelings for another person. After the ...
- 650: A Separate Peace: Adolescence
- ... key. Knowles, p50-51” Yet another example of Finny’s dominating personality is when he talks Gene into training for the Olympics. At first I think Gene didn’t want to try to excel in sports but after a heartfelt talk with Finny, Gene decided to go ahead and train. “And not believing him, not forgetting that troops were being shuttled toward battlefields all over the world, I went along, as ...
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