...Anthony Miley 5/29/14 Period 7 One flew over the cuckoo’s nest “ One flew east, one flew west, and one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.” This book was written by and was the first for ken kesey. He has also written the great nation. I believe this is an interesting book because the protagonist of the story is mentally ill, but manages to fight to change the rules in the mental asylum. After taking a closer look at the life and work of ken kesey, it is apparent that this writer deserves recognition as a profound American author. With hard work and determination ken kesey has written one flew over the cuckoo’s nest, which leaves behind a powerful message that can be either be neither ignored nor forgotten. The quote used in the previous paragraph is on which this story is based upon. This book is about a man who is sentence to be in a mental prison and sees the men in there are suffering from the head nurse. He faces the nurse’s authority, and tries to overthrow her rules. This book is seen as a classic novel. Ken Kesey was born in la junta, Colorado, but grew up in Springfield, Oregon where he spent his time in public schools, later intended the university of Oregon in Eugene. He received the Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Stanford University and a saxton fellowship, and won the Fred Lowe scholarship awarded to the outstanding wrestler in the northwest. Ken Kesey was a prankster. He was king of the merry pranksters that traveled the west coast that staged happenings. He also...
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...价值取向的正确选择 一个国家和社会的体质对整个民族的价值取向有着深刻的影响。社会转型和改革往往会对人民价值取向产生一些变化。所造成的个人问题或者是社会问题应该怎样的面对并采取有效正确的措施来解决是每个民族都会面临的问题。我们不能采取鸵鸟的姿态一味的忽视，而是应该正视它并想办法克服。 刘心武的小说《人面鱼》告诉我们，人可以有选择追求不同欲望的权利，无论追求物质，爱情，还是精神都可以有，没有所谓的对与错，道德是否高尚，但一旦做了选择，就要快乐接受，要坦然面对，承担起作为一个成年人应该面临的得与失。凡事都不可能有十全十美，今天的你必然是昨天的你做出的选择和决定造就的。就像故事的女主人公，过去的她因为男方家里过于穷困，连可以伸直腿睡觉的床都没有，要跟他爸妈一起挤在一个公厕旁的小房间里，就放弃了与男主人公的爱情。出国后的她嫁给了有钱又热情追求她的汤尼，但对于女主人公而言她跟汤尼的关系是纯粹的物质，她对爱情，或者更确切的说是她的情欲得不到满足，洞房花烛夜的时候就对丈夫不满意。贯穿全文的绿色代表灵肉合一的性，可是跟托尼看不到绿色。作者创造了一个人面鱼，是当年知青下放村边池塘里一条畸形的鱼。这里的鱼代表欲望，孟子说:“鱼和熊掌不可兼得”，告诉我们人不可能实现自己所有的欲望，有得必有失，有失必有得。人面鱼第一次被提起是在汤尼家，她用人面鱼来搪塞汤尼的问题。她把唯一的得不到的情欲畸形神话了，那条畸形的鱼就代表着畸形的欲望。包围在周围的的小鱼，就是托尼对他万般宠爱。但她不满足，不快乐，跟丈夫育有一儿一女却仍然感觉不到幸福。既然女主人公选择了面包放弃了爱情，那么她就应该多看看选择面包所带给她的好处，而不是一味遗憾自己当年所丢弃的爱情。只要她能转念，坦然接受自己的选择所带给自己的好，那么其实她还是可以找到生活中的幸福和快乐的。跟女主人公追求的不同，男主人公最大的欲望是安贫乐道，知足常乐，安居乐业。他继承爸爸拉车的工作，除了想要捡些材料在公厕旁搭建一个小房间外没有奢求。他可能也是喜欢女主人公的，可是那个欲望太大，因为他们的身份地位差距悬殊，在当时连谈恋爱都是要批准的社会环境下，他一个穷小子是不可能娶部长的女儿为妻的，所以他选择了理性面对，没有寄出回信而是丢到池塘被人面鱼吃了，这是人面鱼第二次被提到，是作为一个见证者得角色，他选择了安分的过他的小日子。男的安贫乐道，很快乐，女的追求物质却并不快乐。两种对欲望追求的方向不一样，结果也不一样 。可是当个人的欲望追求强加给整个民族是，那么结果就不只是个人是否幸福快乐了，而是关乎整个民族的兴败。池塘里的小鱼之于人面鱼就像小红卫兵受到到毛泽东的保护和带领。毛泽东他为了自己的欲望，驱使并洗脑了两千多万的年轻人。可是对他们包庇的后果是他们大多数只能像男主人公一样继承爸爸的职位做拉车工。为了斗倒刘少奇，毛泽东不惜牺牲几千万人民去保住主席的地位。为了自己的欲望，他发动了文化大革命牺牲了民族文化。 个人的欲望选择影响一生，不接受可能就不快乐。可是如果这个选择落在了毛泽东这种国家领导人的身上，可能会影响整个民族。 莫言2001年的小说《倒立》让我们看到了改革开方21年以来，中国社会价值观的倒置，由而生成的一个极端功力，极端冷漠的社会， 和不正常的人际关系，也印证了他对改革开放后带来的问题的担忧。这些倒置是作者借由倒立的谢兰英的眼睛看到的。首先是倒置的官民关系。官不是人民的公仆，而是官本位。中国官本位有千年的历史。中国老百姓觉得官是管人的，所以见官就怕，不管大小都怕。20年没见的同学聚会上，小时候偷鸡摸狗，外号弼马温的孙大盛，现在摇身变成...
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... Will they survive? Will the kids be unwound? Who will turn on them? What will happen? In the book Unwind the government canceled the abortion law, and made The Bill of Life. If the kids were out of control their parents could sign an unwind order from the ages 13-18 and have them shipped to a harvest camp. Here all their body parts would be harvested and given to someone else. The characters were all unwinds, Conner wanted to escape. He found a safe place and traveled from place to place until he ended up at the graveyard. While at the graveyard, he was trying to help the admiral and ended up getting sent to a harvest camp. He earned respect from the other unwinds but in the end to Chop Shop blew up and Connor ended up in the hospital. At the end of the book Connor ended back at the graveyard as the leader. Connor changes by learning to think before he acts because he never did learn to think before he acts. Connor had a past of doing stupid things and getting into trouble. At the end of the book Connor realizes that people look up to him and that he could become a leader. The general noticed that too and made Connor his golden guy. Connor never wanted to be unwound but his parents made the mistake of signing the unwound paper now he wants his parents to pay for what they did to him, Before he was sent off he was getting his grades up to trick his parents letting them know that he was getting better at school and doing his chores to make them think he was getting...
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...Describe the advantages and disadvantages of living in a world such as GATTACA and Unwind. Use examples from the book and movie. Unwind In the book Unwind there are many advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that when you are severely injured you can have affected body parts replaced with body parts from an unwind, In chapter 1, the trucker that gave Connor a ride had an arm from an unwound because his original arm was severely damaged in an accident . However a disadvantage in the world of Unwind is that if you are between the ages of 13 to 18, your parents can abort you which means you will be transported to a harvest camp where you will be unwound. After you are unwound your body parts are donated to people in need of new body parts. In the book, Roland is unwound and his body parts went to save Connor. Gattaca In Gattaca, there are many advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is the process of eugenics which manipulates the genes of a human to have more desirable traits. In the world of Gattaca, everyone is born through the eugenics program. However the main character Vincent has a disadvantage, he was not born through the eugenics program which made him suffer from poor genetic traits. Vincent also suffers genetic discrimination based on his poor genes. This prevents him from being able to achieve his career of going into space because the training program will not allow him in because of his genes. How is reproductive freedom addressed in the movie and the book...
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...Anthony Miley 5/29/14 Period 7 One flew over the cuckoo’s nest “ One flew east, one flew west, and one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.” This book was written by and was the first for ken kesey. He has also written the great nation. I believe this is an interesting book because the protagonist of the story is mentally ill, but manages to fight to change the rules in the mental asylum. After taking a closer look at the life and work of ken kesey, it is apparent that this writer deserves recognition as a profound American author. With hard work and determination ken kesey has written one flew over the cuckoo’s nest, which leaves behind a powerful message that can be either be neither ignored nor forgotten. The quote used in the previous paragraph is on which this story is based upon. This book is about a man who is sentence to be in a mental prison and sees the men in there are suffering from the head nurse. He faces the nurse’s authority, and tries to overthrow her rules. This book is seen as a classic novel. Ken Kesey was born in la junta, Colorado, but grew up in Springfield, Oregon where he spent his time in public schools, later intended the university of Oregon in Eugene. He received the Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Stanford University and a saxton fellowship, and won the Fred Lowe scholarship awarded to the outstanding wrestler in the northwest. Ken Kesey was a prankster. He was king of the merry pranksters that traveled the west coast that staged happenings. He also...
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...One flew over the cuckoo’s nest “ One flew east, one flew west, and one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.” This book was written by and was the first for ken kesey. He has also written the great nation. I believe this is an interesting book because the protagonist of the story is mentally ill, but manages to fight to change the rules in the mental asylum. After taking a closer look at the life and work of ken kesey, it is apparent that this writer deserves recognition as a profound American author. With hard work and determination ken kesey has written one flew over the cuckoo’s nest, which leaves behind a powerful message that can be either be neither ignored nor forgotten. The quote used in the previous paragraph is on which this story is based upon. This book is about a man who is sentence to be in a mental prison and sees the men in there are suffering from the head nurse. He faces the nurse’s authority, and tries to overthrow her rules. This book is seen as a classic novel. Ken Kesey was born in la junta, Colorado, but grew up in Springfield, Oregon where he spent his time in public schools, later intended the university of Oregon in Eugene. He received the Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Stanford University and a saxton fellowship, and won the Fred Lowe scholarship awarded to the outstanding wrestler in the northwest. Ken Kesey was a prankster. He was king of the merry pranksters that traveled the west coast that staged happenings. He also appeared apart of and star of the...
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...The end of World War two brought upon conformity and a conservative mindset. The majority of young people's priorities were to marry, move to suburbs, and be financially successful. However, there was a young group of men who were strongly against the "American dream" that the rest of society was working for. These men were Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassidy. They were a group of "struggling writers, students, hustlers, and drug addicts" (Wikipedia.com) better known as the "beats", and the founding fathers of the beat generation. Jack Kerouac is often seen as the leading pioneer of the beats. Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell was a small town, and "out of the raw outline of the legend he made out of his life in Lowell is simple and uncomplicated" (Charters 23). Kerouac had wild and vivid fantasies of making his life a legend. "He was always adapting roles, always an outsider, a spectator peering into the window like a shadow" (Charters 29). Life in Lowell would be no material for a legend, but life in New York would be. It was in New York that Kerouac was introduced to William S. Burroughs. He would become the biggest influence on Jack's life at the time. Burroughs was a writer as well, but never considered himself one. He had interest in experimenting with criminal behavior, and often had contacts in the criminal "underground". However, His confidence and style awed Kerouac. Kerouac would leave New York and later return...
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...Objective Summary The book Unwind, by Neal Shusterman, follows three main characters. The story is centered on the concept of “unwinding” children between 13 and 18 years old. Unwinding is the medical process of taking every part of someone to be used later. Connor and Risa are both scheduled to be unwound, but escape by working together. Lev is a tithe, someone who is born to be unwound. Connor, Risa, and Lev have the goal of reaching a mysterious location, called the Graveyard, which is said to hold hundreds of unwinds. They have to avoid the police and other malevolent entities, such as an aggressive kid named Roland. All three are driven by their aversion to being unwound. Theme Statement Human life has significance. Text Evidence...
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...Ramisa Mehjabeen 766986 Mr.Seravalle Part 4 “On the road” by Jack Kerouac describes the huge cultural change, which began to take form in America during the 1960’s. The American pop culture included entertainment, music and sports. It was distributed across many forms of mass communication including newspaper magazines, television. Kerouac found the energy and excitement of jazz to be particularly inspiring. Beat Generation in the 1950s marked the beginnings of a major cultural turning point in the United States. Jack Kerouac dominated the literature world with a new sense of adventure during the counterculture movement of the 1960s.No author described the connection between jazz and the beat movement better than Jack Kerouac. On the road was published around the 60’s, which was accompanied by people gaining awareness about the pop culture. The majority of Jazz musicians were typical black and they were outcasts of white society. On the road by Jack Kerouac provides historical context to the readers about the pop culture and the beat generation which portrays how Jazz as one of the most powerful music genres in America throughout and helped many people express their thoughts, emotions and opinions to communicate and rebel against the society. In On the Road, the music that is focused is jazz, more specifically American be hop. Jazz plays an important role in the protagonist life. Several Jazz musicians are God alike to Dean. It brings the madness of the pop culture...
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...Marcris Webb Mr. Brasile AP Language 10 February 2016 Synthesis Essay In these three book, The Sun Also Rises, On The Road and In The Life Of Denisovich, all of the features reflect many of the aspects of the characters subcultures. The beat generation and lost generation talks about how guys go on a journey on the road while the members all of the siberian labor camp tells the reader, people's rough life trying to survive. The beat generation and lost generation goes at a much faster pace than the members of the Siberian labor camp. The Beat Generation and the Lost Generation has what's going on on a daily while the members of the Siberia says what's going on in one day. Also the tone of these three books are similar. The beat generation and the Lost Generation, the authors as a positive attitude towards these books. The author's tone is exciting because those book tells you they go out a lot and party and drunk and have fun and also get at girls. The members of the Siberian labor camp tone is more bitter. They are just trying to survive the camp so they can get back to their family. In the three books, the author uses tone, sentences structure and pace to represent these subculture. The book On The Road is a beat generation of which are more of a outgoing group. Two guys go on the road to have fun with each other and discover new things. In the book On The Road the author uses sentence structure. The paragraphs are really long because they are always on the road. “And...
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...Good afternoon dear professors and dear colleagues! Today I have an opportunity to present to you the research, the designation of which is «Lexical analysis of the novel «On the road» written by Jack Kerouac». Trips, journeys, wanderings and youth are the main sources of inspiration for Jack Kerouac whose book has remained bestseller for more than 60 years. Buddhist, philosopher and travelling writer, not only wrote the book about hitchhiking, but also gave the name to the whole direction in literature and society, namely beat generation. Besides, the novel is characterized by autobiographical features since Jack Kerouac depicts the life of beat generation, the representor of which he was. From linguistic point of view, «On the road» is a unique example of spontaneous prose invented by Kerouac therefore it is an interesting material to research. Furthermore, little research has been undertaken to study the novel ‘On the Road’ as a linguistic phenomenon. The actuality of the theme of our research consists in research of the emotive prose as a linguistic prose, stylistic and lexical peculiarities of which are not investigated enough. The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze lexical and stylistic items used in novel ‘On the Road’ by Jack Kerouac. The tasks of our paper lie in description of stylistic characteristics of emotive prose, in detection and analysis of lexical and stylistic items in the novel. The object of the research is the novel ‘On the Road’ written...
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...Beat Generation Literature Allen Ginsberg Topic 1 “Look, my suit is five bucks, shoes are three bucks, shirt is for two dollar, and tie is for one dollar. These things are all secondhand. Only my poems are first class”(Beidao, p.136), Ginsberg said to his friend. As the father of Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg came with his astounding freedom, powerful moral integrity and unique madness. Life with poem, decadence, wandering and willful indulgence, Allen Ginsberg’s spiritual ethos of getting rid of all the fetters, thinking highly of liberalism, pursing the unconditional and absolute freedom, independence and creativity is the reflection of the truly literary, aesthetic and cultural value of his poems. Allen Ginsberg’s spiritual ethos is embedded in his writing style and language. Ginsberg's style may have seemed to be chaotic or un-poetic, but to Ginsberg it was an open, ecstatic expression of thoughts and feelings that were naturally poetic. “Moloch! Solitude! Faith! Ugliness! […] Moloch! Moloch! […]” (Howl part 2, 3-6). According to Ginsberg: “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.” Which also demonstrates Ginsberg’s poem has no form, and it is the chosen phrases that express his mind. Ginsberg believed strongly that traditional formalist considerations were archaic and didn't apply to reality. Though the language of Ginsberg’s poem...
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...Howl In the post-World War II years, a cultural and literary movement began. A new generation of American writers, artists and thinkers reacted and expressed their ideas in obscene forms. They were called “The Beats” who were formed in the 1950’s by poets Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Howl by Allen Ginsberg illustrates America’s post-World War II culture and political issues through his journey and views. The use of metaphors, tone, and descriptive language draw parallels between the ideas of, conformity to institutions, sexual repression, and religion. According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Allen’s Ginsberg was a popular poet after World War II. He was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926. Ginsberg attended college at Columbia University at the age of seventeen to please his parent’s wishes of attending an Ivy League school. During his first years of attending college he visited his mother who became institutionalized in an asylum because of her paranoia of government corruption. In addition to missing school to visit his mother, Ginsberg was reported posting obscene posts on windows and was caught in bed with Jack Kerouac. Kerouac was another poet who mentored Ginsberg (16: 215-218). This led to Ginsberg expulsion for a year and his journey from state to state. During Ginsberg’s time away from college, he gained insight about the inequalities of society and experimented with literature. One of his first published pieces, introduced in 1955, was Howl and Other...
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...The plot of the Unwind takes place in the era of World War II, when the practice of unwinding children was very common. To unwind a child meant the child’s organs could be transplanted or grafted. This took place from the ages of 13 through 17. In most situations, this was a way for parents to “send away” their troubled or unwanted teens. However, some parents selected unwinding as an option for tithing. The main characters included Conner Lasseter, Risa Ward, and Lev Jedidiah Calder. Conner was a 16 year-old teen with various behavioral issues. Some of the behaviors included arguments with his parents, acting out at school, and running away (pg. 4). Conner helps move the action of the plot, when his parents decide that his troublesome behavior could be resolved if the unwinded him (pg. 6). This decision helps the reader to better understand why parents thought unwinding their child was the best option. After Conner found out that his parents were going to unwind him, running away seems to be the best option. Along the way, Conner meets Risa. Risa was 15 year-old musician who lives in a state home. One day, Risa is called to the office to be told that she is unable to remain at the home due to her age (pg. 22). The Head Master tells Risa that she will be sent away to Harvest Camp. Later, Risa never makes it to Harvest Camp because of an accident. The bus crashes to avoid running over Conner (pg. 27). Risa emerges from the bus, gets off, and runs towards an open forest. Risa...
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...Jack Kerouac’s novel, On the Road, is about the journey of a young college-age man across the country in search of something more from his life in post-war America. The book revolves around a young man named Sal Paradise, and the whole story is told from his perspective. The rambling writing, while hard to understand sometimes, offers a detailed record of his pursuit and the ensuing antics. The story starts in 1947 where Sal meets a man named Dean Moriarty, a lively and animated man who was a “sideburned hero of the snowy West” (Kerouac 2). It was Dean who prompted Sal’s adventurous travels west. Along the way, Dean and Sal befriend Carlo Marx, an energetic young poet who shares the same view of wanting something a little more out of life. Sal’s journeys across the U.S. and to Mexico open his eyes to the good and bad, the up and downs in life. His constant stints on the road with madman Dean sometimes got him in trouble with the law. Other times, the trips allowed Sal to truly find out more about himself, and relate to Dean on a more personal level to share and connect The meaning behind the title On the Road lies in Sal’s innate desire for something more. The road in this novel comes to symbolize freedom and the solution to answer life’s problems. Sal constantly finds a refreshing sense of purity once he hits the open road, especially in the company of Dean, whose spirit was the catalyst for the voyages in the first place. However, once Sal and Dean get to Mexico City...
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