...CAI Critique Is it true that racism is still around today? In the novel, “New Boy,” By Julian Houston is about a young african american boy’s life and the struggle he goes through to be able to have the best education as well as the struggles he sees his own people facing back home in Southern Virginia. Rob Garrett is forced to go to a all caucasian school to get the best education as well as to be shielded from the racism events happening back home but there was no way in shielding him from something so big and important. Throughout the novel, we are enlightened by the author on first hand experiences that involved racism in the South and examples of how history repeats itself till this day. In the novel, the basis of the piece of work is a short story the author wrote in school, the first African American at his school and was able to have a deeper connection with the topic. Julian Houston based this novel on events and cruelty he experienced back in the day when segregation was at it’s peak. The realism of this novel is that is based on actual knowledge of how the South was in the 1960s and how it affected America and the life of African Americans. This novel represents the horrors of segregation and racism at its worst. One of the messages told in this piece of work is that segregation in the South was an important part of history because it helped shaped America. Another message is that there was no escaping the harsh realities of racism because it was and is everywhere...
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...The New England Primer has several text explaining what is a “good” boy and “bad” boy. Also what is a “good girl” and a “naughty girl.” Both explanations of the two types of girls is in poetry form. The description of the two types of boys is in prose form. The two descriptions give examples of how that type of child behaves. An example of how a good boy should acts is “dutiful to his father and mother, obedient to his master, and loving to all his play fellow.” This example tells parents how their boy should act, and children how they should act towards the parents, teachers, and other children. Many examples of a bad boy and good boy are found throughout both text. The “good” girl and the “naughty” girls according to the text are treated...
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... 2. Sleepers is a movie about four juveniles growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the 1960’s. Lorenzo Carcatarra claims it is a true story, but New York denies anything and everything. The four boys are good friends with their Catholic priest named Father Bobby, who is played by Robert DeNeiro. Father Bobby is a good priest who likes to have fun and play basketball, smoke, and drink, but he really cares about the boys. One time one of the boys was hit by his mother’s boyfriend and he had a talk with him and basically told him if you hit the by again ill kill you. One day the boys are hanging out on a rooftop and they decide to steel some hotdogs from a portable hotdog vendor, they’ve done it before so it was nothing new, but this time as the decoy boy orders a hotdog and don’t pay for it, and is chased by the hot dog vendor the three other kids start to push the cart, and as the other kid returns they move it over a subway stairway and as the vendor appears the boys cannot hold on any longer, so the cart goes down the steps and smashes a guy into the wall, h does not die but is hospitalized. The four juveniles go to court and three of them are sentenced to at least 1 year and not more than 18 months, and the other one is sentenced to at least 6 months and not more than one year. They are required to serve their term at the Wilkinson home for boys, it has 5 units and holds 780 juveniles. While serving there sentence a guard Shawn Nokes played...
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...In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach, and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys. Once assembled, the boys set about electing a leader and devising a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group. Ralph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island. When they return, Ralph declares that they must light a signal fire to attract the attention of passing ships. The boys succeed in igniting some dead wood by focusing sunlight through the lenses of Piggy’s eyeglasses. However, the boys pay more attention to playing than to monitoring the fire, and the flames quickly engulf the forest. A large swath of dead wood burns out of control, and one of the youngest boys in the group disappears, presumably having burned to death. At first, the boys enjoy their life without grown-ups and spend much of their time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph, however, complains that they should be maintaining the signal fire and building huts for shelter. The hunters fail in their attempt to catch a wild pig, but their leader, Jack, becomes increasingly preoccupied with the act of hunting. When a ship passes by on the horizon one day, Ralph and Piggy notice...
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...This is not necessarily a coming of age ceremony; however, in most Buddhist cultures, a boy must become a monk before he can be recognized as a man. The actual Shinbyu ceremony is generally a very large and elaborate community celebration, where the boys going through their initiation are “dressed in prince-style costumes and placed on a horse being sheltered with golden umbrellas by an attendant. All friends and relatives join to form a procession which is led by a man carrying a special robe on his head, to be offered to the Buddha… The procession travels through the whole village” (Lwin), until they arrive at the monastery where the boys will become novice monks. After these celebrations, the boys are presented to the monks to have their heads shaven to renounce vanity and to ask for permission “to enter amidst the Congregation of the Chapter of Monks” (Lwin). The boys then change into monastic robes and pledge to observe the Ten Precepts. Once the performance of all the initiative procedures concludes, the most senior monk in the monastery delivers a sermon related to the Shinbyu ceremony; after which, “the monks leave the main assembly to their living quarters, followed by the newly initiated novices” (Lwin). The boys then live an orthodox Buddhist monastic lifestyle for at least one week; they can choose to stay longer, return to the life of a...
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...recalls his inconsiderate doing as a sixteen year-old of stealing a watermelon. The boy had just moved to a new home with his parents and had stolen a watermelon from the fiery Mr. Wills, whom nobody dares to touch his crops.Mr. Wills had raised the biggest watermelon in the country and was guarding his patch with a gun. When the boys and his friends passed by Mr. Will’s patch one night, the boy successfully manages to steal the great seed melon and enjoy it with his friends. Mr. Wills soon discovers about his stolen watermelon and becomes desperate and angry; the boy is touched when he discovers that Mr. Wills wanted to give it to his sickly wife to make her feel better. He decides to collect the seeds and go confess to Mr. Wills with his father, expecting Mr. Wills to try to shoot him. Instead, Mr. Wills makes a deal with the boy that they’ll grow together next year instead of this one, which is ruined. I’ve found The Taste of Melon a very entertaining 16-page read.The end is very ironic and witty. This short story is worth reading. Actually the boys hadn't just passed by, they went swimming that night after the moon rose and Mr. Will's was actually keeping that that melon for his sickly wife to make her feel better by letting her share it with averybody in town not only so that it would make HER feel better. Also it wasn't only Mr. Will's who made the deal with the boy, they young boy presented the deal to Mr. Will's and Mr. Will's accepted. i presume the theme is on...
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...A young man is cutting firewood with a buzz saw in New England. Near the end of the day, the boy’s sister announces that it is time for dinner and, out of excitement, the boy accidentally cuts his hand with the saw. He begs his sister not to allow the doctor to amputate the hand but inwardly realizes that he has already lost too much blood to survive. The boy dies while under anesthesia, and everyone goes back to work. Analysis Frost uses the method of personification to great effect in this poem. The buzz saw, though technically an inanimate object, is described as a cognizant being, aggressively snarling and rattling as it does its work. When the sister makes the dinner announcement, the saw demonstrates that it has a mind of its own by “leaping” out of the boy’s hand in its excitement. Frost refuses to lay blame for the injury on the boy, who is still a “child at heart.” In addition to blaming the saw, Frost blames the adults at the scene for not intervening and telling the boy to “call it a day” before the accident occurred. Had the boy received an early excuse from the workday, he would have avoided cutting off his hand and would have been saved from death. Moreover, a mere half-hour break from his job would have allowed the boy to regain part of his childhood, if only for a moment. Frost’s emphasis on the boy’s passivity and innocence in this situation is particularly significant in the context of the time period. After moving to England with his family, Frost...
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...The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. Published 1992. ISBN 0-7225-3293-8. PART ONE The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood. He decided to spend the night there. He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. There were no wolves in the region, but once an animal had strayed during the night, and the boy had had to spend the entire next day searching for it. He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. It was still dark when he awoke, and, looking up, he could see the stars through the halfdestroyed roof. I wanted to sleep a little longer, he thought. He had had the same dream that night as a week ago, and once again he had awakened before it ended. He arose and, taking up his crook, began to awaken the sheep that still slept. He had noticed that, as soon as he awoke, most of his animals also began to stir. It was as if some mysterious energy bound his life to that of the sheep, with whom he had spent the past two years, leading them through the countryside in search of food and water. "They...
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...getting married late, mostly in town because of their education, career, and establishment and so on. Though early marriages still takes place in rural areas in our country. Nowadays girls think that education is far more important than getting married early. In Bangladesh there are many facilities for the girls to study. Girls have the similar right as the boys. The education system of our country is improving day by day and offering a variety of new courses for the students. Most of the girls think that after marriage it would be very difficult for them to continue their studies along with the household responsibilities. Even in villages girls tend to study further rather than getting married. They want to build up their own career first and then married just the way a boy does. They want to prove their knowledge and skill to the world as they are enough educated to do so. Nowadays there are no discrimination among men and women at work so they feel safe and comfortable to work outside and get paid off for their hardships. They do not want to keep their step behind boys but walk in the same step as the boys. Women want to be independent. They want to earn for their own expenses and there are many girls who has to support their family financially. If they get married early then it would be very complicated for them to study further because of household responsibilities and children. Most of the families in Bangladesh want a girl to give birth to a child right...
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...Shakiera Swinton Professor Vazquez ENC1102 T-TH 12:30-1:45 11 February 2014 The Resistant: Abraham Rodriguez & an Unreliable Narrator Harry Stone, an author of the 1960s, describes the story Araby by James Joyce as “preserving a central episode in Joyce's life, an episode he will endlessly recapitulate. The boy in "Araby," like the youthful Joyce himself, must begin to free himself from the nets and trammels of society. That beginning involves painful farewells and disturbing dislocations” (349). The story “Araby” is a short memoir of James Joyce’s life as a young boy. Growing up in a predominantly Catholic republic in Dublin Ireland, the unreliable narrator somehow felt alienated, introspective, and at times disappointed. Being a part of a community where there is one religion can have influence the way one sees the world. Corresponding to the unreliable narrator in “Araby”, Abraham Rodriguez from “The Boy without a Flag” is affected by the environment he lives in. Overcome with defiance, the two characters become resistant: one resisting being a part of a bizarre place and the other resisting to conforming to an American tradition. In the two short stories, hypocrisy, disappointment, and religion and beliefs are themes that successfully illustrate their resistance. False hopes and discovering actuality through personal caused the young narrators to resist and resent; Resisting being a part of the atmospheres they dwelled in. James Joyce refers to religion throughout...
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...Doris Lessing. It’s a rite of passage short story about an 11 year boy who is growing up. The main protagonist Jerry in the short story is an 11 year old boy who the author presents to us a ‘loner’ (Lessing,1990). He faces the challenge of swimming through a tunnel in the rock and belonging to a certain clique of friends. He finally manages to swim through the tunnel through persistence and determination. The main theme brought out in the story are; for you to grow up you have broken free by being determined and persistent. By swimming through the tunnel Jerry breaks free from his loneliness and doubt of his potential. Throughout the story Jerry is depicted to us as a loner and makes no mention of friends. He always hangs around his mother who makes her feel accepted; they are very protective over each other since there’s no one else in their lives. He manages to break free from his loneliness and becomes friends with the other boys which make him feel accepted. By passing through the tunnel Jerry builds his confidence and he starts to believe that he can achieve anything as long as he is determined and keeps trying. The conflicts captured in the short story are person verses self, person vs. person and person vs. nature. Jerry had to converse with himself if he was capable of swimming through the tunnel. He also interacted with other people when he tried to prove himself how tough he was to the other boys. He competed against nature by swimming...
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...and the boy and also include a characterisation of the boy. I will focus on the use of symbolism and the story’s main theme. The main character is an eight-year old boy. His mother and father are divorced. The boy lives with his mother and her new boyfriend Jim. He does not see his father very often. The boy is desperate for his father’s acknowledgement and is refusing to accept Jim as a replacement for his father. “”It’s a good one,” said Jim, pointedly approving, handing it back. “Yes,” said the boy, forcing himself to acknowledge Jim’s kindness and affirmation. But Jim is not dad.” (p. 8, ll. 33-35). The boy knows that Jim is only trying to be nice but does not believe anyone can do anything better than his dad. Jim is much more open and friendly towards the boy than his real father is but the boy can’t or will not see his father flaws. His mother does not believe the father will obtain to restore the broken relationship with his son. The boy’s knowledge of this only fuels his idolisation of his father. The father and the boy are not very close. They have not seen each other in four months prior to this camping trip. As much as they both want to be close, there is a distance between them. The father is first introduced as the man. The broken relationship as made them more as strangers than father and son. It is not until after we read about the flashback where the boy’s mother is talking about how she does not believe that the father can relate to the boy, that the...
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...“Rhinoceros Beetle” by Susan Hawthorne is a story about a boy’s childhood obsession which becomes a reality when he grows into a man. The story presents ideas and assumptions which viewers can relate to real life. The writer first presents an image of a boy with a destructive nature which is normal in young males, but then challenges this idea by showing a more menacing side of some men. Women are portrayed as the victims and misunderstood by the males in the story. The writer positions readers to relate events in the story to the real world through the use of narrative conventions of characterisation, point of view and descriptive language. The short story uses the narrative convention of descriptive language which details the events of the boy’s life and position readers to question the worlds outside texts. In the beginning of the story the boy is present as destructive with an obsession for insects. “In the spring he added to his large collection of eggs; raiding nest……. and covering the boxes later with non-reflective glass”. The evidence clearly shows that the boy has an interest in bugs and insects which is normal in young boys. However as the story progresses the readers are exposed to a much more sinister side of the boy who is now a man. “He had treated women as he had always treated every living”, this shows us that his childhood obsession has resulted in his behaviour as a man. The boy’s story is very similar and can be compared to stories of criminals in the real world...
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...The short story does not tell the age of Alex. Instead it tells about Alex as a young boy being in the spot of going through a transition process. He observes things he used to like in his everyday life as now being baby stuff. “(…) and took down his toothbrush. It was green, a crocodile, yellow eyes. This too, he decided, was a child’s thing. “(p. 11, l. 168) “Maybe he was getting too old for banana sandwiches. He thought about saying that he didn't want to eat them anymore. But he liked them …” (p. 8, l. 49). Alex has a hard time letting go of these childish things. He likes them, but at the same time he knows, he is a little too old for them. However, after listening to the conversation between his parents, he decides to quit the childish toothbrush and ask his mother for a regular one. “He would ask his mother for a new toothbrush, one that was a toothbrush and nothing more.” (p. 11, l. 170). He goes from being a small child into a sensitive boy, maybe on his way to being a teenager. After a day of observing and sensing everything around him – especially regarding his mother, her femininity and her relationship to his father, Alex decides to grow up. The relationship between Alex’s mother and father does not seem well-functioning. Alex’s father is absent and does not seem to be interested in or focused on the things, Alex’s mother tells and shows him. “I told you I was going to buy a new dress; for tonight. Remember? – Oh, right. – Do you like it? – The dress? –...
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...Rob Reiner, teaches young viewers about life. The film revolutionizes and challenges how young viewers perceive the world. Stand By Me follows a quartet of young inseparable boys on a elusive and irrevocable quest to discover a dead child's body, where they are suffused into the pressures of adolescence, and uncertainty. It delves into the troubled dispositions of each characters whom are ostracized by their families. It explores the coming of age, as the young boys move closer destination, tension arises as they are overwhelmed by the solemness of what they are to find. It also emphasises that death is an essential and inevitable part of life, as illustrated by the untimely death of a young boy, Ray Brower. Stand By Me teaches young viewers that experiences can alter relationships, which ordeals individuals' bonds of connection towards each other. This articulated through the utilization of diagetic sounds as well as camera angle/movements and editing techniques, in order to capture the characters' motifs, expressions and esteem. The coming of age is a significant message conveyed in the film Stand By Me. This is scrutinized through the young boys Chris, Gordie, Teddy and Vern. This climax-near end scene is the convergence of the 'gangs' , where the two gangs are on the site of Ray Brower's body, a boy who was hit by a train. The scene between Ace, Chris and Gordie is imperative as it creates suspense, accumulated by the high-pitched diagetic sound of a violin, and has also...
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