...Lucy and I started this week by reading the section, Spring in the book The Bluest Eye. The authors writing style in this novel helps the reader comprehend the way African-American people struggled from year to year for a huge majority of their life. Even though the authors style allows the reader to venture back in time to the world where people were largely discriminated against, it also opens the reader’s eyes to events that have been present throughout all of history. Lucy mentioned some current problems that are still relevant such as sexual assault, negative body image and your reputation. The section starts out with a graphic setting. One of the little girls, Frieda, is assaulted by Mr. Henry. This incident leaves her with a wound...
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...Analysis of Eye Socket Girls by Paula Bomer In the course of history, the ideal of a woman has changed a lot. In newer, postmodern times, the female body ideal has changed radically. With the technology advancing significantly in this period, it creates an even easier way of setting more focus on how the ideal woman should look. The medias, commercials and famous fashion houses are now defining what the perfect woman is supposed to look like. This often results in teenage girls starving themselves to loose weight, and tries to strive for this unachievable woman ideal. The story “Eye Socket Girls” by Paula Bomer takes this up to a postmodern perspective, where we follow an anorectic girl at a hospital. The time is hard to pinpoint exactly, but there’s some hints throughout the story. A TV, and the American actress Winona Ryder are mentioned when the narrator describes how obesity takes over “weak” High-School girls. This description indicates that the story takes place in the late 90’s or early 00’s. The female ideal at this time was to be as thin and bony as possible as described in the story “We look voraciously at one another. We envy the protruding bones of someone who is that much closer to not being here at all” (p. 112, l. 11-12) when she tells about the anorectic ward where she is hospitalized. The story takes place in an American hospital ward, where the only patients are anorectics. The story signifies that it is taking place in America, since the narrator is...
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...Josh Kloosterman 8:30am The Bluest Eye literary analysis Beauty is a perceptual scope that the reader looks through while reading the bluest eye in its entirety. It is the focus of ideals and issues within the book the Bluest eye. Beauty or lack of is the major motivator for decisions and/or consequences throughout the story. It can define who you are in terms of society and where you fit in, but does it have to? Supposedly, in this country we call home, if you work hard enough you can have whatever your heart desires. In the Bluest eye All Pecola Breedlove wanted was to have blue eyes or in her mind, be beautiful. She believed because of what society had taught her that those whom are beautiful have blue eyes and blonde hair. This is a social institution which has been part of America’s culture since the beginning of the U.S. We must look a certain way, have a specific occupation, or live in a particular neighborhood if we are to fit into society. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison has captured these and other stigma's we place on ourselves and raise the question of, is these things the only way to be accepted and have some level of beauty in societies eyes? We are raised in a society that tells us we are all equal, however that ideal is rarely practiced throughout our history. We only have to turn on the television or open a magazine to see who the adored people in our country are. Pecola believes that if she could have blue eyes then she would be accepted. "If she looked...
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...Big Brother’s Eyes – analysis Writers This article about camera surveillance has been posted in The New York Post on 2 May 2002, about 1,5 years after 9/11 where the use of video surveillance has become a bigger part of the reality. The article is written by William D. Eggers and Eve Tushnet. Both Eggers and Tushnet are at the posting time working at the Manhattan Institute where they are working on a book on how technology is transforming government. Eggers is at the posting time at the age of 35 as a senior fellow (member) and Tushnet is at the age of 24 as a research associate and by the way is a lesbian. Readers The New York Post is an American daily newspaper, mostly distributed in New York City and the area around. The intended reader for this newspaper is the common American, thus it reaches out to most people possible. Language The use of language in the article Big Brother’s Eyes is quite simple and easy to read and understand. The article doesn’t consist of long sentences with a high academic language; it is more informal and based on a reader-friendly style, which by the way gets along with the audience the newspaper reaches, i.e. the common American. Let me give an example of how the structure of the sentences is: “Many civil libertarians insist that the only way to protect privacy is through prohibition: tear down the cameras. Ban government from using face-recognition and other biometric technologies.” ll. 10-12 p 46. It is a good illustration of the...
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...‘The Girl with the Hungry Eyes’ is about a vampire, but not the usual blood sucking vampire, something far more terrifying than Dracula. This girl is alluring, beautiful, nameless and all we want to do is know her, be around her and love her. She uses the media as her tool to expose herself to the entire world, and she get’s a little help with that by a photographer. He explains the difference between the girl with the hungry eyes and vampires, and only some of them drink blood. She is a man’s biggest predator. This vampire needs something much scarier then your blood, she craves your fears. She needs all your hopes, and dreams, she craves your memories and everything that makes you, you, right when you are desperate enough. She has a captivating look that no one can get enough of, something about her, people want to be around her and it makes her far more deadlier than a traditional vampire. The common vampire needs to hunt out their victims, and it can become difficult to lure. She doesn’t need to set up a trap, her eyes already lure people in with ease. She is in the perfect industry as a model because she became a worldwide phenomena, she could go anywhere in the world and have people know her and desire her. In 1949 she was unstoppable...
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...Each section of this prologue gives, in a different way, an overview of the novel as a whole. At a glance, the Dick-and-Jane motif alerts us to the fact that for the most part the story will be told from a child’s perspective. Just as the Dick-and-Jane primer teaches children how to read, this novel will be about the larger story of how children learn to interpret their world. But there is something wrong with the Dick-and-Jane narrative as it is presented here. Because the sentences are not spread out with pictures, as they would be in an actual reader, we become uncomfortably aware of their shortness and abruptness. The paragraph that these sentences comprise lacks cohesion; it is unclear how each individual observation builds on the last. In the same way, the children in this novel lack ways to connect the disjointed, often frightening experiences that make up their lives. The substance of the narrative, though written in resolutely cheerful language, is also disturbing. Though we are told that the family that lives in the pretty house is happy, Jane is isolated. Not only do her parents and pets refuse to play with her, but they seem to refuse any direct communication with her. When Jane approaches her mother to play, the mother simply laughs, which makes us wonder if the mother actually is, as we have been told, “very nice.” When she asks her father to play, her father only smiles. The lack of connection between sentences mirrors the lack of connection between the individuals...
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...“Eyes on the Prize” was a documentary created by PBS that explored the American Civil Rights Movement. The section we watched in class detailed the death of Emmit Till. A young boy who was viciously murdered over calling an unattractive white woman “Baby.” When the men who were convicted of the murder were sent to trial, they were convicted not guilty from a jury of white males. After this event, Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white man and was arrested. These were the starting points of this revolution, because of Martin Luther King Jr. He changed the perspective of how African Americans should view Caucasian people, rather than be angry with them, they should feel forgiveness. That was the start of a new perspective. From watching the film and exploring the website, I have...
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...The documentary "Eyes on the Prize" focuses primarily on the segregation and mistreatment of African-Americans in the United States, which lead to the Civil Rights Movement. The documentary utilizes footage accumulated over many years, giving the viewer an in depth and unique view into the various eras of time. In the documentary there were interviews with a diverse selection of people from scholars and historians to victims of segregation and individuals who were active in the Civil Rights Movement. In "Eyes on the Prize", several African-Americans told their stories of segregation, racism and violence; these were accompanied by horrific and unsettling video clips of violence and mistreatment. The documentary was able to drive its narrative...
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...Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Morrison puts the spotlight on society, lighting up the corrupt acts that it partakes in, through the story of how a little, black girl is thrown by the curb since she does not exemplify the common model. Instead of our protagonist, Pecola, having one human adversary, we see how most of most of society plays as the antagonist. The wicked acts of society eat up Pecola Breedlove from the inside to the outside, as they rape her, take away her innocence and leave her to go mad. Looking at everything from Pecola’s perspective, we realize that society rapes her constantly, by their critical attitudes towards all that she is. To them, she is black, she is poor, and hence she is ugly. One of the first heinous acts that society presents to Pecola is lust. That being, the desire for “whiteness” or as everyone else in the book believed, the desire for beauty. Pecola is taught from a very early age that beauty is one of the values that she will be held up to. In addition, society expresses to her that the crucial part to being beautiful is being...
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...In Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston, The ending was happy, this is showcased by ;Janie finding peace with herself, and Tea Cake’s love for Janie. Tea Cake and Janie meet about halfway through the story. Janie has had two unsatisfactory husbands and Tea Cake is the first real gentleman in her life, so they get married. Janie is able to give happily after Tea Cakes death because of the there reasons listed above. Janie returns to eatonville and comes back a changed person. Towards the being of the people saw Janie as a whore. She would find younger men and the town was able to assume the rest. After Tea Cake’s death she could not live in the everglades without Tea Cake, so she went to her old home town. Upon her return, Janie is a lot older and has changed drastically. She was able to reunite with Pheoby her friend and talk about Tea Cake, which was a good emotional release for her. Janie says “”Ah'm satisfied tuh be heah””(Hurston 191). The familiar town where she might have been single, but she lived there like that before. Janie’s cherished her time with...
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...heaven! Just as a citizen American doesn’t have to be in America. A nation can have control, dominion or authority of a territory without it being in or a physical part of their mainland, home or dominion! Look at Matt 13:38; in it Christ explains the symbols. He says, “The field is the world” the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, wicked one, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. (v:39) says, “the enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age” and “the reapers are the angels” now look at (v 24, 34, 44) “field” was not a location called “heaven” but on earth, the authority on earth that was sowed by a sower, is the “church” for is he so are we in this world/ earth, is the church, the kingdom of heaven, is the lords. Agents here on earth- his body church! For as he so are we in this world/earth (4:17) we will come back to this parable, but if we understand the basic symbols of the sower”how can we know all parables?” you with me so far? Both children: Yes, sir. Uncle James: Joshua, give it back to me, tell me what we have covered so far? Joshua: the bases of all parables of the kingdom, we first need to understand the parables of the sower. The word “field” that shows up in a lot of parables is the “earth.” The “sower” is the son of man, Christ “and the harvest is the end of the age/world.” There are “good seeds” the sons of the kingdom, and there are “tares” sons of the wicked one on earth. Sarah (daughter): And the term “kingdom of heaven”...
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...Reflecting on the film Through Deaf Eyes The film Through Deaf Eyes is an enjoyable movie that makes an audience stop and think about Deaf culture and Deaf history. My experience with this film has been great because it showed me that there is more to the way a deaf person interacts with the world than I thought. Watching this film put things into perspective for me. I had learned several things such as how deafness was misunderstood earlier on in history. As an example out of the film, Christian missionaries thought that those who were deaf would not be able to receive the messages of the Bible. The mentality that being deaf made a person unreachable in terms of teaching and learning information had emerged for a time. As someone who finds the history of languages very interesting, I was excited to learn where the American Sign language...
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...Their Eyes Were Watching God is a book we're motif connects to the story. Community, race, and folklore all connect to the meaning of the book. Community and how does it connect to this story?. Janie a main character of this book who helps community tie into the book. First of all, Janie Crawford an African American girl talks to a town folk man. This relates to motif because motif relates to community and in this novel Janie is not apart of the community. Janie is not a town folk but she still talks to the folk of that town. On top of that, people in the community don't accept Janie in their town so she is considered as an outsider. On page 2 paragraph 3 of their eyes were watching god it says “it was a weapon against her strength and if...
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...In the movie Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, there is an exploration of the paradigm of sexual identity from nature through the pear tree, the bee and the flower, and the hurricane. The film follows the transition from childhood to adulthood of Janie Crawford, a mixed girl of black and white. Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the story of the development of Janie's ideals of love and independence. As a child, Janie sees a bee pollinating a flower in the pear tree of her backyard and from there becomes determined to find true everlasting love. According to Robert Solomon, “This "traditionalist" definition of sexual identity has sometimes been associated with one or more of the following additional positions: that certain...
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...Nature is often intertwined with fate in stories. Both are unpredictable but affect us in a multitude of ways . By observing nature, people can learn about themselves and their life in a way that their usually hectic lives do not allow. The role of nature in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is to represent what affects Janie’s self-discovery. The pear tree represents marriage to Janie, which will affect her significantly. When Janie sees a bee pollinating a pear tree flower, it is said “So this was a marriage!” (Hurston 11). From this moment, Janie also learns what is her idea of love in a marriage is. It is shown that Janie’s view of love is an idealistic one, since it is full of joy, with no strife at all. However, once Janie marries Logan Killicks, she learned “that marriage did not make love.” (Huston 25). Janie’s marriage with Logan is dull and draining, while her image of marriage derived from the pear tree is invigorating. This leads to Janie ultimately trying to find her ideal vision of marriage as part of her life journey, and thus makes her more susceptible to Joe’s charms . The...
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