Samira Ahmed’s realistic fiction novel, Love, Hate, and Other Filters, takes place in modern-day Chicago where a suicide bombing has engrossed the attention of America. Maya Aziz, a Muslim teenager, is targeted for her heritage while attempting to lead a life free of high school drama, controlling parents, and difficult relationships. As Maya copes with Islamophobia, prejudice against Muslims, she begins to understand the horrors and shortcomings of violence. One lesson the story suggests is that hatred is an infectious and blinding motive. From the very beginning of the story, readers are familiarized with the source of terrorism through thorough description and sentence structure. First, before the terrorist attack, a flashback is provided: “Too late to disappear. Dammit. I’ve told you a million times not to play in the house. You’re going to pay for that, boy, the man yells as he loosens his belt and wraps it a couple times around his hand to get a tight grip. …show more content…
Hate and violence both tend to spread like a disease. When hatred is introduced to an individual, he/she often cannot see past this burning motive - they yearn for revenge. Hatred and violence become a means of getting what someone wants. Author Samira Ahmed further elaborates on this topic: “In recent times, we’ve seen hate emerge out of the dark corners, torches blazing in the night. We’ve witnessed so-called leaders not merely against the forces of hate, but for equality and justice. Bigotry may run through the American grain, but so too does resistance. We know the world we are fighting for” (277). Ahmed introduces the importance of peace in a crowd filled with hatred. People have the power to destroy hate before it transforms them into ugly and regretful individuals. In the end, it comes down to whether individuals are willing to help themselves and others control themselves under the influence of
In the book Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, Eggers informs his readers about how Muslim Americans were treated while living in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. He emphasizes many flashbacks from Zeitoun's past, which helps persuade readers; also why Zeitoun is so passionate about helping the community and why he works hard to provide for his family. Eggers presents his argument by appealing to logos and pathos to support his argument. Eggers’ purpose is for his audience to understand that Muslims should not be stereotyped, as it was revealed through Zeitoun's life experience.
Aaron Beck’s Prisoners of Hate (1999) provides a great in depth look at the causes of anger, hostility, and violence. Becks central message, that is illustrated throughout various chapters, is that all hate is hate, no matter the scale. In other words, the same mechanisms that cause people to hate their spouse is the same hate that is used to justify war. This fact is hardly intuitive, but Beck’s use of a broad variety of stories, backed up by cognitive analyses, shows just how similar all anger, hate, and hostility truly are. With that being said, Beck does not leave it at that, but rather provides numerous ways of correcting hate and freeing those who are prisoners of their own negative cognitions and emotions.
The author shows time and time again that those who cannot solve problems with words solved them with terror and violence.
Islamophobia has begun as well as the violence and verbal attack on Muslims. In the poem First Writing Since the speaker, Suheir Hammad, elaborates on the feeling that she withholds internally since the
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.” These words, famously spoken by Martin Luther King, Jr., speak to a dangerous affliction of humanity. People internalize the pain they experience from life events. Often we seek to re-experience that same pain or thwart it onto others to feel better about ourselves – but this only leads to a vicious cycle that never eases the pain.
To Americans and many others around the world, the U.S. is the face of what should be a “free society,” not including every society’s minor flaws. Maybe it’s because I’m barely entering the brink of my social awareness as a U.S. citizen or maybe is it more due to recent threats to our freedom as Americans, but now more than in the past decade or so, the media has brought the image of huge protests, riots, and demonstrations into the spotlight. And unfortunately, more often than not, many of these events result in violence, aggression, and opposition. Nonetheless, people’s intentions and visions of victory surely do not aim to end in chaos and harm to our societies.
In his essay, “On The Pleasure of Hatred”, William Hazlitt claims that, humans inherent enjoy the act of hating, causes them to hate themselves and create toxic societies. To further his claim, Hazlitt showcases the institutionalized belief systems that groups within humanity use to execute their
Mahatama Gandhi once said, “Anger and Intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” Intolerance is treating anybody unfairly because of their beliefs, they are different, or their identity. Currently, our society is filled with intolerance everywhere you turn; this could be on televisions or movies, in a novel, or even in a school. In general, intolerance can mean almost everything to different people. You’re probably wondering how this could be happening in the 21th century where technology, intelligence, quality of living are supposed to be stronger and safer than ever before.
Do you imagined how the world was on time ago like 1930s, 1950s and 1960s. In the article ‘’The Next Civil Right Movement’’ and the book ‘’To Kill a Mockingbird’’ are related with racism, prejudice, and discrimination. The world should be without racism and without discrimination! People do not have the right to discriminate against others much less decide whether to kill him.
Nonetheless, to resolve the racism, sexism and ignorance derived from it, people need to realize we are all human beings. We need to acknowledge that inconsistencies in our belief pose a dangerous threat. We must figure out who or what decided only certain people receive the benefit of the doubt while others suffer. We must hold those people accountable for their actions, they need to know privileges do not only apply to one group of people, it applies to all. Most importantly, we need to realize for all the time people have been on earth, the only consistency we managed is figuring out new ways to harm other people, from bows and arrows to atomic bombs.
Often times, mindless conformity leads to senseless violence that could have been avoided with just a little more thought. In order to justify hateful and exclusive acts, the actions of people in minorities are often taken
Free Me: Racist Speech Freedom is a paradox, especially in America. Everyone is free, but everyone must obey laws. In 1776, America chose to fight against her oppressor. Rather than be a single colony, America became a separate country. Today as an adolescent, America faces a new uphill battle, free speech.
It is an example of man’s complete and utter capacity for abstract thought. Society should be against hatred and revenge because it causes violence and chaos and is inevitably a destructive motive for actions. When we act out of revenge, revenge is what we will receive in return. This was the reason behind the 9/11 attacks on the
We can learn by examining hate, is that it can become so intense it becomes a form of illness. Hate is something that will always be in the back of our heads, even when we are not thinking about it. Hate is something strong that we are not able to shake off, it’s something that is taught throughout our lives. I believe mediation groups work to help people move beyond hate, mediation is a form that keeps you calm and relax. It’s a time when you really think of what you are doing in your life, and what you are going through.
Happiness, sadness and nervousness, all of these are emotions that every single person will feel the experience during his or her life, everyone experienced love and hate in their heart. Hate is an acquired feeling and not a genetic. People are never born with hate, but they learned it by the environment that surrounds them, by the outside world. But why do people hate? What is are the reasons that drives them to hate, why would someone want to have that kind of gloomy bad intention about someone, because that would turn people to be more violence, after all, violence can led to death in some causes.