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Prideful because all he tries to do is chance Doodle rather than letting him be who he is . Not letting himself accept himself the way he is. Brother's pride pushes him to give Doodle an existence away from his bed, and it is his obsession that leads to Doodle's tragic demise. Brother's pride did create a facsimile (copy) of real life for Doodle, but in the end, it crumbled him, brought to its knees by pride and selfishness. Brother did love Doodle, but his ego overshadowed the fact the he was just trying to protect Doodle from a world that doesn't tolerate those that are different.

Esperanza is unsure about who she wants to be when she grows up so she counts on role models to guide her through childhood. Her role models are mostly the [[#|older girls]] who live in her neighborhood.

In her novel, Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li Jiang recounts situations in which her education was greatly affected by her family’s political status, which she was completely unable to control. In primary school, Ji-li Jiang’s peers did not accept her because of her class status. Jiang states that, “as a child from a black family - a black whelp - [she] did not feel comfortable”, around her classmates (167). Ji-li Jiang discusses the relief that she had felt when she realized that, “none of [her] former classmates were in [her] class”, at her new school, and therefore, “no one in [the] class knew about [her] class status [,and she] could make a new start and just be a person like everyone else” (158). The way that young children in 1960’s

Rachel’s father is given a second chance, not because he is a good person, but because Rachel is a good enough person to forgive him. Abandoning your family, without warning for another person is an inexcusable act. But Rachel teaches us the power of forgiveness in people you love and how second chances are so important. In the next example, Rachel is the one given a second chance. After Rachel apologizes, she says, “I stare at Marisol, waiting for some kind of reaction.

When it was the right time he humbly claims that he did lie about the treasure. He accepts that he should be punished for lying to them, but right now they should still trust him so they could together find and stop Everett’s wife from marrying someone else. This shows that he knows of his faults, but focused on the main goals. Everett lies, but he lies about something that does not harm others, but does it in a way so he can also benefit. His companions did not loss anything that they had instead they were freed from jail.

His wording shows that he doesn’t know who he is and therefore believes he is a Monster as Ms. Petrocelli calls him. He accepts people’s judgments as his self-truth. Even though, he, himself, accepts the worst he still wants people to perceive him as a good person, especially his mom. Steve’s mom’s words cut deeper in him because his mom believes he didn’t do it while he knows he did. 5 days into the trial, his mother comes by and talks to him hoping to make him feel better, “I could still feel Mama’s pain.

The Lesson The theme of “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara, is that learning can cause discomfort but if you never come out of your comfort zone then you will never learn. In the story it expressed how minorities are oppressed due to social inequality. All children in the story have dreams of their own but the education system in the lower social class is not equal to the education system in the higher social class. Children do not have the same opportunity to expand their knowledge because of social inequality.

Malcolm was pushed to this conclusion because his school canlusal didn’t take him seriously. According to subcultural theory one of the key way to know if someone will have criminally tendency, is inadequate schooling. Inadequate schooling is also typical related to an urban poor neighborhood. The poor neighborhood is event in the movie by the drug dialer and kid being in the street without supervision by an adult. None the less, Malcolm adekanbi was not will to just exsepte the the idea kids in his situation would never make it to Harvard.

Just because she looked different, or had a different culture than everyone else, she pretended not to know her own mother. The other children giving them looks in the halls and saying rude things about them completely embarrassed her and turned her against her culture. Both of these sadly common examples demonstrate how discrimination can cause one to turn against their own culture. In cultures today, discrimination is among the most critical issues, because it causes segregation and lack of acceptance of one's culture.

Sizuku Analysis Sizuku is the main character of this film, who is fourteen years old and in third grade of junior high school. Because she has a bright personality, she has many friends and a deep trust with them. On the other hand, she is lazy as she doesn 't do the things she 's asked by her parent as soon as possible. And in this movie, she has to take the lunch box to her father, but she leaves it the shop which she drops in on the way to her father. She is also a careless person.

Parents watched as their daughter grew and developed. But then came the surprise news their daughter fell in love with a person. The parents were not waned about it, and waiting when she come home from school. This boy was in her class, his name was Lucas.

She did everything should could for him so he wouldn’t go down the same path a lot of kids his age were going down. She wanted a better life for Wes. “Well, your grades obviously aren’t bad because you can’t pick this stuff up or because you are stupid, you are just not working hard enough” (75-76). Joy is influential to Wes because she knew that Wes had the ability to learn and to be intelligent, she just needed Wes to push himself to be intrigued in school like how he was in music or outside activities. As Joy tried to get Wes’s grades up she finally came up with a plan to send him to military school.

I do not have any education on the topic, as such I think it would be interesting to learn, because I know that there is some information out there on the topic. As such if I do not have any education on the fact, I am unable to educate others. I see it as a vicious cycle of people not being educated on the fact, and then being racist because they do not know all the facts. If things go smoothly, I hope to have answered one major question in mind. How did the Residential Schools effect the experiences in Residential School attending children and their future family’s childbearing

“Jolly get’s back in school, she gets Daycare free? How does she get back in school? She gives me a phone number from her memory and says ask for Barbara” (102). Jolly lost her old job earlier in the book that was causing her to get home late and have LaVaughn work extra hours that Jolly cannot afford to pay her. LaVaughn thinks that the program will help her take better care of her kids.

How The Bean Trees is a coming of age themed novel In The Bean Trees Taylor and Lou Ann struggle to come of age, or mature, with these two being very important characters I believe a major theme of the book is coming of age. There are many pieces of evidence to support this claim, therefore I will provide them. Our first example would have to be Taylor’s journey throughout the book.