Gathering Blue Summary

Fear leaves us afraid and frightened. Fear is unpleasant and it is only “human nature” to want to get rid of the feeling. Reverend Samuel Parris, before the Salem witch trials started, had the power to prevent the trials from happening, set things straight. But he feared as a Reverend the he was not setting a proper example, with Abigail his niece and his daughter dancing in the woods.

One of the symbols used is the beasts. The beasts are an illusion created by the leaders of the village to scare the people. Their fear chains them to the will of the leaders, but those like Annabella who know the truth are free from those bonds. The literal chains of the singer and the robe are also symbols.

This is turn means returning to another era which he thinks will lead to disaster. The villagers cannot get away from the lottery because they have no freedom. They are not allowed to emerge from anything if they never question it or

When Kira lost her mother in Gathering Blue, She has lost everything. She thought she had very little time before she either starved to death. Or the Village would condemn he to death because of her disability. She had basically lost all steps of Maslow’s Hierarchy. They had threatened to turn her land into a pen for children.

Tornado Warning: What are we really afraid of? Many people fear change that they usually want stability and comfort. However, they can be harmful in some ways. In Amy Wright’s poem “Tornado Warning,” she describes how the people in the village are getting isolated not only by the tornado but also by their attitude.

They have guards controlling the citizens holding them back, and if someone has a different opinion, they will get confronted. “When I was younger, I scared my mother to death, the things I would blurt out about District 12, about the people who rule our country, Panem, from the far- off city called the Capitol. Eventually, I understood this would only lead us to more trouble. So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”

In a small, marginalized town called Bathtub, there lived a young girl named Hushpuppy and her father, Wink. Because Wink is terminally ill, he chooses to raise his daughter under tough circumstances so she could learn to live without him. He constantly yells at her, leaves her alone for long periods of time to fend for herself, and even lives in a different house. Hushpuppy does not seem to understand why her father is treating her this way, so she burns down the trailer she was living in. Her dad is, then, forced to let her move into his house, but not without restrictions.

Earlier in The Help, Miss Celia tries very hard to become friends with the ladies in Jackson, especially Miss Hilly and Miss Hilly’s friends. She does this because she is very lonely in her mansion and thinks she will be happy being friends with them. She calls Miss Hilly and Miss Hilly’s friends once every day about getting together to play bridge, which she does not even know how to play, and asks to be in their housewives’ club. Neither Hilly nor Miss Hilly’s friends ever call Miss Celia back, and they tell her that she cannot join their club, even though they have a couple spots open. In a conversation between Miss Celia and Minny that took place a few days after the banquet, Miss Celia has a realization that she does not want to be friends with Hilly.

They also show the negative and, typically unexpected, effects of perception. The fact that society and family plays the key factor in both short stories shows us how both can help you understand the things that society has defined as wrong. Which goes to show that following a ritual can be a bad thing, to the villagers in “The Lottery” it is normal to sacrifice a person and in “Barn Burning,” Abner think’s it’s okay burn down barns, but we do not see it that way because of that key factor.

Helena gets to the point where she belittles herself to a dog,”What worser place can I beg in your love and yet a place of high respect with me than to be usèd as you use your dog?”. As Helena follows Demetrius, he gets fed up with it that he threatens her to do something bad to her in the forest they were in.”... Or if thou follow me, do not believe but I shall do thee mischief in the wood”. This statement shows how one sided their relationship is. Many couples tend to face this type of problem whereas only one individual is deeply involved in the relationship than the other, this leads to conflicts, disputes, miserable and unhappy couples .

Kira is a girl who lives in a cott. Her father was killed by “beast”. Kira is dynamic at first because only has a shelter, food, water, and sleep. Then when Kira 's mom died she had a trial that would determine if she would live or die. When Kira won this trial she was moved into the Council of Edifice where she sustained the orange

A fresh start in a new location can be a good thing, however, if you’re not knowledgeable to the customs of your new environment things can change for the worse. In Kingsolver’s novel, one of the four daughters, Leah, develops a very strong interest in hunting. This seems absurd to the Congolese people as it is tradition for men to do all of the hunting and for women to do the domestic work, Leah hunting would be a clear violation of tradition. Due to this, many people voice their opposition such as Tata Ndu, Tata Kuvudundu, and some of the other old men. Regardless, the people of the village decide that they should vote on whether or not Leah should be able to hunt and it passes be a narrow margin 51-45.

People always need to follow the laws or the rules that made by government, but if people do not actually follow the rules which is means they would get punished by the government. In Fahrenheit 451, the government does not allow people to read books and that is kind of the censorship in the story. If people do not follow the rule such as read books or hidden books,they would get killed by mechanical hound. The firemen will burn all the book that they found from people, but there still some people against the law so that will not be the best way that For example, from Fahrenheit 451 "

Kira, by her community she has been put to death according the laws of her community for the mere fact that she has a disbility. Kira mother has taught her to be as strong and indepndent as she possibly can. After her mother 's death she then goes off on her own but she begins to think of the things that she will need and have to do in order to survive, "Somehow she would build a cott. Then she would find a way to make a life".

People in families tend to claim that they would do anything for their family regardless of the circumstances, whether or not they don 't agree with, for example, if two related people departed and one had a funeral, but the other didn’t is unfair, so someone in a family would fight to make sure they both be equal to have a proper rest in peace memorial. The government law is too extreme when the tradition is prohibited leads to anarchy in society because not every citizens agree with the law terms. For this, analysis paper, Antigone was right to justify King Creon about denying the law terms and keep up with the tradition, however Antigone had broke the law so she was forced to make it up for the King. This paper will start out examining the