Rot And Ruin Character Analysis

Traditions have been around for as long as we have been on the earth. As humans we don’t like change, so having a ritual that we repeat every year is the sense of normalcy we crave. People will go through the same hurtful cycle, even though they know it’s wrong or not working, simply because it is all they know. Unlike common belief, giving up harmful practices is not the same as giving up culture. People hold onto tradition because they feel that giving it up is taking them away from where they came from. What they don’t realize is that their practices can be harmful and demeaning, which can end up making people resent where they came from. According to Lauren Hersh, an advocate for youth, “While many traditions promote social

In America today it is hard for certain families to make a living and to keep a job. College is very expensive and not many people can afford to go to college. And when it comes to finding a job that pays enough to support a family and gives you the hours you want so that you can still spend time with your family is nearly impossible. Family time is very important to sustain a healthy, strong relationship with all the members of your family. Divorce is very common when both parents work and never have time to spend time together. But money makes the world go round and if you don’t have any then you are left out to dry.

“ Blood makes you related , Loyalty is what makes you family . “ In Walter Dean Myers’ short story “ the Treasure of Lemon Brown “ explores the values of Greg Ridley ; a 14 year old boy who wants to play basketball but can’t because of his low grade in math . Then in John Steinbeck’s The Pearl an uneducated man named Kino found a great pearl that corrupted his values . In both “ the Treasure of Lemon Brown “ and The Pearl , the main characters experience conflicts that change their views on what’s important in life .

Family is the most important thing you need in life to be successful. Family has to have a good influence on you to make you succeed. Family has to do what every it takes to put you in a good education. Family will put you in a safe environment. Family will do the world for

Family is usually synonymous to harmony and love. However, the words chaos and pain is rare to describes a family. Family is a combination of harmony and chaos, likewise love to pain. The problem is society focus only in the positive accepts. For Instance, in Stephanie Coontz article, What We Really Miss About the 1950s she recalls that what the American society reminisces about this era is that life was simple and one could find an equilibrium between work, family, friends, and school. (29). On contrary we note that Aunt Ida poems we feel the pain she is suffering. She has this difficult accepting Junie lost. She longs to have her family member back. Inclusively, the new birth of a baby does not content her rather she ignores the fact and states winter is coming soon’ (45). The birth of a baby is an allusion to a new beginning; a new cycle. Even though she lost one of her dearest and beloved family members a new beginning is being awaited. This is the beginning of a life without Junie but a new cycle to honor Junie through the quilts. Aunt Ida perfectly expresses her pain when she sees the clothes of her grandson and asks herself what she will do with all the clothes (44). Yet she reassures herself and remembers that she can use Junie clothes to make a quilt. Inclusively, she recalls Junies giggles while she starts to quilt (45). The poem chronically

The major issues in Bastard Out of Carolina include poverty, illegitimacy, and the physical and sexual abuse of a child. The Boatwright’s are shown to be living in poverty by having to many children, the men fighting and drinking, living in run-down houses, wearing hand me down clothes, and how the town treats the them. Ruth Anne “Bone” Boatwright illegitimacy can also be considered a product of their poverty. Bone’s mother Anney tries her best to procure a birth certificate that doesn’t have illegitimate stamped on it. The main major issue is the physical and sexual abuse of a child. This is shown through Glen Waddell’s violent treatment of Bone.

With much of the world becoming focused on individual goals and ideas, it is necessary to remember the importance of family relationships. Through family bonds, people may find support that they would not find anywhere else, giving them the strength to push through difficult situations. The support that family relationships provide may be seen with an example from my own life as well as from Elie Wiesel’s novel Night.

The main concept of these short stories is family. When something is written about family there is bound to be conflict because there is always disagreement in a family. Some might even call them dysfunctional because they do not operate like a normal family. The stories “Brother Dear” by Bernice Friesen, and “The Charmer”, by Budge Wilson, both focus on dysfunctional families; this can be shown through conflict, characters, and theme.

Family is an important component in everyone’s life. S.E Hinton this The Outsiders there is contradiction between the gang’s biological family and their “family”. Johnny is a member of the gang that is not wanted and cared for by his parents but musters to find a strong bond with the gang. The Outsiders, a realistic fiction book by S.E Hinton, shows the importance that family is the one that cares about you even though many people say that your biological family can understand you more.

Throughout one’s life, one tends to adapt to the traditions of their family, and gain a significant bond with their loved ones, including their siblings. However, that connection a person gains can either be diminished or forgotten due to a sense of different mindsets between family members. The two stories “The Rich Brother” by Tobias Wolff and “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin indicate that sibling rivalry occurs when each member does not understand or acknowledge their sibling’s perspective, and this builds a wall barrier between the siblings.

By reading in depth within some words written on a page, you can discover more meaning behind them than expected. You'll find that the elements in any story such as: conflict, theme, character, and setting can closely relate with other realistic stories like itself. Though the plots can be drastically different, the words expressed are capable of generally carrying similar meaning. This statement definitely applies to two extremely different stories with closely related elements that make up each.

“Blood makes you related, loyalty makes you family”-Unknown. This quote relates directly to my story “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner. Barn Burning is a story of family, loyalty, and morality and answers the question “how far does loyalty to family go?”. This story follows a boy named Sarty that is at the age where he starting to figure out what kind of person he will be in life. Sarty is a fascinating and dynamic young boy that faces a major ethical dilemma.

What are three things that do not change with the passage of time? A fire is hot, water is wet, and the wind will blow. These are all things that are constant in the world we live in. No matter the moment in time these things remain unchanged in the way they are percieved. Romeo and Juliet is a relevant work for a person in modern times due to the way it shows love conquers all, families beliefs and actions can effect the way you are perceived by others, and people still make irrational decisions.

In Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” conflicted is a character trait that Trevor prominently displays, as his attempts to bring down divisions within societies interfere with his past and current life. Trevor is one of the many people who have been negatively impacted by the effects of World War II as he and his family have lost their place in the upper hierarchy. Soon after, Trevor becomes the new leader of The Wormsley Common gang, a group of teenage boys living in a rough part of London. Under Trevor’s leadership the gang goes to visit one of the more “beautiful” older houses around the area which is being held up by “wooden struts” (44). Trevor visiting a more beautiful side to the area reveals the confliction he has

The family does not mean pure affection or love, it becomes a way to manipulate in order to gain more money or a better social status: “Honor thy parents; that is all/ From whom promotion may befall”