The Round House By Louise Erdrich: An Analysis

The American Dream is the ideology that every United States citizen has the equal opportunity to achieve their own set goals, if they are willing to put in the hard work and determination to do so. Throughout John Mellencamp’s music career, he is known for interpreting the American Dream within the narrative style of his songs. In the song “Little Pink Houses” by John Mellencamp, which was released in 1983, was no exception towards his normality. Mellencamp emphasizes his viewpoints towards what it means to obtain and achieve the American Dream in the modern day society. John Mellencamp suggests that not everyone is able to achieve the American Dream because only some can achieve it, but most others are unable throughout the lyrics.

Eudora Welty (b.1909) In her essay titled Place in Fiction, Eudora Welty spoke of her work as filled with the spirit of place: “Location is the ground conductor of all the currents of emotion and belief and moral conviction that charge out from the story in its course.” Both her outwardly uneventful life and her writing are most intimately connected to the topography and atmosphere, the season and the soil of the native Mississippi that has been her lifelong home. Born in Jackson in 1909, to parents who came from the North, and raised in comfortable circumstances, she attended Mississippi State College for Women, then graduated from the University of Wisconsin in1929.

The irony in Room 101 lies in the fact that the Party wants everyone to conform to society. They want everyone to worship Big Brother, hate Emmanuel Goldstein, believe in doublethink, and eventually they want everyone to only speak in Newspeak. Newspeak limits the ideas you can express and therefore limits the thoughts you can have. This essentially gives the Party mind control and perfect submissive citizens with no individuality. But, in Room 101 it uses your own individual fears against you.

Family is key. In the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, it is about two boys that grew up in the same area with the same name. The book talks about how one boy becomes a Rhode Scholar and the other is serving life in prison from an armed robbery shooting. The events happen are because of their family and how they influence them. In the book, The Other Wes Moore, the author explores the idea of family to develop the theme of having a supportive family is the difference between being successful and failing your goals.

In her 1970 's research, psychologist Mary Ainsworth expanded greatly upon Bowlby 's original work. Her groundbreaking "Strange Situation" study revealed the profound effects of attachment on behavior. In the study, researchers observed children between the ages of 12 and 18 months as they responded to a situation in which they were briefly left alone and then reunited with their mothers. Based upon the responses the researchers observed, Ainsworth described three major styles of attachment: secure attachment, ambivalent-insecure attachment, and avoidant-insecure attachment. Later, researchers Main and Solomon (1986) added a fourth attachment style called disorganized-insecure attachment based upon their own research.

Is it justifiable to kill in order to get revenge and peace? The death of Matt and Ruth’s son, Frank altered their lives. Losing their son put them in a dark place taking an enormous toll over their profound emotions. The hatred for Richard Strout, grew stronger daily. The story “Killings” Author Andre Dubus displayed disputes with the values of compassion, courage, and fairness.

Safe Haven was produced by Ryan Kavanaugh, Marty Bowen, and Wyck Godfrey, and it was directed by Lasse Hallström. This film dealt with physical and verbal abuse in a relationship. It showed how it affects a person’s mental state, and how hard it is to move on with your life. The definition of an abusive relationship is a pattern of abusive and coercive behaviors used to maintain power and control over a former or current intimate partner. Abuse can be emotional, financial, sexual or physical and can include threats, isolation, and intimidation.

The book by John Wyndham, The Chrysalids is a perfect example of how the existence of prejudice can have a negative impact on a society. In the novel, citizens are encouraged to behave the way society wants them to behave. Additionally, It can cause them to take actions that can lead them to violence. As well as, the characters are taught that being a certain way is correct and that can influence them on how they look at people and how they look at themselves.

Being a human is very unique. The television show Grey's Anatomy is a great example of human experiences. Some of these examples include life and deaths, emotions, and personal growth. The show is a perfect example of for those three things. These examples happen to everyone and each person goes through them at one point in their life.

Seemingly outnumbered, Nightmare did not so any concern. In fact she shook the boy a little harder. At this, his sister gave a shout and charged towards her. She was fast, an Accelerate. In a flash, she was behind Nightmare and about to land a blow, when Nightmare gave an evil grin.

In the Netflix Original Series “Stranger Things” it shows us how each archetypal character changes over time. The characters play a huge role in the show, the “Bad Boy”, the “Girl-Next-Door”, and the “Scattered Single-Mom” are characters I chose that ended up changing their Archetypal Criticism. In the beginning of the show the characters acted a specific way, different than what they ended up as. The reason why the director did this major change in the characters is so you can see how people can change over time and in real life and what can happen to others that can cause them a huge change. They wanted people to relate to the show but at the same time they wanted to astonish the viewers with fiction and scientific research.