The Southpaw Judith Viorst Analysis

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is mainly about four girls named Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia and how they are forced to move to the United States of America. The novel expresses how they struggle adapt and the challenges they face during this transition. The challenges they face are quite similar to the discriminations that black people experienced during those times.

Families are willing to sacrifice anything for each other. Or at least the Kinsella family is willing to! Sacrifice is a primary theme in Shoeless Joe. An example of sacrifice on global terms might be how poor parents sacrifice their dinner so that their children can eat. While there are many themes in the book Shoeless Joe, some of the themes include family, and sacrifice.

Harper Lee has depicted the separation between Caucasians and African-Americans in “To Kill a Mockingbird” by showcasing how White talk and African-American influences conduct between people of different races. For instance, when the children, Scout and Jem went to the church with Calpurnia, and they accessed the church. Subsequently, Harper Lee stated, ‘Calpurnia tilted her hat and scratched her head, then pressed her hat down carefully over her ears. Meanwhile, Calpurnia said, “Now what if I talked white folks' talk at church, and with my neighbours? They'd think I was puttin' on airs to beat Moses” (139). Specifically, Harper Lee stated, she “scratched her head,” referring to Calpurnia, Calpurnia didn’t know how to clearly explain why she utilized two dialects.

This is a passage from the book ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ written by Harper Lee. Tom Robinson has been charged of rapping Mayella Ewell, daughter of Bob Ewell. Atticus, advocate of Tom has done well to prove that Tom is innocent but the tension still exists as Tom Robinson is a black person. Racism against black people, which was present in huge volume in Alabama (where the story takes place), even in the courtroom shows how intense the situations were. This passage shows how an innocent child (Jean Louise) views the racism that is present within Maycomb and its citizens, which causes loss of innocence and hope in several characters. The racism in the passage connects to the idea that black people were considered inferior, which is not true.

In the text, “The Southpaw” by Judith Viorst, Richard cares the most about saving the friendship between him and Janet. Richard tries giving Janet a spot on the team. He also accepts Janet on the team and makes up excuses to try to get Janet on the team. One last thing Richard tries to do is that Richard finally says sorry and yes you can be on the team.

Courage is not strength or skill, it’s simply standing up for what you believe in and what is right. This is the theme that was enrolled after Jem destroys Mrs.Dubose’s camellias and after she died in chapter 11. This passage also reveals Jem’s coming of age moment. After using conflict, symbolism, and point of view, Harper Lee was able to connect the theme with Jems coming of age moment.

The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt is an incredibly detailed and sophisticated work that is successful at highlighting the small overlooked details, especially the motifs, that contribute to this timeless classic. A key recurring motif in the text is the idea of doubles; the parallel characters or groups of characters that ultimately contribute to the connections among the characters and the rising theme. Chesnutt develops a motif of doubles--Janet and Olivia, Ellis and Tom, and Dr. Miller and Josh Green --to explore the ways that humanity’s desire for power and class often result in a chaos that overpowers a balanced social structure.

Hypocrisy is the "moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess." In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many instances of hypocrisy. Many people, at the time were very prejudiced against African-Americans and as a result there were many hypocrites in the Southern States. Some examples of hypocrisy and hypocrites in the book are Aunt Alexandra, Miss Gates, and Mrs. Merriweather.

The testimonies reveal how deep-rooted the racism within Maycomb runs, as it is present even in court rulings and how casually present it is. The court is taking place, and the order of prosecutor’s witnesses who are: Mr. Heck Tate, the sheriff; Mr. Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father; and Mayella Ewell, the one who is accusing Tom Robinson of raping her. When it’s Mr. Ewell’s turn to speak, he does so with many racial slurs and slang embedded in his accusations. When relaying what he saw to the jury, he points at Tom and yells “―I seen that black n*gger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella!” Mr. Ewell, who, although, has never been a part of a court case or viewed one, doesn’t truly care, or notice, that so far into the formal case, not one person has used racial slang to talk about Tom, and uses the term n*gger quite casually.

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, the classic novel by Harper Lee, is centered around the case of a black man being framed for raping a white woman. In the 1930s there was a similar case. The Scottsboro Boys were a group of nine black teenagers accused of raping two white woman on a train. Neither of these cases had any substantial evidence, but the men were still convicted based on the racial inequality of this time period. Although the Scottsboro case and the fictional Tom Robinson case are very similar, the one critical difference was the fate of each of the defendants as prompted by the community. Though the Scottsboro case was terrible and morally wrong, in the end each of the boys was released from prison. Yet unfortunately for Tom Robinson, he

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy- MLK Jr.

Jane Smiley argues that Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn suggests only “a recognition of the obvious -- that blacks, slave and free, are human” and therefore does not deserve to be shelved on the western canon nor taught in schools (Smiley). Contrary to Smiley’s statement, the story educates on many more morals and philosophies in addition to racism and depicts the protagonist Huck fighting against deeply rooted societal conventions at the time (and even in places today) that a black person amounts to less value than a white person. This novel deserves to be on the western canon as it is far more nuanced than Smiley suggests; Huck’s fighting societal prejudices, teaches people to defeat stereotypes and value people not

Although Perry commited a terrible crime, Capote depicts perry as a innocent and push-over person; therefore, true guilt falls upon the manipulator.

We treat each other with great coarseness and continually make no effort to change. It is often evident that those who are treated with such disrespect become extremely grotesque people. There is a plague of corruptness in society everywhere. This plague is not only alive in the South, but in all of society. These poor morals portrayed in the film are spread throughout society and continue to be an issue today. While we may not have the same abuse of women that the south had during the 1940’s, we still have an abuse of greed, pride, and

Through the story of, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is a mostly a classic due to Lee’s usage of sensory details to immerse the reader and propel the story along along with using characterization to make characters more relatable but falls short on appealing to a middle and upper-class demographic instead of just a poorer group when talking about the Ewell family. It is important for stories to create a rich world because that is much more enjoyable and immersive for the readers. Rich worlds are one of the number one categories for not only good books but also classics. It is also crucial for a timeless classic to be relatable so that readers are able to get hooked on a story. This allows