The Use Of Irony In A Good Story By Sherman Alexie

Papa moved to the United States because he did not like what was happening with his family. Papa thought the “teahouse”, a place that serves tea, that his father started was a insult to the family name. Papa’s goal was to make his name great in the United States. To his dismay he finds himself becoming imprisoned in an internment camp,

As America expanded west in the 1800s, conflict with natives was inevitable. In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, asking the natives to give up their land in exchange for money. Some refused to move off their native land, such as the Cherokees. As a result of this, they were removed and forced to make the journey known as the Trail of Tears.

Hester can wear her scarlet letter in public, and has adjusted enough to continue living a normal life. Dimmesdale, on the other hand, lives in secret with his scarlet letter affecting him more every day. He envies how Hester has managed to embrace her scarlet letter, while his guilt is only increasing. At one point, Dimmesdale feels so much envy that he says, “Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom! Mine burns in secret!

Equality’s tunnel resembles Plato’s cave, and the Scholars represent those still not in reality. In fact, “The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist,” a mindset parallel to those unaware of reality (52). Equality travels to the Home of Scholars, attempting to bring them into the light, yet just as those in the Plato’s Allegory, the Scholars do not believe him. It is not until after Equality escapes into the forest, however, that he leaves the cave of morality: “We remembered we are the Damned. We remembered it and laughed” he jested (80).

The medicine man is very accepting of others and changes Tayo’s perspective on his life and his losses. Both his grandmother and the medicine use ancient Native American folklore to teach him how life and the universe

Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates ' letter to his child, Samori, about being a dim individual in America. Other than experiencing youth in Baltimore and his change of a scholarly and political care at Howard University in the 1990s, and the chronicled, as found in his exchange of the courses in which the diminish body has always known about demolition. Coates spots contemporary occasions like the killings of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin in this more noteworthy story of diminish fight. One of his rule musings is the "Dream" - the world in which people who call themselves white involve and the one they needn 't bother with dull bodies inside.

The United States history is marred by many heinous acts. One of the worst is the scar left by the treatment of Native Americans, forcibly moved across country. Americans must learn of this history to ensure that no race is ever so mistreated again. No more should one be forced to be so crushed and hopeless. No one else should ever have to admit that they “will fight no more, forever”

Reizel is fine. So are the children..." (Wiesel 44). Stein started to weep from joy. Wiesel decided to lie because he felt like it was the better option and he believed that giving Stein hope was better than destroying him.

In the being of the Crucible Reverend John Hale felt pride that he was a specialist in the field of witchcraft. He did everything thing that he know how to do but that was not enough to bring a court to Salem. When the author wrote the book people were dealing with the threat of communism and how they thought that it would corrupt the world and get into America. Hale in the story made a choice to stop the hangings, when there was left only the most respected people in Salem but the judge would not hear it. when the court went too far hale just had to quit and when he returned he said to Goody Proctor “..., I have gone this three month like our Lord into the wilderness.

Attempting to completely get rid of their culture by teaching Native American children the “dominant” culture. Zitkala Sa decides to portray what happens to Native American when forced through assimilation by writing The Soft-Hearted Sioux. In The Soft-Hearted Sioux the boy was taught from a young age that his culture is savage and wrong while the white man’s culture is right. The boy testifies that “With the white man's Bible in my hand, and the white man's tender heart in my breast, I returned to my own people. Wearing a foreigner's dress, I walked, a stranger, into my father's village (1847).”

In addition, Quakers tried to govern the state of Rhode Island. According to History.com Staff, a big achievement for the Narragansett colony

He strongly stated of how there was not a logical explanation of why the Americans were locking them up in the camps by providing facts that they were loyal to the United States and they were not any different from the Americans. After analyzing his argument, I conclude that his reasoning is valid. For example, if my home land, Vietnam, had attacked the United States and the government decided that they should lock me up

That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth mainly” (5). From the beginning we know that Huck is the narrator and Mr. Mark Twain is the author and that it is all right if you didn’t read the other novel. In doing so we feel as though a little boy is giving us his story, as it should be. This story will be the true story narrated by Huck Finn unfiltered. Huck for instance learns that “Moses had been dead”

“But all the young folks did not drink intoxicating liquors as a beverage in those days” (Blackbird 4) he explains. He is clearly reminiscing on the past in this statement and how much his tribe’s ways have changed since then. “…but I am very sorry to add that they have also learned profanity like the white children” (Blackbird 10) he explains. Although it is apparent that Blackbird is not fond of the White- American culture, he still identifies himself as American due to the integrating of their culture with

With the Indians finally placed in a spot which is theirs, though far away from where they were born, a fake delegation arises and causes them to withdraw from that land. "It comes to us, not through our legitimate authorities, the known and usual medium of communication between the Government of the United States and our nation, but through the agency of a complication of powers, civil and military. ” (Cherokee letter protesting the Treaty of New Echota, 1836), without looking back, and only viewing their future straight forward, the US takes everything they can and don’t even try to reduce the Native Indians ' pain. Instead of trying to solve the main problem and stop the treaty from forcing the Native Indians out of their land, they sent troops to make it fast and clean. "Our property may be plundered before our eyes; violence may be committed on our persons; even our lives may be taken away, and there is none to regard our complaints. …