This is the quote i choose, "The abolitionists may well call me their equal, but their lips do not yet say my name and their ears do not yet hear my story. Not the way i want to tell it. But i have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who i am. This is how i got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like the restful beast with the lungs breathing and heart beating."pg 101. I chose the quote because i think this is one of themes of this book it has a deep meaning to it. Aminata is a smart, strong willed girl and she is one of the most fortunate of Africans to come across the sea to America. She was taught how to read, learn math, and her skills of a mid-wife gave her an advantage to survive the slavery of the Africans. This quote says that the English, the "white" men are selfish. They do not see who Aminata truly is, they do not hear her story like they should, and they look down on her. Aminata is just another reason that they could use to stop the war. What is truly terrible is that people still think that way to this very day, when people think of Africa the first think that comes to their mind is savages, loin clothes, Africans sleeping with the lions, and their homes are huts. When Aminata goes to the library with Mr. Lindo he shows her a map of Africa there are sketches of elephants, lions, bare-breasted women, and a monkey on a mans shoulder. They have never been to their land and their way of living is better then ours. They do not go to war with one another and kill each other, they are equal they live in a circle so they can all socialize together and be a huge family. Aminitas knowledge helps her escape the horrors of whats going on in the world around her and finds herself in a safer world. Her knowledge of reading, writing, great diction, and two African languages gives herself a freedom from where ever she finds. Knowledge is freedom, with it you can accomplish so many things.
"The book of Negroes" relates to the Holocaust. The Africans homes, land were invaded and they were taken from it to be slaves in America. In the Holocaust the Jewish were taken from their homes by the Germans and put into camps to be tortured and to be slaves. Both the African and the Jewish were given a symbol of some sort of branding to represent who they were. They were both treated as if they were aliens to the world and wished to inflict some sort of danger upon us. Everybody in the world went along with this being the right thing to do because it was what people were doing nobody objected or took a stand against it they just stood by it. The dangers of indifference and unresponsiveness will conclude in this. No human should be treated with such cruelty because of there nationality, color of skin, or back round. They are still human and have the same rights as anyone else in the world. People who do such things because of there race, those people are not human and do not deserve rights.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Lottery and The Perils of Indifference
1. "The Perils of Indifference"....The Danger of Crime and Punishment.. The Consequences of abstraction and the seduction of evil
2. In the story The Lottery the ending was very ironic. How the story is explained until the point where Mrs. Hutchinson is stoned to death by her friends her own kids and husband is perfectly normal just like any other day where the sun is shining and the kids are playing. "The Lottery" is an ironic title for the story when you read or hear the word lottery you think of happiness, luck and money. You do not think of death by the townspeople which is so disturbing that those people in the story show no sort of emotion to events taking place, they do not try to stop or object whats going to happen to their mother, wife, and friend. You can connect these events to the story to many events that have happened in history such as the holocaust where the townspeople do not show emotion as they are killing off one of there own just like the Nazis in the holocaust and Mrs Hutchinson who is so helpless and being betrayed on so many different levels just like the Jewish. You can connect it the Rwanda genocide where the Tutsis are killing off the Hutu's when they are both so much like, also you can connect it to books that have been written about the event and a movie called "Hotel Rwanda". Also you can relate it to events that are happening today not in such a tragic way but there are bullies in school that are beating on younger kids who are just like them and judges that give criminals a death sentence without showing a hint of emotion when the declare their fate. The Lottery also relates to the book i read called The Hunger Games. The Hunger games is in more of a futuristic world with alot of violance. Every year there is the hunger games where two people from each district, there is twelve in total and one boy and girl is chosen from each. There names are written on papers in big spheres which entails death or victory. Which relates to the box from The Lottery.
3. Elie Wiesel was a victim in the holocaust who wrote a detailed book about his life and surviving in the holocaust called "Night" and has wrote over forty books about wartime atrocities against the Jewish people. His speech "The Perils of Indifference" is very powerful and emotional. It relates the to the story "The Lottery" in many ways. Elie's speech he is talking about real events in the world and "The Lottery" is using symbolism to relate to such events. "The Lottery was written in 1945 which is right during the World War two and the holocaust. Mrs Hutchinson is the Jewish people, the Hutu's, the Jewish people on the boat who came to the shores of America and were sent right back to where they cam from, Mrs Hutchinson is the Japanese who we turned against because we thought they were spies and we put them in internment camps and destroyed their shops and sold their homes. Mrs Hutchinson is everyone who is helpless and cannot defend herself because in the end they could not avoid death. The townspeople in "The lottery are the Nazis, they are the people who did not act against the holocaust who just pretended everything was okay, who were indifferent, the Tutsis, and they are the U.S.A who turned away the boat of hundreds of Jewish people that they could have saved. Mr Summers who was in charge of the black box which decided every body's fate was Hitler, the one in charge of it all. Mr Summers was and is everyone with a title that could have done something to stop or make a difference but simply chose not to because they were too scared.
2. In the story The Lottery the ending was very ironic. How the story is explained until the point where Mrs. Hutchinson is stoned to death by her friends her own kids and husband is perfectly normal just like any other day where the sun is shining and the kids are playing. "The Lottery" is an ironic title for the story when you read or hear the word lottery you think of happiness, luck and money. You do not think of death by the townspeople which is so disturbing that those people in the story show no sort of emotion to events taking place, they do not try to stop or object whats going to happen to their mother, wife, and friend. You can connect these events to the story to many events that have happened in history such as the holocaust where the townspeople do not show emotion as they are killing off one of there own just like the Nazis in the holocaust and Mrs Hutchinson who is so helpless and being betrayed on so many different levels just like the Jewish. You can connect it the Rwanda genocide where the Tutsis are killing off the Hutu's when they are both so much like, also you can connect it to books that have been written about the event and a movie called "Hotel Rwanda". Also you can relate it to events that are happening today not in such a tragic way but there are bullies in school that are beating on younger kids who are just like them and judges that give criminals a death sentence without showing a hint of emotion when the declare their fate. The Lottery also relates to the book i read called The Hunger Games. The Hunger games is in more of a futuristic world with alot of violance. Every year there is the hunger games where two people from each district, there is twelve in total and one boy and girl is chosen from each. There names are written on papers in big spheres which entails death or victory. Which relates to the box from The Lottery.
3. Elie Wiesel was a victim in the holocaust who wrote a detailed book about his life and surviving in the holocaust called "Night" and has wrote over forty books about wartime atrocities against the Jewish people. His speech "The Perils of Indifference" is very powerful and emotional. It relates the to the story "The Lottery" in many ways. Elie's speech he is talking about real events in the world and "The Lottery" is using symbolism to relate to such events. "The Lottery was written in 1945 which is right during the World War two and the holocaust. Mrs Hutchinson is the Jewish people, the Hutu's, the Jewish people on the boat who came to the shores of America and were sent right back to where they cam from, Mrs Hutchinson is the Japanese who we turned against because we thought they were spies and we put them in internment camps and destroyed their shops and sold their homes. Mrs Hutchinson is everyone who is helpless and cannot defend herself because in the end they could not avoid death. The townspeople in "The lottery are the Nazis, they are the people who did not act against the holocaust who just pretended everything was okay, who were indifferent, the Tutsis, and they are the U.S.A who turned away the boat of hundreds of Jewish people that they could have saved. Mr Summers who was in charge of the black box which decided every body's fate was Hitler, the one in charge of it all. Mr Summers was and is everyone with a title that could have done something to stop or make a difference but simply chose not to because they were too scared.
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