Racial Discrimination In The Silver Bell

Passage 1- Pages 84-85 My first passage is on the occasion of Missus Lu slicing her cheek. Missus Lu is acting hysterical, making rash decisions to regain things she has lost since she has moved to Bell Creek. She believes that since moving to Bell Creek, she has been robbed of her beauty. Missus seems to be repeating the point of her enticing beauty.

In this case, her beauty is a ticket to get violated either at home or outside. Last but not least, Sally gets abused by boys because of her beauty. In “The Monkey Garden”, a group of boys steal her keys. This next excerpt is the most shocking,

Moreover, Aylmer takes on the challenge of convincing her to make this transition because he knows that Georgiana is strong and in order to convince her, he must be overly zealous and consumed with the possibilities of changing her beauty with the rapid advancements of

This symbolizes Boo Radley, a man that is surrounded by the many rumors about him. Setting: The story takes place in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. Tone: Based on Scout’s perspective, she speaks somewhat naïve and innocent.

She begins to realize within time that unfortunately she has taken

The main character’s name, Goodman Brown, represents how good he is and how faithful he is. His wife, Faith, fully represents Goodman Brown’s faith and purity. At first, his wife, Faith, was at home which symbolizes his faith was still intact and safe: "Then God bless you!" said Faith, with the pink ribbons, "and may you find all well, when you come back." However, Goodman Brown would not be coming home well as he ventures into the woods and finds Faith’s pink ribbon, which symbolizes that his faith has been taken from him.

The world she lived in was so ugly and plain and she choose to “create beauty in the midst of [all that] ugliness" (62). This helps to create the theme because even though Miss Lottie had so little she still worked hard to care for the beautiful marigolds. In “Marigolds” the author uses diction, symbolism and point of view, to develop the theme that people can create beauty even in the poorest of situations. Through diction, Collier is able to show the reader the contrast between the beauty of the marigolds compared to the run-down town the story is set in.

She “always felt respect when face-to-face with a middle or late pretty. But in the presence of this cruelly beautiful man, respect was saturated with rear” (Westerfeld 98). Observe how she always has these emotions towards the pretties. Regardless of who they are, middle or late pretties, she admired them. Likewise, at any time she meets a current pretty, she is astonished and whenever she sees a Special, she was frightened.

Although both Georgiana and Jane lived the same era, in which their husbands dominated them, their behaviors, social reputation, and tolerance differed. Georgiana from “The Birthmark” and Jane, from “The Yellow

Depending upon what society says is pretty is what everyone believes is beautiful, therefore, Ms. Tyler believes that she was not beautiful enough. (“The Eye of the

When Miss Brill arrives at the concert she begins people watching. As she curiously looks around she spots a “beautiful woman” carrying a bunch of violets that she drops (836). A young boy quickly picks up the violets for the lady and runs “to hand them to her” she took the violets and “threw them away as if they’d been poisoned” (836). Furthermore, Miss Brill witnesses a young lady “pleased to see” even “delighted” a gentlemen in grey (836). The young lady describes where she was on the “charming day” she went “everywhere, here, there, along by the sea” and the gentlemen responded with cruelty (836).

From an oppressor to an oppressed, the transferring of power is always accompanied with sorrow and shock. Under the background of post-apartheid South Africa, Lurie, the protagonist in J. M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, is one of the typical cases which experience this transferring. From his perspective of adjusting into new South Africa, the intensified race corruption and culture contradiction is shown; meanwhile, one can also explore the historical periods and identities of the colonial South Africa by inferring how those contradictions were formed. South Africa’s race contradiction can trace back to the apartheid policies. Apartheid was abolished in 1948, put segregation in public facilities, social resources, employment opportunities, and so on upon people in South Africa.

The narrator claims, that beauty is essential to give us a purpose of life. It has the ability to transform our surroundings, and get us to a higher spiritual level. He explores

140 years ago, imagine being in bondage, oppressed, maybe even tortured; to have to go about your life constantly under the watch of someone else; to be bruised and beaten and broken—all because of the color of your skin. Imagine being someone who was free, but oppressed in other ways; to be unable to work the same way that a man was no matter how smart you were, to be forced into doing what “ladies” do; to be stepped over and disregarded—all because of the gender you were born as. These qualities are just some of the degrading aspects of inequality. These aspects have not completely disappeared in the modern day; they are just not as blunt as before. Equality comes with progress and progress takes time.

The black South Africans see through the incident as a resentful event which “will be another piece of evidence in their truth about the country.” (Gordimer, 1992, p.105).   The black South Africans have been offended with unjustified segregation and