Box Theory: the theory of roles
Who are we to decide who we are in society, more often than not society chooses who we are and others accept it as truth. Some would say that everybody is like a box and we have a certain place we fit into in the world, but then one question remains. Can we escape from the place society gives us or are we stuck in your place forever? In the short story “Breaking and Entering”, Sherman Alexie creates a sense of tension through his use of stereotypes, to suggest that society has a limited set of expectations and goals for individuals depending on their race.
A great example of how Sherman Alexie uses stereotypes to push an individual into a group is when Elder Briggs’s mother, Althea Riggs, was talking to a reporter and said “The police don't care about my son because he’s black… He’s just another black boy killed by a white
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He thinks to himself “Since I wasn't interested in defending my property, and since my family and I were not directly threatened, what part of myself could I have possibly been defending? In the end, I don't think I wasn't defending anything at all.” one could say he wasn't killing to defend anything but rather play his part in society as a white guy who kills black kids. Even though that's not who he is that's just how society sees him. During the entire walk past the basement door we get George trying to convince himself to get out of there and get to safety and yet he still went down to the basement with a baseball bat in hand ready to use it. In the end he kills Elder Briggs not because he wanted to but because society forced him to.
Throughout the story that sherman Alexie uses race to assign roles to people. It proves that this theory of boxes has power over everyone however in the end do you truly control yourself, or does society control you and your
No,George is not justified in the shooting of Lennie, According to the Religion, Law, and Premeditation. First, George is not justified due to Religion. In the bible it says hate is murder and whoever hate will not have eternal life. Others may say they don’t read the bible.
Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ‘em.” (pg. 106) and then he pulled the trigger. George believed that if his best friend had to die, he shouldn’t have to
George's justification for shooting Lennie is to keep him from experiencing the pain that will follow the consequences of his actions. Lennie is going to be lynched, seemingly beaten up, furthermore Curley is going to kill Lennie. George also perceives that even if they were to escape, it would be just a matter of time before Lennie has another "accident" and kills someone else. George knows he can't protect Lennie from society, as he also cannot protect society from Lennie. Killing Lennie before he is caught is the only kind thing to do.
He wanted to foreshadow death. More specifically, a death in which the killer had no desire to kill. George didn’t want to kill Lennie in the end, you could tell it was difficult for him. “The hand shook violently, but his face set and his hand steadied. He pulled the trigger.”
The night of the murder , he might have been angry at something that night and just so happens that Trayvon was walking and George had an opportunity to relieve he anger on somebody. In September 2013 George estranged wife called the police and told the dispatcher that her husband hit her father and threatened her with a gun. Later she decided to file charges on him.
This statement is inaccurate as when we are raised in a world where everyone thinks the same and are hardly ever influenced by outside sources, choices we are forced into making can lead to a distorted idea of who we know ourselves to be. When we are forced into making choices that lead to us having this distorted identity we try to fight the identity we have created. This can be shown through both texts Jasper Jones and Pleasantville, as illustrated by Ruth Bucktin and the people who live in the town of Pleasantville. In the novel Jasper Jones we can see that choices we were once forced to make can lead to a distorted idea of who we know ourselves to be.
George had to shoot Lennie in order to protect others from lennie 's misjudgements and to save himself from
I read books late into the night, until I could barely keep my eyes open… I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life.” Being like Sherman Alexie meant he was neither accepted as a smart non-Indian boy, nor was he accepted as a dumb Indian boy. He was lost in the shadows, to never be welcomed into either group. Which in his case was a good thing, there in the shadows he had even more time to gain intelligence, he could read and increase his likelihood of forcing open the cement door that stood in his way.
In his book the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie portrays a teenage boy, Arnold Spirit (junior) living in white man’s world, and he must struggle to overcome racism and stereotypes if he must achieve his dreams. In the book, Junior faces a myriad of misfortunes at his former school in ‘the rez’ (reservation), which occurs as he struggles to escape from racial and stereotypical expectations about Indians. For Junior he must weigh between accepting what is expected of him as an Indian or fight against those forces and proof his peers and teachers wrong. Therefore, from the time Junior is in school at reservation up to the time he decides to attend a neighboring school in Rearden, we see a teenager who is facing tough consequences for attempting to go against the racial stereotypes.
The main reason George killed Lennie is because Lennie would have killed somebody again. And the evidence is clearly there, the pet mice that he killed, the poor puppy that he accidently hit to hard, and especially Curley’s wife. He almost killed the girl in weed if he had gone any further. The sad thing is is that he doesn't know how strong he really is, nor does he know what he’s done wrong in the first place.
This sets the stage for the narrator to ponder his prior life in Seattle and his experience of dealing with racism whenever in a prominent white neighborhood. Instead, Alexie, has his character show a resilience towards a challenging situation, by not responding with hostility or even fear but with the ability to defuse the situation by lightening it up with wit and humor. His protagonist character’s ability to brush off these situations as a normal aspect of living off the reservation plays an interesting take on what Alexie himself dealt with on a constant basis when he left his reservation for
These stereotypes are labels that evoke images of oppression, segregation and exploitation of minorities in America. Meanwhile reinforcing the dominance in a social hierarchy. The film Imitation of Life (1959) indicates the power behind stereotypes. It strongly depicts the relationship between a Black American woman, Annie Johnson
George Gearson was not brought up to love war or admire feats of valor that occurred within it. He was highly skeptical of its true purpose and the motives behind it, and for the most part saw it as a bloody joke. George wanted to share the same ideals of Editha Bascom because of his love for her, but he was unable to. He was a timid lad according to his mother, but once he resolved to do a thing, he would do it.
Stereotypes and a false representation of characterization are both used throughout the film about the role that women play in society. In this