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louise fiction analyzing.
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Topic: fiction analyzing.
Fictional stories are creative stories author’s imagined or are in relation to personal experience, and they put into writing. In analyzing this story, will understand the various aspects and attributes of fictional writing which include; tones, styles of writing, character evaluation, the theme of the story, roles of certain characters and the various styles of writing that are incorporated to this story.
In the story, the author has decided to create an emotion moving story that explains the relaying and receipt of the death news of Louise’s husband. The writer has used repetition in some of the sentences, for example, free, free, free; this is usually used to show emphasis or stress on a certain point or issue. Use of symbolism is also present in the narrative, when she stared into the sky; there were patches of blue amongst the clouds. The meaning of this form of style used is to try and show, in all the sad and sorrow emotion turmoil in her there was still a speck of hope and joy. There is the use of similes, which is used to describe a certain character or situation synonymously to character or situation. Irony use in literature brings out the opposite of what was or is expected. It is ironical when Louise dies of a heart attack because of the joy of seeing her husband; opposite to what was expected in the beginning where they thought she would die from the news that her husband was dead. The other ironical aspect of the narrative is that, the whole story was about Louise coming into terms with her husband’s death; she is mourning and crying because of his death while in the end she is the one who passes on.
Plot in a narrative is usually used o explain the various part of the narrative, the protagonist, the obstacles, the climax of events, complications the objective of the protagonist and the theme of the narrative (Spack,5). In the story Louise is the main character and the author chose her to be the main person in the narrative for she is emotional, she loves her husband and as sad for she lost him and at the same time she is hopeful and strong despite the sad news of her husband’s death. While describing the plot we analyze what was the protagonist objective, Louise is used to describe a loving character, and at the same time a strong and hopeful character. The theme of the story is death. The whole story describes the death and mourning of Brently Mallard. And at the end the story it talks about the death of Louise Mallard. The climax of the narrative comes close to the end where Brently arrives on the front door alive after all the mourning and crying of his friend, sister-in-law and his wife.
Josephine, Louise’s sister has a loving character as she is with her sister and cares enough to break the news to her the most sensitive way. She is also supportive, as she tries to explain the death of her sister’s husband and she stands by her. She is caring as she tries to stop her sister from doing anything that will make her ill. Richard on the other hand has a supportive character; he waits at the bottom and is present in the house as Louise learns about death of her husband. He has a trustworthy, as Mallards friend he takes the responsibility to know about his death and tends to details about the accident. Both Josephine and Richard represent supportive friend and family as the take care of Louise.
The tone and mood of the narrative describes the emotions the narrative sets on the reader. The author has used a wistful tone. Throughout the story, Louise is mourning and longing for her dead husband. The wistful tone made the narrative more emotional mostly grief and sad. This is illustrated by the crying and hysterical emotion in her. The narrative evokes a sad and sorrowful mood. He or she used the mood so as to give the theme more meaning and also, it is used to set the tone of the narrative. Through the mourning and crying this is clearly illustrated.
The writers point of view is described through the third person, through use of ‘she’ (Antonacci, 139). This helps to describe to enable the reader to get see and visualize as the character in the narrative is. The use of ‘she’ to represent Louise, helps us learn about her character and her thoughts. If another point of view was used, such as the second person that involves the use of your and you, the author would not be able to speak directly to the reader but this would give the readers a chance to participate in the story; making the reader more intimate and personal with the characters.
The story takes part during the day, it involves a death strike family, and the events of the story take part in the house of Mr and Mrs Mallard. The setting of the narrative describes a cloudy almost rainy environment. This brings out the symbolism of the narrative (sad and misty). The story is placed in a loving and supportive family hence it is able to bring out the characteristics of the characters. If the setting was altered to a different place, or time aspects such as symbolism would not be included. But aspects such as time and place would not greatly affect the tone or mood of the narrative neither the theme.
Through description of all the above aspects of writing, readers are able to know more about the narrative, get to know the main intention of the writer as he or she was writing the text. Description of the tone, setting, plot, attributes of characters and the styles of writing used is all considered as part of analyzing any form of literature.
Spack, Ruth. Instructor’s manual to accompany The international story– an anthology with guidelines for reading and writing about fiction. Cambridge [Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Print.
Antonacci, Patricia A. A., and Catherine M. M. Callaghan. Promoting Literacy Development 50 Research-Based Strategies for K-8 Learners.. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2011. Print.
Difference between Sociology and Sociological Imagination
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Sociology and Sociological Imagination
The Difference between Sociology and Sociological Imagination
Sociology is the methodical analysis of dealings among people with assumptions that behavior is impacted by occupational, political, intellectual, and social groupings and by the specific settings in which people find themselves. Sociology looks at how individuals see themselves and how much of their life’s outcomes integrate with the influence of the society (Giddens and Griffiths 26). The individual perception and the comprehension of society are important to social imagination. Social imagination is the ability to see one’s personal difficulties and private imagination as well as the structural arrangements of the society and the times of one’s life. Social imagination aid in developing an understanding and even depicts the existence of community to an individual. Mills defines sociological imagination as the ability to think for ourselves away from habitual and common routines. Sociological imagination is the ability to view things that are in connection. Social imagination helps a person in understanding history and biography as well as their relationship within society. It also helps a person in differentiating between social issues and personal problems.
Social Issues and Personal Problems
The difference between issues and troubles is vital for comprehending the opportunity of nature. There is a belief by sociologists that opportunities that are available to people and their preferred choices depend on the social context. Personal issues happen when there is opportunity but personal misgivings prevent achievement. A personal problem only affects the individual. It affects his lifestyle. The problem has no effect on the society. Personal problems can take many forms such as smoking, depression, obesity, unemployment, lost of a loved one, and much more. Only the condition affects that individual. The society never has a clue of the problem and does not help. Public troubles occur when the conditions (structural) for opportunity and development fail, which affects the whole society. The society is affected in many ways that are unavoidable and uncontrollable. Violence, poverty, human rights, justice, equality, and crime are examples of contemporary social problems present within the society. For example, a personal problem ensues when a man is sacked because of a fraudulent case in a company. However, if many persons are fired in a company because of their origin or skin color then this issue is public. Personal efficacy refers to an individual’s beliefs about his capability to meet challenging goals. Personal efficacy is a filter through which an individual evaluates his experiences and makes decisions based on judgments. Self-efficacy beliefs define the strength of a person’s sense of personal confidence, and mastery of the person’s abilities to influence a decision. Locus of control is the end to which persons believe that they can control happenings that affect their lives. People with high internal locus of control deem that events occur chiefly because of one’s actions and behavior. Those with high external locus of control believe that chance, fate, or authoritative persons determine events. Those with high internal locus of control have greater control of their actions and tend to expose more political behaviors than those with high external locus. They are more active in looking for knowledge and information about their situation than externals do.
Film Information
Trading paces is a film about a snobbish investor and a crafty street con artist who found their positions reserved as part of a bet by two unfeeling millionaires. John Landis directed the film. The lead actor’s name is Eddy Murphy. The film was produced on 16 June 1963, in the United States of America (Zimmerman 21).
Social Issue in the Film
The social issue problem present in the film is the separation between upper classes and lower classes in a society. The images of Philadelphia in the movie bring a sharp contrast between the wealthy and the poor. The filmmakers use statues of a world hero to represent the rich and the statue of the famous Rocky to represent the lower class. Coleman making breakfast and chauffeuring his boss, Winthorpe, to and from job contrasts sharply with the long lines and the subway. Poor people wait for the rich. Coleman who is Winthorpe’s chauffeur waits for him and always takes him to work as well as bring him back home. The employees’ treatment by the Duke Brothers and Winthorpe depicts the social disparity between the affluent and the underprivileged. Employees are the first to make the move of greeting employers. The employers would sequentially return the greeting gesture or fail to. For instance, the Duke Brothers never responded at all. People at the same level of the society are friendlier to each other while different classes overlook each other. Mortimer high-fives his brother and slaps him on the ass. Moreover, Ophelia went as far as slapping her friend on the butt when they greeted each other.
The above issue is definitely a social issue and not a personal issue. Personal issues usually affect individuals and the society is usually unaware of it. Moreover, personal issues can easily be resolved. The above issue is social because it affects the society as a whole. The difference in social classes in a society is a common social problem. The rich treat the poor with disdain. The various means on public transports in the society are common with the poor while private means are for the rich. Poverty according to our previous definition lies in the category of social problems. This problem cannot have an easy solution. The society has no control over it.
Reality
In the American society, there exist various variations in material possessions, wealth, authority and power, as well as prestige. There are also differences in education, leisure, and healthcare. A child in every ten lives below the poverty line in major industrial countries, but a child in five in the United States. These differences in outcomes and resources form the basis of inequality. The various social classes that exist in the United States are: upper class-elite, which represent leaders of institutions, leaders of multinational corporations, universities, and foundations. Those who own lands, bonds and stocks and other forms of assets are in the elite. For instance, Forbes magazine prints a list of the top 400 richest families in America. The net worth in 1997 was at least $475 million. The upper middle class is another social class in America. This represents technical and scientific knowledge- accountants, engineers, architects, lawyers, managers, university faculty, and directors of both private and public institutions. They have high income and social prestige. This is the biggest social group in the US because middle class is more than just income; it is about lifestyle and resources. The lower middle class is also another social class. This is Clerical administrative. Give support for professionals; engage in record keeping, and data collection. Paralegal such as ban tellers are also in this category. Blue-collar employees in skilled trades are found here. Working class is for restaurant workers, laborers in factories, construction workers, nursing home staff, and much more. Most or those who repair shops, garages and deliver services fall in this group. The last social group is the poor. The poor, who work, work full-time at jobs below poverty line. The poor are mostly found to offer social services.
Biography of John Landis
John Landis commenced his occupation in the mailroom of the 20th Century-Fox. He dropped out of high school in 1970 and went to Yugoslavia where he went to assist in production of Kelly’s Heroes. While in Europe, he also worked as an actor and stuntman in Spanish/Italian “spaghetti” westerns. After returning to US, he began his debut in 1921 as a writer-director with Schlock. He made his subsequent movie, Kentucky Fried Movie, in alliance with Jim Abrahams and Zucker brothers in 1977. He rose to international recognition when he directed Animal House in 1978. He has pioneered numerous most trendy and historic comedies like The Blues Brothers in 1980, Trading Places in 1983, Spies like Us in1985, Three amigos in1986, and Coming to America in1988 . In 1983, he edited the music video of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Thriller completely changed MTV and the idea of music videos, earning him multiple accolades. In 1991, John worked with Jackson on Black or White, which showed simultaneously in 27 nations with a crowd of close to 500 million audiences. Though not his first movie, Black or White enhanced digital morphing, where an object appears to metamorphose into another; the program raised the standard of the contemporary special events in videos of music. He has also participated as an executive producer of Ace- and Emmy in 1990. The television displays created in his institution, St. Clare entertainment, include Sliders (1995), Weird Science (1994), The Lost World (1998), Campus Cops (1995), and I Shrunk the Kids in 1997. In 2004, his feature-length documentary was broadcast. An original episode lasting for an hour,Deer Woman, drafted by his son Max and him, championed the series Masters of Horror in the fall of 1995 on Showtime.
Landis has worked for various companies including Direct TV, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Taco Bell, Disney, and Kellogg’s as a commercial director. He became Chevalier dans I’order des et Letters in 1985, given the prize of Federico Fellini by a Cinema Festival in Italy, and touted as George Eastman Scholar by House of Eastman in Rochester. The Torino Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival serve to keep the career skeptics of his movies.
In 2004, he got an award for his career by the Time Machine while in a Film Festival, the Sitges, in Spain. He has lectured many film universities and schools including NYU, UCSB, UCLA, USC, Yale, Texas A &M, University of Miami, Indiana University, and The North Carolina of the Arts as a filmmaker sent by the Academic Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. He acted as an advisor and teacher to aspiring filmmakers at Utah in Sundance Institute. Moreover, he edited the best written movies in 2001 at Thunder’s mouth Press. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1952 and transfered to Los Angeles immediately after his birth. He married Nadoolman, Deborah, a costume designer nominated for the Oscar Awards, and Costume Guild president with whom they sired two children.
Theory: Social Conflict Theory
It is a social theory, which argues that social classes and individuals within society have varying amounts of non-material and material resources (the rich versus the poor), and that powerful social classes use their power to exploit groups with less power and authority. Social conflict theory places transformation in place. Social conflict is the problem created from the brush between contending groups in the process of embracing social change. Significant social changes involve social conflicts. Social conflict theory depicts comprehension of importance of social conflict in trying to bring common good. It helps people arrive at a common ground, define core values, form alliances, identify different viewpoints, and come up with a plan of action to effect the desirable change. Social conflict theory dictates that no group should dominate other groups in a democratic society.
The film exposes many instances that support this theory. There are two groups of social classes in the film- the rich and the poor. The rich include the Duke Brothers and Winthorpe. The poor include Coleman, Ophelia, Chauffeur, the con, Valentine, and the prostitute. The wealthy are using their powers to influence the lives of the poor. For instance, the Duke Brothers swap the lives of a pauper with that of an upper class individual, Winthorpe, to confirm a bet. The manifest how the rich have dominion over many jobs and give them to people almost at will to satisfy their needs. The duke brothers also use Clarence Beeks to obtain insider information on the future of orange juice. It also shows how the rich use their wealth to influence the poor and control the market. However, the poor realized the plot of the rich in the movies and used it against the rich. The con and Winthorpe hit back when they realized that the rich had reversed their lives. The movie ends with the poor having subdued the rich in their plots. This shows a social fight between the rich and the poor in the society.
The Relevance of the Project
The project is very informative in that it helps one know the difference between sociology and social imagination and they apply in real life situations. Watching a movie with a sociological touch expands a person’s knowledge. An individual learns how to scrutinize a movie in a sociological approach and compares it with real life social theories. The project also gives one an insight into the writing of biographies, a discipline less taught. Social and personal issues in the project have a clear distinction based on the evidences depicted. This gives one the power to inform others on the difference between the two in society with various examples. Social theory enables on e understand the importance of social conflicts in trying to bring a level playground in the society.
Works Cited
Giddens, A., & Griffiths, S. (2006). Sociology. Cambridge, UK [u.a.: Polity Press.
Zimmerman, S. (2010). Food in the Movies. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co.
lombroso, criminal woman
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Cesare Lombroso is considered to be among the first people to try and scientifically prove that crime and a criminal can be studied and analysed scientifically. He wrote a book, co-authored by Guglielmo Ferrero, known as the criminal woman; it tried to explain the criminal mind and the born criminal. In the text below we will try and illustrate and explain some of Lombroso’s work by answering the question:
What are some of the main ideas of his school about sexual difference and women?
Lombroso is a criminal anthropologist who wrote a book that centred itself on studying the female gender. He greatly tried to explain what leads women to behave and react to things as they do. Women are a different species from men and are quite different from how man views her.
2) The book la Donna diliquente “the criminal woman” was written and published in the year 1893 in the country of Italy Europe. In the original book Lombroso tried to describe women, it showed all that a female criminal would do which included prostitution and lesbianism.
3) Charles Darwin, a famous archaeologist who wrote the book ”origin of man” also tries to explain the sexual differences between men and women and also tries to explain more about women sexuality. According to him and Hunter, women have a need to be courted and often try to flee from the male who have a stronger sexual desire than females. This is explained by the great difference in the structure of the female ovum and the sperm. Evolution diminishes sexual sensitivity in women.
Women according to Lombroso are less sexually sensitive as compared to the male species which in the human setting are men (Lombroso, 1893). Women have less sexual pains and physical torture in the absence of sex compared to men. A woman is more likely to have her sexual desire die out faster if not reignited and also they require more sexual stimulus so as to give in to sex. If seduction is not present a woman is usually emotionless and feels almost nothing during intercourse. This explains the difference in women compared to men toward sexuality.
Maternity in women raises two distinct instincts which include both compassion (love) and cruelty. Women and most mothers lose their sexual desire during pregnancy. But antonymous to the previous concept, women also get sexual y aroused during pregnancy. Compassion on the other hand comes from maternity. Women are the weaker sex when it comes to compassion and they display love for the weak ones as it provides sentimental reference to their infant; motherly instinct.
The question of will and power in women can be answered the fact that women are considered to be very emotional. They are very wilful but lack the necessary power to implement their will. Generally men posses more power as compared to women.
Women have greater impulsivity to emotions especially compassion, this makes them weak and unable to eliminate but be cruel to their offenders. They have lesser degree of control over anger and situations that make them upset. These factors make them emotionally unstable. As evolution progresses cruelty slowly changes to pity. Due to compassion women are found to be mediators between morality and justice. Women would sympathise with wrongdoers.
Christianity brought about the beginning of pity in women. Christianity did not bring about women’ compassion but helped in its manifestation. Education on the other hand brought or lead to civilization and it gave more reasoning to compassion. This influenced women emotional stability (Lombroso , 1893).
Moral sensitivity is weaker in women as compared to men. Women suffer more than women, they are able to endure it all; due to their organic nature. But their will power is cut short by the lack of enthusiasm. They are dull when it comes to pain according to Darwin.
Women intelligent power is low as compared to men especially when it comes to creativity. This is attributed to less exposure to the environment, lack of opportunity for intellectual labour and lack of creativity power. Women grow weaker as evolution continues men become stronger. Women grow more dependent for survival.
Some of the criminal tendencies of women include prostitution, lesbianism. Due to their nature this are some of the criminal components of women. Which he clearly described to be crimes and his influence led to constraints being set on prostitution
Lombroso was widely dismissed for the contents of his book and has been deemed to be ridiculous. For his work though he was invited to address on various issues including politics and socials talks. He took part in talks that included more than just talks on law and crime. He addressed other issues such as foreign policy. Most of his followers were politicians and ministers from the parliament. Some of the consequences of his work were the fact that it made prostitution seem like a bad thing and led to the imposing of tight laws towards it. Prostitutes had to register with the local police and undergo check up. His influence was contrary to the development of organisations that supported women. Thus he was against feminism.
Lombroso, C., & Ferrero, . G. (1893). The Female Offender. rome: Wm. S. Hein Publishing.