Bitter And Sweet Quotes

The experience is different for everyone since the experience relies on what you are and where you are at that time. Whether it is being Jewish in Germany or being a Japanese American in the United States, people still go through that difficult experience. In Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, Keiko is trying her hardest to get through the hatred towards her and her family. The discrimination also affects the people around her such as Henry, who is a Chinese kid that is friends with Keiko. Later in the story, there is a scene where Henry tries to buy something. The clerk did not react very well because of how he looked. The author, Jamie Ford, wrote “The clerk stood there, her fist dug into her hip. ‘We don't serve people like you—besides, my husband is off fighting…’ ‘I'll buy it,’ Henry said, putting his ‘I Am Chinese’ button on the counter next to Keiko's two dollars. ‘I said, I'll buy it please’” (114). This scene shows how people quickly jumped to assumptions without any real proof; just like the government when they sent all those Japanese Americans to internment camps. Later throughout the story, Keiko and Henry become apparent of the Internment Camps and how the Japanese are forcibly being sent there. The issue thickens as later in the book, Jamie Ford states “Henry looked at the paper in Keiko’s hand. The bolt type screamed INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSON OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY. It was all about Japanese families being forced to evacuate for their own safety” (124). As Henry panics, he tells his family about everything and how they are sending his friend away. Japanese families are being sent away without any reason at all. The people sending them away are assuming that they had a part of the bombing. Obviously, his father does not care and it results in further tension between the two. Henry becomes furious at his dad and declares he had enough. He does the impossible for

There are many different ideas and thoughts on religion and anti-religion. There is not a certain set amount of religions, but rather a broad spectrum of them. In Wise Blood, the author Flannery O’Connor, created a character who has developed different beliefs throughout his life. Hazel Motes, or Haze, was born into a Christian family with a grandfather who was a preacher. He had intent to become one himself until WW2 drastically altered his beliefs. Haze entered the war as a Christian, but came back an atheist. Hazel, “newly released from the Army, has fled after finding his family home abandoned” (Harris). Throughout this novel, Hazel has a hard time with his mind changing between what he wants to believe and what he actually believes.

African Americans and Japanese Americans are very different people and have very different cultures. They were treated not so differently during WWII. Although there definitely were differences in their treatment, there were also many similarities. The Japanese Americans were treated worse during the war but the African Americans have been treated terrible since they arrived in North America as slaves. This is also true in Jamie Ford’s historic drama, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Henry, a Chinese American, is the main character who goes to the Panama Hotel in Seattle and remembers his past during WWII. He remembers his first love, Keiko, who was a Japanese American. Henry’s father was a very cultural man and despised the Japanese

Letter 1 Explain what is established in the first passage/letter who is narrating? Why is he making this voyage? When and where is this taking place? To whom is he writing the letter?

The existence of fate and free will also play a huge part of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. Shelley uses the foil characters of Victor and his monster to illustrate the differences between the beliefs in fate versus free will. While Victor Frankenstein listened to his professor speak on the powers of modern science, Frankenstein feels as if the professor’s words were “the words of fate”, that they prompted him to find the secrets of creation, and that that day “decided [his] future destiny” (Shelley 27-29). This quote prepares the audience for the upcoming events and that to Victor, those events were fully prompted by fate. Victor uses the existence of fate to rationalize his actions which helps the audience understand his motives more thoroughly. This quote also features a slippery slope

The novella Candide, written by Voltaire is based on a satirical outlook on how society views philosophies. Each character undergoes multiple situations where their faith to their morals are tested. The last line, “We must cultivate our garden,” (113) hints the impression of how Voltaire wants society to act. While the novella Candide discusses the values of optimism, the overall message of the last line is to be pessimistic and for an individual to be focused on oneself.

Power is too overpowering sometimes especially for class, gender, and race. TKAM is a book written by Harper Lee in 1960. Mayella Ewell is a white, 19-year-old woman, who accused Tom Robinson, who is Negro, for rape. The book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s in the South during the Great Depression where there was a recession. Mayella is not a powerful character based on her class, gender, and race compared to Tom Robinson.

There are also those who fall into these stereotypes, as it put such a limit on their lives, akin to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Despite all these negative implications, there are still people who deny this matter as problematic. This is in part is due to the fact that not everyone experiences the more damaging effects of racial stereotyping. Some are just more privileged than others in this system of race and prejudice; the privileged are then often blind to the strife of the underprivileged. That is why they can say things like Kennedy did in Jodi Picoult’s Small Great Things “…Frankly, I don’t even see color. I mean, the only race that matters is the human one, right?” (195). It is easy enough for someone in Kennedy’s placement in life to say that and one can understand the sentiment behind it, but it fails to address the issue that there are definitely those who do see color and discriminate because of it. Ruth sums up the issue succinctly “It’s easy to believe we’re all in this together when you’re not the one who was dragged out of your home by the police. But I know that when white people say things like that, they are doing it because they think it’s the right thing to say, not because they realize how glib they sound” (Picoult 201). After all, if their life is fine, why worry about a problem that does not adversely affect them. Because of this, humans being free of racial stereotyping seem quite improbable. How would one solve a problem if it were not addressed as a problem in the first

In American history, one of the main struggles that each race had to go through was to be treated equally without there being any pattern of discrimination. However, if historians look at the 18th century and compare it to the 21st century, and analyze what is currently happening in the 21st century, they would see no difference in the pattern. All they would notice is that the pattern of discrimination has recently been modified to be less noticeable than before. In more recent times, many people make up stereotypes that they involve with certain races, and later these stereotypes are used against them to make fun of their culture or to even make it seem as if every person that has roots from that race is truly like that. An example of this

Seize the day, A Dead Poets Honor And a Lesson for Today “Two roads diverged in a wood, and i took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.” (Robert Frost, 18-20) In the movie Dead poets society, Welton high believes in tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence for the young male students that attend the school. Mr. Keating an english teacher at the school comes and changes everything. He teaches his young students that conformity is not everything, with this a few of his students Neil, Knox, Todd, Charlie, Richard, Steven, and Gerard form a an ancient rebel club at Welton called the Dead Poets Society that is based off of carpe diem and against Weltons rules and traditions.

Romeo and Juliet shouldn't get married they only knew each other for not even a day. Not only that but there family's hate each other. They are fighting each other with swords (GUNS) and shot at each other when i first heard of the movie i was thinking they were going to beat each other with guns like it was a sword. In my opinion really don't like this story. everything in it is worst then the last, he was this she was that I can't stand it I would rather read harry potter than this (I really hate harry potter).

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In the book Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet, The author Jamie Ford really captures the idea the people’s race often depicted how they were treated. For instance one of the book was when the japanese were all taken out of their housing developments with the chinese and placed in descent custody, surrounded by troops to help stop them from buying land, and returning them to their former homes after the war.Throughout the book the book Jamie ford also moves the chapters between the past and the present to help capture the idea of what it was really like.

“He’d do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter” (265). In the book the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, the Panama Hotel is on the corner of Chinatown and Japantown. The hotel is located between the two cultures Henry is tied to, the Japanese and the Chinese. The story takes place in Henry’s past when he first meets Keiko and the present, after his wife, Ethel, has died. The hotel acts as the connection in between the two cultures and the two time periods, and symbolizes how Henry does too.

At first Clays feelings towards Hannah are regret and frustration and these feelings all stem from the fact that he loved her and never took the chance to get to know her better. Also the frustration comes from the fact that felt like he could've done something to stop it. In addition to the first impressions you get from him in the beginning of the book right when he turn on the tapes you can hear the the change in tone to more of a “ I get to hear her voice one last time” moment. But, like everything else in the world thing state to change and Clay’s feelings are no exception to this. As he listen to the tapes he start to get frustrated not at himself for not noticing but at Hannah for not saying anything and not doing some things differently. As Clays says “ you could've stopped this snowball effect you keep on talking about there”. Another feeling that he starts to feel is fear because he dosen’t know who is on the list and how many people already knows his story. Also, Clay is overall feeling exhausted mentally and this is seen when he is running to Rosie's and he says that he stops not because he is out of breath or he's going to collapse but he’s just exhausted from the tapes.