Essay about Raw by Scott Monk

Through reading my novel Raw for the last 3 weeks, I have struggled to make a personal connection to the reading material. I couldn't say that my life has involved me robing a liquor store or being sent to a rehab farm in the middle of a rural countryside in Sydney. In fact, my life is quite different from Brett’s. Brett is the main character in Raw. He is a troubled 16 year old that dropped out of school not too long ago. Because of this, I would classify Brett as a rebel. The character of Brett relates to a person in my life that grew up a reckless teenager, and has now evolved into a kind gentlemen and a proud father. This man that he reminds me of is my uncle. They are quite similar because as the story goes, Brett was a wild teenager that made out to be untameable but Sam (the warden of the farm), saw deep down that he is a good kid. In the end he pulled his head into line and picked up a lot of essential life skills from the rehab farm.

Brett is constantly striving for excellence. To demonstrate excellence, you must always be your best self. “All four eggs exploded on the kid’s head and shoulders, the cracking noise echoing as the slimy yolks cascaded over him. Tilly slapped his hands together, pumping his fist and bellowing through the courtyard… ‘Hey, Till? You’re an asshole’’’ (8). This illustrates that Brett shows excellence because he stood up for Preston, against Brett’s teammate, Till. Brett, like everyone else, could have just let it happen and laughed it off. ENDING

This book analyzes the negative aspects of deinstitutionalization and disproves some of the myths surrounding it. It is a reliable source because the author is a social worker and has worked in every type of institution discussed in the book.(S)

Brett Harris is an irrefutable genius with amazing hair, a surplus of sass, and endless amounts of talents. I honestly think that he is the gay superman: perfectly dorky and strong, but without all of the obvious muscle and a boy magnet on top of all the perfection. He is that last puzzle piece that Lauren and I were missing from our best friendship. He drew me even further out of my shell and brought out the sass in Lauren, we in turn let him cuss like a sailor and gave him an outlet for all types of boytalk. I also provided him with hype, reminding him of how amazing a person he is and that he can do anything; both Lauren and Brett seemed to forget how impossibly wonderful they are at times, so I have made it my mission to remind them of their amazingness.

Dehumanization is the process of removing positive human qualities from people, but what would you consider positive

Brett is “ruthless” for the following reasons. Firstly, when trying to get cars back into the neighbourhood in the first book. For instance, Brett said “there’s only one break I want to be involved in and it’s this one,” and breaks in front of a family with kids. To explain, Brett showed no compassion to the cars by simply smashing the window when he could have used a tool call a “slim jim” to get in. He also showed no compassion for the family with small children because he showed no regard for the children and when they screamed, he showed no emotion and Adam was let to de-escalate the situation. Next, he wanted to shoot down the last standing barrack. For example, he said, “If they don’t respond, this might make them listen.” To elaborate,

How do the differences of people in a society affect its conflicts? In “The Scarlet Ibis,” by James Hurst, Doodle is a disabled adolescent boy who is considered “lower” than most of the people in his world. In “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut, the government forces everyone to be of equal skill level and mental capacity by wearing handicaps or objects that will impair their positive traits. Doodle is a character with inferior qualities than the rest of his society, whereas Harrison is a character born with superior qualities than the rest of his society, and their differences affect the way that they address the conflicts within their society.

  Dehumanization allows powerful people to make tough decisions in a more distant, cold, and rational manner (252 Haslam). In the fictional novel The Hunger Games, Selected teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in an arena when an entire nation watches on. Leaders from the capitol who are in power use this tactic to dehumanize the people from the other districts. In The Hunger

Dehumanization is when people are stripped of their own free will, their humanity is stripped away from them and they barely show any emotion. This is consistent in George Orwell’s novel 1984 as well as in real life. In 1984, Winston goes to his neighbor’s (Mrs. Parson) apartment to help her fix a problem with her sink.

He argues that people will justify their self-esteem being threatened by perpetrating prejudicial actions to restore their self-esteem, or by making themselves feel more important. How? By looking down at someone with noticeable differences, such as skin color, religion, or language. For others, it's simple. Times are changing, the President of the United States is an African American, immigrant minorities are getting larger, and that doesn't seem to sit well with some people. "Change causes anxiety, there are some people that view the world a certain way, and when their personal needs for social structure begin to deteriorate, they can engage in stereotypic thinking and react to certain situations and people with prejudice and even hostile attitudes," explains Routledge. However; for some, it comes down to sheer survival. Economic survival. When two groups are competing for the same scarce resource, jobs in this case, it can be very easy to pit them against one another, providing the spark for animosity and racism between the two groups. Furthermore, being on top of the food chain proves to be another positive outcomes for the perpetrator. Evolutionary psychologists argue that humans,

Dehumanization is often seen as an extreme case of bullying. During the women’s fight for suffrage, women were not granted the right to vote and were not considered equal to their husband and brothers. This left them with the feeling of being less than human because the rights and responsibilities of citizenship were not being given. African-American citizens were an inferior race and were not granted citizenship and the responsibilities that came along with it, and this spawned the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, the main contributing factor to dehumanization during the Holocaust, which led to the mass murder of over six million people, was that they were thought of as the inferior race. By being refused certain rights and being considered the inferior race, one can begin to feel dehumanized because the lack of equality to other human beings. The sense of being inferior leads one to compare themselves to non-human beings. The sense of being inferior leads one to compare themselves to non-human things such as wild animals and may also cause them to question their overall self-worth and existence. These types of bullying behavior that caused them to feel as if they were animals result in them revolting against those dehumanizing them like the animals they were treated like, dividing

One of the many questions man wants to know is what it means to be human. There are many different opinions on what it means to be human, and many have tried to explain this question in different ways. Michael Bay’s film, The Island, does a great job with representing what characteristics a person must have to not be human. The movie The Island is about two main characters, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta, who live in a subterranean structure. These two characters defined as unorthodox under the control of Dr. Merrick and eventually find out that there is more to life than waiting to go to “The Island”. Michael Bay’s movie, The Island, gives many examples how Jordan Two Delta and Lincoln Six Echo are dehumanized.

Jake says that if he had not met Brett he wouldn’t have that much trouble.

Thank you, human beings seem to disregard diversity in the world full of different beliefs and values. However, it does not mean an individual has to agree, but at least understand there is logic behind right or wrong doing. Even when an individual is trying to be persuasive. Dehumanizing is a mixture of negative exploitation emotions, targeting, humiliation, actions and verbal which are all forms of being mistreated. People appear to be losing more and more respect for one another each and every day!

Depersonalization connects with racism I say this because people have to accept other race outside there own. I say this because some people feel so disengaged with their surroundings also make others think differently about that person. Some people don’t like to interact with people for example work place some workers don’t like to interact with each other same goes for schools cause you see certain people hang out with certain people. I also believe that lot some colleges different races hang out with each other for example latino hang out with litno, Black hang out with black and white hang out with white some of