Need help with my english homework :( (Its due tomorrow and I have no ideas! please help!)

[WarDemon666]

Ok so I have some journals to write, but dont have any ideas

For both these questions I have to write a small 400 word journal by answering the questions..

For Hairball the question is: Demonstrate the impact of culture on modern society

For Battle Royal: "The Dream"? The story is significant of larger social, physchological, and moral truths, explain.

I cant think of anything to write for both these questions

If someone could please lead me in the right path, id really apprechiate it!

Thanks,
Carl

 

[Steve]

I've never read those, but as an English major I can tell you those are terrible questions.


"Demonstrate the impact of culture on modern society." - Can a question get any more broad and general?


Anyhow, I guess you'll need to examine the culture modeled in the story and how it affects its society, then compare and contrast to real-life examples of this.

 

[WarDemon666]

I dont know what to compare it to! this book/english class is terrible.

Anyone know what I could write about?

 

[Steve]

Can you get out of this English class? May be worth thinking about....The questions are very vague, and it's frustrating to deal with this type of writer's block, when it sounds to me like your teacher may not be the most experienced or qualified. What grade and level of school is this? High School? College? 1st year?

I'll take a stab at it; ever read William Faulkner's "That Evening Sun"? It's a short story, set in 1890's Mississippi, about a young family and their black servant. A cultural trait of she and people like her (or so the story seems to propagate) is a diminished sense of self-esteem, low self-regard, that type of thing. She herself keeps saying, "It ain't my fault, I just a n*****" several times throughout the story (or something like that, can't remember the text offhand), and the children seem to follow that attitude about her. This is her excuse as to why she did what she did, and why it seems (to her) that nobody cares that her husband is going to kill her.

So there we see a cultural statement (the low self-worth of the minority), and its impact on society (the attitude of others around her). Despite the 19th-century setting (and I believe Faulkner wrote this around the 1930s) these things are still very visible in modern society - it is not uncommon to witness or encounter minorities with a negative outlook on life, which is fueled by the uncaringness of others around.

Try something like that with your texts.

 

[WarDemon666]

Im currently in my second year of college!

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/li...ps/atwood366-des-.html

This is the story Hairball, if you want to read it or not, this a little summary.

Thats a great idea, I cant really use the same idea, but it gave me a few ideas.

If you read the summary and find something I can write about, please dont hesitate to tell me!

Thanks

 

[Steve]

Hey, just got back and I have to run, but I'll take a look tomorrow while I'm at work again

 

[WarDemon666]

Originally posted by: sm8000
Hey, just got back and I have to run, but I'll take a look tomorrow while I'm at work again

haha, Thanks man. I really apprechiate it

 

[WarDemon666]

Did you have the chance to look at it yet?

 

[z0mb13]

try reading the books?

chances are ur teacher wont look at the whole journal

in the middle pages, you can write a song for all its worth

 

[WarDemon666]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
try reading the books?

chances are ur teacher wont look at the whole journal

in the middle pages, you can write a song for all its worth

haha no, this teacher reads the whoollleeee thing

And yes, I read the story, bout 3 times, but i dont have many ideas on what to write about

 

[WarDemon666]

does anyone know what I could write about for any of the two stories?

I dont want anyone to write it out for me or anything, i just need ideas to get started off its due for monday and I wont have time to work on it tomorrow, so i have to finish it tonight!

please people!

 

[WarDemon666]

any 1?

 

[WarDemon666]

anyone at all? I have 273 words for the one about hairball, and 141 about the other story, but dont know what to write any more.

I need ideas. Can anyone help?
tia

 

[Steve]

Sorry I haven't been able to do much, I've been laid up with food poisoning. I'll try and get back to you later if I'm feeling better.

 

[sniperruff]

even tho i haven't read hairball, i can tell you that topic is better, as you can kinda relate the book to out society... what pop culture affects our society, how 9/11 changed our view on arabic people, how internet changed our lives, etc etc

just some suggestions.

 

[Spikesoldier]

write about the horrible conditions of the american industrial revoltuion, ala the jungle.

 

[WarDemon666]

Thanks guys, but I finished it last night,, just have some revising to do.

 

[bleeb]

forget it.. too hard.