Reservation

To Junior and the other Native Americans the reservation is a prison that'll keep them from succeeding in life and make them stay poor. However Junior works hard to leave the reservation and succeeds in Rearden where everyone has hope there. A lot of the Native Americans on the Reservation are angry that Junior left and betrayed them. They are most likely jealous that Junior has the courage to leave his home and go to a place with complete strangers in order to succeed in life. In my neighborhood there is pace that I compare to the reservation, it's my neighborhood high school, Benito Juarez High School. Everyone in my neighborhood knows it's one of the worst high schools in the city, probably even in the state. Hardly any of the students graduate, there are a lot of fights there, some students get arrested, some are on drugs, and some girls even get pregnant. It's so bad that a lot of parents use it's reputation to threaten their children, for example "If you don't get good grades you'll end up going to Juarez were you'll get robbed and beat up" . However jut like Junior there are some people at this high school who work very hard to leave that high school and move on in life in order to succeed, To my knowledge there have been 2 students that have graduated from Juarez High school and gone to Harvard University. This is why Benito Juarez High School is the Rez in my neighborhood, it has a very bad reputation, and most of the people there end up failing in life, nut there are "Juniors" that go above and beyond and succeed at life when they were given such harsh circumstances.

Native Son

Native Son is a powerful story that will move you and make you question what truly makes a person evil. Native Son is split into 3 books, the first 2 focuses on Bigger Thomas who struggles with his internal fear of white people and the his murder of Mary Dalton. The 3rd book focuses on racism on a whole and shakes the foundations of our society. At the beginning of the book Bigger believes that white people keep him from succeeding at life until he is hired by Mr.Dalton to be a chuffer. Mr.Dalton shows Bigger extreme kindness which makes Bigger question if his impression of white people is correct. He the murders Mary Dalton out of fear of being accused of rape. He then feels that Mary's murder was justified because he felt that he finally snapped from being oppressed by white people, and he then murders Bessie. After reading Bigger murdering Mary and Bessie the reader begins to dislike Bigger and hopes he gets caught. It isn't until Max, Bigger's lawyer gives a very long speeches that tackles racism, In his speech, Max states that the reason Bigger murdered was because he was edged on from living in a corrupt society where white people segregate black people. If Bigger hadn't live in such horrible conditions he wouldn't have murdered. Max's speech is very moving and it completely changes the reader's opinion on Bigger. It puts the reader on the edge of their seat, anxiously waiting to see if Bigger if Bigger will get death penalty. Bigger does get the death penalty and this makes the reader very upset. In my opinion this is one of the best ways to write a story, to create a character and a story that makes the reader feel upset when something horrible happens in the book. The fact that this story is very realistic, it makes the reader reflect on the society they live in right now, and I think that was Richard Wright's intention.     

A Principle To Keep

A principle I would always keep with me no matter what the circumstance is would be to leave no man left behind. I would never leave anyone behind because leaving someone to behind is basically telling them that they are of no use to you and that you don't want them with you anymore. You are abandoning them and leaving them to fend for themselves. In the scenario of an apocalypse you are leaving them to die because no one would be able to survive on their own. If you abandon them they will feel hopeless and depressed because the only friends they had left them behind. The person that was left behind might feel like they were a burden and feel sorry for themselves which could push their sanity to the very edge. Also if you leave them behind and other people witnessed that they might do the same to you to see how you like it. Another think that could happen is that after you abandon someone they could survive on their own and come back to hurt you for simply abandoning them. Similar to how some serial killers or psychopathic people in movies kill their parents for abusing or abandoning them. Leaving someone behind could break that person and haunt them for the rest of their lives, which is why never leaving someone behind is a principle I will always keep no matter what the circumstance is.