Words of Wisdom:

"if a parrot can really speak then what will be the right word,,good morning?" - Ictus5

Isolation - Essay 2

  • Date Submitted: 02/19/2011 11:10 PM
  • Flesch-Kincaid Score: 50.6 
  • Words: 385
  • Essay Grade: no grades
  • Report this Essay
In the society, people face isolation when they have different thinking with others. The most of time, people face isolation by few or single people. Since people cannot read other’s mind, people would sensitively feel they other difference with other people. The stories, “Shooting an Elephant,” “On Being a Cripple,” and “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” are all discussing about theme of isolation. and It causes the “isolation” between people. In “Shooting an Elephant,” the author, George Orwell, describes his feeling of “isolation” emotionally. Orwell does not want people concentrate on him. Similar with “On Being a Cripple,” Nancy Mairs also wish other people do not treat her special because she is crippled. In difference, Zora Neale Hurston narrates how she realizes “who is she” when Hurston faces “isolation” in an environment in “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.” Isolation presents human’s various characters and shows a barrier between people.
People sensitively feels isolated when they are minority in the society. It happens because their opinions or races or other reasons is different with others. For example, in “Shooting an Elephant,” George Orwell is isolated from common citizen in Indian society because he cannot integrate into the society. In “On Being a Cripple,” Mairs dislikes the commiseration from other people. It makes she feels she is difference. In “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” Hurston realizes her difference in the school. Her skin color always reminds her isolation between her and her classmates. Isolation is the fosse surround the minority. Physical isolation is on type of isolation that easily obvious.
Physically different will cause the isolation between people. In the society, the special treatment to different races, different sexual or disabled called “discrimination.” Nancy Mairs describe the words “disabled” and “handicapped” in her story, “These words seems to me to be moving away from my condition, to be widening the gap between word...

Comments

Express your owns thoughts and ideas on this essay by writing a grade and/or critique.

  1. No comments