Communtiy
Joseph K. Hart once said, “No child can escape his community…The life of the community flows about him, foul or pure; he swims in it, goes to sleep in it, and wakes to the new days to find it still about him. He belongs to it’ it nourishes or starves him, or poisons him; it gives him the substance of his life.” Community plays a large role in everyone’s life; Pearl and Hester of The Scarlet Letter, LeAlan Jones, Lloyd Newman, Eric Morse and his killers, of Ghetto Life 101 and Remorse, and the rest of the world. The four aspects of community are neighborhood, peers or friends, family, and faith. Although, as an individual, a person shapes their own identity; nevertheless, the community that the person lives in plays a significant role in their actions, beliefs, and decisions. Hester Prynne’s neighborhood greatly influenced her identity. Although she had already grown up, her personality changed greatly after the labeling of her sin, adultery. Hester’s town was very strict with the punishment of sins and the citizens frowned upon many things. Public displays of a person’s crime were common. Some may think that the simple task of wearing a scarlet letter is no big deal, but try to raise a child who questions
Before the trial and the standing on the scaffold, Hester was viewed as a nice, pretty, young, puritan woman whom no one would really expect of committing this adulterous act. The frowns, the scoffs, the casual comments, the seclusion, the whispers of rumors being passed around town, all of these would lead a person to change their lifestyle. For fear of these, Hester kept herself and her child secluded and, for fear of making her town more angry with her, she did not put herself out in the open for attack. People came back from Vietnam crazy. What if they had to live there? LeAlan does. How do they think he is going to turn out? All the pressures, tradgedies, poverty, drugs, deaths. There is only so much that a kid can take. What type of future lies ahead for him? Is he bound to turn out like his sister? Or worse yet how will he survive? If a five year old child can be killed, what would make it different with a teenager? “It’s depressing!” Peers, who would think that who you spend time with would change or life or even end it. This happened with Janelle Jones. At age thirteen she was an honors student. She had won the spelling bee and was name Saludatorian of her class. She had a good life lined up for her. Who knows maybe she would go to college and get out of the ghetto. But one mistake, one little error would ruin everything that she had worked for. ged by there stature, size, appearance, race or gender. Is that day in the future? I don’t know.
Some topics in this essay:
People Vietnam,
Arthur Dimmesdale,
Roger Chillingworth,
Hester Prynne’s,
Crystal Lake,
LeAlan Lloyd,
Grandson Jamia,
Janelle Jones,
Tommy Tyronne,
Vietnam Constant,
crystal lake,
peers friends,
arthur dimmesdale,
greatly affected,
tyronne jenkins,
lealan lloyd,
african americans,
own identity,
scarlet letter,
influenced identity,
lealan jones lloyd,
ghetto life 101,
jones lloyd newman,
life 101 remorse,
peers friends family,
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Approximate Word count = 4111
Approximate Pages = 16 (250 words per page double spaced)
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