Snow Falling On Cedars Help!?

[Blade]

ok i have an essay for the novel "snow falling on cedars" and have to use the following prompt..

"some novels and plays seem to advocate changes in social or political attitudes or in traditions. using the novel "snow falling on cedars" note briefly the particular attitude or traditions that the author apparently wishes to modify. Then analyze the techniques the author uses to influence the reader's or audiance's views. Avoid plot summary."

any suggestions and advice will be appreciated THNX IN ADVANCE

[Avalive]

There is a movie based on this novel. Casted by Ethan Hawke.(one of my fav actors). Since,I haven't read the novel,I can't really help. Good luck on ur essay.

[Blade]

our professor is very strict on the fact that we are not allowed to base essays off movie or TV

[Avalive]

Absolutely not. I just had a term essay for the novel" The English Patient". However, the movie of the english patient won many Oscar awards, what I supposed to write about is only the novel itself. No movie should be mingled with this kinda of academic writing. Just movie somwhow gives me some inspirations. whatever,do what you do. Enjoy ur writing.

[Blade]

hlp me plz

[Sancho]

Like many pieces of literature, that book seemed to take present-day values and try to overlay them onto past events. But what’s striking about it now is the similarity between the treatment of Japanese Americans following Pearl Harbor and Arab Americans following 9/11. Today’s Patriot Act is no where near as invasive as the Japanese Internment Camps – so far… When you read Snow Falling on Cedars you think “How could we have been so blind.” Yet we recently had a US Congressman describing the Arab head gear as a diaper with a fan belt around it. History repeats itself.

The attitude, I think, is that if you demonize or dehumanize a group of people, it rationalizes your subsequent mistreatment of them. This was particularly easy with Japanese-Americans since they neither looked nor acted like the majority of the population.

I’m drawing on another thread on this forum now and getting away from the subject, but American Soldiers in WWII apparently found it a lot easier to shoot Japanese Soldiers than to shoot German Soldiers. S.L.A Marshall talks about this in his book “Men Against Fire.” American and the Japanese propaganda lent itself to this. The American Soldiers believed that the Japanese were fanatical and would never surrender. The Japanese Soldiers were told that the Americans took no prisoners; therefore they should fight to the death. Many battles in the Pacific were bloodier than they should’ve been.

War is hell.

[Black Flag]

Julian Grenfell, a soldier in World War I, once wrote:

"I adore war. It is like a big picnic without the objectlessness of a picnic. I've never been so well or so happy."

Just thought I'd throw that in for you Wilfred Owen fans. Sorry, this post really has nothing to do with the thread.
:cool:

"I love it. God help me, I do love it so." --George C. Scott as "Patton".

[Blade]

thnx alot sancho

[Sancho]

My pleasure Blade. Although I'm not sure it'll help you much; I tend to ramble. I enjoyed that book too.

Black Flag, every army needs a psychotic or two to keep things interesting, eh?

The following words are scratched on a concrete bunker at Verdun:

Austin White, Chicago, Ill., 1918
Austin White, Chicago, Ill., 1945
This is the last time I want to write my name here.

I had the chance to walk through Verdun last year and I've gotta say, it gave me the willies.

[Blade]

yeah thats kinda creepy, and incredibly ironic