After making his final decision to pursue his initial desires, Victor proclaims that "[d]estiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed [his] utter and terrible destruction" (Shelly 23).
John’s suicide was clearly described by comparing his dangling feet to "two unhurried compass needles..." (Huxley 259).
"80% of today’s most popular video games contain violence" (Lee, Vessey 1), which does not promote a good message to kids.
"I like violence, I like seeing violence, and I just really like seeing violence"(Bok 77).
"You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton: I never saved anything for the swim back" (Gattaca).
In "Beggars in Spain" we see a similar situation when a sleepless child Tony is killed and Richard explains the following to Leisha, "They killed him in prison. Not the authorities-the other prisoners. In the recreation yard. Murderers, rapists, looters, scum of the earth- and they thought they had the right to kill him because he was different. "Not just different-better"(Beggars in Spain", page 192).
"Matt loved people and he trusted them. He could never understand how one person could hurt another, physically or verbally. They would hurt him and he would give them another chance. This quality of seeing only good gave him friends around the world. He didn't see size, race, intelligence, sex, religion or the hundred other things that people use to make choices about people. All he saw was the person. All he wanted was to make another person his friend. All he wanted was to make another person feel good. All he wanted was to be accepted as an equal" (Matthew Sheppard Tribute webpage).
Morgan Holt describes Fight Club, "though disturbingly violent and, at times, unbelievable, I found it difficult to tear myself away to use the toilet. I was so thrilled with the show, I mulled it many philosophical, satirical, and ingenious technicalities over in my head until I saw it again (Phoenix)."
Questions and confusion arise early in a child’s life about racial issues. "At the same time that preschoolers are identifying the colors in the crayon box, they are also beginning to figure out racial categorizations." (Tatum 38) Early childhood is the proper time to educate a child on issues concerning race. Young children tend to be easily impressionable allowing them to believe anything one may say. At this point in the child’s life, parents play a large role in installing the right impressions in their children. While some parents place emphasis on the fact that race doesn’t matter, others tend to install hateful thoughts into their children about races other than their own. In the film American History X, Dennis Vinyard installs the thought that African Americans are bad because they are different into his son Derek at an early age... .
When Susan Lang writes in her article "...frustration is pitted against an entire group, it causes hatred (Lang 161)" she perfectly depicts the main problem that Derek has concerning the death of his father.
He needed to find a way to have one [i.e., an identity] and the D.O.C. was his answer. This statement can be used to support Derek’s crisis in forming an identity "Bigotry can come easily to people uncertain of their own identity, to be defined by rejecting the other" (Risking Contact 179).
His idea follows such as , "people believe that their lives would be better if minorities were put into their place... they believe their own life-styles are threatened, that they have a lot to lose if they let… [minority] groups come in and take over" (Risking Contact 156).
We live in a country that came together as a land where all men and women could live free of oppression and violence, yet things in this nation are not supportive of that. "Vile and vicious acts against people who are different have been committed for thousands of years and unfortunately, Americans have proved no different from anyone else" (Lang 154).
Hate is to dislike immensely and passionately, to feel extreme hostility toward someone or something or to detest another person. "Hatred and cruelty based on differences... of skin colors,... religions, or... political beliefs- are nothing new" (Lang 152). Hate is a strong word that should not be used freely. It is evident in the movie that Derek is in denial of his father’s death. He had no one to blame, however he emotionally put the blame on black people...
Every group has a leader who enforces and brainwashes their followers into believing in what they say is the only way. The Nazi’s had Adolph Hitler who, out of hate for Jews, persecuted them, and tried to demolish there entire population "I know of no modern idea more ugly and stupid than that [of] the Holocaust [ever] happen[ing]" (Rauch, 168) because they were different from him he hated that they were no like him and his people.
It is said that "You have to be taught/Before it’s too late,/Before you are six, seven or eight,/To hate all the people your relatives hate/You have to be carefully taught: (Risking Contact, Flora Lewis, "Tolerance Can Be Learned" pg. 178), and this is what happened to Derek Vinyard in American History X.
[In American History X,] Derek has, "hatred and cruelty based on differences" (Lang, 152), towards the black community from his childhood when his father died.