Voice Overload

Many people confuse revenge and justice as similar or the same thing. They think that taking revenge on someone basically serves as justice. Is this true? In the book Song of Solomon, Guitar justifies the murders committed by him by calling himself "reasonable" and stating that this makes him "better than they are," or the bad and unnatural Whites. But Milkman disagrees with this because it isn't right, and he's not wrong. What is justice? Justice is the quality of being fair and reasonable. It seeks to prevent injustice by using written laws and not moral issues. This is why courts and judges exist. Justice is also never personal because it doesn't have the affected person deciding the punishment for the person at fault. Justice also has a purpose. It's to give fair treatment for everyone in regard to their personal rights according to the laws. But what's revenge? It's the action of harming someone for a wrong suffered at thei...

In the book Song of Solomon  by Toni Morrison, many significant events and symbols are already mentioned in the first few chapters. Each and every detail Morrison adds in the book has a deeper value and meaning to it. One example is during the birth of Pilate Dead. While describing Pilate's birth in Chapter One, Morrison describes Pilot's mother as an "indifferent cave of flesh." In these four words Morrison foreshadows many things. Morrison includes "indifferent" to foreshadow the fact that Pilate is going to be lonely for most of her life. She won't have a mother to take care of her during her childhood, a husband to take care of their daughter or granddaughter, and her only brother will push her far away from ever associating with his family, which doesn't happen when Milkman and Hagar have a brief relationship. The use of the word "cave" shows that Pilate is entering the world from a scary place. Another significance of this wo...

The graphic novel Maus  is written Art Spiegelman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, who narrates his father's history as comics. In the first volume, Art calls his father, Vladek, a murderer because he burned Art's deceased mother's diaries from the war.  I think these series of panels are significant to the story because Art was inspired to write this book because of his father's stories and point of view, but never his mother's, Anja. The only way to know her story and what she went through was through her words, her diaries. But Art couldn't come to terms with it when he found out that his father had burned the diaries because he became depressed after suicide. Art realized that he had lost the only connection he had left with Anja. By burning the books, not only did Anja die again, but her voice was also silenced by Vladek. Art could no longer include his mother's story, so both his book revolved around his father's. Throughout the book, the inter...