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This 18 page paper discusses the functin of violence in the Grapes of Wrath, Light of August, and Native Son. Each author portrays and uses violence to different ends. This is supported with numerous examples and quotes from the primary sources. Additional sources garnered from professional journals. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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for the intellectual and literary mills throughout the ages. The purpose of violence as depicted in novels serves different purposes. Sometimes it is the vehicle by which social inequities and
bigoted stances are exposed. Sometimes it serves as an instrument of instruction by which a person is encouraged to judge and measure oneself by. And, yet, sometimes, it serves as
a warning and reminder that mans greatest capacities for goodness are also tempered with the worlds greatest capacity for evil. What is violence? The definition has been debated since
man was first able to ask the question. Since evil is highly subjective and dependent on ones background, to add a definitive explanation would be illogical at best and inefficient
at most. Therefore, what one is left with are the basic characteristics of violence. What one is also left with is the existence of God. If evil exists and terrible
things occur in the world, how can an all knowing all seeing God allow such things to happen? Each author, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright seem to come
to varying conclusions on this issue. First of all, the basic characteristics of violence, as most will agree is that which causes harmful destruction to a person. There are those
who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include animals. The debate is long enough without this added
element, suffice it to say, it will be left out of this particular discussion. There are also those who would state that the use of the words harmful destruction are
also subjective in nature as ones version of harmful may differ from anothers. Therefore, for sake of argument, violence is that which seeks to cause irreparable damage and breed chaos.
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