But the one that mostly showed through out the novel would be never give up. Nathalie was rejected twice from the Ester P. Marinoff, yet Mrs. Flanagan never quite trying because she wanted the best for her child. Mrs. Flanagan also tried helping Nathalie before even if her methods where strange to others. This is a important theme because if you give up you’ll
Many parents around the world dream of sending their child to college, and then watching them get a diploma. The truth is, most people think going to college is a splendid experience. But really, it is not all that exceptional, and as Helen Keller quotes in her book Helen Keller: The Story of My Life, “I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined” (103) Therefore, Helen Keller believes that going to college is not an essential experience. It is more beneficial for people to experience something, rather than to have it just being taught, as most colleges do. As Helen Keller says, “It is possible to know a flower, root and stem and all, and all the processes of growth, and yet to have no appreciation of the flower fresh in heaven’s dew” (108) This shows that even though students are informed of much relevant information in college, they do not have opportunities to experience the delight of nature.
After reading and watching all three passages, one can make the conclusion that there are many different methods towards education and interpret which method Rodriguez was taught. The types of relationships Rodriguez had with his teachers, family and in life was affected by specific styles of education and as he looked through Freire’s lens of the banking concept, he came to realized that that method of education had a detrimental effect on his life. Early on in Rodriguez’s essay he illustrates the characteristics of an automaton which confirmed Freire’s views regarding the banking concept. Despite his definition of a “scholarship boy”, Rodriguez lacked self confidence which led him to be overpowered by his teachers and his books. Through Freire’s lens, Rodriguez would be considered a waste basket.
Bird also seems to blame parents for “forcing” students to go to college. By sending students to college, parents feel that they are doing the right thing. They believe that later one in life, a college education would help
This irrational parental logic held me back for a time but did not keep me from eventually attending college on my own. Now, with approximately seven to eight years left until retirement, I still feel college is important enough to go back to finish what I started! Working for my Bachelors degree couldn’t be more poignant to me than it is right now. My desire to get a college education was in defiance of my father’s view of a woman’s place. My father was difficult and hard on my two brothers and me.
This passage is relatable to my life because although the women are wished luck in certain cultures she can be cast off by her family into a new world in a new house and style of living. A like college life for me I have not been able to ask my parents for help all too often but rather live my life by myself with my own money and experiences. Bateson sat in on a day of preschool for her daughter. While at school she realizes the big culture difference between the groups of humans when the teacher throws away all of the drawings done by the children during their drawing time. This passage shows the huge difference between a cultures that rewards creativity in children to not showing any concern in their creativity at all.
You can accomplish anything you set your mind on doing. “I not only wasn’t articulate, I wasn’t even functional” (715). Malcolm X learned this valuable lesson while in prison; when he first went to prison he could barely read or write. He wanted to be able to communicate articulately and to be able to read, so he taught himself. He used the dictionary and over the time he was in prison he copied the entire thing into tablets and then read it out loud to himself when he had finished he realized he had remembered a lot of it.
Many young people across the world are in the same struggle, trying to find their place in life, and constantly struggling upstream against society. The value of a book like this is significant because it educates the youth of the world on the struggles of finding your place in life, and greatly relates to our youth on a personal level. The second conflict in the novel is Holden’s struggle versus himself. At Pency Prep, and throughout the novel, Holden always talks about how fake everyone around him is. He hates cheap and phony people, and cannot seem to find anyone in the world that is not cheap and phony.
This publishing house was compassionate; several long weeks later, they sent me a letter encouraging me to continue writing, but also bluntly explaining that they did not publish short stories, nor did they publish work by non-Canadians. It was kind of the publisher to write back, no doubt, but the truth was that I had come no closer to my goal of becoming a world-famous author. I am still a hopeful, yet-to-be-published writer. The only difference
The girl in "The School Days of an Indian Girl" had the similar situation that she had to live and suffer the management of white people. She did not give up to struggle to assert herself. In the story “Waiting in Line at the Drugstore”, the boy was afraid of the drugstore, but he had to come there every day because that was a part of his job. The author, James says, “He simply had to stand and wait until all the white folks were served.” (Jackson, p.17) that showed us how was the racism between white people and black people. However, his waiting became a joy when he started to noticed a bookcase.