Manipulation Children today will manifest tomorrow’s world, and what they learn will determine what kind of world they will create. In the short story, “The Children’s Story” by James Clavell, young students are manipulated to abandoning their religion, faith in their parents and most adults, and lastly their symbol of nationality. The new teacher gains control of the classroom and over the students by manipulating them into disbarring their previous notions. Those, whom lack a sound base of knowledge to support their beliefs, will easily forsake them for new ideas. The usage of diction throughout the story changes as the new teacher gains control over the children.
Due to all of these reasons the students in the play feel as though they are prisoners; Jerome: We treated like convicts Ms Sun: How do you mean? Jerome: First, we wake up to bars on our window Coca: Then our moms and dad. (Sun, 912-913) These kids are constantly told what to do and when to do it. No one believes in them or expects anything great from them. It’s almost as if they are expected to fail.
He expresses that “Of course, teachers are themselves products of the same twelve-year compulsory school programs that so thoroughly bore their students, and as school personnel they are trapped inside structures… The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible.”(1) Gatto learned that being bored was an action that he was only responsible for. He learned that it was his responsibility to learn and entertain himself. That is how he began using that lesson to entertain his students. Gatto believes that schools are not allowing students to reach their own potential to gown as individuals. Gatto
Junior treated like nothing by his peers being ridiculed for his actions, criticized for birth defects. In the story Junior states, “Everybody on the rez calls me a retard about twice a day. They call me retard when they are pantsing me or stuffing my head in the toilet or just smacking me upside the head” (4). Junior’s peers sit and call him a retard when he is one of smartest students at the school. The kids on the rez make Junior’s life a living hell down talking him for things that aren’t his fault, things he can’t change.
Fighting Amongst Children As stated by the narrator in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies “Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins” (Golding 62). The quote describes the impact that civilization has on the youth, telling the boys what is right and what is wrong. The context is that a shady boy, Roger, is lobbing stones at younger kids, but with an intent to miss. Even when rules are not present, it had been imprinted on the child’s mind that anything with mal-intent is bad, but it shows that he is begging to question the bounds of the society he had once known, when rules are taken away, people start to pursue the path of chaos. However, many people have wondered what would happen if civilization
Through our program, we had to have several “workshops” with the guardians each year. It was always hard to try to teach a grown person set in their ways that yelling at their child, was not the correct way of discipline. When working in today’s public school systems, often times, actions get scrutinized too much. Telling a child that you love them might cause someone to raise their brow. Children need praise and love.
Alaa 1 Jasmine Alaa Period 1 Expository Reading and Writing Oppressor, tyrant, intimidator, and aggressor; these are all names that encompass everything that a bully is considered. Its been said that there are two types of people in this world, bullies and their victims. So every child whether they are in grade school, middle school, or high school must decide where they stand and how they want to be perceived. Do they want to be a person who uses strength and power to intimidate someone else by forcing them to do what they want or do they want to be the one being enforced, either way one must also consider whether those are the only two options to choose from. Everyone has seen the television shows and movies depicting some poor adolescent being harassed and bullied in the halls at school and running home trying to escape their aggressors, but the story always ended the same, as soon as the child would make it home and close their door they were safe.
There are few that may be questionable, but is it necessary to punish an entire race, every man, woman, and child, when none of them have done anything wrong? These people are being forced to sign, yes, to a loyalty act, when their own country doesn’t even accept them and that is not American, and simply not right. And lastly, these people have been removed from their previous lives, left everything behind and were forced to start over. These people have nothing but one another to build up a stable community for themselves, because they sure do not have your support. They are now just
Pain and drugs are used to condition the citizens into their forced beliefs. Electro thereopy and loud unsettling noise is the main condition technique followed by repetition. All citizens are conditioned as children so by the time they are of sexual maturity and of working physical ability. There is no sense of individuality or originality. The theme of family best conveys the truths about the society in "A Brave New World" words like
Your Name Mrs. Braddock AP Lit/Comp 3 1 September 2010 Title of Paper Edward Said states, “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted;” however, he also believes that this alienation can be “potent, even enriching.” In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World exile is portrayed as a consequence which occurs when a person becomes an individual. In the new world order where people are conditioned to be “perfect consumers” and believe “everyone belongs to everyone else,” Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson are limited to physical exile for their incomplete conditioning.