He used to hit them and punish them just for getting an answer wrong. In the book, Grant excoriated a student because he was using his fingers to count. I can only imagine the discomfit the student was feeling. Grant thought it was useless to teach the children, because he thought they would not grow up and be anything. He was in love with a woman named Vivian.
While in his French class Sedaris`s teacher was very intimidating and cruel. She was very mean to the students that were trying to learn French especially Sedaris. The teacher once said she hated him. He was very upset because he had some prior background of French but it was not credible in the classroom. Even out of class he was not accepted in France because he was not an excellent French speaker.
My attention flitted here and there” (Rose 160). Not only he didn’t pay attention in class, but he “fooled around in class and read my books indifferently” (Rose 160). Rose became incompetent because there was no level set by the teachers and the “Students will float to the mark you set” (Rose 160). During the course of the school year Mike narrates how he is being abuse emotionally and verbally by his so called “teachers”. Rose describes why and how his teacher abuse authority in him and on other students and he says, “When his class drifted away from him, which was often, his voice would rise in paranoid accusations, and occasionally he would lose control and shake or smack us”.
A lack of this fundamental building block in a relationship can cause many disagreements and arguments. In “Say Yes”, by Tobias Wolff, the relationship between the two people has gone astray partly due to their ineffective communication: “Sometimes his wife got this look where she pinched her brows together and bit her lower lip and started down at something. When he saw her like this he knew he should keep his mouth shut, but he never did. Actually it made him talk more” (74). From here, the couple proceeded to get into quite the argument, showing that their communication habits are, indeed, unhealthy because the husband continued to talk, even though he knew it would lead to a disagreement.
I have more of a respect for “Jon Krakhauer” than I did when I first read this story. His attention to detail is a good thing where as I saw it as a bad thing. I need to use more large words and add more stories to my essays so as a writer I respect him and can see that he is a good writer. After writing my own essays, I can see now that it is not easy but to put, as much detail as he did into his essay would be a truly difficult thing for me. Also using many large words in the way that he did to support his ideas, and make his points is not easy.
Knowledge of one’s own culture and the cultures of different people is key in creating active, caring citizens, and schools play a huge role in constructing that knowledge. Stereotypes must be targeted and exterminated. Teachers must be careful when expanding a lesson with real life examples, so as not to show unconscious bias. In the French film “Entre Les Murs” which was released in 2008, a high school teacher was scolded by his class, which was predominantly black, for always using “white” names in his examples. He hadn’t been purposely using “white names,” it was simply a product of unconscious bias, but he unknowingly hurt the feelings of some of his students by making them feel left
Rose’s teachers were a nightmare; from an abusive homeroom teacher “he would lose control and shake or smack us†to an English professor who had little training in the subject. In Angelou’s essay, the problem is with the injustice of the system, there was no support from the government, but they had support from the community, unlike Rose. Rose was a mediocre student at best “I developed further into a mediocre student and a somnambulant problem solver, and that affected the subjects I did have the wherewithal to handle†he just did things to get by; there was no real connection with his studies. Angelou was an honors student, her “academic work was among the best of the year,†marked differences that only point to a system that does not recognize greatness, in Angelou because of the color of her skin, in Rose because of an administrative error; a confusion with another Rose; a placement test that categorized him as
Even though he has only started to grasp the language, the doubts given to him by his teacher suddenly go away, “You exhaust me with your foolishness”, his teacher says. He responds in his broken French “talk me more, you, plus, please, plus”, not caring about the insults anymore. He wants his teacher to keep speaking anything to him so he can learn. It doesn’t matter what she is saying as long as he can sharpen his new skills. All the doubts David had before, given by his teacher and himself, go away.
Stan, like a lot of clients is having trouble speaking with his therapist and not only that, but trusting the therapist as well. He said that he worries that what he says is only boring the therapist and wonders what he thinks about what the therapist thinks of him. Stan stated that he had to watch what he says because it usually always comes back to haunt him. He indicated that he once told his mother about a crush he had on a girl at school and instead of saying positive things to Stan she only made fun of him at the dinner table. Therefore that has made Stan have trust issues and has he said just blend in.
Charlie comes to the unfortunate recognition of the cruelness of his coworkers and friends, and how they have been making fun of him all along. Although Charlie made the decision to get the surgery in order to improve his quality of life it ended up doing the opposite. Because of his choice he now sufffers the pain of realizing things and people arent what he thought they were. The Loss of innocence archetype is used in a very