Symbolically, this waste represents the lack of ethics of the 1920's society and civilization's decay. In ‘The Great Gatsby’, moral insufficiency such as selfishness and idleness are reflective of a society as doomed as ‘the valley of ashes’. Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective.
Then, she says that teachers believe they portray such horrific behaviors that are immoral. We live in a world in which school shootings, drugs, and alcohol are rampant; therefore, professors shouldn’t teach those books in the classroom because they don't model good behavior. On the other hand, Omanovic points out in a report called Reading at Risk from the National Endowment for Arts that school districts are banning books. Instead of reading books, they’re more interested in the internet. The reports goes on to say that as more Americans lose an interest in reading the more our nation becomes "less informed, tolerant, and independent-minded."
The use of the word “nigger” in Huckleberry Finn does not provide black students with equal protection and is in violation of their constitutional rights. The attitudes developed by reading Huckleberry Finn can lead to tensions, discontent, and even fighting. Huckleberry Finn implies that black people are less intelligent then whites and at times suggest that they are not even human
If I were a teacher, I would use these tales, particularly the very classic Brother Grimm’s Fairy Tales such as Cinderella, Little Red Cap, and Hansel and Gretel. Because I believe that reading these tales impose certain necessary morale for children to learn how to be independent, what culture and morale ? Yes, but I will select appropriate tales that will fit in the culture and the education environment. I will choose Brother Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Because of the psychoanal Fairy tales help inculcate the norms of society into young minds consciously, but subconsciously may provide an attractive stereotyped number of roles, locations, and timetables for an errant life script.
A Good Man Is Hard To Find A Good Man Is Hard To Find, a short story written by Flannery O’Connor, is about a selfish, dishonest woman, who thinks as herself as a superior being. However, in the end, she realizes that she too has faults of her own. The Protagonist of the story is the grandmother. In the beginning of the story, she tries to convince her son Bailey, and his wife, to take their family trip to east Tennessee rather than to go to Florida. The grandmother reads in the newspaper about a convicted killer, The Misfit, who has escaped from the Federal Pen, and is headed towards Florida.
I respectfully disagree. I don’t think that is drastic enough. I believe the book should be completely banned from all US public institutions of learning. Reasoning behind this statement includes the offences taken from the book, the legacy of America, and the fact that the book is boring. Numerous complains across the country have arisen from the book “Huck Finn” ever since it was published.
Curley’s wife is presented as a dream destroyer and a flirt in this novel, however Steinbeck suggests that there is a more complex character. She is a product of an evil, social, and economics environment of the 1930s; It was a society which degraded women. Curley’s wife puts herself out there as a desperate flirt, but while she’s flirting with guys she’s only looking for someone she can talk to. When Curley’s wife is talking to Lennie she tells him how she doesn’t get to express her feelings while living on the farm. She realizes that Lennie has mental disabilities therefore decides to talk to him because she knows he will stay.
Mayret Rodriguez MW: 4:15-5:30PM Due: 2/20/2013 There Are No Good Men The short story “A Good man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O' Connor is very interesting. It is about a grandmother who instead of going to Florida, decides to persuade her son to go to Tennessee. While they are in Georgia, she lies to them about a house that has secret panels and they start heading to the place. On the way there, she realizes the house is in Tennessee instead of Georgia, so they end up having an accident and coming across the Misfit who later on kills the whole family. The title a good man is hard to find proves it's meaning in the story.
Meanwhile, when curleys wife comes looking for her husband in Crooks room, she feels superior infront of them and says them the weak ones. Curley's wife threatens crooks to strung up on a tree which made him reflect on him and he felt powerless. Therefore, Stenibeck has shown crooks to be the victim of racial prejudice.During 1930s, segregation was widespread. When crooks becomes an ally in the fantasy to buy a farm, the barrier of raical prejudice is briefly broken.Steinbeck shows the failures of American dream through crooks bitter
I believe that Lennie cannot be held responsible for the decisions he makes because he doesn't understand the problems they cause at all. One prime example of Lennie's inability to make good decisions comes at the beginning of the book. He threatens to leave George alone since he is such a bother to him. On pg. 12 Lennie says, "I could go off in the hills there.