In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury emphasizes a world in which books are of little importance and forbidden. Firemen like Montag, burn books without knowing the reasoning behind it. In Bradbury's novel, education's emphasis on technology leads to a culture where people understand how things are done but never bother to wonder why things are done. Such an education discourages people from developing their creative abilities, and as the narrative points out several times, those who cannot build destroy. The result is a society where fanatical, destructive behavior, such as the firemen's book-burning, flourishes.
The quote explained how that no body wanted to go to the Radley’s place because people were scared of it. The funny thing though was that people assume “Boo” was a monster and scary, but no one really had proof. Booism may be the first challenge they face, but it was far from the end of the challenges they faced. One of the biggest challenges was racisim. Though Maycomb was a white commuinty, there were a few negeros.
The analogy of the cave tells us nothing about reality. Discuss [10] To explain the way in which Plato’s analogy of the cave could tell us something about reality, one could use the example of a small town, in the middle of nowhere. Many people live in this town, and it has a school, a church, a post office and a shop. The population of the town rarely leave to visit other places. These people can be considered to be the prisoners in Plato’s analogy, chained together, facing a blank wall, assuming to know everything about the world from the small part of it they’ve seen.
One of the more fascinating facts in this book is the culture of the RTH scares away the emergency response teams. I have never walked the streets of my hometown and have the fear of being robbed or attacked but unfortunately I cannot say the same for the residents of RTH. Gangs are not as bad as stereotypes make them out to be. In the media they are
“In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being…” This quote is talking about how Edna wasn’t meant to lead the life she was leading. Edna was not meant to be the stereotypical mother and housewife. Edna is, for lack of a better term, living the wrong life. She is supposed to be independent, and not take orders from the stereotypical husband, which hers is. At this point she realizes it, and the story unravels off of that detail “But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague…” This is saying how Edna’s awakening is like her starting in a new world, which is where this statement is pointing at.
In the book Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo puts readers into the shoes of slum dwellers in the Indian city of Mumbai. This is a place where the people have to hustle and bend the rules in order to survive and provide for their families. Hardly anyone who lives in Annawadi has a real job. In order to make a living, the people rely on and even fight over the garbage they find which is thrown out by the nearby airport hotels. The hospitals are unclean with no medicine because doctors sell it on the black market, police are only there to help whoever gives them most money, and schooling is hardly even considered due to the lack of funding.
The quote, “The complexity in the web of social relationships, whether by day or night, vertical or horizontal, of the period here described cautions us to avoid a tendency to make hasty and definitive judgments, a mania which, owing to our exaggerated self-confidence, we shall perhaps never be rid of” foreshadows that maybe in the near future, this character, (the lady with the sunglasses), would be at the receiving end of said “social relationships” in which she will be judged (Saramago 21). This suspicion is later confirmed when the car thief became “aroused by the perfume she exuded and by the memory of his recent erection” and decides that he should take it upon himself to take what he wanted (Saramago 45). His action is clearly considered to be sexual harassment because when she “wriggled to shake him off” she could not because he was “grabbing her firmly” (Saramago 46). This is a controversial issue because of the fact that she’s a prostitute. When someone of her
Idato states in the article: ‘when they realise there are no lawmakers and there are no laws, there are no policemen. When there is nothing, no sense of government when anarchy takes hold, it’s ultimately the end.’ This furthermore relates the article to the book, comparing adults to policemen of the school boys; which were non-existent at the time, therefore not being a complete system of laws, and lawmakers. Although they do create a few rules (such as only being able to speak when the conch is held by oneself), they aren’t exactly laws; being easily broken without personal consequences, especially on the island. For example, when the conch is destroyed along with Piggy from Roger’s rolled rock, much of the authority is no longer distributed (only really belonging to Jack), but we don’t see him serving a jail sentence for three years or so. They just move
Not even using modern technology to farm or for their businesses, the Amish people are said to not drink nor smoke, as well as a education system that usually ends at eighth grade. North America is in a whole an industrialized society. We use modern technology
For this reason, the police have very little say on what goes on in the city. This makes it easy for gangs to enforce power on civilians. They can do as they please because the police cannot stop them and the civilians know not to rise against gangs because gang members will often just kill anyone who acts against them. One of the most dominant powers in America is the power of conformity. It is often overlooked because it is not physical like money or gangs, but it is this power is omnipresent.