They lived uncomfortably and “would have to use the washroom next door and [carry] water over in empty milk gallons” (147). These conditions are not safe for a family of six, and to live in a place that is not in decent conditions is not good. But living in misfortune can let the family dream of what their heart truly desires. The “real house” that is imagined by the narrator has everything their hearts desired to live in a comfortable home. The children were promised that this new home would be theirs to keep.
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. They know nothing of the world outside their town, they know it’s there, but they don’t understand it. These people are happy enough to live in the dark, as it were, with little or no education about life outside the town’s boundaries. Plato says that as long as we are enthralled by what we see and have knowledge of, we will never be able to consider other abstract ideas we don’t understand. The allegory teaches us about enlightenment, and how if we can be philosophers we can be free.
But how could they feel safe, without feeling free? In Mencken’s seventy-six years of age he assumed that he finally figured out what the average human longs for in life. In his opinion, it wasn’t freedom that was desired, but safety. However, the society that is lived in today is not one where a person could feel safe in an environment that they are not free in. During times of slavery, slaves did not sing songs to assist them in getting through the day or dream of a tomorrow where they would no longer be in captivity for the desire of safety.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Even though they have no idea how contaminated the snow is, it’s there only source of water. Their ration portions for food are probably not even close to 3/4th of our normal size portion food that we eat every day. Imagine the pain and suffering they’re going through trying to just get through a day without dying and not knowing when they’re going home, or even IF they’re going home. When on the other hand we all have the opportunity to just go home and relax without a care in the
As I donned my hair net and took my place behind the cool, metal counter I was sucked into a world that I had never been a part of before. I saw the young who were still ashamed of seeking refuge in such a lowly place, and the old who had been long since hardened by their way of life. There were families huddled closely together and loners crouched in a corner. Seeing the lives of all of these people made me realize how blessed I am. I have never had to depend on strangers behind a counter to feed me or know that I would not have somewhere to sleep at night if someone took my bed in the shelter.
Growing up, he always felt as if his mother was purposely embarrassing him and very strange compared to other mothers. He was embarrassed to have a white mother and having this “antique” bike makes it even worse. Plus she was the only white women in the neighborhood which would draw attention in the black community. This grasped the theme because every place Ruth went, she never truly felt at home but always lost. In this neighborhood, she didn’t feel at home because she wasn’t accepted by the entire community.
People are struggling to survive everyday because they have no food and shelter. These people may always dig through the trash to find something to eat for the day, not knowing if they will find anything. Families may always live in horrible conditions, having no other choice, because they do not have enough money. It’s extremely hard for them to find well paying jobs in these countries. For most of these people it’s nearly impossible to get out of poverty because they were born and raised in that culture, unless other people who aren’t in poverty help them out.
He explained how there were benefits and trade offs. Lennie and George had the perfect relationship for this example. Lennie and George were very dependent on each other was because they were all each other had. They've always traveled together to find jobs so they could take care of one another. The reason why it was only them two together was because they had no family and no other friends that would be able to tolerate or handle them.
While this sounds like a great basis for a government, it would ultimately lead to a lot of their problems. Once everyone decided to demand equal wages, for unequal work, the framework was destined to collapse on itself. Other than this very basic blueprint of a republican government, there was no other real governing body of Brook Farm. While Ripley and his counterparts founding it and were in charge, they by no means sponsored totalitarianism or tyranny, nor did they run any sort of dictatorship. Everyone was free to come and go as they pleased, and most partakers did not even live on the acreage owned by the community.
Especially with foster children, foster children are always treated like they aren’t smart. People don’t push foster children to have high expectations for them to succeed. Children just believe what people are telling them and not being able to have the confidence to prove them wrong. (Spark Action) Most children don’t even have any knowledge about college or even crosses their mind. This is because they go home to home, that they feel they won’t be in a place to worry about that.