Looking back into our country’s history I’ve come to realized school is something that was not always so easily accessible by everyone. Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X are two perfect examples of people that were either not given the opportunity to learn or denied the opportunity to learn. Frederick Douglass was a man who was born a slave and not given the opportunity to go to school and learn to read and write. Douglass’ mistress had taught him to read and write but was prohibited from teaching him further more by her husband shortly after Frederick’s success in both reading and writing (143). When the mistress noticed her husband’s disapproval of her actions she started to act more violently and like a stereotypical slave owner.
“THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE” Excerpt from Plato, The Republic, Book VII, 514A1-518D8, Socrates and Glaucon are conversing: SOCRATES: “Next,” said I “compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as this. Picture men dwelling in a sort of subterranean cavern with a long entrance open to the light on its entire width. Conceive them as having their legs and necks fettered from childhood, so that they remain in the same spot, able to look forward only, and prevented by the fetters from turning their heads. Picture further the light from a fire burning higher up and at a distance behind them, and between the fire and the prisoners and above them a road along which a low wall has been built, as the exhibitors of puppet-shows have partitions before the men themselves, above which they show the puppets.” GLAUCON: “All that I see,” he said. SOCRATES: “See also, then, men carrying past the wall implements of all kinds that rise above the wall; and human images and shapes of animals as well, wrought in stone and wood and every material, some of these bearers presumably speaking and others silent.” GLAUCON: “A strange image you speak of,” he said, “and strange prisoners.” SOCRATES: “Like to us,” I said; “for, to begin with, tell me do you think that these men would have seen anything of themselves or of one another except the shadows cast from the fire on the wall of the cave that fronted them?” GLAUCON: “How could they,” he said, “if they were compelled to hold their heads unmoved through life?” SOCRATES: “And again, would not the same be true of the objects carried past them?” GLAUCON: “Surely.” SOCRATES: “If then they were able to talk to one another, do you not think that they would suppose that in naming the things that they saw they were naming the passing objects?” GLAUCON: “Necessarily.” SOCRATES: “And if their
Explain Plato's Analogy of the Cave Plato was a dualist, he believed there are two worlds, the world of the Forms and the world of Appearances. 'The Analogy of the Cave' portrays humans stuck in a 'world of appearances'. It depicts a cave in which there are prisoners who have been chained up since birth so they can only see in front of them. The prisoners have their back to a curtain, behind the curtain there is a road and further behind that and higher up in the cave is a fire. People walk alond the road carrying various objects such as models of animals on poles.
Rule of the Bone In todays world people dont realize how it is not too have any parents or not too have a roof over their head. In the book Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks it shows how a kid struggles with these problems and tries to handle them all by himself. The book is based with themes that are all linked into one hell of a life for a kid. Where for the most part of the book he spends his time searching for people he could call Family so he could be loved, when he's not looking for family he gets sucked into searches for his own identity. Another theme in the book is Abandonment and as you will see in this text, the youngster has nothing going for him.
Questions on Section 4 1. Why does Steinbeck present Crooks to have a room of his own in the barn and does not sleep with the other men in the bunkhouse? In Chapter Four, Steinbeck gives Crooks a thorough introduction, particularly in describing Crooks himself and his living quarters. Since Crooks is black, he is forced to live apart from the other white workers; clearly, racism was part of this culture and era. Crooks lives/sleeps in a shed attached to the barn.
“I ran because I was a coward. I was afraid of Assef and what he would do to me. I was afraid of getting hurt” (78) Although Amir is very young, he hasn’t developed the sense of judgment between fight or flight. Amir witnessed the rape of Hassan, and it will haunt him for a very long time. 9.
Holden’s rejection of change is due for his fear of change, not be the same after growing up, accept something that he does not want to accept, be rejected by people, or even lose someone special to him. But everyone has to grow up and Holden does not grasp this concept. Not only his rejection of change affected his live, but he lied and wanted to be away from people. Instead of going to people to feel better, to ask for help, and to feel loved, Holden had lived among the consolation of his dead brother,
Poor John has never met his dad. His mom sometimes calls him “the fling”. I feel really bad for john because there’s nothing more that he wants then to meet his father. John would always vent to me how he wishes his mother would just tell him who his father is. He also felt as if his father was hiding from him but I’d often tell John “your dad can hide from you, but he can’t hide from God.” I felt bad for john at times, but he didn’t have to live as a dwarf his whole life.
First, one of the challenges Dave Pelzer faced in his youth was finally being taken out of his mother’s house and put into foster care. In the beginning, he thinks that being a foster kid is going to be good but it took him a while to realize that it wasn’t what he dreamt it to be. Though he was away from abuse from his mother, foster care meant constant move for him. With all the moves he had to go through, he never really got the chance to fit in and become part of something. As soon as he felt like he was finally settling down, he left the family he was staying with.
James Baldwin, inspired Walter and gave him the courage to write about his own personal experiences as a black person. The short story “The Baddest Dog In Harlem” was published in the book 145th Street: Short Stories (2001) as part of a collection set on 145th street. Each of the short stories found in the book are meant to have a different meaning and impact on the reader, one thing all stories have in common, is that they take place on 145th Street. The main character in the story does not have a name. Based on the description of 145th Street by the main character; The quote and the fact that the character is sitting on the rails when the cops arrive, tells me that he is most likely unemployed.