I did not hear him stir again.” p. 64. The composes uses her narrator Scout to create a clear image of a young boy, visibly shaken by his ordeal of retrieving the lost pants therefore reinforcing the degree of courage it must have taken for him to even contemplate undertaking such a feat. Another character who is representative of this theme is Mrs Dubose. The audience is made acutely aware of the depth of her courage in chapter 11 when she finally passes, her death brought on more rapidly because she refused to die whilst addicted to morphine. Atticus tells his son that he wanted him to read to Mrs Dubose so he would understand that real courage was not demonstrated by a gun.
Exploring and understanding different characters decisions and beliefs truly helps reveal human morality. Aside from Scout, her father Atticus helps explore the good and bad of the Maycomb community. Atticus understands that, rather than being good or evil, everyone has good and bad qualities. The important thing is to appreciate the good qualities and understand the bad qualities by being comprehensive to others and trying to see life from their shoes. “You never really understood a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb into his skin and walk around it.” pg 30.
Lessons such as the sublect of Human nature, Beauty and horrors and ones self limitations. This novel is a great example of how you dont need to readd text books to get an education. One of the lessons Eduard Keller taught Paul was the subject of human nature. In the 'textbook', Keller complied articles and anecdotes relating to the negativity, 'stupidity and squalor'' of people around the world.The ''libretto'' contained fragments of how some citizens cared more about money or themselves then the people around them. This is eveident in the peice, 'compensation Shock'', here 'bereaved parents lash out'' at the paltry amount they were compensated for the death of their son.
Morality in To Kill A Mockingbird In To Kill A Mockingbird, morality is proven to be molded to fit where you come from. Ideals, dreams, and the perspective of right and wrong is created from the place you are growing up and the people you surround yourself with. The first example of morality occurs when Scout goes against her wants to make Atticus happy, and without causing troubling with her classmate. Scout states, “I drew a bead on him, remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away, "Scout's a cow- ward!" ringing in my ears.
Priests Can Do It Too: “The Blue Cross” as a Tale of Deception One of my favorite clichés is “never judge a book by its cover.” Children are taught this lesson at a young age. It helps them make friends. But this is just a general guideline for kids to behave. In “The Blue Cross” G.K. Chesterton exhibits a more specific application of this lesson. This new advice is to not underestimate anyone.
This is because it keeps them calm and cool, as long as they have the conch they will be in order and under control. In addition, they don’t want everybody talking at once as said “we’ll have to have ‘hands up’ like at school.” Page (33). I think it’s great they established rules and using their minds to claim the conch as their symbol of order. Golding also includes Beelzebub in order to show that the darkness is in everyone’s heart. For example, he talks to Simon and predicts that the boys will kill him later.
His main points of satire are to always obey your parents, when they are present; be respectful to your superiors, if you have any, also to strangers, and sometimes to others; avoid violence; go to bed early, get up early; be careful about lying; never handle firearms carelessly; and to be careful in your selection of books. After he states each rule he explains each point while using satire. For example when Twain says to respect strangers he also says “If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not
Especially the most vulnerable of humans; teenagers. Continuing the study of Peter Skrzynecki’s poems ‘The Immigrant Chronicles’ and the feature article ‘Marked as an enemy of the state’ would definitely provide helpful understanding of the concept of belonging. So, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Board of Studies, I present to you, my firm but humble reasons as to why belonging must be retained in the syllabus. Maintaining the belonging concept in the syllabus primarily enables a widened understanding of familial relationships in regards to daily importance. Skrzynecki’s words, “gentle father kept pace only with the Joneses of his own mind’s making” as quoted from his poem ‘Feliks Skrzynecki’ exhibits, through the descriptive word ‘gentle’ and the metaphorical use of ‘only with the Joneses of his own mind’s making’, the obvious admirations of son to father as well as the childhood lesson of staying true to oneself.
When Milgram’s participants were debriefed after the original electric shock experiment (Milgram, 1963), many reported that they knew it was wrong to deliver dangerous electric shocks, but that they felt the experimenter was responsible and not them. At the Nuremberg trials, many Nazi soldiers defended their actions by saying it was not their fault as they were just following orders. We learn during childhood to develop the capacity for an agentic state, in school we learn to put aside our individual wishes in favour of maintaining order, and we put the good of the class first. An important aspect of the agentic state is the strategies we use to deal with moral strain. Moral strain results when we have to do something we believe to be immoral in order to function as an agent of authority and benefit society.
They don’t use complicated terminology in discussing issues which come up in counselling rooms. Take for example right at the beginning of the book, describing ‘the self concept on page11 Box 1.1…”The evolution of the Poor Self-Concept” The example given of client remembering his parents never ever praising him for anything he did well and their criticism of him were the seeds to his poor self-concept. The counsellor’s reflecting back what he had said, is what we practice in our class role plays and brings real meaning to learning. This knowledge will finally be brought into practice with clients when I qualify as a counsellor. Person Centred Counselling Third Edition is an improvement on the first two books in that it gives more insight into person centred counselling.