“Conformity ensures an individual’s relationship with the institution… rebellion inevitably complicates it”. The enigmatic and elusive nature of the institution is designed to suppress individuality and encourage conformity, due to the inherent tension present between the inflexible institution and the individual. The harmonious or orderly functioning of society is dependent upon the cooperation of all the parts that seek to have certain needs and requirements met. This social contract entails the reduction in individual freedom in return for the provision of individual needs, such as security. Through an exploration of the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest, Ken Kesey’s authorial intention give the responder an insight into the individual’s
Huck is closest related to Montag because of the way that they want to break away from society and learn things on their own. Captain Beatty is like Miss Watson because they are both a hypocritical part of these two novels. There are other like character but the similarities are minor and thus might just be coincidental. But the aforementioned characters also stand as symbols for ideas. Huck and Montag stand for freedom and self-reliance because they search for what is right within themselves and not what the rest do.
But basically, this guy thinks that public schooling is just wrong by principle. He thinks it's unnecessary, and that all it does is prepare children to be servants to the government by making them dumb, conforming, and childish. At least, this was the gist of the essay as I interpreted it. As I read the essay, I understood and appreciated the writer's point of view until I reached one part. This part is describing the six goals of public education as Alexander Inglis (author of Principles of Secondary Education) and Gatto see them.
He writes about how those high up who brought, supported, and funded the Prussian-like system did so to only enforce having a guarantee of a "servile labor force" and "mindless consumers." Gattos supports the idea that it is more than obvious that schooling is simply meant to separate, demoralize and "dumb the people down." I would have to agree for the most part with John Gatto's argument. The boredom in schooling along with the monotone teachings and textbook answers is rather familiar. Although Gatto argues that
The composer is communicating his belief that while human beings claim to be educated, just and accepting, we can sometimes be quite the opposite. The firm belief in what is considered to be socially acceptable has led to numerous misconceptions and stereotypes being created, simply to class someone with a label, rather than with a name or any other personifying feature. It is this human ability to judge that Van Allsburg is attempting to break down by showing through the use of metaphor, the corrupt foundations that are the basis for forming opinions. The Widow’s Broom is a book directed at children, but the messages it communicates, though indirectly, are incredibly powerful and very relevant to society. The responder views society from a number of different
The Ugly Duckling is well renowned for creation of self-esteem in children. Sorrows of Werter is a great example of romanticism, as emotion is always chosen over reason. In the book, Werter seeks to understand his place in the world. The book would actually be pretty good for bibliotherapy except for two elements: suicide and inquisitiveness. The introduction of suicide to any person or being is not good.
“Unnecessary Controversy” Unnecessary Controversy “Jims’ a nigger and wouldn’t understand it” (Twain 182). That’s what Huckleberry Finn says about Jim, a runaway slave that he is helping and as if black people are any less intelligent. The word “nigger” gives the story more meaning instead of what some people think offends the reader. Throughout the book, Huckleberry struggles with himself about whether he should be helping Jim or not and that struggle claws at the reader. Mark Twain, the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, made a good choice to include controversial words in the book to show racial injustice and should be taught in schools.
The Language Police Throughout “The Language Police,” the angered author, Diane Ravitch, speaks her mind on the issue of censorship. Censorship shelters students from the real world and gives them a false sense of reality. Ravitch believes that students are being censored to such an extreme that their freedom is being limited. The goal of the language police is not just to stop us from using objectionable words but to stop us from having objectionable thoughts (Ravitch 158). The language police are restricting what students learn by removing anything that may appear controversial.
In the society we live in, we are at a constant battle trying to protect the purity of our youth by trying not to expose them to the vulgarity of the community. We protect our youth by censoring certain ideas of having to read such a great novel like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The perspective of the reader must be that the book is not necessarily a racist account of the past. If that had been the case, chapters would be ripped out of history books and even there, the history books present fact, not necessarily opinion. Huck Finn is only slightly different in that it provides satire, in which the institution of slavery is lashed out at and put down as evil.
Dill is trying to make himself look better to Scout and Jem so that he’ll be more respected and at the same time through his stories he hides his background form them, and Mayella tries to make herself look better to the people of Maycomb and to the general society, and through her stories she tries to hide the fact that she’s the one that did something wrong, and that she is actually the one breaking the social order. Again Dill is similar, but is an innocent version of Mayella. His lies and stories go no deeper than the surface, while Mayella’s lies and stories hide something much darker and deeper than