Post two key lines from your reading. Explain why you chose them.
Respond to at least one other person's posting.
Monday, May 3, 2010
God of Small Things
Post two key lines from your reading. Explain why you chose them.
Respond to at least one other person's posting.
Respond to at least one other person's posting.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
On Persepolis
Read the text below and then answer two questions.
First, how is this true in Persepolis? Be specific.
Second, what questions does our society prefer we not think about? (What questions are we not supposed to think about/ask?)
On Education:
“The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally want, is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society.”
-James Baldwin, American, 1924-1987
QUESTION:
Baldwin states that “to ask questions” is the means by which one “achieves his [or her] own identity”, but yet society is not “anxious to have that kind of person around” who does ask questions. What is so dangerous about the question?
First, how is this true in Persepolis? Be specific.
Second, what questions does our society prefer we not think about? (What questions are we not supposed to think about/ask?)
On Education:
“The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally want, is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society.”
-James Baldwin, American, 1924-1987
QUESTION:
Baldwin states that “to ask questions” is the means by which one “achieves his [or her] own identity”, but yet society is not “anxious to have that kind of person around” who does ask questions. What is so dangerous about the question?
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