They also are clearly not trying to write a hermeneutics textbook or solve all of the world's problems with this book. As one who likes to read a book and then think slowly through it, I appreciate that the chapters are not neatly wrapped up with a 5-step process to get it all right. Rather, they clearly lay out the issues, provide some direction for how to think and grow through them, and then leave each chapter with "Questions to Ponder." I wish more authors did this.
The book is readably broken up into 3 main sections, each with 3 chapters. Section one is called "Above the Surface," and its three chapters deal with Cultural Mores, Race and Ethnicity, and Language. The second section is "Just Below the Surface," and discusses Individualism
...dage and Freedom. The way Tom broke both of these parts down in his way impressive. The chapter itself was very good but the two charts that I mentioned really caught my attention most of all. The chart of Judaism, Christianity, designed by Coffman. This was place strategically by Tom in a very good place in his explanation of this part of his book. Another example of a good gathering of your resources and placing them in good spots. The last two chapters are like the rest put together. Overall, this was a well-written book. It was easy to read and to understand. The more I read the book and didn’t put it down. It took me two days to read and the only reason I put it down between the days was that I fell asleep with it in my hands. When I see Tom, again I will personally thank him for writing this. I will also tell him that I got a lot out of it. Good Book!
It deals with obstacles in life and the ways they are over come. Even if you are different, there are ways for everyone to fit in. The injustices in this book are well written to inform a large audience at many age levels. The book is also a great choice for those people who cheers for the underdogs. It served to illustrate how the simple things in life can mean everything.
This book teaches the importance of self-expression and independence. If we did not have these necessities, then life would be like those in this novel. Empty, redundant, and fearful of what is going on. The quotes above show how different life can be without our basic freedoms. This novel was very interesting and it shows, no matter how dismal a situation is, there is always a way out if you never give up, even if you have to do it alone.
This novel is about how participating in a conversation with somone will give you a better understanding of them than judging them based on their social class
What is/are the social problem(s) that the author is discussing in this book? Why did it/they develop?
Internal conflict caused by culture is a concept that Edward Hall explores in his book “Beyond Culture”. In this examination of intercultural interactions, Hall argues that people are born into the cultural prison of one’s primary culture. He then goes on to claim that from people can only be free of this prison and experiencing being lost in another (Hall). For Coates, this cultural prison is the permeating fear resulting from the blackness of his body. His internal conflict is therefore created when seeing the world of white, suburban culture. Because this world of pot-roasts and ice cream Sundays seems impossibly distant from the world of fear for his black body, Coates comes to feel the contrast of cultures. He tells his son, “I knew my portion of the American galaxy, where bodies were enslaved by tenacious gravity, was black and that the other, liberated portion was not” (21). As a result of the shocking divide, Coates comprehends the burden of his race. Coates therefore feels “a cosmic injustice, a profound cruelty, which infused an biding, irrepressible desire to unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape (21). The quality of life between the culture belonging to Coates’s skin in contrast to the culture of suburban America creates for Coates a sense of otherness between himself and the rest of the world. Disillusioned, Coates avidly pursues answers to this divide. Coates thereby embarks on a quest to satiate this internal conflict of cultures, beginning his journey towards
To conclude, I can continue to go on about the caste system, racism, and war on drugs. The point is that racism continues to exist and the rebirth of the caste, continues to exist it never went away. People just did not do as much, but now is more obvious than ever. The clear examples she introduce and statistic show and support the statement of the “rebirth of the caste”. In my opinion, I found the book interesting; and statistic surprising from class and the book. Things continue to go bad in the United States. When are we going to do something about it! This book shows the effects of the
Race is a major theme in both of the novels, as exemplified in the characters Tom Robinson and Crooks. Both authors use their characters and put them in situations during the time that is symbolizes people who are undervalued and segregated against. Crooks works on the farm, but he is isolated in a separ...
c. First, personal struggle for personhood by overcoming the internalization of the racialized norms (pp.118—119).
In this chapter, Oswalt deals with ethics in the nonbiblical ANE and ethics in the Bible. Oswalt discusses ethical misbehavior and the offenses against the gods and the offenses against other human beings and how they are two of different natures. Oswalt notes that the offenses against the god are almost entirely in the cultic or magical realms; while the offenses against humans is of different sort – and that they have nothing to do with our treatment of each other, and the offenses against humans are judged solely based on the customary behavior of a culture. In this chapter, Oswalt also discussed the law codes and how the law themselves are understood to be human creation. Oswalt mentions the different punishments for different types
... so many things about interacting with others and about understanding different cultures, Things are different everywhere you do because someone was raised that way or because they believe in something different than you. Culture isn’t all about the way someone lives or the society that they live in. Culture is about things you own, the way you act, where you live and your lifestyle. I now look at people with a different culture than me with so much more respect. I don’t know what they have gone through or what kind of culture they grew up with, life is harder in other places then it is America. I understand the differences in the way people live and see things. The culture and diversity in the world is amazing. Overall I loved this class, I learned things that I never could have imagined learning, I am impressed with the book and the class discussions that we have.
...d of detail, causing some of the structure and sequence to be lost. The points he makes are valid, but the reader can lose track of them due to the little sense of organization by category or priority within the chapters.
While reading Oryx and Crake, I found myself confused as I read through the first few chapters. The chapter that brought it all together for me was chapter five. After reading this chapter I feel like it brought the whole plot together. In the chapter titled “Fish” and “Bottle” it is explained that Crake has genetically engineered the Crakers and Snowman is here to contribute to building their moral and philosophical universe. Prior to this chapter I was confused as to what role snowman was playing in this story. Now that I had a better understanding as to the childhood of the characters and their roles in society now, it made me wonder, what if this was real life? What if in today’s world we were all genetically modified to look how we desired?
In terms of literature, perhaps the focus should be on the way different kinds of people are represented and how they represent themselves. Representation is the means by which people formulate their identity. Some may wish to discard their traditional national identity, whilst others make a strong effort to maintain it. Hence there is a continuous dialectic between received...
What I liked most about this book was the reality it revealed. It showed how brutal and cruel the society was. This book made me realize that racism is deeply embedded in the life and history of the nation, and it still exists in today’s society.