Many children at Troy High School are given tardies and other punishments for something as simple as coming in late to class by a mere ten seconds because a teacher is in bad mood or is super passionate about the rules that the school provides for the teachers to enforce. There is "no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense"(Thoreau), in school when every unique student has something come up that may have caused them to be ten seconds late. Many teachers also have a mindset that we are their "subjects" and should not be "men first." Many teacher long for respect by the students by giving unnecessary punishments, but this doesn't accomplish anything but not treating each other like people and just treating each other like subjects. The morel is, treat others how you would want to be treated and this will in turn make your interactions meaningful and will treat others like people and not like subjects.
In The Great Gatsby, Nick has a peculiar way of describing Gatsby by making his description of him somewhat ambiguous. I feel that this is foreshadowing later into the book in some ways because of how little we know about Gatsby. The ambiguous description of Gatsby through Nick's eyes was, "[he] represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn." After reading this, I became more interested in Gatsby as throughout the reading, some of what Gatsby says and does is in contradiction to where he lives and what he does. After our discussion in class about him living in the West Egg, this can imply that Gatsby did not inherit his wealth from his family because the city that represents old money, East Egg, is the place that he should be tied to if that is the case. With the lie that he brought up, it can also be assumed that there are other lies that are in place to keep his character mysterious. Because of the reason the Gatsby wants to hide how he obtained his we...
I agree with your stance about how to treat others. I like how you wrote about Thoreau's piece through a different perspective, and you created a moral by applying it to the real world. Also, good job incorporating small quotes for "Civil Disobedience" in your sentences like how we saw with the example essay in class.
ReplyDeleteGood point, Ajay. I liked the way you incorporated Thoreau's views in your real life perspective. I also think that teachers should treat students the way they want to be treated. You also learned from the sample essay by adding small quotes into your arguments. Nicely done.
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