Post by hayleycurrin on Aug 7, 2016 1:49:22 GMT
"Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened.
"You are too young to understand it," she said, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of-oh, of your father."
I was shocked. "Atticus doesn't drink whiskey," I said. "He never drunk a drop in his life-nome, yes he did. He said he drank some one time and he didn't like it."
Miss Maudie laughed. "Wasn't talking about your father," she said, "What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank till he was drunk he wouldn't be as hard as some men are at their best. There are just some kind of men who- Who're so busy worrying about the next world they're never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
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This quote was the first time I began to wonder if "To Kill A Mockingbird" is more beneficial to youth these days than "A Brave New World". Each day, we seem to get more and more divided in our schools, our country, and our world over all. Every moment is a competition and most prominently in this election year, we have become a "house divided" as it were. "A Brave New World" shows us the dangers of promiscuity at a young age and how a lack of meaning in our lives leads to a lack of humanity as well. All of these things are of course good messages and things we should know but we are also assaulted with these certain messages at almost every turn. We have classes to teach us the dangers of promiscuity; we have an all matter of literature to teach us meaning and to make us fear a lack of humanity (Night, Fahrenheit 451, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Lord of the Flies, and Animal Farm to name a few). However, the themes of humanity, family, and strength as a community that are found in "To Kill a Mockingbird" are very rarely taught to us and that is why they are so lacking. We are taught competition and achievement through most of our schooling which leaves little time at home to worry about anything else and these "old fashioned" or "long forgotten" themes that should be in our own lives are lost. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is also placed in a time pretty close after the civil war and cautions us against the discrimination that has begun to resurface more fiercely as of late. I fear that if we do not see the error of our ways, we might find ourselves in yet another civil war. So, my question is this: Which is more beneficial to youth today: A Brave New World or To Kill a Mockingbird?
"You are too young to understand it," she said, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of-oh, of your father."
I was shocked. "Atticus doesn't drink whiskey," I said. "He never drunk a drop in his life-nome, yes he did. He said he drank some one time and he didn't like it."
Miss Maudie laughed. "Wasn't talking about your father," she said, "What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank till he was drunk he wouldn't be as hard as some men are at their best. There are just some kind of men who- Who're so busy worrying about the next world they're never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
Page 45
This quote was the first time I began to wonder if "To Kill A Mockingbird" is more beneficial to youth these days than "A Brave New World". Each day, we seem to get more and more divided in our schools, our country, and our world over all. Every moment is a competition and most prominently in this election year, we have become a "house divided" as it were. "A Brave New World" shows us the dangers of promiscuity at a young age and how a lack of meaning in our lives leads to a lack of humanity as well. All of these things are of course good messages and things we should know but we are also assaulted with these certain messages at almost every turn. We have classes to teach us the dangers of promiscuity; we have an all matter of literature to teach us meaning and to make us fear a lack of humanity (Night, Fahrenheit 451, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Lord of the Flies, and Animal Farm to name a few). However, the themes of humanity, family, and strength as a community that are found in "To Kill a Mockingbird" are very rarely taught to us and that is why they are so lacking. We are taught competition and achievement through most of our schooling which leaves little time at home to worry about anything else and these "old fashioned" or "long forgotten" themes that should be in our own lives are lost. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is also placed in a time pretty close after the civil war and cautions us against the discrimination that has begun to resurface more fiercely as of late. I fear that if we do not see the error of our ways, we might find ourselves in yet another civil war. So, my question is this: Which is more beneficial to youth today: A Brave New World or To Kill a Mockingbird?
