Thoughts Involving Education
• Francie's schooling shows how she will live a life with more opportunities than her parents have had. Mary has great hope because her children can read and write, unlike herself.
• Johnny's interest in educating his children further develops the importance of knowledge through the eyes of Francie's parents; possibly, relating to time period. Despite the problems between the adults in this novel, they all agree that they want their children to be well-educated, and out of the slums. Johnny in this chapter is compared to Mary Rommely, who believes that her children will live a better life than she did because they can read and write. Clearly, chapter 26 states that not only will Francie learn to write, but that she will also grow up to be a writer.
- How will this future accomplishment allow Francie's stand in society to differ from her uneducated parents'?
- Is the theme of "Education" evolving into the novel?
Chapter 28
• As Francie grows up, she comes to realize the ugly side of poverty; as she becomes more of a realist. Her thoughts about the theater show that she is thinking just like her mother; she thinks the heroine should marry the villain to "solve the rent problem" for instance, and she knows that if the heroine lost her job, she would easily find other low-wage work.
- How will this mindset effect Francie's future? Positively/negatively? Is this the overpowering effects of reality?
Jenna S.
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I think that in the book, education represents something the parents feel they can give to their children. Katie and Johnny want their kids to have better lives than they had, but they don't have the money to do so. They see education as a priveledge to the kids. Education is also an opportunity to improve their lives and a way to become a success and get out of the slums, which is where Francie will stand in the future.
ReplyDeleteI think this mindset will both positively and negatively effect Francie. It will effect her negatively because it shows that she is willing to do whatever it takes to get out of the slums. Seeing the ugly side of poverty will effect her positively because it will motivate her to work hard to get out of them.
I think this mindset affect her in both ways. Both positively and negatively.
ReplyDelete1. Negatively because she will become desperate to do anything to get out of being poor.
2. But as she sees the bad side of being poor she'll want to do everything and anything so that she doesnt become that way, which will lead her to be more hard working.
Literary Luminary post #4
ReplyDelete"Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. 'You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that you're making up all the time were terrinle lies ecause they are not the truth as people see the truth. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then yo wont get mixed up.'
It was the best advice Francie ever got. Truth and fancy were so mixed up in her mind-as they are in the mind of every lonely child- that she didnt know which was which. But Teacher made these two things clear to her. From that time on, she wrote little stories about things she saw and felt and did. In time, she got so that she was able to speak the truth with but a slight and instinctive coloring of the facts.
Francie was 10 years olf when she first found an outlet in writing. Wwhat she wrote was a little of consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction.
If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar."
This is an excerpt from chapter 26, where it shows the time where Francie's teacher gave her advice on how she is a good writer and what she has to do and look out for inorder for her to write better, and to maybe even become a writer. She sees that telling the truth is important in everything that you do, and she wasnt aware of that before. As she said in the end of the excerpt: "If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar."... This shows that this advice did not only help her acedemically, but also mentally.