Juxtaposing The History Teacher Essay
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2. Juxtaposing the teacher’s version of historical events with the description of the children after they left the classroom is able to reflect what knowledge children can gain from their history class, and whether the history class can influence them. The effect of juxtaposing these two pieces of information together is to show that nothing has happened to the children after learning history because the teacher tries to teach the knowledge in a positive and simple way in order to keep the children’s innocence. The children still keep their nature to “torment the weak and smart” on the playground after their history class, and they are still innocent with the positive knowledge of history they have been taught.
3. The author’s attitude toward the history teacher is both amused and critical. His attitude is amused because he uses a humorous tone when he describes the history teacher’s way of teaching in the most part of the poem. For instance, in line 2-4, the author says that the history teacher told his students that “the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period...wear sweaters”. Using such an …show more content…
This is a story about having a voice in society in a way of reflecting the norm that the people in authority or the people who are older generally have a stronger voice. In this story, Mrs. Price, the authoritative teacher, is able to make the author take the sweater and wear it, even though her assumption about who owns the sweater is wrong. However, the author, who was an 11-year-old student at that time, can only follow Mrs. Price’s order and crying because students would prefer to believe their teacher’s false claim than her truth. Mrs. Price represents the group of people that get heard and get to talk in the society. They always have a voice because they are in authority and older. On the other hand, the author represents the group of people that are always ignored and not having a voice in the society because of their social status and young
2. Juxtaposing the teacher’s version of historical events with the description of the children after they left the classroom is able to reflect what knowledge children can gain from their history class, and whether the history class can influence them. The effect of juxtaposing these two pieces of information together is to show that nothing has happened to the children after learning history because the teacher tries to teach the knowledge in a positive and simple way in order to keep the children’s innocence. The children still keep their nature to “torment the weak and smart” on the playground after their history class, and they are still innocent with the positive knowledge of history they have been taught.
3. The author’s attitude toward the history teacher is both amused and critical. His attitude is amused because he uses a humorous tone when he describes the history teacher’s way of teaching in the most part of the poem. For instance, in line 2-4, the author says that the history teacher told his students that “the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period...wear sweaters”. Using such an …show more content…
This is a story about having a voice in society in a way of reflecting the norm that the people in authority or the people who are older generally have a stronger voice. In this story, Mrs. Price, the authoritative teacher, is able to make the author take the sweater and wear it, even though her assumption about who owns the sweater is wrong. However, the author, who was an 11-year-old student at that time, can only follow Mrs. Price’s order and crying because students would prefer to believe their teacher’s false claim than her truth. Mrs. Price represents the group of people that get heard and get to talk in the society. They always have a voice because they are in authority and older. On the other hand, the author represents the group of people that are always ignored and not having a voice in the society because of their social status and young