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Yan Zhou
IAH 201: Magee
Response Paper 1
January 22, 2015
Response Paper 1
Looking Backward is the story of a man who goes to sleep in 1887 Boston, and wakes up in 2000 Boston. He is awaked by a retired doctor and his wife and daughter when they find him sleeping in a chamber under their garden. The doctor’s family slowly introduces him to the incredible advancements society has made.
The book “Looking Backward” written by Edward Bellamy is a utopian novel because of the society he described is imaginative, and socialism system in 2000 is so perfect that it cannot be achieved in real life. In this book, it is not real because Julian West can sleep through a whole century and still alive. "Only a century has passed," he answered, "but many a millennium in the world's history has seen changes.” (Chapter 4) As a result, it is a representative utopian novel. Furthermore, some people claim that we should make everyone know the importance of feminist because most of females are treated unfairly in some ways and they do not have the same opportunities and rights as men. For example, in china, if you get a boy, it means your family will have a good luck in this year. Moreover, boys represent the wisdom and wealth because boys are always lively and clever in the elderly people’s eyes, and they can do many more kinds of jobs than girls, thus they have more chance to become an officer or an entrepreneur. The last, in china culture tradition, unlike people usually have high expectation on boys, the only expectation for girls is to find a good husband. However, “All that is changed today, no woman is heard nowadays wishing she were a man, nor parents desiring boy rather than girl children. Our girls are as full of ambition for their careers as our boys. Marriage, when it comes, does not mean incarceration for them, nor does it separate them in any way from the larger interests of society, the bustling life of the world. Only when maternity fills a woman's mind with new
IAH 201: Magee
Response Paper 1
January 22, 2015
Response Paper 1
Looking Backward is the story of a man who goes to sleep in 1887 Boston, and wakes up in 2000 Boston. He is awaked by a retired doctor and his wife and daughter when they find him sleeping in a chamber under their garden. The doctor’s family slowly introduces him to the incredible advancements society has made.
The book “Looking Backward” written by Edward Bellamy is a utopian novel because of the society he described is imaginative, and socialism system in 2000 is so perfect that it cannot be achieved in real life. In this book, it is not real because Julian West can sleep through a whole century and still alive. "Only a century has passed," he answered, "but many a millennium in the world's history has seen changes.” (Chapter 4) As a result, it is a representative utopian novel. Furthermore, some people claim that we should make everyone know the importance of feminist because most of females are treated unfairly in some ways and they do not have the same opportunities and rights as men. For example, in china, if you get a boy, it means your family will have a good luck in this year. Moreover, boys represent the wisdom and wealth because boys are always lively and clever in the elderly people’s eyes, and they can do many more kinds of jobs than girls, thus they have more chance to become an officer or an entrepreneur. The last, in china culture tradition, unlike people usually have high expectation on boys, the only expectation for girls is to find a good husband. However, “All that is changed today, no woman is heard nowadays wishing she were a man, nor parents desiring boy rather than girl children. Our girls are as full of ambition for their careers as our boys. Marriage, when it comes, does not mean incarceration for them, nor does it separate them in any way from the larger interests of society, the bustling life of the world. Only when maternity fills a woman's mind with new