"What is the significance of Old Man Warner bringing up the "young folks". What role do young people play in our society?"
Young folks should be pointing the later generation, and not surprisingly, their opinions and point of views will not be the same as the older generation. In the short story "The Lottery", Old Man Warner viewed the young folks as simply uncivilized people, whose ideas were irradical and not worth attention. The old man had once said, "Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live hat way for a while." This proved his belief in that the young folks are people who could never be satisfied with any situation.
Young folks in our society were completely different, however. They were always at the top of the priority for most of the adults, as they would be responsible for the world in the future. Adults used every chance they could to make the young folks more "civilized", although their intention was positive, most commonly parents still had the tendency to "civilize" the young folks to become the same as them, although the situation were up to a new level and age. The rights of young folks were slowly getting better as years went past. For example, the young folks 300 years ago never had a say when deciding whom they must marry, it was all planned out by the parents, and regarded as a way to improve business or relationship with other families. 50 years ago, young folks choose the person they liked to marry, although the parents still had the final say to decide. Young folks nowadays, not surprisingly, are more wild, and do not listen to their parents (this might not be a "improvement"). Overall, young folks has the key to changing society, and their decisions are becoming more and more independent.
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irradical? I think you mean irrational. Independent? I disagree, I think that what's dictating their choices has just changed. It's rather illogical, but independence isn't something that you have, or gain. It's something you work towards. Besides, if they really wanted to be independent, they could go live like a hermit in the rain forest or something.
ReplyDeleteYour opinion seems to be missing from this piece. Do you think it's a good thing that "young folks" are becoming more independent? Because if we have, as you say, "the key to changing society," is it really a good idea for us to be so independent from our parents and elders who have much more wisdom and life experience to their credit?
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, when you think about it Old Man Warner was right to believe that young folks would "never be satisfied with any situation." Think on it a bit. As teenagers, most people are pretty set in their ways and want everyone to see things from their perspective. We generally fight our parents for more freedom and later curfews; on the whole teenagers can be pretty strong willed. We're normally only satisfied when things are going the way we want them to be.
-If you want to learn knowledge, grab a book or surf the internet. Wikipedia is perfectly fine given the quality control of actual encyclopedias.
ReplyDelete-If you say teenager are set in their ways, you are right. Except that it will be circular logic: you are a teenager too.
oops, I realized irradical is a typo, I really meant irrational
ReplyDeleteWho mentioned wanting to "learn knowledge?" (By the way, that's an awful use of both the verb 'learn' and the word 'knowledge.') And wikipedia is simply not as reliable as people want you to believe.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, (goodness me I use that word way to much,) while biologically speaking I am a teenager, I have lived well beyond my years and have obtained both the wisdom and mentality of a sage.
seriously May u sounds like Jisong, no offence
ReplyDeleteWikipedia is perfectly fine. If you one day is invited to write for World Book, you will know-they will not edit your work and whatever mistake you put on there will stay there until they finds a new person to write the article(sometimes that takes years).
ReplyDeleteSages are rather foolish. They are often too deceived by the generations of errors passed down through out the millennia. Sometimes they are as biased as crazy old fools due to a lack open-mindness that buries them as events of history rather than people of the present.
Lastly, it is you who mentioned that the parents are wise and filled with "experiences of life." Mind you this: their lives are theirs to keep but every generation runs its own path. Just like no position in a battle can be the same, our world will never run according to theirs.
And to reply to Oliver, no one can sound like me and be herself. Given the way she speaks, she sounds more like Steven without the ancient chinese adages.
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ReplyDeleteI was being stereotypically humerous about the whole sage thing, but thank ye kindly for taking me seriously anyways. And honestly, I don't use the World Book, all things considered, I use online articles and magazines. And I definitely agree, sages are rather foolish, but who are we to criticize them, we can be every bit as foolish as they. Oh the fallacies of man... (please don't take that last statement seriously, because if you do, God knows who you'll compare me to next!)
ReplyDeleteAnd actually Jisong, Oliver is right. We do speak in ways quite alike, except I speak without grammatical error. (sorry, just had to get that one off my chest, it is way too easy to insult you.)
Oh, I wonder about that.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I wonder if my grammatic errors are a result of excessive grammatic exercises or rather a lack of them. After all, I have done those exercises for almost 4 years now...But whatever, caring about grammar is the last thing on my mind.
ReplyDeletewonder about what sotes?
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ReplyDeletewhat did we get for Kwatlen science thingie?
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