In this article, I have found three interesting quotes that I enjoyed. The first quote that I enjoyed was "If poor people behaved rationally-they would be seldom by poor for long in the first place." When I looked at this quote and read it, to me it feels like it has to do with equality, and being equal. In Amazing Grace, everyone could spot the poor people. In my opinion by what this quote means, is that since the community already knows the poor people, they are rarely known for that classification as a poor person. That quote caught my eye, even though it seems like a vague quote.
Towards the end of the article, there was another quote that caught my attention. The quote is "I think they hate you because you are not in their condition. I am in hell and you are not and so I hate you and I have to try to bring you down to where I am." In the article, this quote was referring to when the narrator passed by St. Ann's avenue, the dealers would open their hands and would ask what they wanted. The dealer would give the narrator a hatred look. I think it means that the dealer is hated by the narrator because the narrator is not in the dealers shoes for being a prostitute dealer. Maybe he would want to be poor like the narrator, instead of being in the shoes he is in.
The last sentence of the article was another quote that caught my attention and that was, "It's not just hatred, it's as if they're laughing at theirs, and yours." Everyone has hatred for everyone. There is always something about a person in which a person does not like. In reality, that is true. A person is never happy about themselves, and are always hating something about them, and about others. No one can just respect people, it's always about hatred.
I personally enjoyed reading this article. It moved us from the topic of racism from the other articles we read, to more of where poor children live in a society, and what they have to deal with. It was a pretty fair reading. I understood most of it, and if I didn't, I would go back and read it over. It related to the other texts we read by showing what it feels like to be treated. The other readings were based on race and culture, and how they got treated. This article is based on poor children and their education, and it discusses on how society treats them. It's sad living in a society like this because no one ever accepts for people on who they are. If you were living where the narrator lived in the story, how would you feel? What it impact your life, or would it be a living condition you would get used to?
i think what you said about the last quote is really interesting and i do agree. everyone looks for the bad in people, not the good. once everyone stops hating and starts understanding, this society can really evolve into something good.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was interesting how ou related the first qoute to equality. While we are always saying there is equality in the country, we are clearly not equal when there are people living like this in places not far from where privileged people live. Even their hospitals are in horrific condition compared to those not too far away.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything the fact of equality and that it is interesting that i never looked at it in the way that everybody always looks for the bad and not the good and now that i think about it i can see how that happens.
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