Week 6 Assessment
1. I really enjoyed Invisible Man and I plan to finish this book one of these days. I like how Ellison addresses many of the social and racial discrimination surrounding African-Americans. I also like how they address the two different types of personalities; the person who considers themselves socially invisible and the person who will pay to witness something that they can't do them self. I really enjoyed Mr. Arnold coming into our class and making us question the lessons that we have been taught our entire life. He made me question if education was an enlightening or made to keep us ignorant. I personally think that it is both because they teacher pushes their beliefs on us all the time but I would be nowhere in my life if I didn't learn key education such as math and english. Mr. Arnold should seriously consider going back to teaching AP English because he was not only engaging but he made me question things that I have never considered.
2. a) The veil on education has been lifted from my eyes because I now view people's opinions and teachings different. Take each lesson you learn with a grain of salt because although their viewpoint might not match yours, you can still benefit from the beliefs of others. Education is not meant to be one-sided but rather multi-dimensional. People contribute their ideas and own experiences to the teaching that others have passed down to them.
b) The veil has been lowered on me all throughout my schooling. Teachers put their opinions on you instead of guiding you to express you own feelings. We have due dates that surpress our learning because god forbid we learn slower than our other classmates. We should be taught how to find ourselves but instead we are taught how we are supposed to act or think. The veil has been pushing down over my eyes all my life but just recently it has been further shoved over my face. The veil has moved because everyone has been telling me how to be and how to be a success and I just let them. I need to find me and find what makes me happy because that will be the true success.
3. In the future to keep the veil from being pushed any lower down my eyes I need to find myself. I need to figure out who I am and find out what makes me happy. I'm starting a long journey of self-discovery but hopefully it will make me happy. I would like to finish school and discover my own belief about the subjects that interest me. I would also like to find a career that I love and not one that my parents love.
4. Strays didn't do anything to lift the veil from my eyes. I didn't see the point in reading it and I can usually find a reason for doing anything. If anything I just felt bad for the kids because they were innocent and their messed up family was pushing their horrible choices on their children.