A: “We are like the nameless grandmothers who got in the streets and said ‘We will make you lives up to what America says she is,’ William said.”
Answer: The Most Dangerous Game” portrays how civilized people will turn uncivilized if life depends on it.
Thesis:
People in the story start out civilized, then become savage, especially if life depends on it.
Topic Sentence:
“Thank you, I’m a hunter, not a murderer.”
1A. Rainsford is civilized because he refused to kill another person.
Text Evidence #1:
1B. Even though Rainsford will kill animals, he still has a sense of humanity because he does not want to take another man’s life.
“He had plunged along, spurred on by the sharp rowers of something very like panic.” 2A. Rainsford’s life is in danger and he is feeling the beginning of an animalistic terror.
Text Evidence #2:
2B. His concentration and reasoning is already being compromised by this terror as he runs wildly through the woods.
“The general said, ‘Splendid! One of us is to furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in this very excellent bed.”
Text Evidence #3:
3A. Rainsford’s civilization has been discarded because he now takes the option of taking Zaroff’s life rather than a more peaceful option.
3B. This is the end of a transformation from a civilized man to a savage one caused by the fear for his life.
Rainsford proves that even the most civilized man can be turned savage in the fear of losing his life.
Explanation:
Conditioning is reinforced through hypnopedia (sleep training).
The society in Brave New World they condition their infants to not only accept their status in society, but love their status also. After the egg has become an embryo, the Bokanovsky's Process of separating the embryo into eight to ninety-six of the exact same embryo.
The process affects the mental ability of the adult when the embryo develops. The Bokanovsky's Process of division was only used for Gammas, Epsilons, and Deltas as the Alphas and Betas mental ability had to be high.
In the stage where, the embryos become foetuses and the foetuses become babies, many things are used to affect the growing babies. Those who become Gammas or Deltas or Epsilons, are given less oxygen when they grow, making them have low mental abilities. Also those who are meant to work in a specific area with a certain job are exposed to that area more often so they become suited to it and do not want to work anywhere also.
As they would be happy working in that job. Also the growing babies are given immunities while growing. So they do not contract diseases while growing up.
Finally when the babies are born and growing up, more conditioning is applied. They are conditioned to like or dislikes things through pain, an example from is that, the people would shock the babies with painful electric shocks, when they are around flowers, so they will hate nature. This has to be applied more times than once before the babies will truly hate nature. The last step of conditioning is when the children are asleep. They condition the children with hypnopedia. Quotes that show this are, "Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid.
They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able …" "Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too-all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides-made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions! "
The authors overall purpose is the overall purpose of the text and
Answer:
Answer: Lushkoff gave the reason for his telling lies that he formerly sang in a Russian choir but was fired from his job for being an alcoholic.
