Read this excerpt from We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Children’s March. "It was a rare weekend passed," Wash said, "that one or two f
olk... didn't get killed by the police . . . This is what they'd do to you: They'd call you and make you stick your head in the window [of the police car] . . . and then they would roll the window up . . . And then they'd hit you on your head . . . They'd beat people to death." As a result, he said, parents could scare unruly children into minding them by threatening, "The police gonna get you." If a student compares this excerpt to the cruelty of Nazi leaders, which type of connection is made? text to self text to person text to text text to world
The connection of a text to the world has been made through these sentences.
It was in May 1963 that the African Americans in Birmingham came out with a march to the jail in order to protest against the brutality of the police. Most of the adults found it a risk to participate in the march. Instead, the children and the teenagers participated wholeheartedly in the march to secure their freedom. The above excerpt presents before the readers the cruel nature of the police over the unarmed people in the same way as the Nazi's cruelty lingered over the Jews. The children presented the similarities in their sufferings and discrimination as that of the Nazis.
This is a text to world connection. The student is making a connection between the events in the text to events that happened during WWII. In the text it says that police are beating children to death or close to it. During WWII, Nazi police often beat people to death or close to it in the streets because they were Jewish or a sympathizer of the Jews.
The excerpt is by Nelle Harper Lee, the American novelist very famous for her novel <em>To Kill A Mockingbird</em> written in 1960. This dialog is spoken by Miss Maudie when the narrator tells us what Atticus told was the sin, and Miss Maudie explains why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.
