- What results when you allow someone else to define who you are?
- Is having a sense of belonging worth what it costs?
- How does power affect relationships?
- Is conformity always bad?
- How do corrupt systems of power corrupt relationships within those systems?
- What does it take to build a genuine, healthy sense of community and connection?
- Who deserves to have power?
Limited by culture (discrimination, customs and traditions within a community prevent personal growth)
- Pai, Zoo Island, New African, Efrafa
The importance of belonging to a community
- Zoo Island, New African, Whale Rider, Watership Down
- Example thesis: Having a sense of belonging within a community is essential because the growth of a community is essential to the development of the individual, it’s easier to accomplish goals with help of others, and because giving up resources to benefit the community benefits the individual too
o Teamwork
- “While belonging to a community involves sacrifice for the individual, ultimately the benefits to the individual as well as the community make it worthwhile. In Tomas Rivera’s ‘Zoo Island’ and Richard Adams’s Watership Down”
o Zoo Island: all the workers had to do a good job in order to be recommended elsewhere (evidence)
Don simon sacrifices being with everyone safety for everyone
o Miriam: Proves the point in this story, isolation leads to distress and despair (idea)
o Watership Down:
Hazel is willing to sacrifice himself for his people protection for his people
o SACRIFICE Safety/Protection
Who deserves power?
