Tuesday, February 1, 2011

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Treats secrets, a novel by Pierre Jourde

The main character in this novel, Gilles Saurat is, after a brilliant student, assigned as a trainee teacher in a college. The novel opens with his long train ride that leads to the dark and disturbing Logres City, where he will teach.
The day of the pre-school year, he discovered that as a newcomer, he was booked classes the most difficult. The same day, he will hear the speech of the principal, delivered in a jargon pedagogical bureaucratic nonsense coated waffle. An exhilarating passage, particularly successful in the book.
The hero must fight for months against a sclerotic and Kafkaesque administration for the payment of his wages. This school year will
Gilles Saurat a long nightmare, a descent into hell. He will endure the humiliations of her students before being granted a long sick leave granted by a gynecologist friend.
The city is a place of Logres apocalyptic inhabited by morons at best, at worst, by thugs causing panic in the city.
The space is dominated by shopping malls.
Like any country town has its Logres significant, they are plagued by all forms of vices (greed, perversions).


Treats secrets is a pessimistic book, consider doing Kafka. This story paints a bleak picture of the French education system and youth. The society described is dominated by mindless consumerism and bulimic. No trace of humanity, regardless of social strata described. Students form a mass violent, and refractory culture and education.
I found this novel very strong and unfortunately just in its blackness. However, certain passages are disturbing especially those that depict Arab immigrant families as organized around a male figure (the son) object of veneration unlimited mothers submissive and oppressed as women. These boys are so caricatured as figures of evil, leading a sort of jihad on French soil. Although the story reflects the perspective of a fictional character who is more mentally disturbed, it remains unless they produce discomfort in the reader of this novel, which also is written with talent, in an innovative style.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

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The Emperor's Club, a film Michael Hoffman

"They are the elite, it will make them men," pompously stated the DVD cover, purchased at random from a promotion at the supermarket. ..


An ersatz Dead Poets Society?
Comments morons on the cover does not stop in so good way. They promised a work in line with the Dead Poets . Having loved this movie, I decided to buy this DVD, expecting to find a faded version of the film by Peter Weir.


Note to self: never rely on the selling points on the DVD case
The film pleasantly surprised me. It was not a pale imitation of Circle. He adopted a unique perspective on teaching and asking questions that (in my humble experience of spectator), I had rarely seen the movies discussed on the teacher's role, its place in society and his relations with his students.


The main character, William Hundert (Kevin Kline brilliantly played by), Professor of Latin in a prestigious American high school. Her students are the future elite of the country. Hundert takes a more traditional pedagogy, but he teaches with passion and erudition as he commands respect and admiration of all.
However, this veteran teacher will face upon arrival in his class Sedgwick Bell, a rebellious teenager and insolent, but son of a senator ...


The usefulness of what is taught

had to expect this kind of questions when teaching Latin and Roman civilization in the U.S. States in the mid- sixties. What surprised our teacher is that she was asked by a senator ...! Who better than it could understand the influence of the Romans on the Organization of American institutions? He would just ask the title he wore!

Teaching, a priesthood?

Professor Hundert is totally devoted to his students, to the point of neglecting his private life. On mature age at the beginning of the plot, it is yet unmarried and childless. It is interesting to note that film Teachers who succeed on a professional do it very often at the expense of their family life or sentimental ( The Dead Poets Society, Writers
...). Later, the viewer learns that Hundert ardently loves a woman. This leaves yet one that will escape the love of his life. Women also married, which I agree is not an insignificant detail. Hundert is a man of principle who refuses to break a couple united by marriage. This is not a sign of emotional warmth. Instead, he remained faithful to this woman married late and may find the following .... to her divorce? the death of her husband? The film is silent on this point, and keep areas of mysteries.

Shaping minds or transmit knowledge?

the middle of the film, Hundert visits to Senator Sedgwick. A powerful man and contemptuous. Their meeting is a strong scene of the film and a very unpleasant time for our teacher. On questioning the usefulness of what he taught, the teacher replied that his role was to shaping the minds of his students. Then he drew the wrath of polititien retorted that so virulent that in no circumstances should allow him to shape the spirit of his son, and he should be content to transmit the knowledge appropriate to the curriculum .
Although the senator is a strong character unsympathetic, one can not help but understand his concern. Students will they reduce to a soft material that their teachers model? How not to worry about through these manipulative excesses?
However, by Hundert, teaching is also to transmit values. The film shows him, a man of principle, which however will discover its limitations and weaknesses.

"Be fair and objective students' wishful thinking?


reputation and talent of Huundert are such that his students devote boundless admiration. Unaccustomed to the insolence on the part of his disciples, so it was particularly upsetting when the arrival of Sedgwick in her class. First conflicting relations evolved substantially. Hundert lives in this disruptive student a challenge: to make him a sensitive and cultured. Then he took under his wing and Sedwick ... him Benefiance menu favored treatment until he went juqu'à distort an evaluation to help his protege ...

Hundert does succeed in changing Sedgwick? ... You know while watching this film that deals with delicate issues related to critical reports from masters to students. It is a sensitive work, inhabited by complex characters and fascinating. I you urge!



Friday, January 28, 2011

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Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding




Following the plane crash on a desert island, children will be left to their own and must arrange their survival without adults . Among these boys, some charismatic figures emerge. Ralph, a handsome schoolboy of twelve years, reasonable and thoughtful. Jack, a master chef, ugly, aggressive, tyrannical, dominated by his instincts. The novel is built around these two figures antagonists.

The reason against barbarism

The story shows the rising tensions between these two figures. Ralph, advised by the wise Piglet, advocates a rational organization of activities: maintenance of lights to help rescue and construction of huts.
Jack is quickly fascinated by the hunt. He takes pleasure in killing of wild pigs, helped former members of the Masters, which he heads. He obeys his instincts and impulses, painting their bodies and sacrificing offal to obscure deities.
At the end of the story, the confrontation between the two groups, the wild and the civilized become deadly. Jack will even organize a "manhunt" the island to eliminate Ralph.


The gradual rise of fear

Without the reassuring presence of adults, children will quickly fall prey to fear. It is first issue of a snake appears on the cover of darkness. Terror spreads through the group, the children talk about beasts, monsters, black things. Later, the twins spotted the body of a parachutist who had failed in the island. Panicked, the boys flee and others describe a monster chimeric. The boys initially believe in the existence of a sea monster, then the hypothesis of a monster tunes appeared. Children are suffering from mass hysteria.


The vile beast

Group members Jack yield to superstition. They reserve the giblets in offering to the monster to appease his anger. One of the boys, Simon and observed a pig's head on a stake, offered to the deity. Flies buzz around his mouth bloody. Simon hears the pig talk to him. She explains that the monster lives in all. This novel paints a dark picture of the man in the state of nature. Children are supposed to represent innocence behave in a cruel and violent. Bodies are subject to and obey the leaders of the fittest. The reason bows before the superstitious fears of the group. Each child is a monster in power. No beast in the air, on land or sea is evil in every survivor. He thrives off of any organized society, the state of nature. William Golding
thus develops a pessimistic view of man. the title "Lord of the Flies" refers to a passage in which the pig's head is so designated. But this expression is mostly the translation of the Hebrew name "Beelzebub." Thus, "His Majesty flies "refers to the evil that has haunted man.
One chapter of the book entitled" The Sea Monster. "The reader then thinks the leviathan, but also biblical monster under the test of Thomas Hobbes. philosopher defending the idea that the state of nature and outside the framework of civilization, man falls into chaos, and violence. The "man is a wolf to man".







Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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