The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks will further the discussion formed with Days of Gold and consolidate students’ understanding of greed as a positive quality. This nonfiction story will also shift our discussion of money motivated greed to a new topic: personal status as a motive of greed. An important idea in the story is benevolent deception and the belief that doctors could legally keep many things secret from their patients especially if the patients were poor or a minority. Students will see how this idea is very discriminating and dishonest, but we will begin discussing how there can be positives with these actions. The doctors were greedy as they kept taking and using Lacks’ cells without her consent but the class will bring up motives
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The poem describes an impoverished child who states that “love received was our concession” (Mercer 2). But as the children got older, they craved for more material items and “soon become enslaved” (Mercer 6) by greed. The diction in the poem and the cacophony produces a negative connotation of greed and suggests that your greedy actions will never stop until you have finally succumbed to your death. Having certain material items may deceive others in believing they are improving in social ranks and the children of this family fell into this trap. They are greedy to step as far away from poverty just like the Hubbard family in Another Part of the Forest and their downfall becomes living in this greedy, selfish lifestyle. Students will see how a consequence of greed could be the inability to stop these actions. This will also bring up discussions about how this continuous, unstoppable lifestyle could put one back into poverty and hurt one’s family, a topic that relates back to Lillian Hellman’s …show more content…
However, we will first discuss the following interesting question: does Charlie ever express greed? The common stereotype is that the poor are often very humble and selfless. It is believed that they always do good deeds and are rarely greedy for anything due to their understanding of their unfortunate circumstance. This discussion of Charlie will spark conversations about how the poor can still express greed and change students’ perspective about this stereotype. We will also look at the consequences of each greedy contestant who purchased hundreds of candy bars to find the golden ticket and mostly focus on the use of fantasy in the film that portrays a message about the consequences of greed. Although very fictional, students should begin to see how greed can take one down in reality. After watching the film, students will be given an essay prompt, typed below, that will test their ability in seeing some positive characteristics of greed amidst a film that criticizes these actions. Students should begin exploring the consequences of greed in their essay and using that in determining the benefits of greed. This will spark new conversation that we will cover with the final
The poem describes an impoverished child who states that “love received was our concession” (Mercer 2). But as the children got older, they craved for more material items and “soon become enslaved” (Mercer 6) by greed. The diction in the poem and the cacophony produces a negative connotation of greed and suggests that your greedy actions will never stop until you have finally succumbed to your death. Having certain material items may deceive others in believing they are improving in social ranks and the children of this family fell into this trap. They are greedy to step as far away from poverty just like the Hubbard family in Another Part of the Forest and their downfall becomes living in this greedy, selfish lifestyle. Students will see how a consequence of greed could be the inability to stop these actions. This will also bring up discussions about how this continuous, unstoppable lifestyle could put one back into poverty and hurt one’s family, a topic that relates back to Lillian Hellman’s …show more content…
However, we will first discuss the following interesting question: does Charlie ever express greed? The common stereotype is that the poor are often very humble and selfless. It is believed that they always do good deeds and are rarely greedy for anything due to their understanding of their unfortunate circumstance. This discussion of Charlie will spark conversations about how the poor can still express greed and change students’ perspective about this stereotype. We will also look at the consequences of each greedy contestant who purchased hundreds of candy bars to find the golden ticket and mostly focus on the use of fantasy in the film that portrays a message about the consequences of greed. Although very fictional, students should begin to see how greed can take one down in reality. After watching the film, students will be given an essay prompt, typed below, that will test their ability in seeing some positive characteristics of greed amidst a film that criticizes these actions. Students should begin exploring the consequences of greed in their essay and using that in determining the benefits of greed. This will spark new conversation that we will cover with the final