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A Good Life - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "Her speech is a mixture of many things; it is different from the rest of the family’s insofar as education has permeated her sense of English-” A Raisin in the Sun pg. 35
        
        Analysis: Language is an important concept explored in education. The kind of language one knows can allow them to gain access to careers and social circles. Knowing or not knowing a language contributes to the image others have. It is important to adhere to the language that is desired. Often, English is the language that many uses for it is fairly universal.
      - "Her voice is full of money.” - The Great Gatsby pg.120
      - "Anglicized accent may in your country continue to be associated with wealth and power, just as it is in mine."- A Reluctant Fundamentalist pg. 42
      - "In Antigua today, most young people seem almost illiterate. On the airwaves, where they work as new personalities, they speak English as if it were their sixth language." - A Small Place pg. 43
      - Assimilation
        
        “But what does it matter? Assimilation is so popular in your country” - A Raisin in the Sun, pg. 63
        
        Analysis: Western education gives way to acts of assimilation. By attending educational institutions of the West one then becomes westernized. Dropping there own culture for another one.
        
        "I did something in Manila I had never done before: I attempted to act and speak, as much as my dignity would permit, more like an American.” - The Reluctant Fundamentalist pg. 65
        
        "I was a modern-day janissary, a servant of the american empire at a time when it was invading a country with a kinship to mine and was perhaps even colluding to ensure that my country faced the threat of war" -- The Reluctant Fundamentalist pg. 152
    - - "My Princeton degree and Underwood Samson business card were invariably sufficient to earn me a respectful nod of approval”- The Reluctant Fundamentalist pg. 85
        
        Analysis: Getting a good education could open up doors for success. That can often be a dream job that pays a higheer salary.
      - "Who the hell told you you had to be a doctor? If you so crazy ‘bout messing ‘round with sick people- then go be a nurse like other women- or just get ,married and be quiet…” -A Raisin in the Son pg. 38
      - "...or an institution that is often celebrated in Antigua is the Hotel Training School, a school that teaches Antiguans how to be good servants"- A Small Place pg. 55
  - - - Analysis: What was simply pure intent will become corrupted if one belives being sly is the only means to achieving a goal. Corruption can happen through the exploitation of a worker or place. That exploitation will eventually turn into disdain for laws and current economic orders for citizens. They will eventually follow suit in corruption by breaking laws that exploit the working class people.
- - - - Analysis: Marriage can offer admitance to a higher social class. Being unable to offer that to a partner can result in contempt. Myrtle from The Great Gatsby married her husband thinking he would be able to offer her something in exchange. To her disappointment he could not. Gatsby, inevitably, poses the a remark to Tom that Daisy only married him because of money. It is in this moment that we see that through marriage, and money, one can obtain their good life.
    - - Analysis: Another aspect of a good life is to spend it with a partner. Whether that partner be found in life or death , the need for one is still fantasized about.
  - - - Analysis: One can reject their families values or attempt to regain it. In rejecting the status quo of their family one then decides to establish a whole new standard of status. It is a testament that they will not only reject that status but also their familiy's values and sense of identity to obtain a new image of a good life. However, contrary to this belief, if one admires their family's heritage then a good life would mean to maintain it; even if it is lost. In The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Changez wants to regain the loss his family has experienced in their statues. For him that will help to establish his sense of a good life.
    - - Analysis: Kinship offers families the opportunity to establish or continue the values of a good life. By having kids, one develops an extension of themselves. This extension can work either to uphold a family name or to establish it. In Antigone, Creon views the children as a means to honor his own title. Meanwhile, in A Raisin in the Son, Mama expresses that her late husband wanted his children to simply have a chance of bringing honor to themselves.
- - - - Analysis: The place one chooses to live says a lot about what will satisy their desires. In these quotes, the places they have in mind are associated with luxury.
  - - - “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired” - The Great Gatsby pg. 79
      - If you do well, you’ll be rewarded. If you don’t, you’ll be out the door…" - The Reluctant Fundamentalist pg. 35
        
        Analysis: The working class needs to work especially hard to establish a good life for themselves. This includes them having to push themselves to levels of exhaustion. They work under these conditions in hopes of achieving a profitable reward.
      - "Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, it’s because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital.."- A Small Place pg. 37
      - "We ain’t no business people, Ruth. We just plain working folks.” - Raisin in the Sun, pg. 42
    - - “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” -The Great Gatsby pg. 17
        
        Analysis: Fulfilling a gender role seems to be something to keep in mind while thinking about the good life. Often, characters remark, such as Daisy, that if a certain sex act according to their characters things will be for the best. This is a complicated argument because it is not that simple. Yet the characters seen in the stories are constantly faced with ridicule in regards of how their gender should be or act.
      - Therefore / we must defend the men who live by the law,/ never let some woman triumph over us. / Better to fall from power, if fall we must,/ at the hands of a man- never be rated/ Inferior to a woman, never. (Antigone 756-761 said by Creon)
      - “He has no imagination, no wit, none of those qualities that make a man good company.” Emma, Madame Bovary, pg.66
    - - Skin Color
        
        “Clybourne Park? Mama, there ain’t no colored people living in Clybourne Park.” - A Raisin in the Sun, pg. 93
        
        Analysis: Due to discrimination, the color of one's skin interferes with their pursuit of the good life. These inequalities interfere with a person's place in the world and also the places they can be.
        
        And then there was another place, called the Mill Reef Club. It was built by some people from North America who wanted to live in Antigua and spend holidays in Antigua but who seemed not to like Antiguans (black people) at all,"- A small Place pg. 27
        
        I got a boy who sleeps in the living room- … and all I got to give him is stories about how rich white people live…” - A Raisin in the Sun. pg 34
      - Immigrants
        
        I felt I was entering in New York the very same social class that my family was falling out of in Lahore” - The Reluctant Fundamentalist pg. 85
        
        Analysis: Immigrants come to a country in hopes that it may offer some path to their dreams. However, this can result in discrimatory actions from natives. Ultimately creating feelings of isolation.
        
        Every native would like to find a way out, every native would like a rest, every native would like a tour. But some natives-most natives in the world- cannot go anywhere.” -A Small Place pg. 18
        
        When we arrived, I was separated from my team at immigration. They joined the queue for Americans citizens; I joined the one for foreigners.”- The Reluctant Fundamentalist pg. 75
- - - - "It grew more upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested,” - The Great Gatsby pg.164
        
        Analysis: Ensuring a proper burial is an appropriate way to commemorate one's life. By having a proper burial it implies that the deceased lived a life worth honoring.
      - "But the body of Polynices, who dies miserably--/ Why, a city-wide proclamation, rumor has it,/forbids anyone to bury him,"-Antigone, lines 28-34
    - - Analysis: Death may very well carry the same legacy for all. It is not important if one lived a good or bad life because death does not discriminate.
  - - - Analysis: Having wealth can allow one to act like they want, pursue what they want, and feel how they want. When one has wealth they wear it like an emotion. Feeling of wealth can be complicated. If one has wealth they feel a sense of power and authority. However, if they do not one can feel insecure if they are able to secure a strong financial future.