Global Issue: Beliefs, Values and education
Focused Global Issue: To what extent are our societal beliefs influenced by stereotypes
Texts Chosen:
Non literary- Donald trump tweet
literary: Intoxicated
Script:
The literary text incorporated a fair amount of dialogue to display how the father had a certain stereotype for his daughter Eileen to behave and talk in a specific way. This quotation is a dialogue between the drunk man and Eileen’s father “I’ve just been having a very interesting conversation with your daughter” the drunk man says and the father replies back “His host shook his head ruefully. “Kids nowadays.” Its evident that the father has a sense of embarrassment that his daughter spoke in a certain way that “kids” are apparently not meant to. The father says “kids nowadays” in a very demeaning and condescending way just because his daughter was discussing the future of life in her perspective. The drunk man also says to Eileen “It’s part of a stage you go through, like being boy-crazy.” This quotation similarly shows how the drunk man was also being patronising towards Eileen, just because she wasn’t “every other girl” who is supposed to speak about being “boy crazy.” The father and the drunk man have mentally categorised Eileen into the “she’s a kid and a girl” therefore she has to be quiet category. The diction used in this story emphasises how adults have segregated kids and girls into a separate category that when they do act another way they find it shocking. Words like “necking” “boy-crazy” were used when the drunk man thought that girls of Eileen’s age should be occupied with these pondering over these things, the diction used shows how the society in that era stereotyped girls into a love-sick and oblivious category that even when they do speak out like Eileen did everyone thinks its shocking for a “girl” to voice out her opinions. “When I was young!” the drunk man said, In this quotation punctuation has been used for emphasis as seen from the “!”. The drunk man was rambling on about how back in his day girls only used to think and talk about boys and cocktails. This is another example of the drunk man being patronising towards Eileen and treating her like an uneducated imbecile. Similarly in Donald trumps tweet, he says that greta must “control her anger management”, again, this is another example of how Donald trump and the drunk man in “Intoxicated” find it difficult to comprehend that kids more specifically girls are allowed to voice their opinions without people having to call them out for having mental health issues; this simply comes down to freedom of speech which is ironically enough, the first amendment to the constitution in the USA. Trump says “chill, Greta, chill”, he uses repetition for emphasis while talking down to every other kid who feels the way greta feels. Trump furthermore used words such as “ridiculous” to describe Greta’s arguments on climate change and environmental protection as Trump believes that his words should influence what should be done and people should only listen to him as he tries to influence the audience to disregard Greats statements.