In+class+essay


 *  Shawshank redemption ** Sydney Mangold

 July 8, 2011

In this essay it is going to discuss the connection between environment and the degree to which people value, appreciate, or cultivate what makes us human. People in places that are lower class, as to North Americans, or have been locked up don’t have the same degree of appreciation of the little things in life. Unlike people like North Americans who are wealthy and have freedom and also abuse what they have and what they get.

One of the most important things I looked at is education one has noticed that kids in North America see school as nothing, most kids don ’ t care about it, and do not attend most of there regular classes in a day. Yet in places such as jail, wish to get a new library with more books, so they can keep themselves as in touch as they possibly can, and places that do not have as much money, a school or even enough food to feed a family, thrive to learn and get an education.

Another thing is music, in North America kids and adults hear music all day, they can have it on there cell phone, iPods, even when you walk into a store there is always music playing, sometimes even a school. They don ’ t feel the meanings of songs because they hear music all the time, and its just noise to them, but in other places as in jail or lower class places, they don ’ t have the devices to listen to music. When they hear music they appreciate the sound and the meaning of the song. When the inmates heard the music in the jail for the first time they have been there, when Andy played it over the speakers everyone looked and felt connected and together more then ever. When people who haven’t heard music listen to it for the first time, one would think that would make them feel free.

Finally, I looked at money, one would think money is important to everyone, and so it may be, but North Americans spend money like there is no tomorrow. They spend it like it is nothing, even the children in North America get given lots and lots of money and they don ’ t do anything for it, and then they go out and spend it on what ever they please. Inmates work and work and only get paid about five cents an hour, and people in lower class area ’ s would be thrilled about having a dollar, and a dollar in North America is like a penny to most people.

In conclusion, one would think that North Americans abuse what they have and should appreciate what they have more and everything that comes across there path in life, because everything they have could one day be gone. If you took everything away from a person they would realize how much they have took there life for granted. While some people starve and cant makes there aches and pains go away, they just have to live with them. And yet North Americans are still taking what they have for granted. Life goes on, Don ’ t abuse it.