Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214
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Slavery, Ghosts, and Beloved: Crash Course Literature 214
First, y’all. I’m always first. -stan
So are we gonna do a part 2 for Beloved or Poetry next week?
As I learned in my last year of college with one of my professors:
literature is more revolutionare, pervasive and tought provoking than
history will ever be.
As I learn more of your past, your morals and your culture America, I see
you less as a country and your people less as humans, and more as an
infection to man kind! A decaying flesh which needs to be cut off and
forgotten. As it hurts for me to say, your experience is a threat to
humanity and the earth it self! For the sake of all life, you must be
deleted!
Or Change everything! Your lifestyle, your morals, your consumerism, your
Western ideology EVERYTHING! or just die out.
thanks for all the spoilers
Earlier today, there was a story on my local news about a missing little
girl. But wait, happy ending happy ending!! She was just found in their
shed, reading(: Was she on her phone? Nope. She was reading(= I guess she
just wanted a quiet place to go enjoy her book. Absolutely something I
would have done as a child… Given further thought, I still might. Anyway,
little mini nerdfighter? I think YES.
I’m sorry to say, but you from the past has a SourceFed shirt on. As much
as I love those guys, they didn’t exist in you from your past’s time, so
there for I have concluded that it is not you from the past, it’s just you
in a different desk and shirt!
I don’t think John Green has ever said one good thing about a white man in
any of his videos.
I think too many books involving slavery are being featured. Slavery was
never a thing around here, at least not since middle ages or maybe, just
very maybe, the early Renaissance (although we did trade slaves, as long as
they went off to other continents, or hold them in our colonies). Slavery
just isn’t a thing to me. It’s something for ancient Greeks and Romans and
Mongols and Vikings, and maybe Mediterranean criminals who were sentenced
to rowing on some galley. And these slaves were predominantly white. I
suppose it’s more recent to Americans, but I think America is still a few
millenia behind, anyway. Sure, black slavery was of course horrible, as was
any slavery, but it’s either something that happened half a millennium ago
or really far away. Slavery is really far from home.
Or, instead of going to the north, she could have just gone to canada,
where ya’know… Freedom.
You ever going to read something not super depressing? Or is that what
makes a good book?
So you’re saying Beloved’s realness is like Hobbes’s realness?
…I have to say, most of this episode was very hard to follow. I mean, I
got the seance that it was about slavery and there was a ghost involved
somehow but that’s about it.
What I found about the book, is about the spirits of the African slaves who
died arriving to the American Empire not on land but in the oceans, what
the author said “60,000,000 and more”, the result from the imperialists who
murdered them not by thrown into the ocean but manuel labor, starvation and
hunger, which of course killed by more than a million from before 1600
until later than 1950. A tragic event for all Africans who came into living
a life of depression, bloodshed and insanity. Very sad indeed for all
Africans to live miserably in the New World.
You from the past is wearing a T shirt that says 2013 on it.
Really enjoyed this! Thank you!!
CRASH COURSE PHILOSPHY
Well, hungarian bookstores, you better have this book!
i read this in high school as part of the ap english curriculum. i was *way
too young* and i remember it making very little sense to well-to-do
sheltered suburbanite me. i understood the setting and what was happening,
but all the subtext was lost on me.
Could’ve used this a month ago when it would’ve actually helped me w/ my
finals ><
Langston Hughes coming up! Good choice!
Suck my picket dick
Oh, and you are awesome!!
Grats on the book John.
I loved the Great Gatsby for what it was – but I could NOT, for the life of
me, follow it… I’m a high level reader and critical thinker, and still
had difficulty with the diction and flow of sentences behind that novel…
As much as I love your U.S History series I wish there were more episodes
on literature…
Daisy has dark hair
The book was terrible, but the movie was amazing.
I feel that this is a somehow appropriate way to spend time when I should
be doing english homework…
I hated tom more than daisy…..
I love that the animated Gatsby apartment has a TIFIOS poster!
OMG the okay clouds
What’s a Gatsby?
Hmm. Interesting take on the parties. I interpreted the significance of
them a bit differently, though. To me, the first party wasn’t Tom’s. It was
Myrtles. A middle-class party in a middle-class apartment. It isn’t a very
pleasant party, and the guests aren’t very pleasant people, but if you
notice, they’re all described by Nick based on their personalities.
Everyone knows each other, and care about each other. When Myrtle gets hit,
everyone goes to her aid.
Gatsby’s party, in contrast, is more fun and prettier, but much shallower.
Nick describes Gatsby’s guests solely by their appearance, and nobody knows
each other. They don’t even know what their host looks like. When that guy
crashes his car, nobody cares about him. Mostly, they just seem to laugh at
him.
Throughout the story, I think there is a lot of examples of people with
less stuff having more meaning in their lives. The parties are one prime
example, but there are others. Regarding the American dream, the theme for
me is that the pursuit of the American dream is more significant, and
brings more meaning to life, than fulfilling it.
HOORAY 4 TOM BUCHANON !!
6:10 cover of John’s book The Fault In Our Stars. Nice one John.
One of the greatest works of literature.
I have a Gatsby test tomorrow!
stop attacking tom buchanon. he’s better than you.
I loved the writing style, so descriptive and the imagery was gorgeous, but
I did hate the characters.
Tom Buchanon RULES
Came upon this video after coming across the biology videos to help me in
my anatomy class. OK… TOTALLY didn’t know that John and Hank were
brothers AND that this is the author John Green! My stars!
Who the hell is “we all”? No, John. We “all” do not share such shallow
ambitions.
This video taught me way more about The Great Gatsby than 1 year of A level
English Literature did. Why my teacher didn’t show us this I don’t know.
Glad I found it before my exam
I guess this would probably break your policy of Books Belong to Their
Readers, but I’d like to see one of these for Looking for Alaska
greatgatsby fitzgerald literature crashcourse
you should start a psychology section :)
You are simply amazing! They way you presented those themes is not only
informative but fun and exciting too! Please, let there be more of you on
you tube :3
Can I quote John Green in my Gatsby exam orrr