It seems to me that children have been allowed an excess of freedom to act as they please, which has confused them, and they have reacted by indulging increasingly in petty anti-social acts iike swearing, rudeness, truancy and vandalism. These endo\wed by nature with a bolder streak follow this up by shopllfting, arson and stealing cars. There is the same permissive attitude to the juvenile deiinquent once he is brought to court. Social workers are kind, caring people who are understanding, in the extreme, and go out of their way to help delinquents in every way, usually recommending probation and "another Chance" in their social reports to the bench. In some cases this works well. Inothers.youngevildoersleave the Courts with yet another conditionaldischarge, convinced that crime does pay. 1. Write a precis of the text in about 100 to 150 words. 2. Evaluate the author's opinion on education and try to verlfy (or reject) it by looking at William Golding's "Lord of the Flies". (Acritic defined one of Golding's basic propositions: "not only adults, but also children from their earliest age will revert to savagery if not made in time to thoroughly adopt clvilized constraints: duty instead of fun, communal Obligation instead of wayward selfishness.") 8. D-Klasse (Mag. Manfred Klotz) (21 Kandidaten) 1. Write a SUMMARY of the given text in about 150 words. 2. INTERPRETATION and ANALYSIS: Give a few other examples of discrimlnation against the negroes in the USA. Write about different ways of dealing wiht oppression and point out which are practicable and which are not; substantiate your argumentation. ly gppggi-gjj moment she appeared, all my "W© don't SGfVe riBOrOBS h©r©" turyflowedtowardsher.Ihafec/hertorherwhlteface, and for her great, frightened eyes. (feit that If she (1) My last night in New Jersey, a white friend found a black man so frightening, I would make her from New York took me to the nearest big town to go fright worth-while. outtothemoWesandhaveafewdrInks.Almostevery (4) ShedidnotaskmewhatIwanted,butrepeadetail of that night Stands out very clearly in my ted, as though she had iearned it somewhere, "We memory. I remember the name of the diner we wal- don't serve Negroes here." I pretended not to have kedintowhenthemovleended:itwasthe"American understood her and she repeated fhe formula, "We Diner". When we walked in, the counterman asked don't serve Negroes here" what we wanted and I remember answering: "We Somehow, the repetition of that phrase with want a hamburg^ and a cup of coffee what do you ^ ^ l ;^h ZI «T ™lder and rlrore tlturderoLis than ever. There was such rebuffs, I so comp etely failed o antic pate his water-jug half Moni®!', h»!»" T^hf^'ron ullHl ' Pi'^ked this up and huried it with ali Negroes here. Thrs reply faiied to disr^ompose me ^ at her Sheducked and it missed her and atleas forthemoiment. Imadesomebit ercomment ^3, ^ trehind the bar. And with abou the name of the diner and we waiked out mto sound my frozen blood abruptly thawed, and I saw, forthefirstt/me, therestaurant.thepeoplewith (2) When we re-entered the streets, somettiing their mouths open, already rising as one man, and happenedtome which hadtheforceofanopticalillu- | realizedwhat I had done, andwherel was, and I was sion or a nightmare. The streets were very crowded, frightened. I rose and began running for the door. A and peopie were moving in every direction, but it round.fatmangrabbedmejustaslreachedthedoor seemed to me, in that instant, that ali of the people gntj began to beat me about the face. I kicked him I could See were moving towards me, against me, and got loose and ran into the streets. My friend whiand that everyone was white. I remember how their spered, "Run!" and I ran while he stayed long facesgieamed. And I feit, Iike aphysical Sensation, enough to misdirect my pursuers. (6) So I escaped, but I lived that night Over and dosomethingtocrushthesewhitefaceswhichwere Ztactfan"donewtl't"^^^^^ ^ . . , „II, twofacts, and one was that! could have been murdecrushmg me, I began to walk until I came toanenor- 11 i u« mous, glittering and fashionablerestaurant In which , , «th nn or n\aarh, hut^ Hirt c»» I knew not even the intercesslon of the Virgin Mary ^nrt nn^ this: that my ife, my reallife, was in danger, and not would cause me to be served I pushed through the ^ 1^' ,„3 doorsandtookthefirstvacantseatisawandwaited. (3) I do not know how long I waited and I rather ^ o«« i ii u I 1-j -ui I 1:1,.-. James Ba dwin, Notes of a Native Son (ad.) wonder what I couldposs/b/y have looked Iike. What- ' ^ ' everllooked Iike, (frightened the waitress who Short- (about 650 words)
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