Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Chapter 10
This chapter was rather uninteresting to me, however I did take one thing from it... The fact that everyone joins together and does manual labor without whining, crying, and complaining is amazing. I know for a fact that if my family was told they were going to help "raise a barn" they would laugh and say "yeah right". Even if my parents managed to get them their all they would do would be to slack off and complain about the heat or that they are tired or thirsty. This kind of behavior almost seems as if it does not exist. Children learn at a very early age that this is the way of life, and there is no questioning it, you just simply do it! Not only did all these people come together and participate without complaining, they all assumed roles and positions that they were capable of. There was something for everyone even for Eric who was a first timer.
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I agree, they do it without questioning it because they all depend on each other in this community. They don't even focus so much on the work itself since it is seen as an occasion to socialize.
As far as the children not complaining... I think that they never saw any other children complain so they did not really know that they could. Children learn from watching other children. In this community the second that a child misbehaved they were reprimanded. This taught the children to behave always.
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