After reading the novel disgrace and then the new york times article "out of south africa," consider which side you'll take in the controversy surrounding this author. although he does not tell us melanie's race, later in the novel the protagonist calls her "the dark one." is j. m. coetzee's novel more about power struggles or the tensions between races?

breathe, think and analyze the situation, pull them aside and talk to them about it

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.