Community+Reflection

PManeykowski Wall

The aspect of community was not only important in the literature that we have read this year, but also in the core values of the founder of our school. It was very eye opening for me to read the work of Steinbeck and de Tocqueville because I saw that they shared the same values of Colonel Francis Parker. The concept of community, and working together to accomplish a common goal is similar in all three of these men. The view of de Tocqueville is especially interesting because he makes a direct relation to the middle class; he says that they are not incredibly wealthy, but they are also not poor. This is an important distinction to make, because this means that he is trying to unite the majority of Americans. I saw a connection between this and the Occupy Wall Street movement as well, because they are both all about uniting the middle class and working for the good of the majority of Americans.