South Park (S04/E04) Chickenlover (9/9)
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Officer Barbrady a lu le premier livre de sa vie, Atlas Shrugged d’Ayn Rand. Sa conclusion :
Reading totally sucks ass.
Voilà ses arguments :
At first I was happy how to learn to read, it seemed exciting and magical. But then I read this, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I read every last word of this garbage and because of this piece of shit I am never reading again.
C’est une allusion à la pratique pédagogique de donner à lire du Ayn Rand aux adolescents dans les high schools états-uniens. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) de Stephen Chbosky contient plusieurs réfécences au livre Fountainhead et le place parmi les livres préférés du protagoniste Charlie .
Extraits du texte du livre
May 21, 1992
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So, in school Bill gave me my final book to read for the year. It’s called The Fountainhead, and it’s very long.
When he gave me the book, Bill said, “Be skeptical about this one. It’s a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.”
Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.
I haven’t started reading it because I am very behind in my other classes because I spent so much time with Patrick.
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May 27, 1992 Dear friend,
I’ve been reading The Fountainhead for the past few days, and it’s an excellent book. I read on the back cover that the author was born in Russia and came to America when she was young. She barely spoke English, but she wanted to be a great writer. I thought that was very admirable, so I sat down and tried to write a story.
“Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight.”
That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just could’t think of the next one. ...
I wonder what it will be like when I leave this place. The fact that I will have to have a roommate and buy shampoo.
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I don’t know. The Fountainhead is a very good book. I hope I am being a filter.
On comprend l’infamie d’Ayn Rand. Elle fait appel à l’estime de soi des adolescents qui oscille entre mégalomanie et dépression. Ses héros sont d’excellentes figures d’identification dans cette phase de la constitution du caracère de ses jeunes lecteurs.
June 2, 1992
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Incidentally, I finished The Fountainhead. It was a really great experience. It’s strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that’s kind of how it felt. It was a different book from the others because it wasn’t about being a kid. And it wasn’t like The Stranger or Naked Lunch even though I think it was philosophical in a way. But it wasn’t like you had to really search for the pliilo sophy. It was pretty traightforward, I thought, and the great part is that I took what the author wrote about and put it in terms of my own life. Maybe that’s what being a filter means.
I’m not sure.
Normal, tes jeune et tu ne dais pas encore. Donc ...
There was this one part where the main character, who is this architect, is sitting on a boat with Inis best friend, who is a newspaper tycoon. And the newspaper tycoon says that the architect is a very cold man. The architect replies that if the boat were sinking, and there was only room in the lifeboat for one person, he would gladly give up his life for the newspaper tycoon. And then he says something like this ...
“I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.”
Et voilà l’effet que lui fait cette simple exposition d’idées trop faciles.
Something like that. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people “participate.” I’m not really certain. Because I don’t know if I would mind living for Sam for a while. Then again, she wouldn’t want me to, so maybe it’s a lot friendlier than all that. I hope so anyway.
L’attitude de son psy n’améliore rien.
I told my psychiatrist about the book and Bill and about Sam and Patrick and all their colleges, but he just keeps asking me questions about when I was younger.
Vers la fin des années de high school son prof lui pose des questions sur Fountainhead.
June 13, 1992
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Bill asked me about The Fountainhead, and I told him, making sure that I was a filter.
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“Charlie,” he said. “Do you know why I gave you all that extra work?”
I shook my head no. That look on his face. It made me quiet.
“Charlie, do you know how smart you are?”
I just shook my head no again. He was talking for real. It was strange.
“Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I’ve ever met. That’s why I gave you the extra work. I was wondering if you were aware of that?”
“I guess so. I don’t know.” I felt really strange. I didn’t know where this was coming from. I just wrote some essays.
“Charlie. Please don’t take this the wrong way. I’m not trying to make you feel uncomfortable.
June 16, 1992
I gave Patrick On the Road, Naked Lunch, The Stranger, This Side of Paradise, Peter Pan, and A Separate Peace.
I gave Sam To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Walden, and The Fountainhead.
Under the books was a card that I wrote using the typewriter Sam bought me. The cards said that these were my copies of all my favorite books, and I wanted Sam and Patrick to have them because they were my two favorite people in the whole world.
Chickenlover
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Original air date : May 27, 1998
Plot
Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Kenny McCormick, and Eric Cartman visit the Booktastic Bus, a mobile library. They are initially intrigued, but become uninterested in reading after meeting the strange driver. Word spreads that a pervert is molesting chickens in town. When Officer Barbrady starts the investigation, he is confronted with his illiteracy, which is depicted as a medical condition where a person literally sees strange symbols in place of letters. He resigns in shame and anarchy immediately breaks out. Later, he is put into the boys’ class to learn to read.
Barbrady recruits the boys to help him with his task, showing his knowledge of the police code. From then on, Cartman patrols the town on his Big Wheel, enforcing his own brand of justice. The molester is finally caught in the petting zoo and turns out to be the bookmobile driver. He plotted this all along to encourage Barbrady to learn to read. After being given a copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Barbrady knocks the man out cold with a club to the head to teach Cartman how to properly deal with criminals, leaving him unconscious as blood pools from his head. The town holds a parade for Barbrady, and when he is asked to give a speech, he reveals how Atlas Shrugged convinced him to never read again. And at the end, Kenny finally dies after numerous attempts of deaths.
Apparemment il faut être au courant de la lecture de Fountainhead par le protagniste Charlie si on veut avoir beaucoup de points dans la section lettres du high school exam .
Course Hero > Literature Study Guides > The Perks Of Being A Wallflower > Part 4 May 21 1992 June 9 1992 Summary
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May 21, 1992
The school year is winding down. Charlie continues to do well in his classes, particularly English. (English teacher) Bill has given him a last book to read, Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Bill tells him to “be skeptical about” it and “to be a filter, not a sponge.”
