What Needs Does Society Fulfill?

By Jake Walker

Book of Eli

• In the Book of Eli, Eli was faced with a society that really couldn’t offer him very much. Food was scarce and shelter was uncommon.

Book of Eli

• When you compare society of today to that of the society in the Book of Eli, you realize how important the needs that society gives us are.

Fahrenheit 451

• In 451 society fulfills the needs of food and shelter. The people in the book were not living in poverty, but the society was falling apart due to the burning of books.

Fahrenheit 451

• In Bradbury’s story he portrayed how society can fall apart, but man can stay sane. Society provides us with the skills to survive when times get tough.

West Side Story

• In West Side Story the kids escape from Cuba and come to America where they will be free.

West Side Story

• The symbol of America to the Cubans was freedom and happiness. Society sometimes gives us these things, but also prevents them.

Non-conformist Music

• In Tom Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down” he sings about how life presents him with problems but he’s not going to back down.

Non-conformist Music

• In Billy Talent’s song “Red Flag” Talent is saying how society gives us a structure to live on, but the minds of the kids is the hope of our future.

Civil Disobedience

• “It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong;…”

Civil Disobedience

• In Thoreau’s story he said “He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them is pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist.”

Lord of the Flies

• Society provides us with order and control.

Lord of the Flies

•Society also provides us with shelter and food.

“Teenage Wasteland”

• For Donny society didn’t offer him very much. • The students in his school made him feel like

an outcast.

“Teenage Wasteland”

• Donny’s family offered him shelter and food.

“Beautiful Spencer”

• Society gave Spencer the needs of family and of relationships.

“Beautiful Spencer”

• Spencer took for granted, the needs that society gave to him.

• By Spencer doing this he caused his girlfriend to die, and himself deep sorry.

Native American Poetry

• In some of the poetry that we read the authors implied that society gives the Native’s Welfare checks to live on and that they are lazy.

Native American Poetry

• In some of the Native American Poems we read the authors, who were Native American’s themselves, wrote about how they are living in sorry and misery. Society gives them needs that they sometimes feel like they do not want.