a subprime parable

1、One Region One Vision 11-6BF 吕雅琴 郭晨According to Paragraph 32to 36, what issues dose the family confront with in the new mansion? What changes took place in the authors social life, especially in terms of his interpersonal circle?How did the childrens attitudes towards the mansion change?A trigger fo

2、r our discussionDating back to my experience in children, some peasant keep up with the Joneses in regard to the construction of the gates.Paragraph 42The summary of this paragraph.Language pointsDawn upon: to realize it for the first time.Divvy up: to share something with several people.Spoils: thi

3、ngs that someone gets by being successful.Paraphrase Theres a moment in the life of every American child when it dawns on him or her that the divvying up of material spoils is neither arbitrary nor a matter of personal choice, that money is a tool used by grownups to order and rank themselves, and t

4、hat the easiest way to establish those rankings is through their houses.A house is not just a house. Its one of the tools people use to rank me .It is true that people always take material criterion to judge others statue. Do you think this ranking system is reasonable?43.Why did the writer say that

5、 children are basically Communists?Seeing other childrens material prosperity, they follow their first instinct, which isnt to understand it or stew about it.As far as I knew, my children had never given much thought to what their house said about them and their place in the world.Theyd been friends

6、 with rich kids and poor kids, without dwelling on the differences In your minds eye, what dose the word “differences” in the sentence refer to ?Theyd been friends with rich kids and poor kids, without dwelling on the differences.That had just changed.(para.43)What have they changed? (2min)QuestionsWhen you were a little child, what kinds of friends did you chose? A. The poor?B. The rich?C. Both A and BQuestions When you were a litt