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This 3 page paper argues that the life of Cedric Jennings, who is the subject of Ron Suskind’s book “A Hope in the Unseen” can be better understood in terms of conflict perspective rather than functional perspective. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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padding, but is an honest, frustrating, powerful, saddening and ultimately uplifting look at one young black mans struggle to follow his dreams to a better life. This paper discusses whether
Cedric Jenningss experiences in school fit better in a conflict or functional perspective. Discussion Conflict perspective is usually understood as the view that we have to understand the struggle among
groups to understand society; we also can identify those groups that are in control and the means they use to preserve that control. The functional perspective is more focused on
how people work together to create a working system. In Cedric Jenningss case, conflict perspective seems to describe his situation throughout most of the book much more effectively than functional
perspective does, because his whole life is a struggle, usually against the other students, some of whom are bullies who are perfectly willing to use violence, up to and including
murder, to get their way (Suskind, 1998). But most of them are middle-of-the-road kids who have found that the way to survive is never to be noticed, and who strive
to just get through school without calling attention to themselves. Its a very sad situation, but its also maddening. Its impossible and unfair to generalize about the response readers
might have to this book, but its also impossible to resist the temptation. The overwhelming impression a white reader will probably have is one of fury-at the school system and
in particular, at the other black students who, from laziness, jealousy and spite, make it a "crime" for kids like Jennings to try and better themselves. Doing well in school,
getting into college, getting a good job-all these are considered sellouts, a betrayal of the hood; the worst insult anyone can throw at Jennings is to call him "whitey" (Suskind,
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