ANT322H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-1: Stupid White Men, Maya Angelou, Tableware
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Always obey your parents, when they are present. Be respectful to your superiors, strangers, and sometimes to others. Be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught. Twain uses satire to mock the way our culture so often gives advice to youth. Instead of saying he is not trying to impose his opinions on them but simply giving advice, he makes it very clear that he is directly telling them what to do. At the end of his advice he states, Twain gives the advice that the youth should read good books, then shares a list of books that he himself wrote. This questions the advice-givers true motives behind giving advice to the youth. Angelou recalls being taught to embroider, sew, and crochet, which all girls in her part of. Stamps were taught to do; but, to learn finer manners, you had to go outside of the black part of.