As I told my students this morning, the water is boiling.
I told my students today…
I told my students today about the frog and the boiling water. Most of them didn't know the story. How, if you put a frog in boiling water, it jumps out. And if you put a frog in cold water, then slowly turn the heat up, it just sits there, not noticing, until it boils to death. We read Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale last week, a novel of a near-future dystopia in which a religious fundamentalist group takes power in America, and women lose their rights. And this week, we're reading Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel memoir, a true story, about growing up in a liberal family in Iran, as a religious fundamentalist group took over her country and women lost their rights. They didn't really believe it was happening until it was too late to stop it. And now this.