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"siloed", or isolated, worlds of cable television, ideological punditry, campus politics and social media, people find a sense of community in the polarized tribes forming on the left and the right in America. Essentially, people locate their sense of "us" through the contempt peddled about "them" on the other side of the political spectrum. There is profit to be made here. The "outrage industrial complex" is what I call the industries that accumulate wealth and power by providing this simulacrum of community that people crave - but cannot seem to find in real life. 1-3 any s goly bo the author Chery Bath poutiful a Why are we becoming so lonely? One reason is the changing nature of work. Work is one of the key sources of friendship and community. Think of your own relationships; surely many of your closest friendships - perhaps even your relationship with your spouse - started in the workplace. Yet the reality of the workplace is rapidly attenuating, as people hop from job to job, -any chappill and from city to city, as steady work becomes harder to find and the "gig" economy grows. Mr. Sasse worries even more, however, about a pervasive feeling of homelessness: Too many Americans don't have a place they think of as home a "thick" community in which hay has a people know and look out for one another and invest in relationships that are not transient. To adopt a phrase coined in Sports Illustrated, one might say we increasingly lack that "hometown gym on a Friday night feeling". Mr. Sasse finds this phrase irresistible and warmly relates it to his own life growing up in Fremont, Nebraska, a town of 26,000 residents. He describes the high school sports events on Friday nights that drew the townspeople together in a common love for their neighbors and community that made most differences - especially political differences seem trivial. He 40 Lory S 45 50 55 60 Vorliebe relates with deep fondness the feelings he experienced, after moving away for a couple of decades for school and work, when he returned to Fremont's small-town life with his family, and the deep sense of belonging it created. In what might be called "the social capital of death", Mr. Sasse charmingly describes the sense of being rooted that it gives him, at a robust and healthy 46, to own a burial plot for himself in Fremont's local cemetery. A précis of Mr. Sasse's recommendations to America thus might be this: Go where you get that hometown-gym-on-a- Fridaynight feeling, put down roots and make plans to fertilize the soil. That can be a tricky proposition for many of us. On reading the book, I asked myself where I might get that hometown-gym feeling, where I have natural roots, where I can imagine being buried. No specific place came to mind. I have no Fremont - not even Seattle, my hometown, which is a perfectly nice place, but one I unsentimentally left behind 35 years ago. All this is particularly germane to my wife and me at the moment, as we prepare to move from Maryland to Massachusetts in the coming months. We fear the loneliness we are sure to feel as we enter a completely new place where neither of us grew up or has ever lived. Is a thick community and the happiness it brings out of reach for rootless cosmopolitans like us? I recently put these questions to Mr. Sasse. He told me I had it all wrong - that moving back home and going to the gym on Friday aren't actually the point; rather, the trick is "learning how to intentionally invest in the places where we actually live" In other words, being a member of a community isn't about whether I have a Fremont. It isn't about how I feel about any place I Lowry's no have lived, nor about my fear of isolation in a new city. It is about the neighbor I choose to be in ne neighbor as the community I wind up calling my home. traccepted →ynhild happier, and America will start to heal, when we become the kind neighbors and generous or as friends we wish we had. And there lies the challenge to each of us in a country suffering from loneliness and ripped apart by political opportunists seeking to capitalize on that isolation. Each of us can be 903 words Arthur C. Brooks. "How Loneliness is Tearing America Apart." The New York Times, Nov. 23, 2018, slightly adapted, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/opinion/loneliness-politicalpolarization.html, From The New York Times. © 2018 The New York Times Company. All rights reserved. Used under license Annotations line 14: presciently: prophetically line 16: punditry: (here) experts (from: pundit) line 18: to peddle: to deal out, to spread line 30: transient: temporary, short-lived line 41: précis: short version line 48: germane: relevant 2-3 bub he doesn't fol as adil porbin! h in anything Instructions: Tick the correct answer or answers as indicated. Provide a quotation from the text to support each correct answer: the line number(s) plus the first three and the last three words of the quotation. • If the quotation is six words or shorter, write it down in full. ♦ 1. Tick the two correct statements. In his book, Mr. Sasse proposes that ... Xloneliness leads to self-destruction. LI extremism leads to loneliness. hate leads to isolation. isolation leads to fury. fear leads to violence. quote for 1st correct statement: line(s) 8-: * Mr. Sasse argues. quote for 2nd correct statement: line(s) 14-15: "what he believes 2. Tick the correct answer. costly. fake. and overdose deaths in America." line(s) 21-22: ** The author characterizes the sense of belonging propagated by certain commercial platforms as being ... destructive. addictive. V by providing this. to angry politics. ... in real life." in 2/2 0/1 3-3 3. Tick the correct statement. Mr. Sasse's recipe for finding a sense of belonging is to ... become a member of a sports club. be brave and face your own death. return to where you grew up. settle down for good. line(s) 42-43: "Go where you 4. Tick the correct statement. In conclusion, Mr. Sasse says that home is where you feel ... committed. Oprotected. Laccepted. Lloved. line(s) h fertilize the soil 53-54 the frick is. Le actually Part 2: Analysis live. 0/1 스/1 content: 9.5/10 language: 13.S/15 Briefly outline the results of the Cigna-survey and Mr. Sasse's findings and analyze to what extent they can be applied to Larry Ott from Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. 4-3 English Exan Na 2 Part 2: Analysis. 12-1 The Cigna Survey and the findings of Mr. Sasse which ere based or are both related to the topic of sociat ambiguity of belonging lotion and what the feeling of coneliness does to many Dealing belong to people struggling with the feeling of being isolated from a community apparently very common in the United States (US) So does Larry Otf, main character in Tom st/2shg Franklin's novel "Crooked Letter, Gorooked better in the following. One" it will analyzed in th to what extend the results of the survey and Mr. Sosse's statements. can be applied to the character of harry OH. L In the first paragraph of the article which was published On November 23th 2018 in the New York Times, the Cigna- Surveys results state that most people in the US feel (Cos) lonely and nearly half of the polled people stated that "they sometimes or always feel abone or 'Lebb aut! " (1.5) Kary Off mother is a good representation of there' statements as he can't receive his fathter's appreciation, and to whom the Lorry looks up to: as Additionally, well as he gets gets bullied and left out in his school. tary is off in the novel. Larry is alone most of the time and his attempts to get included albays fail, e.g. when he tries to get acknowledged by some white boys in his predominantly black school by calling a black girl nearby "morking lips". 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Silas it was in the med of in a poor situation and so is harry helping him, just like he could've wanted to receive some support from others. * on pg 5) So one can say that herry GH from "Grooked Letter, Crooked Letter" matches some of the me mentioned aspects that have to Even flough many some aspects all of the mentioned aspects from the article bit harry's per Sonality, One has to argue ago that not all statements can be applied to the main character in Mr. Franklin's novel. 2 L Firstly, One has to mention that not like the article staks, Larry isn't a political person at all and doesn't they seek for social inclusion in "polarized tribes" (1.17), as well as that, Larry also doesn't seem to develop any emotions that are connected to anger; fery or madness. He always be stays. alone and doesn't try to participate in other communities, after being rejected by some. Also, he is always gentle and calm towards his chickens which he keeps in his garden. If One noticed there would be inside of him.. Do the reader would expect him to be harsh or even visten, boards the chickens but he K50%. was any anger Z Besides that, the article abstates that the feeling of loneliness is offer a result of the today's work station, Cas since many people "hop from jest to job ( 26). Larry's vorliplace is in his father's car garage and he has be there B since the started to spe working for Even though no many years. one ever comes to the spop L he keeps the schiplace. Larry has the chance to switch jobs but he refuses to do so which tets. The come to proves that be this aspect from the article can't be applied Lorry off. In the Bollowing paragraph. It the writer of the article stader. Sasse's thought that another main problem of the feeling of Comeliness many people in the US suffer from is Feated this to do due to the condition that "many Americans don't have a place they think of as home" ((.29). Karry Of on the other hand, does have a place he considers a "home". The house he grew up in in Chabor, Mississippi", is very old apart from the rest of the #iff county 2 and rural. ид it doesn't have anything that could keep someone & from 3. L 근 ر لله L d St R L years has moving away, except for the emotional bonds which Larry developed over the of growing up and living there. In chapter six of the novel, the reader experiences. that back in time Larry's father Carlowned a lot of Land around the house which Larry cold. That brings up the assupplimption that Loury has to have some money from the sell of the coupe land, which he could be used to move away and start over som somewhere else which he dido & do. The last statement in the article that have to you 40 on Lary take part in a community on your own, can't the applied. OH from "Chrooled Letter Chooked Letter too, since he doesn't do anything to improve his Lad image in the community of Capot. Even thigh tu a mentioned earlier that Larry stied to be a as on adult he doesn't have as good neighbor earlier anybody around him and also doesn't try to mater get in. touch with other people from Chachst In conclusion one can say that Loury does 66 into the findings 606 the Cigna - survey and the Mrs. Sasse, but there are some aspects mentioned in the article, which dony fit into the that portrayed in the character of Larry off. While he fits all of the findings of the survey to guments from Ms. Sasse can't be applied to farly Off. persont some expects for 4 As a last poitato from the text which fits to Larry Ok, One Lands to mention the argument from Mr. Sassey that the feeling of Coneliness and social exclusion con be covered by getting back to the place On comes. from, as Mr. Sasse bells from his own experience. Larry OH lives in his kon house where he gree op and seems to have strong emotional bands to it since it's very old and fragile and old buche!! 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