The Fruitlands Utopia

Across the Great State of California, we have begun to see a revolution in a way many have not seen in quite some time. No, I'm not referring to some great political or religious revolution. No, what I’m talking about is an agricultural revolution that concentrates of not only bringing back true fresh produce, but also educating the youth of the state about agriculture as well. You may ask yourself, who is in fact leading this revolution?

there was land. And land is the key idea in the American Dream. To own

“ This is where I wanted to die and where I tried one day but not even the monkey garden would have me. It was the last day I would go there. Who was it that said I was getting too old to play the game? Who was it I didn't listen to? I only remember that when the others ran, I wanted to run too, up and down and through the monkey garden, fast as the boys.” ( chapter 38, page 96.) The Monkey Garden is near Esperanza's house. At the point of this part of the book Esperanza is caught in that awkward period of adolescence where she still wants to act like a little kid, but she's also starting to think about “ grown-up” things like “sex.” The archetypal garden is like the Biblical Garden of Eden in Genesis. It's a place where springtime is around and people live in harmony with nature, and also about that everyone runs around naked without being embarrassed about it. So, that's pretty much what the kids in Mango Street find in the Monkey Garden. ( minus the naked part.) At first, when they found the garden they think it's “ a wonderful thing to look at in the spring. But bit by bit, after the monkey left, the garden began to take over itself. Flowers stopped obeying the little brick that kept them from growing beyond their paths.” ( chapter 38, page 95.) The Garden becomes a place where they can play their games and build “no grown- ups allowed” clubhouse. This part brings us to the second part of the

How does the idea of lost hope or hopelessness, futility, pervade this story? Give examples of characters that have no hope, or have lost it, and show why this idea is so universal in this book. Explain why the little farm is a vision of utopia, and why it is impossible to reach. Why do the characters know they won't get it?

The animals in the book “Animal Farm” hoped to achieve unity, equality. trust/truth, prosperity, better quality of life, freedom and individuality, in terms of the revolution. This was achieved at the beginning of the revolution, which made it a success, but in the end the revolution was a failure.

The garden is the vehicle in which the narrator reveals her reluctance to leave behind the imaginary world of childhood and see the realities of the adult world. The evidence supporting this interpretation is the imagery of hiding. The narrator uses the garden to hide from reality and the

Hawthorne directly compares this beautiful garden to Eden when he writes, "Was this garden, then the Eden of the present world?" Thus, Rappaccini's garden symbolizes the setting of the initial fall of man.

Seedfolks is a story about people living in Cleveland and they live in a community that is not diverse at all.  The characters are all different races, so it is hard for them to go out in the world without thinking they are being judged or bullied by other people.  In the story, we see the characters building up to create a community garden.  This story is about how one act of kindness can generate another.  But that’s not the only theme to the story.  There are tons more morals and themes.  Such as the garden.  The garden helps bring people together and makes the dirty neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio more diverse.  The characters in the book all have something in common, they all deal with family issues and their races and cultures make them feel like they don’t belong.  But when the community garden is created, everything starts to change.  People become more open about their feelings, they have a lot of friends, and everyone we read about connects back to one another.  The characters in Seedfolks are different from one another.  They are all different races which makes them really self- conscious about how they look when they go out in public.  They do not easily meet new people due to their cultural differences and isolation in a large city.  But when they convert the vacant lot into the community garden, this provides them with the chance to break out and meet new people.  The book shows that this is an important thing because the more diverse and close a neighborhood

Mama’s harsh upbringing frames her perspective on the world. During Mama’s childhood, she faces a harsh world chock full of microaggressions and racial prejudice alike. Despite all of the factors working negatively in Mama’s favor, she successfully clambered out of her original pit of societal oppression, and instead took residence in a society a tier above that of her upbringing. The cornerstone of Mama’s dream is the concept of a home with a garden, wherein family can grow up and prosper: “Well, I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home. This plant is close as I ever got to having one” (Hansberry, 53). Although this dream might seem meager through a contemporary looking-glass, black people were systematically denied homes prior to and including the mid-nineteenth century, therefore Mama’s dream demonstrates her direct wish to live a life

When starting a new colony, John Winthrop had a perfect utopia set up in his mind. Everyone would get along with each other, everyone would be compassionate and helpful to everyone in the community, and most of all, they would be a society based on relations and not God. Winthrop realizes the various social classes people fit into, but he hopes that his ‘city upon a hill’ will unite everyone and make them all equal, regardless of social status. He hopes that the people who are in the colony are good people, who will help anyone who needs it, when they need it. Last of all, he hopes that the colony will ‘keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace’ in order to become the ‘city upon a hill’ that he wants to be.

George Ripley, a leader of the transcendental movement, was the founder of Brook Farm, also known as The Brook Farm of Institute of Agriculture and Education. It was a Utopian experiment for communal living in 1841, located in Massachusetts. The goal was to establish social coherence between the thinker and the worker and to achieve individual mental freedom. Brook Farm was inspired by transcendentalism and was created to promote the beliefs of Fourierism. From day one, Brook Farm was bound to fail due to its inefficient social organization.

We started to build a treehouse with our supplies. After working on the tree house we were starved. I told the guys “ we can use the net to try and catch some fish” they were in favor of the idea. As we pulled the net in there was all different kinds of fish. When we woke we saw crabs all over the beach we were all over the beach trying to catch as many crabs as possible. Once we collected some crabs we needed to make a fire. Leonard said, “I am good at making fires”. Once Leonard had a fire going we cooked the crab and fish then finished the tree house and our own houses. When in the tree house you could see the island consisted of huge mountains, beautiful waterfalls, and many abandoned buildings. The island was rich of fruits, vegetables, animals, and all of God's beautiful gifts. It wasn’t always like this when we first came to the island. When we first got here we argued a lot about the stuff we found what we would do with them and it wasn’t always rich of fruits and vegetables we said when we got to the island that “for every one vegetable we eat we would plant one and for every fruit we ate we would put the seeds in the ground to grow more”. Right before our eyes we didn't realize everything we need for our utopia lay

The idea of a perfect society, or “utopia,” was first introduced in Sir Thomas More’s book Utopia, written in 1516. In the book, More described a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean through the character Raphael. On the island everything and everyone has a specific place and purpose. There is no private property, all of the houses on the island are the same; you can walk in the front door, through the house, and out the back door. All necessary items are stored in warehouses, where people only request what they need. The people on the island manufacture the items in the warehouse, everyone that can work does, which means little to no unemployment.

The prospect of utopia, that is, an unchanging static society, has little appeal compared to the prospect of trying to reach such an exalted existence. And it's this idea of progress that we often associate with the idea of utopia. Appealing as it may seem, an utopia is a double edged sword. It is both the end result of our desires and an end to those desires. Because ending our desire goes against our human nature, the notion of utopia can no longer exist to the human mind. Therefore, neither the Garden of Eden nor the island of the Houyhnhnms is an utopia because both societies are unchanging. In them, both progress and desire is forbidden.

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