Chris Spiers Blog #4 Oleanna

The story of Oleanna demonstrates two separate social and economic standing persons forced to interact because of mutual dependence upon the other person for attaining and maintaining personal growth. Carol, a young, shy, timid looking female student is not passing her crucial college course and requires help and possibly sympathy from her Professor to receive a personally desirable grade in the course. She is most likely from a lower middle class home and demon straits social assumptions of her class. Overwhelmed by her course she becomes anncuis with anxiety's stemming from her need to quickly and successively complete her crucial "higher education". In her attempts to remedy her poor performance she is paired with her "All Knowing" professor John. The story makes me believe John has been raised in the upper social economic class, he carries himself with an all knowing ever deserving grace. In the beginning of the story Carol is nothing more than a typical sub average student in his class that possibly shouldn't even be there. The start of this story inevitably depicts the authors world view plainly stating that people of greater socioeconomic class view themselves in better light that those below them. However, Oleanna dose not finish as it begins, through the course of the story Carol ingeniously cuts down the pillars holding John above her and in true american fashion levels the power scale with wit and law.