Part one of term paper
Politically speaking, most people involved in academia are liberal. As a teacher, Conroy's views have changed tremendously during his lifetime. When Conroy was a youth, he was a racist. Presently, Conroy is a liberal. Pat came from a conservative background starting at high school. "...when I rode in the back seat of a '57 Ch ...

Part two of term paper
... 6) Within a group of other white high school kids, it is very hard to grasp equal freedom for blacks and whites within a racist school. Pat's transformation first started while visiting a concentration camp in Dachau. "The imprint of Dachau branded me indelibly and caused me to suffer the miscarriage of my hopeful philosophy. If man was good, then Dachau could never have happened." (p.10) The second imprint on Pat's life came after Martin Luther King Jr's ass ...