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By Gloria D. Miklowitz Table of contents 1. Introduction - 1. 1 General information and the process of analysing different aspects 2. Main Part - 2. 1 Biography of Gloria D. Miklowitz - 2. 2 Summary of the novel - 2. 3 Background information of the course of the colour game - 2. 4 Characterisation of Amy & Adam and the relation to their families - 2. 5 Analysis on the relationship between Amy & Adam - 2. 6 Amy's journal entries during the 'Colour Game' - 2. 7 Different views on the colour game between Canadian and German students related to the "Intercultural Learning Project" - 2. 8 Comparison between the speech, entitled "The Scab" given in 1903 by Jack London and the theme of the novel 3. Conclusion - 3. 1 Personal opinion of the experiment 4.
Appendix - Bibliography Internet Sources 4. 1 Material Consent to Publication [Einverstndniserklrung] Insurance of Independent Work [Versicherung der selbstndigen Arbeit] 1. 1 General information and the process of analysing different aspects First of all when I chose the novel 'The War Between the Classes' I have not have a precise idea what the theme what all about. After I got familiar with it I was happy about my choice because the novel is based on an authentically, sociological experiment which was held 1979 by Ray Otero. I also remembered that I saw a documentary about that issue some time before. The book deals with racial, ethical and sexual prejudices which are the basis for the 'Colour Game'. The main purpose of creating this game is that the participants develop a feeling for justice, fairness and tolerance, which might effect a whole class. I started to read the novel and after I got the topic clear, I focused my research on that topic.
I found a bit of information about the game on the internet but not as much as I was hoping to discover. So carried on researching and found several pages about the 'International Learning Project' which was done in 1997. I chose it because it appealed to me as an interesting project which was precisely matching with my topic and it presented several opportunities for analysing. I also found the speech 'The Scab' on the internet which introduced an idea to me to compare the class situation to the situation at present.
All in all I am very content with my topic and the material I found. 2. 1 Biography of Gloria D. Miklowitz Gloria D. Miklowitz was born in New York on May the 18 th 1927. She started reading at an early level and wrote her first story 'My Brother Goo Goo' in the third grade.
She attended 'Hunters College' from 1944 - 1945; 1948, she graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in English. She married the scientist Julius Miklowitz and moved to Pasadena, California in 1951. There she worked as a secretary and scriptwriter on documentary films about torpedoes and rockets. She had two sons and a full time mother.
After that time she was really looking forward to return to writing. She took a class 'Writing for Publication'. When she heard about 'Follow', a beginning to read contest, she entered the contest in 1964 with her book 'Barefoot Boy' and the book was immediately bought and published. In the next few years she concentrated on writing; selling several picture books and middle grade biographies.
In 1978, she spent a year working on a rape-hotline to research that issue and wrote the following novel 'Did You Hear What Happened to Andrea', in 1979. She had great success with that book and won the 'Western Australia Young Reader Book Award' 1984. It was later televised and aired as an 'After-School Special' and won 5 Emmys. As were her later works; 'The Day the Senior Class Got Married' in 1985 and 'The War Between the classes' in 1986, which won an Emmy for the best children's special. She presently resides in la Can, California. Whenever she is not researching or writing books, she lectures at schools and conferences for librarians and teachers.
She has often chosen social and emotional topics as subjects for her fiction books. Such as: AIDS, sexual and physical abuse, rape, nuclear holocaust, racism and teenage pregnancy. She always puts a lot of effort into research of her topic. A large part of her collection consists of: newspaper and journal articles, interviews, pamphlets, photographs and newsletters. To date, she has written nearly 50 fiction and non-fiction books for children of all ages. Over half of them involve teens and deal with important issues for them. 2. 2 Summary of the novel The novel "The War between the Classes" which was written by Gloria D.
Miklowitz in 1985 is about an authentic sociological experiment, held in 1979 by Ray Otero. The so-called 'Colour Game' concerns racism and sexism in a fictional society and is designed to make the participants aware of these facts. Amy is a 17 year-old Japanese teenager living in the U. S. She has a white boyfriend from school, Adam.
His parents are enormously rich and live in the wealthy part of town. Both Amy's and Adam's parents have big prejudices against their developing relationship. They wish to keep their children in the racial and social class that they belong to and they don't want to see them being mixed up with others. Adam and Amy have to take part in the 'Colour Game', which is conducted by their sociology class.
They, and all the other students have to pick randomly a coloured armband which is to indicate their allotted social class in society. From now on they are separated because Amy is in a superior class woman and Adam is an inferior class male. They are not allowed to socialise during the time when the game is on, even after school. Adam in particular, believes that this game is far from reality and makes jokes about it.
After some time, they both realise that they have quite different advantages and disadvantages respective to their social class. This resulted because they were deliberately put in social groups contrary to real life. The game obviously becomes a problem to their relationship, as they cannot see each other any more. They feel obstructed from their normal lives. After Amy discovered that she cannot handle the situation of the inferior classes and Adam is not satisfied with his position in society either, they decide to start a rebellion against Otero's system. When Amy puts up many posters with the slogan 'All Colours Unite' on the school ground, and is demoted for this; Adam helps her to organise a meeting with other people of their class in planning a rally, to include the entire school.
Even after having trouble with the 'police force', the G 4 's, the rally is still a success and the whole school participates. When the game is over they return to their normal lives again. Their relation is improved over the time spent in role-playing and role reversal. Amy discovers some of her parents prejudices are changed, or changing, by being challenged. So Amy's family is united in the end and even Adam is accepted by her parents. 2. 3 Background information on the course of the colour game The colour game as invented by Ray Otero and has the following basic features, essentially there are four colours: (Blue, dark green, Light Green and Orange) in a hierarchical order, blue on top with orange at the bottom. All the participants, randomly, are allocated a colour each.
The game lasts four weeks. Following an evaluation by a tutor each participant is allocated a colour. An armband marks the colour of their band of 'choice' and each must keep a diary which has to be carried at all times. Each has to note in their diary on a daily basis their experiences, which in turn assists the teacher in evaluating their progress, or the lack of it.
The teacher can then decide whether somebody can be promoted or demoted in the social order. The definitions of the different classes are as follows: - Members of the inferior colours are not allowed to speak or socialise with superior ones - The superior class is permitted to address an inferior - The...
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