Part 1 of Essay
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 s ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... 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 assassination. Pat noticed that the white students reacted passively to the event. "Since the faculty was all white, the black students walked the halls in silence, tears of frustration rolling down their cheeks and unspoken bitterness written on their faces in their inability to communicate their feelings to ....