Japanese By Spring

Later, Puttbutt asks the head of the Department of Humanity, Professor Hurt, why Puttbutt was denied tenure. Hurt is, like Puttbutt, a black professor at the college. (And, unbeknownst to Puttbutt, Hurt later complains to the college president about a racist cartoon depicting Puttbutt in the campus magazine.) But, even though Hurt does not agree with Puttbutt's views, Hurt does begrudgingly enlighten Puttbutt by explaining that some older faculty members, the Miltonians, denied Puttbutt tenure because of a paper that Puttbutt wrote. Hurt told Puttbutt why Crabtree opposed granting tenure to Puttbutt: because Puttbutt did not agree with Crabtree and his colleagues; specifically, Puttbutt did not idolize the classical writings of deceased author John Milton, like Crabtree did (79).

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pts and says, "You make me sick with your god-damned classics." When one of the Miltonians starts to argue with Crabtree, Crabtree starts speaking perfect Yoruba, and then he thanks Puttbutt for opening his head (which he thought was dead). Crabtree says he had fun learning Yoruba and learning about the 2,000-year-old history of West Africa. When Puttbutt interjects that he only told Crabtree to teach Yoruba because Puttbutt wanted to humble Crabtree, Crabtree said that, instead, he learned not to be so full of racial pride and not to judge things he did not know anything about. At this point, Reed's own beliefs have been clearly conveyed through the change of heart of the Crabtree character. Reed has used Crabtree to expound his point of view that, just as the Miltonians should be tolerant of African culture (or any other culture that they are uneducated about), so the disgruntled faculty members, including Puttbutt, should be tolerant of Yamamoto and his loyalty to Japanese culture. Reed thinks different cultures should be tolerant of each other and exist peacefully together. He hits his point home when Crabtree refuses to join the faculty members in their protest against Yamamoto's "Japanese chauvinism" (154-56): Crabtree
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Approximate Word count = 1632
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)

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