The excerpt from "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" is about events that took place during the 1960s. Although entertaining, do you think Goines's narrative essay is relevant to readers today? What points does Goines make that would have an impact on today's youth?
In a paragraph of at least two hundred words, answer these questions. Support your answers by describing main ideas or details that Goines uses in his essay. Then clearly show why his points are or are not relevant in present times.
Answers
Letting sleeping dogs lie means 'leaving as they are'. But we can't let things happen because as long as our needs are changing, the demand for things is increasing and the cost of living a decent life is increasing, we have more work and more work for others who take responsibility.
Explanation:
Letting sleeping dogs lie means 'leaving as they are'. But we can't let things happen because as long as our needs are changing, the demand for things is increasing and the cost of living a decent life is increasing, we have more work and more work for others who take responsibility. To do so, we have to intervene.
As we know that human beings have a great tendency to free themselves from work. Everyone wants to get maximum output with less work input. Most of the politicians of our country are lazy and corrupt, they themselves do not work properly and also do not allow others to work properly and they often try to avoid scrutiny in their work by misusing their power. So we have to intervene and act honestly or remove them, 'we can't let the sleeping dog lie'.