Response To Mr. Harvey

Mr. Harvey gets brought up in the beginning of the Obituary story. He is Lovey's English teacher, who teaches his students like scum at times. Mr. Harvey is trying to teach his student's how to speak perfect English, but all of the student's struggle when it comes to this. Mr. Harvey asks each student to stand up and say what they want to be when they are older all in Standard English. When it comes to Lovey's turn she hesitates, then says "My name Lovey. When I grow up pretty soon, I going be what I like be and nobody better say nothing about it or I kill um." This made Mr. Harvey angry. He says, " OH REALLY, not the way you talk. You see, that was terrible. All of you were terrible and we will have to practice and practice our Standard English until we are perfect little Americans..." Mr. Harvey has a good heart but is too harsh to his students. He is trying to help his students out so they live a better future, but I believe that him being disrespectful towards his students might make it so they don't care for what he has to say. I feel that Mr. Harvey expects his students to be perfect at speaking Standard English, but it takes time, especially when someone has grown up in a different place where they learned to speak the language they are from. Mr. Harvey should help his students out without being rude to them and make them feel comfortable when speaking Standard English.