1A Thesis

Even though I find Bell Hooks to be a recalcitrant whiner as she ascends education on her full scholarships to Stanford, her description of the working-class struggle to survive in a bourgeois college environment are compelling and convincing when we consider the mockery these students must absorb from envious working-class friends, and loved ones' failed comprehension of the demands of matriculating through college, the necessary self-isolation to succeed in college, the inevitable growing apart and in extreme cases complete alienation between family and friends, and a defiance of family values that results in more resentment and acrimony.