Men Without Chests

"In filing their book with it they have been unjust to the parent or headmaster who buys it and who has got the work of amateur philosophers where he expected the work of professional grammarians" (12)

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst" (26)

Lewis is trying to say that society has bred people to be exactly as society wants them: stupid, gullible, and repetitive. He begins with one example out of a text book and twists that to make the reader see that society is trying to put people into a category, although that was not the anticipation of the writers of The Green Book whatsoever. Lewis wants the reader of his book to realize that without understanding the tricks that the media is trying to play on you to get you to do as they want, you will fall for even the most stupid tricks. Using the text book as an example, he is showing that the media has gotten to children (or, in his obviously sexist views, boys), and has begun to turn their young, influenced minds into a product of the media through their emotions. He shows the smart people versus the corrupt, where he says, "When the age for reflexive thought comes, the pupil who has been thus trained ... but to the corrupt man..." (16). His use of diction is very interesting, I think, because he uses intelligent words instead of simple language.