Post War Ideas or Modern Ideas?

According to Teddy, the ten year old genius, “ Logic’s the first thing you have to get rid” of”. Teddy says this while explaining that logic can only cause trouble while thinking of every day subjects. Is Teddy, a young boy in post WWII education, using this idea of non-logic as form of post war America or present day America. Nicholson, a teacher of post WWII education, questions Teddy on his logics and reasons. They …

…and thousands of time….they just don’t remember it doesn’t mean they didn’t do it (193).” Why fear death when we all come back to earth and relive a different life? . Therefore people only really fear change and death is change. Nicholson’s reasoning of this is that death is final and that this so called “change” could not possibly exist because he’s old-fashioned logic is one that can not be changed.