Delonte Lawton Essay
Delonte Lawton
Instructor Derrick
ENG101-N01
ESSAY 3
12 March 2015
In the essay, “Don't You Think it’s Time to Start Thinking?” Northrop Frye purpose is to inform his reader that he believes students have not been properly taught the skill of good thinking and how society has had a huge influence on our logical ability. Frye supports his thesis and purpose by stating that he wants them to stop and actually think. He also believes that our society has very little interest in literacy. He also support his thesis and purpose by saying “"A society like ours doesn't have very much interest in literacy. It is compulsory to read and write because society must have docile and obedient citizens. We are taught to read so that we can obey the traffic signs and to cipher so that we can make our income tax, but verbal competency is very much left to the individual." Frye believe that’s we are taught the basic thing in life so that we can be normal citizen but we are only giving minimum education. Frye wants his audience to succeed to think more logically.
Frye believe that our society has little interest in literacy. Frye believe that a teacher must engage in a fight to help the student provoke and reject the spoken procedure and store all responses, to accept inactive recognition. He is saying that getting students and people in general to start thinking critically and expressing their thoughts clearly will be a struggle as there are many misunderstandings in our society about literacy. Frye he firmly believes that he can think that he has ideas, and that if he is just given the chance to express them he will be right.
I believe that society does has a huge influence on us but we still have a choice onto how we act and deal with life issues within any of the information we receive. I also believe that Frye is really biased when it comes to the younger generation because he believes that young adult are not logical thinker or isn’t receiving or being taught how to properly
Instructor Derrick
ENG101-N01
ESSAY 3
12 March 2015
In the essay, “Don't You Think it’s Time to Start Thinking?” Northrop Frye purpose is to inform his reader that he believes students have not been properly taught the skill of good thinking and how society has had a huge influence on our logical ability. Frye supports his thesis and purpose by stating that he wants them to stop and actually think. He also believes that our society has very little interest in literacy. He also support his thesis and purpose by saying “"A society like ours doesn't have very much interest in literacy. It is compulsory to read and write because society must have docile and obedient citizens. We are taught to read so that we can obey the traffic signs and to cipher so that we can make our income tax, but verbal competency is very much left to the individual." Frye believe that’s we are taught the basic thing in life so that we can be normal citizen but we are only giving minimum education. Frye wants his audience to succeed to think more logically.
Frye believe that our society has little interest in literacy. Frye believe that a teacher must engage in a fight to help the student provoke and reject the spoken procedure and store all responses, to accept inactive recognition. He is saying that getting students and people in general to start thinking critically and expressing their thoughts clearly will be a struggle as there are many misunderstandings in our society about literacy. Frye he firmly believes that he can think that he has ideas, and that if he is just given the chance to express them he will be right.
I believe that society does has a huge influence on us but we still have a choice onto how we act and deal with life issues within any of the information we receive. I also believe that Frye is really biased when it comes to the younger generation because he believes that young adult are not logical thinker or isn’t receiving or being taught how to properly