Francine Prose, the author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”, develops her stance that present day literature is stunting student’s abilities when it comes to reading. Prose develops credibility on the subject as she is a mother of two sons in school and an active reader. Research has been done to support her claims as she supplies irrefutable evidence as tp why reading in school has declined. Overall, I agree with Prose’s point of view that literary standards are falling due to the fact that certain books appeal to the lazy teachers, and that present day literature does not develop enthusiastic readers. First off, teachers nowadays choose to teach their students about values through the reading rather than focusing on literary merit.…
Berube analogize student’s essays and watching sports commentary on ESPN, because students tend to summarize in their essays instead of analyzing it. Berube uses an example as to what he is trying to explain that the world of sports is metacommentary and no one actually summarizes on how the game is being played. Instead they analyze, they just point out the important part of the game. In the tenth paragraph he quotes “Well, Tony let me point out that last night, the Red Sox swept the Tigers and crept to within three games of the Yankees.” And then he quotes that “…I’m just pointing out that the Sox won 3-1, on a four hitter by Schilling, while the Yanks blew another late-inning lead.” Page 304…
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Gerald Graff, author of “Disliking books at an early age”, talks about a little boy who does not read for school and dislike reading. The author uses an excuse as a fear of bullied in school and a fact that he got raised…
eTUSD within the Summer Reading Course and should be submitted prior to the first day of school. Copies of this list are…
Bechdel narrating helps the reader to have overall understanding of the problem for each picture. Bechdel main argument is that she like to reader a lot, as a result it sometimes a daily problem in her life schedule.…
Envision a world where people refused to read. The world would not be as great of a place. The extensive increase in readers might force this to occur. In “Reading is in Painful Decline” by Stephen L. Carter, the author justifies how the decline is negatively affecting the country. Carter uses a wide variety of rhetoric to persuade the reader that the decline in reading is causing many of the country’s problems.…
Although a community is a place where people come together and are able to draw strength and identity from each other, Alison Bechdel is not fortunate to have this kind of supportive and uplifting relationship with her family. Instead of wanting to delve further into learning about her parent’s early lives or stories of how they met, she wants to physically and mentally separate herself from them: “I had imagined my confession as an emancipation from my parents, but instead I was pulled back into their orbit” (59). In this passage, Alison wishes to distance herself from her community, but she is unable to because her life revolves around her parents. In other words, she is a part of their “orbit” and their own world. It is their supreme power…
-Warfare between the light skinned Aryans controlled the dark skinned Dasas. It happened because of their skin color.…
A book is a beautiful thing. They give us sanity and imagination. Books take us to a place of many wonders. So why get rid of them? The beloved author Ray Bradbury creates a New York Times bestseller Fahrenheit 451, a fictional future when books are outlawed and burned. The book shows how absent-minded humans can be without books. How unimaginative we are without them. Another author, Bernard Malamud, once wrote a story named A Summer’s Reading. This story talks about a young man who has dropped out of high school and cannot find a job because he does not have an education. Since he has no education, he decides to read 100 books, hoping he can get a job with that. The political and social themes of both Fahrenheit 451 and A Summer’s Reading…
Chapter 1: Aries, the Ram.1. What does Grendel's relationship with nature -- the ram, the sky, grass, the doe, the baby bird, owls, and wolves -- reveal about his own personality?2. Quote the various phrases Grendel uses to describe himself. What do they reveal about his self-image and how it was developed?3. What is the significance of the scene wherein Grendel challenges the "dark chasms"?4. What does Grendel mean when he speaks of "playing cat and mouse with the universe"? What does it mean to "see all life without observing it"?5. Describe Grendel's mother and his relationship with her.6. From Grendel's point of view, what is man?…
Cynthia Kadohata 's book, Kira-Kira, is a story about an American-Japanese family during the mid-1950 's who struggle to save money to buy a home. The story begins in Iowa where the family lives and owns a small Asian grocery store. The parents are American born, educated in Japan and still hold some Japanese traditional qualities. Conflict is introduced when they move to Georgia to work in a poultry factory after their family store fails to be profitable. Additional conflict is added later in the story when the oldest daughter develops a terminal illness. Through the story readers learn about the conditions of living in American during this time period. It accurately reflects prejudice towards Japanese-Americans and other cultures, describes horrible factory working conditions, and demonstrates how communities-families pulled together to cope and improve their situations.…
The idea of reading has become very unpopular to many people across the world over the past few decades. According to Jordan Weissmann, the author of the article, “The Decline of the American Book Lover”, many people of our generation have stopped reading and have become unintelligent. She says, “The Pew Research Center reported last week that nearly a quarter of American adults had not read a single book in the past year. As in, they hadn't cracked a paperback, fired up a Kindle, or even hit play on an audiobook while in the car. The number of non-book-readers has nearly tripled since 1978”( Weissman). Books provide something that nothing else could ever provide, knowledge. Many could argue that if teachers provide and give us education, what's the point of reading a book? They have forgotten that the only way teachers could’ve gotten the knowledge to teach us is by reading books. Not having books in our society is almost like not having food. It is an essential quality that us humans must have. Similarly. Montag's society almost resembles our current world. Books have been ignored by many people of our generation and nobody has done anything about it. However unlike Montag's society, people of our generation haven’t outlawed reading. They still read books, and it creates a perfect chance to put an end to the extinction of…
We need to reflect on how our children are really being educated, and create that adventurous and mysterious aspect of reading a…
Blume begins by sharing her own childhood experience with restricted books. Having come from a family who were strong advocates for literature, it was hard for her to understand why libraries and schools restricted and banned books (341). As an author, she gained further insight to the effects censorship has on readers, writers and education. She compares the difference in the freedom writers and readers had in the 1970’s to the onset of heavy censorship in the 1980’s (342-3). Blume expresses how parents’ responsibility for what their own children were exposed to evolved.…