While people participate in various methods of everyday reading and writing, there are extensive benefits to be gained from extending the experience to apply these abilities to literature. In the beginning chapter of Literature: A Portable Anthology, third edition the benefits of reading, analyzing, and writing about literature is explored, while also explaining literature class expectations, at a college or university level. Reading literature expands horizons by exposing readers to various perspectives, locations, and interactions, which molds opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. Taking this a step further to include analysis of the reading serves to train the brain to contemplate information and expand attention spans. Finally, writing about
Over the years, there has been an ongoing debate about “street smarts” and “book smarts” throughout the world. Many people side with either or for their own personal reasons. Although “street smarts” has developed a poor reputation which pushes people to neglect the positive aspects of this particular way of learning. In the article, “Hidden Intellectualism”, Gerald Graff evaluates the structure schools use to teach literature. He explains that intellect is not only found in the academic form of thinking.
When you here literary analysis what does it make you think about? Most people think that literary analysis is just telling other people the overview of a story. However that’s not what literary analysis is, literary analysis is an argumentative analysis about a literary work. In this paper I will do a literary analysis for 6 stories that we read in class, in each story I will be talking about different kinds of concepts seen.
Tobias Wolff’s novel Old School conveys the ideas of honor, identity, voice and competition through the experiences of a boy who attends a preparatory school in the 1960s. The unnamed narrator’s actions are caused by the visiting writers, who definitely influence the narrator more negatively. Although the purpose of the famous writers visiting the school is to influence the narrator at the prep school more positively by helping him build character and allowing him to pursue perseverance, in reality the pressure the writers add discourages the narrator from finding his own voice and adds even more competition to an already extremely competitive school. This results in the narrator experiencing problems of plagiarizing, the search for his voice
People take risks, be adventurous and embrace the feeling of fear. In “Learning to Read” Chloe took a risk by learning how to read when she wasn’t supposed to. The outcome of that risk was that she became successful and got a cabin for herself and because she took that risk, she knew her rights and wrongs and that impacted a lot of laws and situations in modern-day life. In “ A Kenyan Teen’s Discovery: Let There Be Light to Save Lions”, Richard Turere took a risk by creating an invention made with a solar panel, indicator box, and a flashlight which was used to protect his livestock from the lions and to protect the lions from the humans trying to kill them. And lastly, in The Pearl, Kino, a Mexican diver discovers what seems to be the greatest
Although he learned a lot due to books, he believes that each book teaches you a lesson. He believes that all bad books usually have a greater lesson to teach you than the good books. Books also thought him what he can and can’t do while writing. While reading books he learned “Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the
In the poem Learning to Read, by Franz Wright, it is about a kid who is learning to read but, has some difficulties doing so. It mentions that one father is unavailable, and the mother who seems like she was going to “break” every time the character asked her for some help. She even considered asking help from her step father except, he barely spoke English and seems to belittle her whenever he gets the chance too. She run into many obstacles throughout her process, but nothing stops her from continuing on.
In “Does Great Literature Make Us Better?,” Gregory Currie questions how in the case of perusing literature, helps to improve us individuals. He utilizes his title to help the perusers additionally question what precisely is better. Whether it makes us "better" is not really the point. I don't think anybody peruses writing to improve as a person. Does it truly make a difference what you read or that you were profoundly drawn in while understanding it?
The study of literature is also another topic that relies of an individual to have educated the intellectual and emotional aspects of their bodies to master their imagination. When someone has developed this ability they are able to fully understand literature. For example, Achilles the typical hero archetype is explained by Frye as “Achilles is greater than any man could ever be (Frye, 24).” A regular person would be in awe of Achilles great prowess in battle and would use their imagination to become the mighty Achilles in their dreams. The individual with an educated imagination on the other hand, would be relate to Achilles strengths while at the same time identify with his weaknesses as we humans share them as well.
In this article “ Why literature matters” by Dana Gioia explains that American art has changed. It points out the fact that literary knowledge is declining. Some of the changes that were pointed out is that most people no longer read. His main purpose is to encourage people to begin to read again and that will help them improve their intellectual level. In the article Gioia expresses reasoning and includes evidence of the importance of reading.
In this essay, "Why Literature Matters", author Dana Gioia sets up an argument about literature. Which she uses various ways to persuade her audience be in favor of her proposal; by showing statistic evidence, facts, and historical evidence, as well as some ironies, diction, and the appeals to reader's emotion. First of all, Gioia begins with strong appeals to reader's logos by clearly laying out the statistic source. For example, "According to the 2002 survey of Public Participation in the Arts, the reading population of the Americans is declining. " In turn, is an attempt to point out the thesis statement and make the readers to think out about this topic wile reading through her essay.
Is the World War 2 important? Is the word war important? Many people got serious effected by this war, many family members died, people lost their home “almost lost everything they had” it was horrible it is one of the biggest war to ever take place in the world. We see that some of the consequences are still in the word one. In this essay, I am going to write about three thing that had a big impact inn the word was 2 then I am going to do a conclusion to see if the war is important or not: the beginning of the anti-Semitism-the evacuation of Dunkerque –some of the reasons why Germany lost the war.
“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight the imagination, and life to everything.” -Plato. This quote shows the importance of books. If there were to be a world without books, the most important book I would keep would be Fahrenheit 451. This book would be important to keep because it would show us what would happen if books were outlawed.
She believes the syllabus provided to students do not include any challenging books, and her belief toward high school teachers becoming too lazy to examine thoroughly if the book the education system provides them with represent any true and significant value is a recurring concern of hers’- therefore ineffective to students. All in all, Prose used ethos, pathos, logos and the usage of specific words to help her argument. She successfully persuades her point of view and makes it clear that if schools want their curriculum to improve, they must change their way of teaching and push their students to view literature in a new
Or why he was supposed to say these things. Understanding the confusion about these things and knowing that there is more than one way to get to the goal, loving and understanding literature, is the true reason that Graff has an advantage as a literature teacher. In his youth the fear that Graff felt towards books was based on the predicate that, if you liked books you were “a sissy”
