Summary Of The Article 'The Culture Of Shut Up'

English 100 Section 50
Professor Zhuravlyova
1st Draft of Critique Assignment
11 February 2015

The Culture of Shut Up

In the article “The Culture of Shut Up” The author explains how people are kind of afraid of saying their thoughts out loud. Started the article by telling a story which is of three elders who are the only who speak out loud in a small village, while others are not able, because they are simple afraid of the others’ judgments. It is an effective way to give a story that explains the same idea that the author wants to show the audience. Therefore, the bottom line of the article was given in clearly perfect words, where he showed both sides of the audience who agree or disagree on whatever subject that the ideas are the only

There was little usage of dialogue as any obvious reader would point out. Be that as it may, the general public has readers that usually prefer dialogues. It helps the readers in analyzing the potential strength and value of a debate that has been aroused through an article. Yet, this article fails in every single way to keep up in its potential in delivering a successful debate simply because dialogues aren’t used. Without the lack of dialogues, the reader would not get carried away into the debate. Instead, the reader would realize that the debate is fruitless and will not come to an exciting conclusion, even if the article did come to a concise and appropriate conclusion. This is also a problem since less readers mean less viewership of the article and less popularization of the ideology that the article carries in its narrative and informative

For example, at one point, the article is providing a general and positive aspect of the culture while at another point, it contradicts the same point and produces a new ideology as if the author retracted his opinion and attempted a new approach. This goes to show that the author is not even sure about his own placement within the opinions of the debate and therefore, his bias is senseless and without logic as well. This goes to say that the article could well prove to be illogical and invalid in current generations and in modern times. The fact that this may be true brings an alarming situation to the use of this article in such an era. Maybe it is used for a critical analysis but the article should not even have been published, unless the publishers deliberately decided to incite controversy in the