Book Review Of 'The New People Making'

The author makes very valid points throughout the whole essay and even uses someone else’s story to back up their information. The information given during the text is quite significant to the back up the points the author is making. Like stated earlier, using someone else’s story is a good way to make sure the information is correct. Throughout the text, the author will use words that may not seem clear at first, but Kolbert does a respectable job of clearing things up for the reading and making it easier to follow along. Since the author based their essay of the basis of another person’s writing, it is safe to say that the author used and interpreted the information very well. Quotes were used frequently throughout. Kolbert did a lot of wonderful things with the text, however, not many times did you feel the sense of an argument. The sense of just a general summary was felt the whole time. Overall the author did a very nice job gathering this information and giving it back in a way that the audience had a good understanding on where she stood with this issue.

She only states her beliefs and her emotions on the subject, but does not dig deep into anyone else's thought. If she would have provided this, it would have made her article more interesting and she would have been given more credit. In order to grab someone’s attention, you need a solid argument as to where their are two different emotions on the subject.

When it comes to things like gender equality, and feminism people are going to have their own feelings and opinions about these certain subjects. It could bring strong, sympathetic, angry, or uninterested. Either way, it brings you some type of emotion to create pathos. She also uses words like “we” and “us” to involve herself with the audience to make feel what she’s feeling. One thing she states that “If we want to live as women, some separatism is forced upon us: Mills College is a wise embodiment of that separatism. The war-games world wasn’t made by us or for us; we can’t even breathe the air there without masks” (1).

are the various ordinary ones that distinguish any one person from another”. She is realistic to a

A strong sense of emotion in her article would demonstrate a more personal opinion. This approach would have allowed the reader to connect with her on a personal level not just from a research based standpoint.

to be heard and easy to understand. This shows that you are in control and not emotional e.g.

From the beginning she pulls the readers attention, she uses a metaphor “Eventually being perfect day after day, year after year, became like always carrying a backpack filled with bricks on my back”(Quindlen, 296). This metaphor is the most significant part of her speech as she continues to refer to this metaphor throughout the speech. She uses this for the purpose of appealing to the audience in a meaningful, and personal way, creating a connection between her and the audience as most students, not only college students, can probably relate to the feeling of being heavily put down by something , not necessarily what she is talking about. Her use of pathos is what makes the speech so appealing and interesting, because she makes it so relatable and easy to understand.

It offered a candid honest perspective on a taboo subject. Her studies in this field were rooted in findings of men’s unwillingness to acknowledge their over-privileged status. These denials, protected male privilege from being acknowledged or decreased. Calling out this unacknowledged male privilege her finding of white privilege might be a key to racism as well. The message that was being portrayed was that privilege is real and whites are taught not to recognize privilege. They simply go along with a system that is already biased in their favor, never noticing the privileges built into their daily lives and institutional structures. In terms of primary identities like race and gender, I do not think I am privileged. When looking at secondary identities like education and work experience I could be considered privileged in comparison to individuals of my same background. The freedoms of these specific privileges allow me access to higher education which opens more opportunity to various

An example of how her family values each other is her description of the conventions and norms of her family. They are thoroughly supportive of one another, attending every graduation, baby shower, birthday, and house warming party. Her father and siblings have burial plots together so that they are never separated. Life is lived with everyone being connected and concerned for not only each person’s well-being, but happiness as well. She says her “relatives form an alliance that represents a genuine and enduring love of family…”

The statement she made was very powerful “My daughter save my life”. This quote that she mentioned really hit me. It make realized how powerful words are depending the situation and it also make me realized how a human being can change another human perspective

That both genders have common ground as people. She goes on to describe how society is becoming more progressive, that whether or not people want to admit it, changes are coming and as time goes on women will be granted more equality. This change was already being seen but just needed further progression.

The emotions I felt for this woman was overwhelming at some parts of the book. The hardest parts to read, were involving the author’s daughter. I started the book, when we watched the video about her book about her daughter’s death in class. I felt for that woman, to have loss a husband and a child within a very close time span is saddening. I was surprised she did not go crazy after her daughter died. When she writes about her memories of her husband and daughter, there is an obvious joy that exudes the pages. Knowing how much she loved and cared for her daughter was sad. She cared for her aligning daughter when she was at her sickest, her top priority was her health and wellbeing. She even postponed his funeral until she was strong enough to say goodbye. It was heartbreaking.

The mother is a complex creature proven throughout the story. These actions all help express why mothers and their presence are so important. As shown, they are very crucial in the development of younger beings. The mother is a helper by nature, impacting by teaching its child to survive at life. Independence is the arch lesson that is taught by the mother. Harlow enduringly grasps the cardinal meaning of why it is inhumane to destroy any kind of maternal bond. Mothers are not people to depend on, but are people to make depending not

After the death of her husband, Mother struggles to keep her family together by providing the support and guidance they need, and encouraging them to use good judgment and think of the family as a whole before making their decisions. As the family faces various obstacles, each seemingly more severe than the last, Mother begins

It was interesting to look back at the movie “Precious” in order to relate Erikson, Jung, and Freud’s theories to both Precious and her mother Mary. Being able to identify the defense mechanisms, stages of development, anxiety, and persona gave me more insight as to why Precious and Mary act the way they do. In addition, exploring the role of nature versus nurture in their development helped to explain why Mary and Precious made certain life decisions.