Children's Multimodal Response Essay

The book reads’’Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores.” this quote shows how books mean to him and how every book means something different to them. ‘’There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.'’ this just shows that books mean something to somebody because nobody would just die for nothing. In my personal experience I know that books are important because when I was little it took me a while to figure out how to read because I didn't like books, books were like vegetables to me but one summer when I got in big trouble My mom made me read books every night. This was a big step up in my life because there were words I had no idea how to pronounce but after awhile I got the hang of it and I really started to enjoy the books because they were really interesting. This show that because of the punishment that my mom chose and the book that I read they have helped me in life by teaching me to read better and enjoy the book that I read. And now I don't think of reading as a punishment but an escape from the real

This book also describes Montag’s inner conflict with himself, how our society would drastically change without information provided in books, and the difference in technology we would face in the future. In the end this book teaches us how important it is to keep books around until the end on time so we don’t repeat the past or keep our people as smart as they can be because books impact our lives every single

Knowledge is a powerful thing. Knowledge can give a person an advantage in many aspects of life. Knowledge can help an individual get a job, it can help someone get ahead in a class and it can help an individual understand what happens around them and why. In the excerpt from the novel Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena Maria Viramontes describes how and why Estrella began to read. Viramontes uses selection of detail, figurative language and tone to describe Estrella’s development from being puzzled and vitriolic to being educated and astute.

The author depicts the differences between how the child understands the story. A child that consciously views the story knows and could tell about the real meaning or hidden message of the story while a child that unconsciously views the narration could not tell about what happened in the story because they do not grasp the full message intended to be taken away from the

During the first few weeks of class we’ve gone through various texts in order to better our understanding of human knowledge. We have talked about Christianity St. Matthew “The Sermon on the Mount”, Plato and “The Allegory of the Cave”, “The Four Idols” of Sir Francis Bacon, Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”, and even Carl Jung and “The Structure of the Psyche”. All these texts may have been written in different eras and different places, but they have one thing in common, and that is their understandings of human nature and knowledge, and how they demonstrate to us epistemology (how we know) and metaphysics (what human beings know).

Beatty reveals his fear by comparing books to “loaded guns”(58). In reality, the truth is that books and other forms of literature, grant the readers a higher level of thinking and curiosity, over the people who proceed to not read

It’s a double edged sword. Beatty’s message about books is primarily, “The Devil is real, and he’s not some little red man with horns and a tail. He can be beautiful because he’s a fallen angel, and he used to be God’s favorite.” Books are like a nightmare dressed like a daydream and in the end, all they do is fail you. Although Montag panics, he knows deep down inside what the truth about books is.

It is common to find a struggle between wanting and what is morally correct. Sigmund Freud studied this plight and found that one’s subconscious feelings can provoke “intense competition and hatred” (Oedipus Complex). To resolve this struggle, one must find a balance between the id and superego to ultimately act on his or her ego. In the book, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, Ethan attempted to find this balance but couldn’t find a solution that would satisfy his social expectations. This repression of the true, natural self led Ethan to having an imbalanced personality. He found that the richness of a dream enticed him more than the “harsher limitations of actual, realized satisfactions” (“Ethan Frome”).

Ethan grew up in a town lacking good education, but traveled attended a university where he dabbled in physics. Though he enjoyed it, he was called home because of his father’s death. He was left to care for his mother, who, a little while later, died as well. Ethan reflects on his education, thinking, and also thinks, Ethan’s unfinished schooling at the university gave him a taste of life in the city, full of opportunity and new faces, only before he was called back to the well-named town of “Starkfield.” Although he had a relatively glum life, he found a feeling of both melancholy and elation in his companionship with Mattie, his wife’s cousin. They had complicated feelings for each other: Ethan feels pulled away from Mattie because of his moral responsibility to remain faithful to Zenobia. Even when Zeena is away in Springfield, Ethan felt uncomfortable speaking about her. It is even implied that the cat, sitting in Zeena’s chair, served as a reminder of her. In both the case of Ethan’s education and the case of his love for Mattie, it is familial obligations that pulls him away from his dreams. Wharton describes the tragedy of a common man and shows how his social obligations prevented him from achieving his American Dream. The novel discusses the unfortunate constraints one might face when pursuing his or her goals, and shows that the American Dream my not be attainable for

But what happens when he does start to think, to read, to question? Throughout the book different views on books can be observed.

In the following days, he never participated while we were working in groups. Ethan was just simply there. He never spoke or gave his input; he only wrote down the answers. I was still afraid, still unsure of the mystery held within his soul. Through all of my fright, I became determined to crack him. I wanted to know his story because I knew there had to be more than what was masked by his appearance.

Saint Augustine, a well-known philosopher, once said “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page”. This year, I learned that a book is much more than a bunch of words with a cover, I figured out that books are meant to widen your knowledge, change your perspective and teach you a lesson for life. The values, perspectives, and positions I will present in front of you today are lessons for life I learned throughout this year and this class.

We were assigned to read chapters 3, 5 and 6. In chapter three we are introduced to the authors view on images. He feels that we put too much of an emphasis on images, to the extent where the written word is being ignored. I find this to be true, in this generation people are constantly glancing at images, let it be on their phones, tablets, magazines, newspapers, billboards etc. We put more time into visuals than the actual message itself. Reinke asked us, “What will we lose if we ignore books” (40). Personally I say A LOT!

Everyone was dreaming about and getting ready for the Fair. Wilbur fainted when he heard Mr. Arable talking about ham and bacon. There’s a pig named Uncle at the Fair and he’s bigger than Wilbur. Wilbur is worried about his "competition" and Charlotte.

He explains that if every person uses reason, then society will reach the one ultimate truth and common truth. However, this is a long progress, therefore in the meantime, one must employ the function of knowledge and conscious. He furthers his argument by stating that books are a source of truth. That by reading, it will better the person and that it is ennobling. By reading pure material, it provides examples to follow and employ in