Samuel Clemens, the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane He says that the best books to read are that ones that young people read. Implying that we dont have to waste our time with these huge chapter books and their fancy vocabulary. The simplified ones are better.”[3]
When an author writes a book he has a message that he is trying to get across to
1. “The language of consciousness or 63). From this point, he concludes that literature is concerned with symbolic action, that literary or mythological characters are typical, and that the world of poet imagery is “totally symbolic” (p. 75). He then moves to the principle of “literature as a whole” (p. 49): “you don’t just read one poem or novel after another, but enter into a complete world of which every work of literature forms a part” (p. 69). Hence there is a progressive element in the study and teaching of literature: as we read more works, we become able to generalize from our experience of literature.
I learned that annotating is good for you because it helps you understand the book when you read it more. It also gives you a deeper meaning of the book. It also helps you because it helps you in reading and writing. So I my book my annotations help me understand it more because if I just read the book I can just forget everything I read. Also when I annotate I know what’s going on I who this person or I think I know what’s happening next. Also annotating is good for me because it helps me know the book more and more when I get closer to that part or when I done with the book. Like for example annotating is asking questions or writing down words you don’t know and predicting and all of that. My challenge is to make the book better for me when
Welty describes the first steps of reading as “human, but inward...It is to me the voice of the story or poem itself” (Welty 11). Picking up from my knowledge of personification, I gained a new perspective on how books play an impact on how one thinks when reading a piece, as it describes the voice of the book as a human. Having said, this gave me the idea that books establish a personal connection between itself and the reader. Following through with the next chapter, Welty recognizes the value of the summer trips she experienced with her family. She makes an interesting analogy between her trips and reading by calling them “stories. Not only in form, but in their taking on direction, movement, development, change...each trip made its particular revelation, though I could not have found words for it” (68). Connecting this to the title of chapter two, “learning to see” when reading requires looking closely at the small details and soaking it in, in a way that one can look back upon it later. Once one starts to carefully listen and look at the fluidity and rich ingredients a book has, he/she can find their own voice, which leads into the next chapter. Reading spurs imagination which then allows one to explore their own inner being. Welty best describes her encounter of this by explaining “my imagination takes its strength and guides its direction from what
troy hairston ap lit and comp summer reading Moneyball question 3 1. Nonfiction warrants its own methodology. How did reading a book of nonfiction differ from reading fiction? Is it at all similar? Why or why not? all people are unique in their own ways, whether it's choosing what type of style
Updating our school As a potential administrator who is employed in an urban educational setting there are several organizational changes that would apply to the environment I work in. The Middle school that I am currently employed is located in the Metro area of Jackson Mississippi. The school has a total
Summary of “The History of Books” by Jason Merkoski Jason Merkoski’s chapter covers the evolution of mankind’s means of communication and sharing information. The structure is simple and
In the being of the book he begins talking about what drives men, he stated that there is no truer statement “men are simple” basically men are driven by who
A story of minimalist detail, an inconceivable true end, a story without a solution, these are the principles of Raymond Carver’s short story “Little Things”. Carver’s short story throws a reader within a feud between man, woman, and a baby. His style of writing in this tale leaves a lot of questions on
The final important concept is "Proffesor X" who the author uses cynically to convey ideas to the reader. He brings up points from
The author, Eric Velasquez, is telling the dialogue in this story to the readers throughout the book and the readers get to know him and be with him in those moments. For instance, Velasquez explains his journey to the Metropolitan Museum with his grandma and how he couldn’t believe his eyes when seeing a portrait of a man of African descent at the museum. Velasquez and his readers get to be
How did Dante thought to express this imaginary reality, in such a concrete appearance? It should be added - before giving an answer to this question - that the main purpose of the author was not necessarily to create a work of art, which the audience would simply admire. He wanted to provide first and foremost a teaching tool, to make us - reading his book - to think of ourselves and maybe to place ourselves exactly where we think we deserve.
The book permeates the ideals of his own rule with the form of the dialogue