Essay: Who Determines the Value of Writing? Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris is an essay about an inexperience teacher, Mr. Sedaris, who is asked to teach a college writing workshop class. Mr. Sedirs’s class consists of nine students who end up complaining that they did not learned anything in his class, as a result a student transfers to another class. At the end of the story the transfer student returns and decides to read a story, “I Deserve Another Chance”(Sedaris 64). After she reads this story Mr. Sedaris criticizes her story by stating that it has no ending, in response the girl says, “Who are you?
He is one of the many contributors who wrote fine essays in 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction in response to the growing attention to genre fiction in schools and universities. This article was written for the general public. The article discusses male and female authors of many different mystery detective novels depicts female protagonists who play detective roles. Rosenblum talks about how literary critics tend to regard detective fiction as a genre supportive of patriarchy, even when women wrote that type of fiction. They speak about how authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Marcia Muller were able to develop female detection and how it’s evolved from the late 1800s up to modern day.
Jim Keenan English 101 It Puts The Lotion In The Basket As most kids gradually start to read more and more as they mature, I was one of the few who didn't learn to enjoy reading until senior year of highschool. The teachings of Tom Alessandri were the sole cause of my newfound appreciation for literature. All it takes is the inspiration of one individual to turn someone onto reading and writing. Tom Alessandri was the last highschool English teacher I had, taking his Science Fiction & Horror Literature class. While many people would be discouraged by the title of the class alone, I was intrigued and immediately signed up.
They put little things into their writing, such as: “to the little people” or “to the hard working mums” on the dedication pages, severely empathizing with the parents on the hardships of child raising, they used guilt trips to make the mothers feel bad for “neglecting their children,” and even telling the parents they “tested the books on their own children,” all to convince the parents to buy more of their products! Did these strategies earn the women the commercial profit they desired? According to the article, not all of them did. The author points out that empathizing and actually teaching the parents and children was a much better way to sell more books. However, those who used the “guilt trip” ploy (Making the parents feel guilty for neglectful parenting,) did not sell many products.
Their mother considered them to be one person because they were so much alike and called them “HannahAnna.” Hannah and Anna start to realize they are not one person, but two separate people. With all the noises and strange occurrences you start to try and figure out is someone or something trying to separate them and why. While reading The Girl Behind the Glass by Jane Kelley, readers get involved with trying to figure out who is this ghost and why is this happening. Readers also are trying to gain an understanding about what families experience when life doesn't go the way they have planned. I would suggest this book to read as it is a book that always keeps readers wondering and interested because there are surprises in every chapter.
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf October 3, 2011 · by Joanna Buffum · in Feminism, Nonfiction, TIME “For it is a perennial puzzle why no woman wrote a word of that extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or sonnet.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own A Room of One’s Own is an essay Virginia Woolf originally gave as a series of lectures at two small women’s colleges at Cambridge University, where she was asked to come and speak about “women and fiction.” It’s likely the students expected a typical speech about aspiring to the rare successes of Jane Austen or Emily Bronte, but that’s not what Woolf decided to discuss. Through Virginia Woolf’s famously eloquent stream of consciousness, the reader follows her brutal realization that the patriarchal laws governing her world have repeatedly deprived her and her predecessors of the resources necessary for producing works of art. Woolf fixates on Shakespeare as the ideal male author, and imagines the possibility that he had an unknown sister who was his intellectual and creative equal. Woolf does some research in the British Museum library to give this fictional “Judith Shakespeare” some personality and to see if she would have had a chance to succeed as a playwright. After finding scarce historical accounts of women from the Elizabethan era, she turns to literary descriptions of women in poetry and plays to research more about their day-to-day conditions and lifestyle.
Thomas Barrett Mr. Nichols English 101 18 September 2013 Reading Analysis: Mother Tongue – Amy Tan You may be wondering how I chose a story with a name like “Mother Tongue”, and to be completely honest, I chose this story by allowing my girlfriend to open my book at a random page, in order for me to have a story that I “care” about. The story follows the dramatic, non-stereotypical life of Amy Tan as a young adult. I mention the “non stereotypical” subject, because she has made it a point in this short story to inform us of her struggle finding her educational path as a young adult. As a young Asian-American, she was pressured by her school to follow a path based in math, but throughout the years, it was apparent to her that she was better suited for a major in English. The bulk of the story explains her experience with different writing styles after her decision to focus everything on English.
n the article “Mother Tongue”, Amy tan emphasizes the idea that we all speak different languages unconsciously and that we are categorized by the way we speak. The author is a fictional writer who is “fascinated by language in daily life” and uses language as a daily part of her work as a writer. In paragraphs 2 and 3 she observes experiences that made her realized the different types of "Englishes" she uses. The first time she became aware of this was when giving a talk about her book, The Joy Club, she saw her mother in the audience and she realized that she had been using academic language learned from books, a language she had never used with her mother. The second time she noticed one of her “Englishes” was when walking with her mother and husband, she said “not waste money that way” which for her is an intimate language used only by her family.
In the article “reforming school funding” by Kathy Koch, the author briefly portrays the experience of a student from a wealthy school, Lauren. As Lauren visits the poverty-stricken inner city school of Harper High School, Lauren states, “Those Harper students can learn all they want from a chemistry book, but unless they see the experiments done, they won't understand it.” Along with the question of funding of schools, the question of who is responsible for the under graduation of these students; comes in to play. So who is responsible for the failing of these students? The next issue of
Wilson 1 Megan Wilson Professor Beal English 102 October 4, 2011 A Study on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: and How Her Life Reflects on the Short Story “Clothes” The very talented author and poet, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni wrote a collection of short stories called Arranged Marriage. This is just one of her many award winning works. Although, in the beginning she was not seeking to become a writer, she came here from India to get an education and stayed. She still finds herself torn between two cultures and Chitra says, “In my writing it comes up many times because I’m aware of other people whose entry into America was even more diasporic than mine. And I write about them too; their stories are important to me.” (qtd in Seschachari).