I have had struggles that have affected me profoundly. I believe Malcolm X fight with politics gave him a voice that we still hear today, not to say Benjamin Franklin did not have a lasting impression in the world, however I conceive that today’s generation could relate to Malcolm X story on a deeper understanding. Growing up and as well as an adult I also learn by reading. I gain my knowledge through reliable resources that will help me understand what I am trying to learn. In conclusion, both Benjamin Franklin and Malcolm X did not let life get in the way of knowledge.
Reading Umberto Eco’s “Role of the Reader” in college, Ricky states that, “The reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious and engaged reader.” Although there are critics who believe there is a right and a wrong way to ready books, Moody says, “I believe there is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.” Part 2. Response I really enjoyed reading this article about how the author really has a passion and understanding for reading. This is probably the most in depth piece of writing I have read about the philosophy of reading. Ricky Moody uses very educated language and supports his claims with quotes from well-known people, one being Nietzsche. He ends his essay with a strong quote that uses personification, “I believe in the freedom to see literature, history, truth unfolding ahead of me like a book whose spine has just now been cracked.” With this quote said, it is very apparent that the author has a passion for reading.
Reading books change their mind and maybe as well as their lives. The value of literacy does not only play a role on kids but also on adults. After surviving from the holocaust, it is hard and hurt for Wiesel to recall the memory of what he and others had suffered but he chose to write the history down to let it remembered. He said[,] “I was duty-bound to give meaning to my survival, to justify each moment of my life. I knew the story had to be told.
Faber’s Knowledge Books are something everyone takes advantage of, nobody knows how important they are until they’re gone. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 Montag goes to Faber to seek advice about the books. He finds out Faber’s beliefs in book’s purpose, quality, and the leisure of people. Faber also believes that fear of the truth in books drove people away, and now without the books there is only chaos. When Faber told Montag what the purpose of books were, he spoke, “Books are a receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget,” so without them everything would slowly be forgotten (83).
According to New York Times this “a book matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam, but to anyone interested in the craft of writing” this statement alone says this book fits the qualification of universality of significance to all humanity and all cultures. It is not a book written to where only one group of people would enjoy but a variety of people. The last thing is the inexhaustibility of this novel or the fact that when you reread, you discover something new. I think that each time a reader read this novel they would come across a new idea or meaning. It would take multiple readings to discover even the main idea of this novel.
He realized that what were going to save him were the heavy things that he was carrying; weapons and machinery. Naturalism is evident in the short story when the men tried to hide their natural human emotions such as fear. The men found themselves acting this way because the symbolism in the things they are carrying show their true personalities. They knew that the only way they could survive was to act in ways that were not according to human nature. “As a fiction writer, I do not write just about the world we live in, but I also write about the world we ought to live in, and could, which is a world of imagination”, by Tim O’Brien, author of the short story, “The Things They Carried.” Tim O’Brien lived a normal childhood before he went into the Vietnam War.
Author O’Brian also confuses the reader by writing his novel as if everything that was told took place in the real world. For example, just by saying “this is true” (64) doesn’t always make it true. O’Brian leaves it up to the reader to distinct what they see the story as: reality or fiction. It is said that “a true war story… makes the stomach believe” (74). Author and character O’Brian tell the story in such a way to make it believable that the two different people are really the same person.
Ryan Wong 8/21/12 APLAC “All literature is protest.”-Richard Wright. Through this quote Richard is saying that all writing usually conveys a purpose, to persuade, to explain or even to call people to action. In a fictitious novel the purpose is most likely conveyed as a constant moral, or thesis throughout the story. In a review he wrote for the New Masses magazine called “Between laughter and tears”, Wright criticizes Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Richard claims that there is no central idea or theme to Hurston’s book, thereby giving it no persuasive, explanatory or call to action-like traits.
The boys had to choose follow Ralph and be rescued, follow Jack and not starve, or follow Piggy and loose all popularity. Golding used his experiences in WWII in his novel Lord of The Flies. Of his WW II experiences, he used the leadership of Hitler to represent Jacks way of leading the boys. Golding uses the leadership styles of the united states leader to represent how ralph leads the boys. Golding does not use a leader to represent Piggy, When Golding created the book he made it so that Piggy was an outcast but he knew what was right.
It began when Mrs. Auld began to teach him to read and Mr. Auld forbade her from doing that. Douglass knew right away that if this were something important enough to illicit that response from Mr. Auld that it was something that he needed to have. He began observing people and looking for any opportunity to learn. This required patience