It demands from us respect, attention, and comprehension. Therefore, we need to choose books correctly, accordingly to our age and taste. In the essay “I was a Teenage Illiterate”, by Cathleen Schine, the author shares with us her experiences with literature and reading. Shine tells us how, in spite of her graduate work, she felt stupid among her new New York friends when she discovered her knowledge of literature contained only medieval authors and books. She seemed illiterate.
(Alvarez 1997) is a very good book, in fact I read it in one day. Which was great, but then at the end it made you want more. In the beginning of the book, it seems all of Yolanda’s sisters feel betrayed and hurt that Yolanda would write a book about their lives. Even though it is labeled a fictional book, the book seems to be based off their lives. The first chapter was told by FiFi, the youngest sister.
She had never intended to write about her past, but had to do so as a college class assignment, never thinking it would be published in a book. During this assignment she realized how liberating it was to put her thoughts down on paper. It made her remember things about her childhood that she had almost forgotten (Bloom 376). These stories are aimed towards the audience of adults. “Wake-up call” is written for adolescence and young adults.
Jessica A. English 12a 12 February 2013 Literary Analysis "I can't read. I don't know how to read or write, and I'm askin you to help me…" "The First Day," written by Edward P. Jones, is a short story about a little girl, who has grown up in a poverty stricken family, and her first day of school. In the story, the girl narrates her experiences with her first day of school while concurrently revealing clues of the story's bigger picture, so to speak. By showcasing a mother's desperate yearning for a life-better than the life she has had-for her daughter, Jones reveals some of the problems that are faced in today's society. Jones expresses these dilemmas within his story through an immense selection of literary devices and techniques.
James Harper English 2100 Writing and Editing “Why I Write” In Joan Didion's"Why I Write", the author uses concrete examples and tells a story through first person narration to do exactly what she has set out to do: explain to the reader exactly why she writes. She explains early on in her essay that she is not a "thinker". She would try to analyze situations while in college but would find her mind reflecting back to tangible ideas and the images that surrounded her. Didion explains that by the time she graduated from Berkely, she knew that she was not a thinker, but an instead a writer. This did not mean that she could not explore abstract ideas, but instead that she must write down the thoughts and images she had
Ladybug got accepted to the New England School of Art and Design and decided to go to pursue her career. After reading the letter, her dad says to her, "we'll now that you got accepted, how's life? (23). Ladybug has a very unusual name and many people were curious to find out where it came from. explains that "they named me Ladybug, but they mostly called me L.B., which, through several misunderstandings early in my education, became Ellie (34)".
Upon picking my topic for this paper, I decided I wanted to do something that I had no background information on, so I chose to do my paper on Fibromyalgia(FM). A co-worker had mentioned that her daughter has this disease, so the name immediately stuck out while skimming our list of topics. This paper will discuss what it is, common symptoms, how it is diagnosed, possible cures, as well as other helpful information that I have stumbled upon in my research. What is it? After doing just a couple minutes of reading I learned that it is known as a disorder or syndrome, not a disease.
Markus Zusak uses her and her love for books to help portray the main idea of words and literature and the power they can have. When Liesel first arrived on Himmel Street she couldn’t read and was totally illiterate however Hans took the time to teach her to read and soon we find that Liesel has a real gift for writing and reading. Max says in his book ‘the word shaker’ “She knew how powerless a person could be without words” and it is from being illiterate till she was 10 that she gained this knowledge. Because of the events in her life, and her understanding of their power, she decides to use the words positively. We see this when she writes in her novel, the book thief, "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."
An In-Deep Understanding of “Mother Tongue” In the essay “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan accomplishes in three things simultaneously: she appeals the audiences emotionally by providing the pictures of the experiences between her mother and her; she shows the struggle of cultural racism that her mother and she go through without pointing out directly; and she puts some odd things into the essay and make it expressive. Amy Tan’s essay is very successful because she writes in her personal and “easy to read” style. Without the special English she uses in her writing, we may not easily understand and accept her ideas. Tan writes about that she has grown up with using different kinds of English: the English she learned in school and she uses in public, and the English she uses in speaking with her mother, which is described as the “broken” English. Moreover it comes to her sense that language is not only a communication tool but also an essential thing in enabling individuals to define their identities.
The talk was going along well enough, until Iremembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room. Andit was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her. I was saying things like, "The intersection of memory upon imagination" and "There is anaspect of my fiction that relates to thus-and-thus'--a speech filled with carefully wrought grammatical phrases, burdened, it suddenly seemed to me, with nominalized forms, past perfect tenses, conditional phrases, all the forms of standard English that I had learned in school and through books, the forms of English I did not use at home with my mother.Just last week, I was walking down the street with my mother, and I again found myself conscious of theEnglish I was using, the English I do use with her. We were talking about the price of new and usedfurniture and I heard myself saying this: "Not waste money that way."