Two part Response to “ The Joy and Enthusiasm of Reading” Part 1. Summary In this essay, Ricky Moody writes an essay about the joy and enthusiasm of reading. He shares all of his beliefs about reading, like wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes him. Ricky believes in books when others dislike them. Ricky choses the hardest books imaginable.
Appiah, in his Moral Disagreement essay, provides a valid answer to this question, “The point is not that we couldn’t argue our way to one position or the other on this question; it’s only to say that when we disagree, it won’t always be because one of us just doesn’t understand the value that’s at stake” (p. 666). Just because different cultures eat different things, even something you might call a pet, it means you shouldn't judge them for it. Another point that comes across in Gender, Class, and Terrorism is the understanding of religion. Kimmel states, “The journalist Nasra Hassan interviewed families of Middle Eastern suicide bombers (as well as some failed bombers themselves) and found that none of them had the standard motivations ascribed to people who commit suicide, such as depression” (p. 652). This is because these bombers weren’t depressed.
In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury emphasizes a world in which books are of little importance and forbidden. Firemen like Montag, burn books without knowing the reasoning behind it. In Bradbury's novel, education's emphasis on technology leads to a culture where people understand how things are done but never bother to wonder why things are done. Such an education discourages people from developing their creative abilities, and as the narrative points out several times, those who cannot build destroy. The result is a society where fanatical, destructive behavior, such as the firemen's book-burning, flourishes.
He decides to continue reading. He comes to the conclusion that burning books is wrong. Montag observes the society he lives in and sees that the people aren’t living life right. He remembers Clarisse and wishes that more people were like her. Instead of continuing to live like he used to, Montag believes reading books will help them live life the way Clarisse did.
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 talked to Montag about how books have “quality“. In Faber’s words, “They show pores in the face of life,” and that’s what people wanted to stay away from, because you had to think and do(83). That is exactly what people didn’t want, they just wanted to have fun and be entertained. They didn’t want to have to think for themselves. So why do it?
When reading a work, the “common” reader has already made the decision to not “collaborate” with the author’s ideas, and chooses not to leave their “mark” on the work as they overlook the opportunity to perform a deeper analysis of the main ideas. Due to the “common” reader’s inability to conceptualize the deeper meanings of certain ideas, he or she is therefore unable to comprehend all of the concepts the author intended to convey to readers. The “common” reader reads Percy’s essay "The Loss of the Creature" and extracts only the main ideas of the work, as they miss out on a “deeper” understanding of the concepts given by Percy. The “common” reader would most likely read each paragraph as a boring collection of meaningless statements, as they put strong emphasis on noting the simple ideas of a topic, instead of analyzing the main ideas and making comprehension of these concepts the main priority. Percy introduces an example that effectively allows different types of readers to be immediately distinguished based on how they choose to perceive certain
Nothing more, nothing less. But when you continue reading that book, getting to know the person, you start to see, learn, and appreciate what wasn’t there before. This passage and book sparked an idea in my own idea. It made me look at the world events around me and certain realizations hit me. In all these countries, where people are oppressing or trying to oppress people, education isn’t a priority.
Thoreau strongly uses pathos throughout his essay in ways that might not be obvious but definitely grasp the attention of anyone reading. In the text it states “I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation unless it was quite necessary.”
At the same time, he is very self-conscious about the hat, and he always mentions when he is wearing it, and he does not wear it if he is going to be around people he knows. The presence of the hat, therefore, shows the central conflict in the book, which is Holden’s need for isolation versus his need for companionship. It is also the color red and at the same time that is the same color as Allie’s and Phoebe’s hair. In a way Holden wears this hat to connect with them in a way. He never directly says the meaning of the hat other than its unusual appearance but I can interpret pretty well on what its true meaning is.