I’m not thinking the way that I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through the long stretches of prose (p. 67).’’ It’s an agreeable statement because there are times when you are trying to concentrate on reading an article on the computer and you get distracted from what you are reading. Opening up a new hardcover book is almost impossible for me.
I can feel it.' Carr then goes on to the second paragraph, following this analogy with: “I can feel it too. Over the past few years I've had an {BLOCK PHRASE} uncomfortable sense that someone, or something has been tinkering with my brain,....I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading." [Carr then goes on to inform the reader of how immersed he would get in the text of books and articles.]
Nicholas Carr is giving voice to these concerns. This article is about one skill that he believes is being eroded, that of reading: "I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose.
I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle” (p. 67). Carr believes that if less time were spent on the Internet, one would not be experiencing such difficulties with their passion for reading, or lack thereof. Carr is of the notion that, not only is the web good for reading articles, scanning blog- posts, checking or writing e-mails, watching videos and many other cool things; he also thinks that it is efficient for doing research, which once took hours in the library.
I stopped to ponder for a bit. I had to read the quote again and re-read it one more time before I could think about what it really meant, if it had only one meaning or maybe more, if it's a metaphorical term or maybe meant to be taken literally. I then automatically thought of the story Fahrenheit 451. I was to read this novel for an assignment in Philosophy, I read the entire book in a few days, but just because I read through the book page by page did not mean I comprehended what Bradbury was saying; just as when I read this quote by Voltaire, which I had to read and re-read again to start to comprehend what it meant. After all of that I still don't know if I have a full understanding, but I have my own view on the quote, as does everyone else, which is different from mine, and one another, that to me is, Philosophy.
He explored why that would be, I told him how I feel I should make up for what I consider my father's failure, despite his every advantage. Also how I'm kind of inspired by figures in history who came from basically nothing to become the prominent historical figures we learn about today. He asked if I felt any personal responsibility and I hadn't considered it before, but I did. I told him how I feel like I should make up for some of the failures in my past, things I could have changed. I went on about this for a good twenty minutes, describing some of the things I felt I could have changed, yet didn't.
It depends on people’s situation how they utilize Google in their life. Nicholas Carr talks about his experience as a writer, and how he experienced difficulty in concentrating on reading a text for a long time, as well as the decrease in his ability to think in a creative manner. He argues that Internet is negatively affecting our capacity to think and read. In other words, it changes how our brain is developing. There are many people who argue about Google having good or bad benefits, but it seems that many people utilize Google to expand their knowledge, and find information through World Wide Web, on the other hand, it seems that Google is negatively shaping the way we are processing and interpreting information.
However, the more literature lessons I attend, the less sure I become of how I interpret books. I do not know if I always understand the book the way the author intended it, but I think that that is all right. I believe that a book can mean a variety of different things to different people, depending on their knowledge and frame of reference. Once a book (or poem or song or painting for that
Reflection on carrying out assessment task: My literature search opened up a lot of other options as each book or article also gave reference to other texts for further reading. The danger I found in my literature search was on how big the subject area was as it often developed into other topic areas, making it difficult for me to pick a specific book or article to read. This often left me wide open to unnecessary and irrelevant reading. On reflection, I now understand that approaching a topic requires a different technique from how one would tackle a whole subject. I found the use of the library catalogue really useful during the literature search task but struggled with it in identifying relevant task to draw on theoretical frameworks.
In this essay I’m going to talk about how literature has affected me, and in a small way determined who I am today, and how it has affected my views on certain subjects. Various types of literature have taught me many interesting things about the world, cultures, and most importantly, myself. Also I’ll describe my history as a reader and my plan for reading in the future. Literature has somewhat sculpted me into the person I am today. I believe that children are very easily influenced, and as a child I was exposed to literature almost every night.