No intro needed. No following of the system here. No 5 paragraph essay, just the important parts and an outro. A way I learned from this course. Here goes...
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep." Yup, Salman Rushdie said that. Salman Rushdie said it to say that writer's(in this case poets) have the power to stir up the world. They do this by expressing in writing what everybody else is afraid to say or bring forth what people ignore. The way I got this from the quote is the way that Rushdie says it, with a confident tone and the way he uses a type of diction which can be associated with encouragement to do so. I also feel as if though the mood associated with this is one of rebellion in the air because he s clearly saying that writers,who have the power, should do those things and wake the people up from their ignorant states. He is also basically saying that these writers are self-reliant because they write what they truly feel matters, which in "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is something that gets seen a lot. So yeah believe in what you want to and preach it.
"Get to class on time, do your homework, stay out of trouble, get good grades, and make the adults proud of you." This is actually relevant because it shows the juxtaposition of this quote and Rushdie's. This goes with the point of self-reliance in how the writers are seen as self-reliant and the students are not able to be self-reliant. The students are not self-reliant because it shows that we cannot do what we want to do when in order to be self-reliant, one must pursue and do what they want and not try to please others all the time. Clearly students can't be self-reliant because all we're trained to do is what the quote states.
To close I'll just say that I've learned a lot in this course not just how to write or "English better", no I've learned to think in a different way. For example, I now actually think about anything on a deeper level because by reading stories such as "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury, which made me really question things. It made me question things such as what would have happened had I not been late to 1st period and had gone earlier, would I be alive or gotten caught in the rush hour. I have also learned a bit of politics such as what logical fallacies are used in speech, how to analyze what is truly meant and how to understand others views. Well, all I can say is that I have learned a lot of new, cool things I didn't think I would learn and I'm happy to have learned them because I know that this new knowledge I have gained can ACTUALLY be useful later on in life. So, thank you Dr. Preston for opening this window for me.( I think that I will read your book over break because if you teach this way then your writing insight must be equally as awesome.)
*sorry thought I had posted this earlier
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep." Yup, Salman Rushdie said that. Salman Rushdie said it to say that writer's(in this case poets) have the power to stir up the world. They do this by expressing in writing what everybody else is afraid to say or bring forth what people ignore. The way I got this from the quote is the way that Rushdie says it, with a confident tone and the way he uses a type of diction which can be associated with encouragement to do so. I also feel as if though the mood associated with this is one of rebellion in the air because he s clearly saying that writers,who have the power, should do those things and wake the people up from their ignorant states. He is also basically saying that these writers are self-reliant because they write what they truly feel matters, which in "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson is something that gets seen a lot. So yeah believe in what you want to and preach it.
"Get to class on time, do your homework, stay out of trouble, get good grades, and make the adults proud of you." This is actually relevant because it shows the juxtaposition of this quote and Rushdie's. This goes with the point of self-reliance in how the writers are seen as self-reliant and the students are not able to be self-reliant. The students are not self-reliant because it shows that we cannot do what we want to do when in order to be self-reliant, one must pursue and do what they want and not try to please others all the time. Clearly students can't be self-reliant because all we're trained to do is what the quote states.
To close I'll just say that I've learned a lot in this course not just how to write or "English better", no I've learned to think in a different way. For example, I now actually think about anything on a deeper level because by reading stories such as "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury, which made me really question things. It made me question things such as what would have happened had I not been late to 1st period and had gone earlier, would I be alive or gotten caught in the rush hour. I have also learned a bit of politics such as what logical fallacies are used in speech, how to analyze what is truly meant and how to understand others views. Well, all I can say is that I have learned a lot of new, cool things I didn't think I would learn and I'm happy to have learned them because I know that this new knowledge I have gained can ACTUALLY be useful later on in life. So, thank you Dr. Preston for opening this window for me.( I think that I will read your book over break because if you teach this way then your writing insight must be equally as awesome.)
*sorry thought I had posted this earlier
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