Due Friday: Editorial Analysis #1: Find an editorial (not a news story). Write a one paragraph summary, which includes the source information ("Title," Source, Author) and the author's purpose. Below the summary, restate the author's position and list three reasons in support of that position. Label each of the three reasons as ethos, pathos, or logos. Then state the opposite of the author's position and three counterarguments. Label each of these arguments as ethos, pathos, or logos. Typed. Include a copy of the article or a link to the article.
Due Friday: "The Allegory of the Cave," by Plato (handout - don't leave class without one)
- A Super Answer: In the comments, feel free to post your thoughts about the effect of Alexie switching to 3rd person in "Superman and Me."
- Emerson: Before we can even begin to talk, I need to figure out ...
- Emerson's two main points
- Structure in Emerson
- Is this justice?
Alexie switched to third person in "Superman and Me" because it helps to dull his pain from his childhood when he needs to speak about it. It also makes him seem like he isn't flaunting his intelligence as a Indian child, but rather trying to downplay it.
ReplyDeleteI wrote earlier that Alexie's use of a 3rd person perspective makes the reader take a step back, showing just how society, outside of the reservation and within the reservation itself, sees him and judges him: "If he'd been anything but an Indian boy living on the reservation, he might have been called a prodigy. But he is an Indian boy living on the reservation and is simply an oddity" (Alexie 216).
ReplyDeleteHmmm ... two different answers. Which one is right? Is either one right? Can they both be right?
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