Summary Of David Brooks The Small Happy Life
“The Small, Happy Life” by David Brooks Response David Brooks sent out a request for his readers to send in their purpose in life and how they found it (Brooks). The thesis of this piece is, “In fact, a surprising number of people found their purpose by going the other way, by pursuing the small, happy life” (Brooks). To support his topic sentence, Brooks wrote out different examples of people in the past who had found their way of life (Brooks). His views are effective in that he provides three perfect examples of people the “simple life” worked for, but what about the people it didn’t? His position in this piece is one sided. It only includes the successful situations of people, the candidates that pertain to his argument, who were able