In Friedman’s essay, each paragraph explains what a great teacher Ms. Hattie M. Steinberg was. Her journalism class was the only class he ever needed to take. His recollection of her teaching style and how it contributed to journalism is seen throughout the essay. Each paragraph reinforces the impact Ms. Steinberg had as a journalism teacher and how her teaching style created a strong foundation for Friedman. Friedman’s repetition of Ms. Steinberg’s knowledge in journalism and how it shaped his own career is seen throughout.
In Gloria Naylor’s essay, the repletion was seen with the comparison of how one word could have different meanings. Each paragraph was related to the context of one simple word. Throughout Gloria Naylor’s essay a transformation of this one simple word was seen through different situations. It is not just the repetition of the word she used in her essay, but how the social settings change the word in everyday situation. In her essay the repetition of the word show how a word itself is just a word, it is how we use the word that matters.
The essays that Thomas L. Friedmans and Gloris Naylors, wrote both authors were able to find unity in there writings. Both essays clearly showed the passion the writers had for there subjects and because of that there essays were full of emotion and almost perfectly executed. The essays were great and both authors used repetition to emphasize to the readers the points that they really wanted to get across.
In Thomas L. Friedmans essay "My Favorite Teacher" he wrote about Hattie M. Steinburg. The woman who changed his life for the good, it is a great essay and you can tell he had the upmost respect for his teacher and admired her through his whole life and loved the journalism class so much because of her he persued a career in journalsim.