of trouble and hardship. Anyone can act calm when they’re doing nothing and everything’s all hunky dory. But only a good person can remain just as calm and positive in times of crisis and stress. “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller and After by Francine Prose can support that this quote is indeed true in all aspects. With this in mind‚ “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller clearly reflects Martin Luther King Jr.’s ideas. The protagonist in this play‚ John Proctor‚ won’t give in to the courts demands because
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October 20‚ 2013 How to Solve the Reading Crisis in our Schools vs. I Know Why the Caged Bird cannot Read Both articles talk about the reading crisis in our school today. In Francine Prose’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird cannot Read” she states that a lot of our kids in school today are not interested in literature because the books are outdated and talk in a way that students can understand. However the other article states that the problem is more at the elementary level. It states there are three
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school’s academic standards are low requiring students no to think to a certain complexity like they’re supposed to. In the article “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” by Francine Prose‚ she states “much has been made of the lemming like fervor with which our universities have rushed to sacrifice complexity for diversity.” Francine thinks that the work students are doing on books in class limits student’s abilities do to the simplicity of the work standards. Next‚ with these low standards the education
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to prepare students for their future. Grant is scaring the students into staying on the right track to make sure that they have a better future than Jefferson. In Francine Prose’s essay she adds “[g]reat novels can help us master the all-too-rare skill of tolerating-of being able to hold in mind-ambiguity and contradiction” (B). Prose is trying to say that novels teach lessons that aren’t taught anywhere
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that inclining them to do things that are not out of their own will. In Francine Prose’s essay‚ “Voting Democracy off the Island‚” she argues morality is affected by what is outside‚ and in James Harold’s essay The Sopranos‚ argues that morality is affected by our own perspective. Morality in Relation to Freedom is true because their are multiple perspectives that can be taken‚ everyone sees them in different ways. Francine Prose in his article claims that Reality Television affect the values and views
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themes that they deem essential to put across to their readers. Francine Prose‚ the author of the excerpt I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read‚ is just by being skeptical of using literary works to teach values because of the way many English classes target the values of the author rather than the literary work itself. By using the two examples of the novels Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Prose expands her argument by proving to the reader that many English
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Francine Prose’s‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read‚ proves many points about literature and the effect it has on students. I agree with Prose in such a sense that I believe students should read literature‚ not to get a better understanding of the “behind-the-scenes” of the story‚ or because it was assigned to them‚ but because they want to read it and that they will actually read the story thoroughly‚ understand it‚ and apply it to themselves and their life. I have taken English classes where
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have the ability to know the characters and situations are fictional‚ but we tend to relate certain roles of characters with the outside world‚ as the Authors James Harold and Susan Douglas‚ explain in their articles. In the article written by Francine Prose she reveals that with reality TV‚ the viewer is not able to distinguish what is real and what is fictional‚ ultimately the viewer believes everything they see on reality TV as being true in the outside world. Reality based television and
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This is discussed in Francine Prose essay‚ “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read.” Prose explains how not only is education important and that we have good teachers to teach but also that the teachers are teaching good material. Prose says in her essay‚ “... I find myself‚ each September‚ increasingly appalled by the dismal list of texts that my sons are doomed to waste a school year reading.” ( Prose‚ 1). In this quote Prose very clear passion for proper education is shown. Prose helps to state the
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study. In Francine Prose’s essay on education‚ I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read she inaccurately claims that the importance our teachers set upon those values squanders any appreciation built for the quality of an author’s diction and syntax. In english‚ much more than any other class‚ students are given invaluable opportunities to not only go over an author’s word choice‚ but to actually use their work as a way to build on their own values. In my eighth grade english class
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