Christina Boufis 'Teaching Literature At The County Jail'

Sometimes to feel one’s pain, one must put themselves in their shoes and see the world through their eyes. Personal observations or experiences can help a reader better understand an argument and sometimes help relate the writing to the readers own life. Christina Boufis and Barbara Ehrenreich both use personal observations and factual data to write their reports. In my opinion I believe the use of personal observation/or experience really helped both of these author’s in writing their reports. The use of factual information is always important when writing to convince an audience but using one’s own personal experience in the mix helps a reader relate to the story, keeps the reader interested, enriches and deepens the experience for the reader. Therefore I will write throughout this essay on how both author’s personal observation helped strengthen their writings. To start off Christina Boufis’s “Teaching Literature at the County Jail” talks about how she teaches literature in two different worlds. One being a female prison and the other being Berkerly students. Boufis uses her personal experiences to describe her
In my opinion it was very bold of her to try and see how the “other” half-lives and in doing so helped every reader either connect with or simply understand the lives of the working class. Looking back at Ehrenreich’s experiment it’s easy to say she learned a lot and definitely helped the readers relate to a different world they may or may not be in. The use of both facts and personal observation showed how Low-wage job are very demanding, often degrading with strict rules and regulations. One example she uses is how most of the places she worked had policies against the employees speaking to one another, which she thought was an attempt to keep employees from airing their dissatisfaction and attempting to be against the