How To Watch Your Brother Die By Michael Lassell
Knowledge
This semester, I learned abundance amount of information that I did not know before and I took each and every new knowledge into heart. I learn about parallelism, misplaced modifier, PIE, commas, i.e./e.g., entry points/ strategies, active vs. passive verbs, and not using ‘you’ in academic writing and more but what stood out to me the most was PIE. Every topic I learned in this class will be in use toward my major but mostly in future papers. This semester, I learned point illustration explanation (PIE) in my writing skills which will be valuable in my future college papers.
The topic that stood to me the most was point illustration explanation (PIE). PIE makes the reader understand one’s purpose better. When using PIE, the …show more content…
When writing this paper, I learned how to observe the types of strategy the author uses by providing the evidence (quotes) from the text and this is valuable because when a person is writing a paper stating their point, that person has to prove that point. One can’t just state their point and expect the reader to agree with them. For instance, in “How to Watch Your Brother Die” the author uses vivid imagery; the quotes he uses to invite the reader in were: “Remember the time he was jealous and opened your eyebrow with sharp stick” (Lassell 479). “Feel the lover’s hand on your arm restraining you. See in the guard’s eye how much a man can hate another man” (Lassell 480). “Stand beside a casket covered in flowers, white flowers. Say ‘Thank you for coming,’ to each of several hundred men who file past in tears, some of them holding hands” (Lassell 481). In “How to Watch Your Brother Die”, Lassell uses vivid imagery. His imagery invites readers go threw his journey with him, the narrator takes the reader with him in the past when his brother “broke his skin” causing him to bleed to watching him be buried, with his brother’s gay friends being at the funeral for
This semester, I learned abundance amount of information that I did not know before and I took each and every new knowledge into heart. I learn about parallelism, misplaced modifier, PIE, commas, i.e./e.g., entry points/ strategies, active vs. passive verbs, and not using ‘you’ in academic writing and more but what stood out to me the most was PIE. Every topic I learned in this class will be in use toward my major but mostly in future papers. This semester, I learned point illustration explanation (PIE) in my writing skills which will be valuable in my future college papers.
The topic that stood to me the most was point illustration explanation (PIE). PIE makes the reader understand one’s purpose better. When using PIE, the …show more content…
When writing this paper, I learned how to observe the types of strategy the author uses by providing the evidence (quotes) from the text and this is valuable because when a person is writing a paper stating their point, that person has to prove that point. One can’t just state their point and expect the reader to agree with them. For instance, in “How to Watch Your Brother Die” the author uses vivid imagery; the quotes he uses to invite the reader in were: “Remember the time he was jealous and opened your eyebrow with sharp stick” (Lassell 479). “Feel the lover’s hand on your arm restraining you. See in the guard’s eye how much a man can hate another man” (Lassell 480). “Stand beside a casket covered in flowers, white flowers. Say ‘Thank you for coming,’ to each of several hundred men who file past in tears, some of them holding hands” (Lassell 481). In “How to Watch Your Brother Die”, Lassell uses vivid imagery. His imagery invites readers go threw his journey with him, the narrator takes the reader with him in the past when his brother “broke his skin” causing him to bleed to watching him be buried, with his brother’s gay friends being at the funeral for