writer and a mother‚ Francine Prose is disappointed by the quality of books American high school students are required to read. Prose reveals that high school students are not learning much from reading the books assigned by their teachers‚ neither are they enjoying those books. She shares her thoughts to educators‚ students‚ and parents about high school’s reading and why most teenagers disdain reading‚ in her essay “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”. Francine Prose believes that reading
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In Francine Prose’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read: How American High School Students Learn to Loathe Literature”‚ the author is trying to explain why high school students are not asked to read more quality pieces of literature now a days. In my opinion I agree with Prose because I think the texts we read in high school are not challenging and not a lot of students enjoy the readings because they cannot relate. Prose uses the rhetorical strategy of degrading the books high school students
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December 8‚ 2014 “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” Analysis In “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read‚” Francine Prose argued that high school students are beginning to hate reading even more than before because they aren’t taught correctly how to understand more complicated texts. She blames the education system for requiring students to read “middlebrow entertainments.” Francine Prose gives many examples that go to support her argument‚ that students despise literature because they don’t understand it and
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and enriches the reader in more intangible ways. In its simplest form‚ literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. However‚ after exploring the ideas and works of authors such as Thomas de Quincey‚ Vladimir Nabokov‚ and Francine Prose‚ I have come to a conclusion that literature is definitely more than that. It must be. Reading their great works gives us a vivid image of what literature‚ writing‚ and reading is. The works of these three authors‚ when explored chronologically
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Francine Prose‚ the author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”‚ develops her stance that present day literature is stunting student’s abilities when it comes to reading. Prose develops credibility on the subject as she is a mother of two sons in school and an active reader. Research has been done to support her claims as she supplies irrefutable evidence as tp why reading in school has declined. Overall‚ I agree with Prose’s point of view that literary standards are falling due to the fact
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Francine Prose explicitly shows her passion in her writing of “ I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”. She states her point that students today fail to get the most out of literature that they are required to read in school clearly. This statement is not false‚ most students are uninterested in the texts that teachers assign and make the decision to not engage entirely when reading. Despite these students not engaging‚ they still are capable of understanding certain aspects of the text. The fact
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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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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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