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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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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There is a link between what individuals learn and how they conduct themselves. Plato and Tolstoy; although they are thousands of years apart both had the notion that art is able to corrupt minds‚ but the question at hand is whether or not their theory is still relevant. Pop culture seems to have corrupted the minds of individuals today because it makes its audience feel that engaging in deviant behavior is morally acceptable. Being that the artists convey their visions through their work‚ and the
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In “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read” Francine Prose confronts this plummeting interest in literature among teenagers. The United States has been afflicted with this disinterest for some time—young students are instilled with passion for math and science yet care little for English and literature. Attempting to explain this disparity‚ Prose argues that mediocre literature options and shoddy teaching methods leave students without any connection to the material they read. Unfortunately‚ while
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“Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl” is a real diary of a teenager girl. The diary begins after Anne’s 13th birthday and she and her family are forced to hiding in the secret annex. Quote which supports my argument is according to Francine Prose Anne Frank is a good writer because of Anne Frank vivid description. The “Anne Frank: Diary of a Young girl” is overwhelm the adult imagination because how astonishing that a teenager could have written so intelligently. Some contrasting
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active in his or her society and shows how the different types of education affect different types of societies. In “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”‚ the author‚ Francine Prose‚ explains how the lists of books given by schools to students are loathed‚ “numbing sameness‚ unaffected by geography‚ region‚ or community size” (Prose‚ p. 91) and don’t teach the students anything. Books and literature read in school should be something that student’s enjoy enough to elaborate on them by themselves and
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