Education Questions (I Know Why The Caged Bird Cant Read)

1. Prose is an award winning critique and a mother of two sons. Those roles combined with her familiarity with a variety of books gives her the credibility she needs in order to be taken seriously in this essay.
2. SKIP
3. Prose finds that it's useless to throw random symbolism and analyzations at students and trying to stuff their brains with them. That way of teaching literature makes the students loathe reading. Students would be able to enjoy reading more if they weren't forced to analyze every metaphor and symbolic allusion and throwing each scene into a juxtaposition to compare and find any motifs in the book. (Honestly, that last part is practically sophomore year in English...)
4. Prose appeals to logos by using examples of literature, analyzing and comparing them to help support her thesis.
5. In a way, it appears she does assume the audience is familiar with some of the novels, especially novels like Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, where she doesn't even explain the plot of the book so much as to give a quote that she wanted to analyze from it. Now, the idea that she assumes that the audience would be familiar with the novels causes her essay to lose its effect. The audience doesn't know what the speaker is talking about and therefore doesn't understand the point she is trying to make.
6. Ew no. I could never agree with that. That is obviously a biased opinion and that's her thought, not mine. She's trashing another woman's work recklessly without a legitimate reason as to why. It's an irritating remark and would've been better left out since that piece of text killed her credibility.
7. Isn't it to get us thinking about everything she was talking about in the essay, to get us processing the information she had just exposed us to in order to understand her stance better and the essay better?
8. I think it would have. Having other people's thoughts and opinions on the matter rather than just stating her own would've made her argument more plausible. At least, it would've been more credible to me since it's not just a biased opinion, but also includes other people's opinions that helps support her thoughts.
9. Can I honestly say same as number three? The teachers tend to be lazy in their teachings and lack in giving the students an appreciation for literature. Not only that, students are taught to value the background rather than the quality of the writing itself. Teachers also have the tendency to characterize dead authors and poets as "perfect" which kind of draws this line between their work and the amount of criticism students are allowed to give. With all of these factors combined, the teachers end up narrowing the students' literary experience and cause them to lose interest in reading and literature.
10. It was more of recommendations rather than solutions. The entirety of her essay consisted of her own thoughts and her own opinions, which weakened her argument drastically in my eyes. It was an interesting read, considering she did not hold her thoughts back, but there were places where she probably should've thought more...cautiously. Credibility can be hard to gain, but easy to lose. Her data consisted of commentary, not facts or statistics.