Response To Mr. Harvey

Mr. Harvey gets brought up in the beginning of the Obituary story. He is Lovey's English teacher, who teaches his students like scum at times. Mr. Harvey is trying to teach his student's how to speak perfect English, but all of the student's struggle when it comes to this. Mr. Harvey asks each student to stand up and say what they want to be when they are older all in Standard English. When it comes to Lovey's turn she hesitates, then says "My name Lovey. When I grow up pretty soon, I going be what I like be and nobody better say nothing about it or I kill um." This made Mr. Harvey angry. He says, " OH REALLY, not the way you talk. You see, that was terrible. All of you were terrible and we will have to practice and practice our Standard English until we are perfect little Americans..." Mr. Harvey has a good heart but is too harsh to his students. He is trying to help his students out so they live a better future, but I believe that him being disrespectful towards his students might make it so they don't care for what he has to say. I feel that Mr. Harvey expects his students to be perfect at speaking Standard English, but it takes time, especially when someone has grown up in a different place where they learned to speak the language they are from. Mr. Harvey should help his students out without being rude to them and make them feel comfortable when speaking Standard English.

ch 48

Chapter 48 of Rules For Writers is based on evaluating arguments. Generalizing is something both writers and thinkers do constantly. For example: "After numerous bad experiences with an airline, we decide to book future flights with a competitor." From an order of facts, we put together conclusions. Conclusions must be sufficient, representative, and relevant to be highly portable. An effective means of arguing a point are analogies. A false analogy is when an analogy is clearly off base. For example: "If we put humans on the moon, we should be able to find a cure for the common cold." Writers are known to oversimplify cause-and-effect because it is so complex. Arguments are sometimes based on assumptions, because writers can't always prove the conceivable claims the argument is based on.
I will use what I have learned and read in this chapter in my future writing assignments. I'll make sure to not just discuss my views of something, but others views points too and to make reasonable argumentative evaluations on whats being written.

Essay 2 Dialogue

I have a kinda similar relationship with my father, the same way Sarah Vowell and her father do. In the story "Shooting Dad," Sarah and her father don't share hardly anything in common. They usually disagree on most things and have separate opinions, the only one thing they agree on is the constitution. Sarah doesn't seem to understand her fathers passion for guns. I am the same way with my father though. For me things didn't start off right away. When I was younger I would always do everything with my father. We would go hiking and go to different rivers for him to look for arrowheads, which is like Sarah's fathers gun to him. I was always really into doing it, I thought of it as spending time with my father. It was around the time that my brother was born that we stopped going on the hikes and going to the rivers. I don't know what it was, I think it was the fact that I was getting older and growing out of my tom boy phase. Around that time my father got really into politics, he would always try to talk to me about them or try to make me watch the news, and of course I never paid attention. To me it was a waste of time, but to my father it's like the most important thing. He always says to me, "Don't you wanna know what's going on in the world."