Sunday, February 22, 2009
I feel writing does have the power to enact social change. When i was reading June Jordans poem, it really made me want to change, so i think it would motivate other people to want to change their ways also. It depends on the person i don't think the whole world would have a social change from reading this, but many people would take it into consideration and try to change at least. It talked about how badly people were treated in detail. They made it seem like they didn't care who died or what happened. People wouldn't really take a writing that serious. A bible on the other hand people take very seriously and can make a dramatic social change from it. Like i said it all depends on the person i think and how they view whats being read. Every person is different and has different thoughts on everything. If you want a Writing to motivate someone make it memorable and ask the question to yourself "does this motivate me to change?" because most likely if it does it will motivate other people.
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Nicole, I like the way you consider how a writer who hopes to enact change through her work might ask herself how she might react if she were the reader of her own work. Are there limits to the ways in which we can self assess our writing? How strongly might individual bias work against this kind of a process?
ReplyDeleteI would have liked for you to go a bit further in your description of the ways in which Jordan's poem affected you as reader. In the future, consider how you might be more specific in supporting the claims you make about an author's work. I also wanted to know more about what kinds of views you think affect a person's reading.