Advanced Composition' and Occasion-Sensitivity Further, people read for two reasons: entertainment or information. [ A writer who confuses, bores, or threatens the reader, "has lost that reader, usually for good." Earlier, Donald Murray's indispensable A Writer Teaches Writing (1968) focuses firmly on the target-audience. So writers, and now textbooks, embrace this pragmatism. Do the nation's writing classrooms, secondary and even collegiate, follow suit? Quite possibly not, which may suggest that advanced composition may often have a mandate to emphasize sensitivity to occasion as the keystone skill in real-world writing which it in fact is. My own foray into freelance writing in particular?77 articles in five years, but not without initial stumbles?taught me that real-world writing in general is varied, difficult, possible, necessary, satisfying. I now feel obligated to impart some of this perspective to my advanced writing students especially. ]
- "Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?"
- "I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? "
- "I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"
With these three sentences, she is appealing to the audience about the disparities between men and women, that there is no equality as the man said.
Sojourner Truth, (1797–1883), was born into slavery in New York State. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker.
His internal conflict maybe? I don't know who Paul is
I think it's central to the play because <span>All earthly things do not matter when it comes time to die, we leave behind our strength, beauty, etc. when we die.
It convey to the audience no to hold on into superficial such as strength and beauty and started to focus on keeping the core value that we held the most toward others.</span>
