tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425514987715337437.post3688039823557272490..comments2024-03-26T22:47:45.276-07:00Comments on Intro to Critical Reading: Believe in NothingAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425514987715337437.post-12529950359370521922011-01-23T16:49:38.463-08:002011-01-23T16:49:38.463-08:00I think you did a good job at explaining the Earth...I think you did a good job at explaining the Earthseed verse. Your writing is clear and understandable which gets your points across well. Your paragraph starting with "Although I agree with Lauren's statement" could use some elaboration though. I partly agree with you that Lauren may not fully live by her words but we also have to remember that she is still a juvenile, so she can't really just get up and leave and know that she will be able to make it out there on her own. I think you should discuss how she has been taking initiative to read and learn to survive off the land. But you can also discuss how she doesn't share her thoughts openly with people which is contributing to the aspect of doing "nothing", that if she would share her thoughts maybe she would have some followers and be able to create a better action plan.Brittany Shamlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10883222416608895658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425514987715337437.post-37367900984028056042011-01-23T10:39:19.260-08:002011-01-23T10:39:19.260-08:00Applying this verse to the fall of Robledo is a pe...Applying this verse to the fall of Robledo is a perfectly good idea. What I'd have liked to see, initially, is more of an attempt to think through whether Lauren's concern is with her own useless beliefs, or the useless beliefs of the town, or whether it's both, or neither.<br /><br />To clarify that a little: I'm not at all clear that, in Robledo, belief does not initiate and guide action. The arguments between her father and Cory help get into this issue: her father's particular variety of muscular, masculine Christianity does a great deal to shape the community as a whole. That doesn't mean that it was correctly shaped, from either your point of view or from Lauren's.<br /><br />So there are a range of questions to be asked. Which beliefs are serious (that is, guide and shape action) and which are false, or unserious? Which beliefs lead to effective or correct action? Is Lauren criticizing herself, some part of the community, or something else in this verse?<br /><br />I think your fundamental approach is fine - but I think you need to approach Lauren's views of herself and others a little more clearly, and I don't think you've thought through the beliefs of other people (especially of her father) as thoroughly as you might.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.com