“‘Prince of Darkness’ sums up Amis’ idea that reading and writing would not aid in stopping the Columbine shooters. Because we live in an era where literature is no longer a main source of entertainment, the books and stories that we produce almost have no impact on anybody. “We live in the Information Age and all the information is telling that whatever we have done, whatever we are doing, and whatever we plan to do will never have any lasting significance” (Miller 428). In contrast, just as we expected, Miller offers up an opposite theme in the section “Following the Word”. Here, he retells the story of McCandless who one day vanished into the snowy mountains of Alaska. He is so affected by what he reads that it actually ends up killing him. Miller quotes “McCandless stands as evidence that there continue to be real readers who invest the activities of reading and writing with great significance” Miller (428). Richard Miller is obviouscontrasting two completely different views in “Prince of Darkness” and “Following the Word”. However, it is expected that he do add conflicting ideas to create somewhat of an argument.”
Describe the use of quotes from the excerpt of one of your classmates.
In this paragraph the author uses the quotes as a supporting detail to his/her point. The author opens up his argument that reading and writing have no impact and then, contrastly, the other point that reading and writing have significant effect on others. after introducing the argument, the author uses the quote as a support to this argument. These quotes show instances where the arguments apply. The author uses the entire sentence quoted directly rather than paraphrasing at all.
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