Active reading questions

Pg. 13

1. Collin Powell’s purpose for writing this was to inform readers of the struggle he had to go through to get where he is today. He achieves this by telling of the night he went to a restaurant to get a burger and Powell was told to go around back to get his food. He also portrays his struggle by telling of the college he attended and it was like Harvard to everyone where he lived.
2. Powell was trying to attract a group of people as his audience. The audience could be people that look up to him and this could be recommended to people who may have grown up in the same or similar situation as Collin Powell. This way they get a look at what could be done even in the worst of situations.
3. In this excerpt Collin Powell is a very determined and proud man. He works hard for what he wants and I believe he could never stop until he gets to there. My attitude hasn’t changed about Powell since I always thought he was a great achiever.

Pg. 19

1. Goldberg is trying to educate people on being open when writing. She says to just sit down and write don’t think of ideas because doing this your words won’t come out the same way you thought of them.
2. The audience she was reaching out to may have been beginning writers. The others that benefit from this excerpt are writers trying to express themselves but can’t quite get it. Others that won’t benefit are people who want to write educational essays that don’t need any personal expression in it.
3. The subject is that writing is not to be thought about but rather to be expressed and trying to have ideas while writing a story. My attitude towards her subject is that she makes a good point and writing can’t always be planned there has to be some feeling in it.