The text quickly became a standard in college composition courses across the country. Brent Staples's "Black Men and Public Space".George Orwell's " Shooting an Elephant".Huntington's " The Clash of Civilizations") Edward Said's "Clashing Civilizations?" (Said's response to Samuel P.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech.An excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
It is divided into eleven sections by the various methods of development: narration, description, example, comparison and contrast, analysis, process analysis, classification, cause and effect, definition, argument and persuasion, along with a section on mixing the methods. The eleventh edition of the book is composed of over seventy essays, one short story, and one poem.
It is widely used in freshman composition courses at colleges across the United States. Perfect for: Kids who like fantasy stories.įind The Girl in the Castle Inside the Museum at your local library.The Bedford Reader is a college composition textbook published by the Bedford/St. And, with characters that look like dolls, dolls that look like porcelain figures from a Dali painting, strange toys, and hazy dream-like colors sparked here and there with a magical light, Bernheimer and Ceccoli have created a mesmerizing fantasy world that is both uniquely surreal, yet comfortingly real and loving. Much like the Escher-like stairways of the illustrations, the three worlds intersect and blend into an unexpected story. She even dreams of the reader, who is, in the end, invited to leave his/her picture above the girl’s bed inside the castle, inside the glass case, inside the museum, inside the book that the reader is holding. Yet as the story unfolds, the reader learns that the girl in the castle misses the children when they leave the museum and dreams of their return. Inside the case, the girl in the castle, lonely in her turret, appears to be lost in a dreamlike trance. The haunting scene of a wispy, wistful girl peering into the glass case on the cover starts the journey. This is a layered story that weaves in and out, up and down, to form a fascinating fantasy.
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