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Rhetorical Contents xi
Preface xvii
Introduction: Reading in the Various
Genres 1
Reading Essays 1
Reading Fiction 20
Reading Poetry 22
Reading Drama 23
Literary Works in Context 25
Reading and Analyzing Visual Texts 26
Elements of Design 27
Reading Images as Cultural Signs 30
1 REFLECTIONS ON EXPERIENCE 33
Nonfiction
George Orwell Shooting an Elephant 34
Ruth Reichl Betty 40
Jill Nelson Number One! 50
Fritz Peters Boyhood with Gurdjieff 54
Beryl Markham West with the Night 58
Dave Barry Just Say No to Rugs 68
Douchan Gersi Initiated into an Iban
Tribe of Headhunters 70
James Herriot Rumenotomy on a Cow 75
Fiction
William Maxwell The Pilgrimage 77
Andre Dubus The Fat Girl 85
Poetry
Elizabeth Barrett Browning How Do I Love Thee? 97
Sara Teasdale The Solitary 98
Nikki Giovanni Nikki-Rosa 99
Connections for Chapter 1:
Reflections on Experience 100
2 MEMORABLE PEOPLE AND PLACES 102
Nonfiction
Maya Angelou Liked for Myself 103
Gayle Pemberton Antidisestablishmentarianism 107
Mikhal Gilmore My Brother, Gary Gilmore 114
Fatima Mernissi Moonlit Nights of Laughter 125
Richard Rhodes A Hole in the World 130
Rudolph Chelminski Turning Point 134
Rick Bass A Fitting Desire 141
Aldo Leopold Thinking Like a Mountain 143
Fiction
Raymond Carver Neighbors 146
John Cheever Reunion151
Poetry
Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays 154
Marianne Moore A Grave 155
William Carlos Williams At the Ball Game 157
Connections for Chapter 2:
Memorable People and Places 160
3 THE VALUE OF EDUCATION 162
Nonfiction
Frederick Douglass Learning to Read and Write 163
Jonathan Kozol The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society 168
Mike Adams The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome 175
Richard Rodriguez On Becoming a Chicano 181
Sabine Reichel Learning What Was Never Taught 188
Nat Hentoff Speech Codes on the Campus 197
Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes Civilize Them with a Stick 204
Judy Blume Is Harry Potter Evil? 211
Mark Salzman Lessons 213
Fiction
Edward P. Jones The First Day 219
Poetry
Linda Hogan Workday 223
Tom Wayman Did I Miss Anything? 225
Connections for Chapter 3:
The Value of Education 227
4 PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE 228
Nonfiction
Helen Keller The Day Language Came into My Life 229
Temple Grandin Thinking in Pictures 231
Deborah Tannen Sex, Lies, and Conversation 236
George Lakoff Anger 241
Alison Lurie The Language of Clothes 250
Amy Tan Mother Tongue 256
Aldous Huxley Propaganda under a Dictatorship 261
Stuart Hirschberg The Rhetoric of Advertising 267
Fiction
Gish Jen Who's Irish? 276
Poetry
Kenneth Koch Permanently 285
Connections for Chapter 4:
Perspectives on Language 288
5 EVERYDAY MATTERS 289
Nonfiction
Juliet B. Schor The Culture of Consumerism 290
Philip Slater Want-Creation Fuels Americans' Addictiveness 300
Jan Harold Brunvand Urban Legends: The Boyfriend's Death 304
Rosalind Coward The Body Beautiful 313
Bill Bryson What's Cooking? Eating in America 320
Jessica Mitford Mortuary Solaces 330
Judith Ortiz Cofer The Myth of the Latin Woman 335
Mark Twain The Lowest Animal 339
Fiction
Kate Chopin Desiree's Baby 345
Gloria Anzaldua Cervicide 349
Poetry
Marge Piercy Barbie Doll 351
Grace C. Kuhns Lisa's Ritual, Age 10 353
Bruce Springsteen Streets of Philadelphia 354
Gregory Corso Marriage 356
Drama
David Ives Sure Thing 361
Connections for Chapter 5:
Everyday Matters 369
6 OUR PLACE IN NATURE 371
Nonfiction
Charles Darwin From the Origin of Species 372
Gunjan Sinha You Dirty Vole 382
Joseph K. Skinner Big Mac and the Tropical Forests 387
Alice Walker Am I Blue? 393
Konrad Lorenz The Dove and the Wolf 397
Robert W. Felix Fatal Flaw 408
Elizabeth Kolbert Shishmaref, Alaska415
Robert Sapolsky Bugs in the Brain 422
Fiction
Doris Lessing A Sunrise on the Veld 425
Poetry
Mary Oliver Sleeping in the Forest 432
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Sound of the Sea 433
Xu Gang Red Azalea on the Cliff 434
Sharon Chmielarz New Water 436
Connections for Chapter 6:
Our Place in Nature 437
7 PAST TO PRESENT 439
Nonfiction
Herodotus Concerning Egypt 440
Thomas Paine Rights of Man 451
Gilbert Highet The Gettysburg Address 454
Jack London The San Francisco Earthquake 461
Hanson W. Baldwin R. M. S. Titanic 466
Haunani-Kay Trask From a Native Daughter 477
Maurizio Chierici The Man from Hiroshima 486
Don DeLillo In the Ruins of the Future 492
Fiction
Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 502
Irene Zabytko Home Soil 510
Poetry
Bertolt Brecht A Worker Reads History 515
Wilfred Owen Strange Meeting 517
W. B. Yeats The Second Coming 519
Connections for Chapter 7:
Past to Present 521
8 POWER AND POLITICS 523
Nonfiction
Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 524
Kenneth M. Stampp To Make Them Stand in Fear 529
Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream 532
Barbara Ehrenreich Nickel-and-Dimed 537
Luis Sepulveda Daisy 557
Tim O'Brien If I Die in a Combat Zone 562
Stephen Chapman The Prisoner's Dilemma 568
Michael Levin The Case for Torture 574
Fiction
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal 577
Panos Ioannides Gregory 585
Poetry
W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen 590
Carolyn Forche The Colonel 591
Drama
Susan Glaspell Trifles 593
Connections for Chapter 8:
Power and Politics 605
9 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 607
Nonfiction
David Ewing Duncan DNA as Destiny 608
Bill McKibben It's Easy Being Green 617
Henry Petroski The Pencil 622
Anwar F. Accawi The Telephone 626
Charles H. Townes Harnessing Light 632
Donald A. Norman Emotional Robots 638
Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. HarrisonBergeron 644
Poetry
Walt Whitman When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 649
Connections for Chapter 9:
Science and Technology 651
10 THE ARTISTIC IMPULSE 652
Nonfiction
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. How to Write with Style 653
Stephen King On Writing 656
Ross King Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling 661
Agnes De Mille Pavlova 671
Aaron Copland Film Music 673
Lance Morrow Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle 679
Germaine Greer One Man's Mutilation Is Another Man's Beautification 682
Valerie Steele and John S. Major China Chic: East Meets West 691
Fiction
Carson McCullers Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland 698
Poetry
Emily Dickinson Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant 705
Charles Bukowski So You Want to be a Writer 706
Connections for Chapter 10:
The Artistic Impulse 708
11 THE ETHICAL DIMENSION 710
Nonfiction
Philip Wheelwright The Meaning of Ethics 711
Marya Mannes The Unwilled 717
Hans Ruesch Slaughter of the Innocent 719
Garrett Hardin Lifeboat Ethics 732
Stanley Milgram The Perils of Obedience 742
Dalai Lama The Role of Religion in Modern Society 755
Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism 762
John M. Darley and Bibb Latane Why People Don't Help in a Crisis 767
Fiction
Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 772
Parables
Plato The Allegory of the Cave 786
Matthew Parables in the New Testament 791
Buddha Parables of Buddha 794
Nasreddin Hodja Islamic Folk Stories 796
Poetry
Linda Pastan Ethics 798
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken 800
Connections for Chapter 11:
The Ethical Dimension 801
Appendix: The MLA Style of Documentation 803
Tara Miles Prelude to the Internet 804
Glossary 811
Credits 817
Index of First Lines of Poems 823
Index of Authors and Titles 825