We then talked about "Invisible Man" - with a particular focus on how Graham presented controversial material in a manner that allowed readers to "watch" and think about behaviors that might otherwise get lost in the drama and emotion that often accompanies their presentation.
In this essay, Graham was a "participant observer" => a role you are invited to step into for the "eye" essay. Although in class I indicated that "watching" classrooms, friends, even family might make good material for an essay - remember the people in these "groups" have perspectives and sensibilities that turning them into "objects" is not really OK. I would hope these essays would have as their true object what Lott described as "our responsibility as human beings to answer for and to our lives" = to seek to understand.
For Monday:
Blog 15: any kind of writing you want to work on to develop an "eye" essay
Read: McPhee, "The Search for Marvin Gardens" 117
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