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Summary:
Death to the Reading Class by Marshall Poe is an article that discusses the death of reading to our current generation. The author starts by stating that people today don't read. He backs up his main idea by saying how reading material today lacks body and interest. Poe also talks about how reading isn't something humans have evolved to do, meaning we are not naturally meant to read. This article overall defends those who don't read, saying how it is not a persons fault that they don't want to read. The author also links an article (which will be linked below) to which he finds important to the main idea.
Key words and phrases:
1) "THE FACT THAT PEOPLE don’t like to read may trouble many of us in the Reading Class, but it shouldn’t."
2) Reading Class: what the author refers to as the link between all people.
3)"humans weren't evolved to read.
Summary:
Death to the Reading Class by Marshall Poe is an article that discusses the death of reading to our current generation. The author starts by stating that people today don't read. He backs up his main idea by saying how reading material today lacks body and interest. Poe also talks about how reading isn't something humans have evolved to do, meaning we are not naturally meant to read. This article overall defends those who don't read, saying how it is not a persons fault that they don't want to read. The author also links an article (which will be linked below) to which he finds important to the main idea.
Key words and phrases:
1) "THE FACT THAT PEOPLE don’t like to read may trouble many of us in the Reading Class, but it shouldn’t."
2) Reading Class: what the author refers to as the link between all people.
3)"humans weren't evolved to read.