Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Blog 4: "The Allegory of the Cave"
In passage The Allegory of the Cave talks about prisoners that were living in a cave from their childhood, having their legs and necks chained as if they were slaves excluded from their rights so that they couldn't either move or, see what was before them. Furthermore, they were prevented by the chains from turning round their heads, which means that they were living in a world of illusions where they didn't know about the real world outside the darkness that waited for them. In fact, as the story went by, it explained that one the prisoners escaped from the cave and discovered that the world he used to live in under the ground was only an illution of what he thought the real world looked like.So when the man saw the light outside of the cave, he couldn't see anything for awhile because the man was living in the dark almost for his entire life. After the man was capable to open his eyes, he couldn't believe in what he was seeing because he never imagined that the life he was living in the cave was just a lie.
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My name is Carlos. I am taking ENG101 with professor Vasileiou. For class we had to read your summary and give you some tips on how to write a good summary.
ReplyDeleteThe beginning of the summary was good but the main idea should be stated in the beginning followed by supporting ideas. Try not to use too many words from passage for example: “have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads” summarize like this “the men had they’re legs and necks chained allowing them to see only what was in front of them”.
Key to a summary is to state only what is written in the passage and not your opinion (even I made that mistake.)
Summarize in order read, re-read it out to yourself and use spell check grammar is quite important.
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