Nadia Dawson
English 102
Assignment 3
After reading Brian’s
“the Kitchen”, I reflected on a few questions. His chapter and introduction
brought to life a new way of looking at things. I feel like his way of writing
is, and is not a fit for our academic model. It is because it is written in the
traditional form. It has some new ways to thinking, but ultimately the style of
writing and the underlying basis of the project is something that we as a
people are used to seeing. While this is the case, this also makes it not part
of our academic model. The way he goes about putting information in this
chapter and speaking about it is different.
In the introduction
he talks about why he created this book in the first place. He says “… I
thought it might be interesting, for the length of a book, to consider the
ordinary things in life…” (Brian, 5) This shows that his intensions were
supremely to create an interesting way to show and express the different things
in the household, and make them liked, understood and accepted by the public. He
is chapter definitely represents inquiry. His entire book was based upon
questions, and things that most people didn’t know. In the introduction he
shows this by analyzing the salt and pepper shakers. “Why not pepper and
cardamom, say or salt and cinnamon?”(Brian, 4) This shows exactly where his ideas
came from and how he went about the process of writing this story.
Brian is an inquirer
of sorts. He basically walked around his house and questioned why things were
the way they were. I understand inquiry to be a way of thinking in which you
question things, which cannot truly have a definitive answer. It’s way more
than the thought of 1+1=2. Inquiry can be anything from wondering why we wear
socks on our feet, to why we call a nose a nose. Brian does a great job of
asking these questions and answering them. He follows up and tells a story of
how things came to be. He does it in a conversational tone. He talks as If he
is talking to me. I liked that. It made the story interesting.
Nadia:
ReplyDeleteI like that you are drawing the distinction between his style of writing (and why he wrote the chapter) and our model. I think it's true that the whole thing is more traditional, yet the way that he gets us to think is alternative. We'll talk more about this in class, but it's called "developing" an idea/ ideas.