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After having read and annotated the material from this week on critical think and logical reasoning (See “Using Logical Reasoning to Analyze Literature and Make an Argument“), select one or two examples from any of our assigned primary texts from all the course’s readings and discuss the logic or lack of logic* that is used by the characters or narrator.
*such as:
- inductive reasoning
- deductive reasoning
- specific rhetorical strategies–process, definition, exemplification, cause & effect
- logical fallacies
As with all threaded discussions, please post your response to this discussion by Wednesday at 11:59 pm; then for full credit, you must thoughtfully comment on the responses of two other students before Sunday at 11:59 pm.
(Important: review Professor Daly’s expectations for Threaded Discussions)
In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “The Mother”, the logic behind the narrative entails to give voice to the mothers who have gone through abortion and are somewhat feeling sorry about their decision. In the aim of giving light to all sorts of feelings and emotions that mothers who are facing the decision of aborting their unborn children and those who have already gone through the process, Brooks tries to