Complete the imitative paragraph that we started in class. Further details below.
Read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, chs. I-II, available here. Write one good sentence describing your reaction to this reading.
The paragraph you should imitate begins with "Ken Harvey was gasping for air" (50 Essays, p. 336). Identify an institution that has not lived up to its promises, and imitate Mike Rose's writing to show how it has failed someone. (The person it fails can be anyone in general; it doesn't have to be someone you know.) Follow Rose's writing strategies in the paragraph to draw attention to the institution's failures: his language, his examples, his sentence variety, and how his sentence structure (especially toward the end) reinforces his point.
