MWA #1 In the article, Success: Entering the Mirror Maze, Dr. Hightower, an experienced high school teacher of 19 years, expresses his opinion on people’s incapability of having a growth mindset and their inadvertent retainment of fixed mindsets. During the period when the competitive society only appreciates obvious successes, Dr. Hightower believes that the society and the aspiring and passionate people who constantly strive to achieve their dreams have concluded that success is virtually impossible to achieve--as long as they do not seek for mental growth. As an expert educator, Dr. Hightower wants everyone in the society, especially students who are developing insights of the world, others who serve in education field such as teachers,
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Hightower shifts his perspective few times throughout the essay, which allows him to include both subjective and objective elements in his essay. From the beginning until the paragraph where Dr. Hightower mentions his experience as a “veteran high school teacher of 19 years,” Dr. Hightower maintains his third person view, mentioning myriads of literary works and his knowledge of psychology. Then, Dr. Hightower shifts to his experience as an educator, suddenly making the essay more subjective with his interpretation upon his experience as a teacher. Since readers do not have many experiences in different fields of society, such as education, science, or law, etc., Dr. Hightower, an avid reader, educator, and psychologist, serves to provide the readers the different perspectives toward a single issue: people’s fixed mindset. Also, Dr. Hightower deliberately included a subjective element to give his skin-felt experience in the issue that aligns with his analysis done based on concrete evidence with many literary works. This employment of both subjective and objective elements allows Dr. Hightower to show readers that the society that we see, feel, and learn--the subjective feelings-- ultimately has contributed people to have fixed mindset. However, in order to maintain his objectivity of the essay, in the last paragraph, Dr. Hightower again shifted to third person perspective, emphasizing that people’s attainment of fixed mindset is not his opinion, but rather an …show more content…
Hightower utilizes symbolism in order to represent some of the social issues in a more concise and understandable ways. Symbolism, a method of employing an idea into a single object or concept, allows readers to understand the author’s intention of writing the essay, or the problem presented in the essay, by associating the characteristics of a symbol to the writer’s possible intentions of writing the essay. For example, Dr. Hightower symbolizes people’s issue of having fixed mindset as a mirror maze, because those with fixed mindset often get lost in their minds and only think based on what they know--just like people struggling to find a way out in the mirror maze. The struggling experienced by all people who were in the mirror maze implies that society encouraging fixed mindset is ubiquitous. Additionally, representing the issue as a symbol allows Dr. Hightower to represent the complex idea of fixed mindset into a simple and concise term, making the overall tone intelligent, sympathetic, and
Hightower shifts his perspective few times throughout the essay, which allows him to include both subjective and objective elements in his essay. From the beginning until the paragraph where Dr. Hightower mentions his experience as a “veteran high school teacher of 19 years,” Dr. Hightower maintains his third person view, mentioning myriads of literary works and his knowledge of psychology. Then, Dr. Hightower shifts to his experience as an educator, suddenly making the essay more subjective with his interpretation upon his experience as a teacher. Since readers do not have many experiences in different fields of society, such as education, science, or law, etc., Dr. Hightower, an avid reader, educator, and psychologist, serves to provide the readers the different perspectives toward a single issue: people’s fixed mindset. Also, Dr. Hightower deliberately included a subjective element to give his skin-felt experience in the issue that aligns with his analysis done based on concrete evidence with many literary works. This employment of both subjective and objective elements allows Dr. Hightower to show readers that the society that we see, feel, and learn--the subjective feelings-- ultimately has contributed people to have fixed mindset. However, in order to maintain his objectivity of the essay, in the last paragraph, Dr. Hightower again shifted to third person perspective, emphasizing that people’s attainment of fixed mindset is not his opinion, but rather an …show more content…
Hightower utilizes symbolism in order to represent some of the social issues in a more concise and understandable ways. Symbolism, a method of employing an idea into a single object or concept, allows readers to understand the author’s intention of writing the essay, or the problem presented in the essay, by associating the characteristics of a symbol to the writer’s possible intentions of writing the essay. For example, Dr. Hightower symbolizes people’s issue of having fixed mindset as a mirror maze, because those with fixed mindset often get lost in their minds and only think based on what they know--just like people struggling to find a way out in the mirror maze. The struggling experienced by all people who were in the mirror maze implies that society encouraging fixed mindset is ubiquitous. Additionally, representing the issue as a symbol allows Dr. Hightower to represent the complex idea of fixed mindset into a simple and concise term, making the overall tone intelligent, sympathetic, and