Jennine Capó Crucet, the author of the book, Make Your Home Among Strangers, came to Elon University to talk at the common reading lecture. Make Your Home Among Strangers was the book that all incoming first year students had to read for their classes.
Her speech revolved around her book and how the story really came alive in her life. Her book was about a girl, who dealt with many struggles of being a minority, a first generation college student, moving away from home, school troubles, problems going on at home, and many other things. Even though she specifically claimed that the book and the main character, Lizet, were not based off of her, she did say that she went through many of the same experiences. In her speech, she talked a lot about …show more content…
As soon as she got on stage she was making jokes and making her awkwardness feel a little less awkward. “Discomfort is where growth happens,” Professors Crucet said. This was a common theme throughout her speech as she refers back to it in towards the end. She started off by claiming that she was a writer and not a speaker. Although she came off as very calm and confident even though at times she said she was not. She even pointed out how nervous she was in order to overcome her nervousness and make herself at ease. She asked a question early in her talk in order to relate to her audience and draw them in. She also came off as very personable through all of the stories of experiences she was telling about her own life. “Access to language is a privilege,” Professor Crucet said while referring to her problems of being
Her support for points were strong in some parts but not very clear in others. She based her speech around two main excerpts out of her book but sometimes it was not very clear why she chose that specific part to read to the audience. During her speech, she had a section where she made a list of three things that kept her in college and as she described these points her support for them were very clear. Most of her speech did not require a lot of support because most of it was based around life experiences and stories she told the
Her speech revolved around her book and how the story really came alive in her life. Her book was about a girl, who dealt with many struggles of being a minority, a first generation college student, moving away from home, school troubles, problems going on at home, and many other things. Even though she specifically claimed that the book and the main character, Lizet, were not based off of her, she did say that she went through many of the same experiences. In her speech, she talked a lot about …show more content…
As soon as she got on stage she was making jokes and making her awkwardness feel a little less awkward. “Discomfort is where growth happens,” Professors Crucet said. This was a common theme throughout her speech as she refers back to it in towards the end. She started off by claiming that she was a writer and not a speaker. Although she came off as very calm and confident even though at times she said she was not. She even pointed out how nervous she was in order to overcome her nervousness and make herself at ease. She asked a question early in her talk in order to relate to her audience and draw them in. She also came off as very personable through all of the stories of experiences she was telling about her own life. “Access to language is a privilege,” Professor Crucet said while referring to her problems of being
Her support for points were strong in some parts but not very clear in others. She based her speech around two main excerpts out of her book but sometimes it was not very clear why she chose that specific part to read to the audience. During her speech, she had a section where she made a list of three things that kept her in college and as she described these points her support for them were very clear. Most of her speech did not require a lot of support because most of it was based around life experiences and stories she told the