Answer to Question #308478 in English for abeng

Question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMdJxVjZMRI

Guide Questions:

 

1. Compare and contrast this text or media with related text/media.

    Be specific–what text or media? What are the similarities and dissimilarities, etc.

2. What did the author’s purpose seem to be?

What seemed to be the Author’s Purpose in creating this text? Why do you think they might’ve written it? What were they hoping this text would accomplish? Why do you think so?

3. What can you say about the theme?

What was the theme? What were some of the theme topics (love lost, overcoming adversity, civic responsibility, etc.)? What is the author’s overall message to their audience? Is there a sentence you can choose from the text that captures that? What supporting details allow you to make this inference?

4. What is the author’s position on any relevant theme or issue?

As a result of this reading, what can you infer is the author’s position on any relevant theme or issue? This will often be a social issue–poverty, love, war, courage, race, etc.

Answer 1

1. Similarities in the media is that both of them aims at achieving a moral lesson to the audience, which in this case is a mixed reaction of what needs to be done in the current world circumstances.
2. The purpose of the author in creating the media is to form an argument on whether there exist a possible justification for every action that one takes. In this case, every action taken ahs its own advantages and disadvantages. It only depends on which perspective one is viewing it from.
3. The main theme is that of curiosity. Curiosity has its own share of advantages and disadvantages. However, curiosity is good since it eliminates any possibility of ignorance, which in my case is worse than being curious. Curiosity leads to expansion of the mind through gaining more knowledge. However, the same cannot be said about ignorance.
4. The author is implicit and does not give a clear position. The author only suggests the implications of being curious, in that whether people should be more curious since it brings about more discovery and knowledge into the world or whether people should not be curious since it also comes with several consequences and damages.