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Roberts, Rev. Dr. Mark D. "Oprah, James Frey, and the Question of Truth" markdroberts.com.
30 January 2006.
Tone: Moralistic
Claim: James Frey's book is fraudulent and should never have been published.
Purpose: To explain his outrage at Frey's misrepresentation and the publisher's lack of fact-checking.
Important information in the title: Frey's supposedly inspirational and gut-wrenching story was prominently featured on Oprah's book club and became a best seller.
Important info in the background material: The author was published by the same publishing house as Frey, under a different imprint. He states that Frey was treated very differently than he was in terms of the scrutiny to which Frey's story was subject.
Sentence explaining author's claim and how he/she would respond to the prompt: Some things are factual and facts must be...
They do not think that truth is merely a matter of personal perception. Rather, they tend to think in more objective terms.
Source D
Amend, Bill. "Foxtrot." Comic strip. Portland Press Herald 23 Jan. 2006: B6.
Tone: Humorous
Claim: James Frey made up his book to 'make a buck.'
Purpose: Satiric
Important information in the title: N/a -- cartoon does not have a title
Important info in the background material: The comic strip author portrays a regular character cravenly writing his false memoir, like James Frey.
Sentence explaining author's claim and how he/she would respond to the prompt: Frey did not make up his work to
The author takes a chance bringing a new form of writing to a middle school, a technique that is innovative but not commonplace, thus would give rise to much questioning, which may be an obstacle teacher's would face trying to implement this type of learning style. This learning approaches views all students as independent, thus in an environment where everything is "sterile" or "sterilized and standardized" this type of
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It is about impression and feeling, about individual recollection. This memoir is a combination of facts about my life and certain embellishments. It is a subjective truth, altered by the mind of a recovering drug addict and alcoholic" (Frey 2006). Defenders of Frey were even more explicit in noting that telling a good story and creating a vivid image in the mind of a reader often demands the use of
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