Failure is a Good Thing When you fail you’ll usually want to give up or feel like you have not accomplished something the way you wanted . According to John Carroll in the writing Failure is a Good Thing he talks about how failure can be a teaching experience and how “Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time, which often can be a problematical victory” (Carroll). The three main points are going to be the author's purpose, the feeling the writing gives the reader and tone.
When an author writes something they usually have a purpose behind it, the purpose of John Carroll’s passage is that “Failure is how we learn” (Carroll). In the writing he says “But I will aslo, I hope, remind her of what she learned, and how she can do whatever it is better next time” (Carroll). So take what you have learned from the failure and use the knowledge you have gained to improve next time. Without failure you wouldn’t know how to do something as good as you do if you did not learn from your failure beforehand. “They knew how much credibility their failures gave them” (Carroll). …show more content…
This story is telling you that he had hoped for his granddaughter to fail in school that's not something a typical grandparent says. He goes on to tell you that failure is a good thing when most people say that the only way is to succeed at something. “I probably won’t tell her that failure is a good thing, because that’s not a lesson you can learn when you’re five” (Carroll). From there he tells you that success is not as good as you always thought it was when it really just plain and boring. “Success is