Thesis:
To give educators a new point of view and to try to persuade educators on the proper way to teach students literature.

Summary:
In Neil Postman’s (2017) “The Word Weavers/The World Makers,” he first brings up the thought that if a does not know the meaning or an understanding of a word “why do they not ask”? And depending on how the confused person asks for the definition of the misunderstood word can lead to different contexts. Because of this, this leads Postman to blame the school system for not teaching the students what a definition is even though the students are tested on it. Then Postman, 2017, begins to talk about how educators are “crossing the line of absurdity” (p. 286) when educators teach students that a metaphor is only a “decorative function” (p. 286) and that when authors tend to write about education they do not give a metaphor the right amount of …show more content…
The very first Postman, 2017, asked in this story was “what is a definition of this word?” (p. 285) this word being “confusion” (p. 285). This is a very useful technique on this authors part because it leaves the readers to think “what is a definition of confusion?” Then it makes the readers want to continue to read the story to find out “what is a definition of confusion?” but Postman does not give you an answer to that question. Postman, 2017, just follows it up with another question and that question being “what is the definition of this word?” (p.285). Therefore, as a reader it makes you sit back and think what is the difference in the word “a” (p.285) and “the” (p. 285). Could this make the definition of the word confusion different based on what word you used to describe it? Based on the Postman audience I believe this is a smart technique on his part because some readers like to be challenged to think and will continue reading what you