Culture is Ordinary

The first time I tried to read this essay, I was a tad confused with its format. Call me old fashioned, I might just be used to the antiquated five paragraph format used in high school. The second time I read it though I began to understand the author more fully because of his writing style. His use of descriptive, right to the point detail kept me interested for the most part.

Essentially, Raymond Williams is making a narrative/descriptive observation on how cultures within communities change with time and society by using his own family as an example. Over several generations, the culture that surrounded him, molded him per se, had been changed numerous times based on social change and the motions of time itself. I believe that not only did this make his job easier, but it also allows the reader to see his point much more clearly than if he just wrote from a generalized perspective. In many ways this allowed me to relate to and percieve his objective point much better. Moreover, I'm very grateful to him for not simply stating, ''society changes culture, time changes culture, etc...'' because quite frankly it would've lost me entirely from the beginning.