Well, hello there class and curious people of the internet. My name is Sam Coren and I loathe self-introductions. I am a seventeen year old graduate of Council Rock High School North in Newtown, PA. Currently, I am an undeclared freshman and Bonner Hall resident at KU. No, I do not have school spirit - I just thought it would be nice place to start. In my free time I enjoy playing guitar and keyboards. Occasionally I will compose actual songs and record them using my PC for my own amusement. In addition to making music, I also like to occupy myself with a good book from time to time. My favorite author is, without a doubt, Thomas Harris of Silence of the Lambs fame. Now that I’ve gotten the personal bit out of the way I believe it is time to present my thoughts on the assigned reading.
Stylistically speaking, Raymond Williams comes off as highly pretentious early on with his overuse of imagery in the first section of his writing. I understand it is his intention to “show” the audience rather than “tell”, but I find he does this in such great excess that he almost loses his focus. He then proceeds to explain his family’s plight of being stuck in Britain’s working class and how his father worked to form a trade-union. Creatively, Williams states, “I speak a different idiom, but I think of these same things” as a tie in to his “culture is ordinary” thesis. Personally, I can agree to an extent with some of his ideas on culture such as culture constantly evolving in the background while still being tied to the past. However, I think that there are so many ideas Williams is trying to convey at once that his writing becomes too difficult for the reader to fully comprehend.
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