hw 14

I found this article on video games to be quite interesting. One of the points in this article was that reading for fun has declined over the past couple years and that we have to teach our kids that reading is going to be beneficial to us in the future. The author also says that parents and teachers shoulfd help their kids develop an appetite for reading and.

Another point that was brought up and on e that i agree on, is that havong good reading skills, will be helpful when searching for a job. More job opritunities arise when people see that you are a good reader, because if you are a good reader, that may mean that you are a good speaker as well.

my mix of reactions to the text was that, the author had very strong opinions about reading vs video games. i thought that when he purposly used an alternative viewpoint now staitng that video games were better than books, was pretty intertesting. The point he brought up about people being silexic and how books just project that disablility while video games don't was a good point.

the author of this text contradicted the book feed because he says that reading is good. Reading will be very helpful in the future and is a great way to spend your time, while feed says that digital is the way to live, basically saying that nobody wants to read books anymore, its not brag. Another point that the author of feed is making is that the future is run by technology and that people have been hypnotized, thinking that they are living normal lives, while one character in the book, violet, can see through all of the things that people find good. violet speaks out against the feed and the way that it works. The line that struck me most in the short excerpt, was the the line, " remind me why this is fun?" i thought that this could relate to the way violet felt with her feed and how life was too easy. It also contradicts the feed, because the people with feeds wouldn't be askinfg htemselves why using the feed is fun. They are too dumb to think for themselves, even at a simple question like this which I bet the have no answer to.