What can you learn
about writing about culture from these pages?
I think that even
within these first 50 pages, I have gained a lot of insight on how to write
about culture. First, I think that it is important to remain completely
unbiased in your writing. Katherine Boo does an excellent job of this in my
opinion. It is important that you portray the culture as true as you can. You
want to include every detail that you have available to you. However, when you
present these details, it is important that you state them in unbiased
position. By this I mean, you state the facts without any input of your own
opinion. You want the reader to get the truest visual of the culture as
possible, without clouding it with your own ideas. When your own ideas and
opinions come into play, the visual of the culture is immediately affected for
the reader. The reader will then unconsciously form your same opinions, when
the goal is for them to create their own.
Secondly, I think
it is great that Katherine Boo writes about the Annawadi culture through a
story. I know everyone is different, but for me, just reading a history book
can tend to get boring. I prefer reading that has something for me to latch
onto, something for me to get lost in. I like how Katherine Boo is telling us
about Annawadi, the culture, the people, etc. while also continuing a
narrative. This way it feels to me as if I am just reading a story, but
subconsciously I am also learning about the culture of Annawadi. It also helps
that even the people I am reading about are real. Some books tend to show the
real culture, but braided in with a fictional story line. Katherine Boo took
enough time, and enough interviews to actually tell a true story of real people
living in Annawadi. It makes the experience for the reader even better knowing
that the characters we are reading about are in fact real people.
Jordyn Hunter
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