THE NORTON READER - GBV

THE NORTON READERAn Anthology of NonfictionTWELFTH EDITIONLINDA H. PETERSON, General EditorYale UniversityJOHN C. BRERETONBoston AthenaeumW W NORTON & COMPANYNEW YORK- LONDON

BRIEFPREFACE XVINTRODUCTION:Reading and Writing with The Norton Reader xxPERSONAL REPORT1Prose Forms: journals99PEOPLE, PLACES121HUMAN NATURE223CULTURAL CRITIQUEProse Forms: Op-EdsEDUCATION297403428LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION510An Album of Styles 592NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENTETHICS610674HISTORY776POLITICS AND GOVERNMENTProse Forms: Spoken WordsSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY852906935LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND MEDIA1026Prose Forms: Fables and Parables 1126PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIONAUTHORS1219GENRES INDEX1259RHETORICAL INDEXTHEMATIC INDEXINDEX1273CONTENTS126312691139

CONTENTSPREFACEXVReading and Writing with The Norton ReaderINTRODUCTION:PERSONAL REPORTxx1Coming Home Again 1On Going Home 9ANDREA BARRETT A Hole in the Wall12CHANG-RAE LEEJOAN DIDIONLARS EIGHNEROn Dumpster Diving20The Dump Ground 29Graduation 34ZORA NEALE HURSTONHOW It Feels to Be Colored MeALBERTO ALVARO RfosGreen Cards 47WALLACE STEGNERMAYA ANGELOURICHARD SELZERThe Knife4350BRUNO BETTELHEIMA Victim57On Being a CrippleNANCY MAIRS59Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the SelfDAVID FOSTER WALLACE Consider the Lobster 75ALICE WALKERLOREN EISELEYE. B. WHITEThe Brown WaspsOnce More to the Lake698893Prose Forms: Journals 99On Keeping a Notebook 100RALPH WALDO EMERSON from Journals106HENRY DAVID THOREAU from Journal109WALT WHITMAN Abraham Lincoln112RACHEL CARSON from Field Notebooks114COLBY BUZZELL Killing Time in Iraq 118JOAN DIDIONPEOPLE, PLACESUnder the Influencefrom An American ChildhoodSCOTT RUSSELL SANDERSANNIE DILLARD121121132Vll

CONTENTSMy Father: Leslie Stephen 137THOMAS JEFFERSON George Washington 142NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Abraham Lincoln 145VIRGINIA WOOLFTOM WOLFEYeager 148Strangers 158EAVAN BOLAND The Woman, the Place, the Poet 162JAMAICA KINCAID Sowers and Reapers 173JUDITH ORTIZ COFER More Room 179TONI MORRISONN. SCOTT MOMADAYBARRY LOPEZThe Way to Rainy MountainThe American Geographies182189True North 199Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured:The Mall of America 210MARGARET ATWOODDAVID GUTERSONHUMAN NATUREPAUL THEROUX223Being a Man223Looking at Women 226ANDREW SULLIVAN What Is a Homosexual? 236ANNA QUINDLEN Between the Sexes, a Great Divide 241LAUREN SLATER Love 243E. S. MADURO Excuse Me While I Explode: My Mother,Myself, My Anger 255AMY CUNNINGHAM Why Women Smile 262GLORIA STEINEM The Good News Is: These Are Notthe Best Years of Your Life 268 .SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERSEDWARD THOMASInsomnia274On the Fear of Death 276How to Know If You're Dead 282ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSSMARY ROACHCULTURAL CRITIQUE297Is America Falling Apart? 2979.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane 303JESSICA MITFORD Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain 310THOMAS LYNCH The Bang & Whimper and the Boom 317ANTHONY BURGESSADAM GOODHEARTHENRY LOUIS GATES JR.323Java Man 329Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris 335MALCOLM GLADWELLSONIA SHAHIn the Kitchen

CONTENTSixD. KRISTOF Saudis in Bikinis 340Toys 342FRED STREBEIGH The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China344JOHN MCMURTRY Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw! 354NICHOLASROLAND BARTHESMARK GREIFAgainst ExerciseBETTY ROLLINMotherhood: Who Needs It?360369JAMES BALDWINThe Case for Single-Child FamiliesStranger in the Village 387BRENT STAPLESBlack Men and Public SpaceBILL MCKIBBENDEBRA DICKERSONWho Shot Johnny?378396399Prose Forms: Op-Eds 403Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns 405The Immigration Problem Is About Us, Not Them 406ANNA QUINDLEN In a Peaceful Frame of Mind408BRENT STAPLES Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's 410MOLLY IVINSJO-ANN PILARDIDAVID BROOKSThe Gender Gap at SchoolJENNIFER BRITZThe Dean's Daughter Gets Thin Envelope412414BINGE DRINKINGHENRY WECHSLER, CHARLES DEUTSCH, AND GEORGE DOWDALLToo Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol AbuseJACK HITTThe Battle of the Binge422A. BRUFFEE Binge Drinking as a Substitutefora "Community of Learning" 425/KENNETHEDUCATION428FREDERICK DOUGLASSEUDORA WELTYLearning to ReadClamorous to Learn428432Education Is My Mother and My Father 438JOHN HOLT HOW Teachers Make Children Hate Reading449BENJAMIN R. BARBER America Skips School457CAROLINE BIRD College Is a Waste of Time and Money467JAMES THURBERUniversity Days 476WILLIAM ZINSSER College Pressures 481ADRIENNE RICH Taking Women Students Seriously 487DAVID CHANOFFWILLIAM GOLDINGThinking as a Hobby494G. PERRY JR. Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts:A Study in Educational Epistemology 500WILLIAM417

CONTENTSLANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION510"Mommy, What Does 'Nigger' Mean?" 510GLORIA NAYLORMAXINE HONG KINGSTONTongue-Tied513Aria 517How to Tame a Wild Tongue 523Always Living in Spanish 532HOW to Write a Letter 535RICHARD RODRIGUEZGLORIA ANZALDUAMARJORIE AGOSINGARRISON KEILLORPostcards 537BENJAMIN FRANKLINLearning to Write 539PATRICIA WILLIAMS The Death of the Profane: The Rhetoricof Race and Rights 543The His'er Problem 549ANNE FADIMANLEWIS THOMASNotes on Punctuation553J. ABBOTT MILLER Period Styles:A Punctuated History 556KITTY BURNS FLOREYSister Bernadette's Barking Dog 562WAYNE C. BOOTHBoring From Within: The Artof the Freshman Essay 566DENNIS BARONWhen Professors Get A's and Machines Get F's 577GEORGE ORWELLPolitics and the English Language 581ELLEN LUPTON ANDAn Album of Styles592 -FRANCIS BACONOf Youth and AgeBEN JONSONWrite Well 594JOHN DONNETONO Man Is an IslandSAMUEL JOHNSONThe Pyramids593596596from Poor Richard's Almanack 597Proverbs of Hell 599AMBROSE BIERCEfrom The Devil's Dictionary 600MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTfrom A Vindication of the Rightsof Woman 603BENJAMIN FRANKLINWILLIAM BLAKEJOHN HENRY NEWMANKnowledge and VirtueThe Gettysburg Address 605from A Farewell to Arms 606Progress and Change 606Beer Can 607ABRAHAM LINCOLNERNEST HEMINGWAYE. B. WHITEJOHN UPDIKE604TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMSRiver Music607

CONTENTSNATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENTRACHEL CARSONJOHN MUIRTides610610A Wind-Storm in the Forests 617CEDWARD ABBEYThe Serpents of Paradise623The Work of Honeybees 629ALEXANDER PETRUNKEVITCH The Spider and the Wasp 636CHIEF SEATTLE Letter to President Pierce, 1855 642ALDO LEOPOLD Marshland Elegy 643ALLISON WALLACEMARY OLIVERWaste Land: An Elegy 648The Trouble with Wilderness 651JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH The Most Dangerous Predator 655SANDRA STEINGRABER Tune of the Tuna Fish 663TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS The Clan of One-Breasted Women 666WILLIAM CRONONETHICS674LORD CHESTERFIELDMARK TWAINLetter to His SonAdvice to Youth674677In Defense of Prejudice 680The Case for Torture 689The Case for Animal Rights 691JONATHAN RAUCHMICHAEL LEVINTOM REGANMICHAEL POLLANAn Animal's Place702The Case for the Use of Animalsin Biomedical Research 718CARL COHENNORA EPHRONALDO LEOPOLDMARY GORDONThe Boston PhotographsThe Land EthicA Moral Choice727733740We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story 747STEPHEN JAY GOULD The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS 754SALLIE TISDALEKILDARE DOBBSThe Shatterei-of WorldsPAUL FUSSELLThank God for the Atom Bomb 763758HISTORY776The Battle of the Ants 776BARBARA TUCHMAN "This Is the End of the World":The Black Death 779PHILIP ALCABES The Bioterrorism Scare: A Historical Perspective 792WALT WHITMAN Death of Abraham Lincoln 803HENRY DAVID THOREAU

xiiCONTENTSH. BRUCE FRANKLIN From Realism to Virtual Reality:Images of America's Wars 810HANNAH ARENDT Deportations from Western Europe 826WORLD WAR II: VICTIMS, VILLAINS, HEROESHe Said No to Internment 831Saved by Strangers 833DANIEL BERGNER Chasing Evil 836MATT BAISARA CORBETTPHILIP GOUREVITCHAfter the Genocide'FRANCES FITZGERALD839Rewriting American History 845POLITICS AND GOVERNMENTGEORGE ORWELLShooting an ElephantJONATHAN SWIFTA Modest Proposal 858NICCOLO MACHIAVELLITHOMAS JEFFERSON852852The Morals of the Prince865Original Draft of the Declarationof Independence872The Declaration of IndependenceDeclaration of Sentimentsand Resolutions 879 ABRAHAM LINCOLN Second Inaugural Address 881JOHN F. KENNEDY Inaugural Address 883LANI GUINIER The Tyranny of the Majority 886THOMAS JEFFERSON AND OTHERSELIZABETH CADY STANTONE. B. WHITEDemocracyMARTIN LUTHER KING JR.891Letter from Birmingham Jail 892Prose Forms: Spoken Words 906I Have a Dream 907WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON NO Compromise with Slavery 910ELEANOR ROOSEVELT On the Universal Declarationof Human Rights 913AL GORE The Climate Emergency 918WILLIAM FAULKNER Nobel Prize Award Speech 929MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.JAMES VAN THOLENSurprised by Death931SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYThe Nature of Scientific Reasoning 935The Eureka Phenomenon 939JACOB BRONOWSKIISAAC ASIMOV935876

xiiiCONTENTSS. KUHNDAVID BALTIMOREThe Route to Normal Science 948Limiting Science: A Biologist's PerspectiveTHOMASMATT RIDLEYGenome957966HENRY WECHSLER, ANDREA DAVENPORT, GEORGE DOWDALL,BARBARA MOEYKENS, AND SONIA CASTILLO0Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking:A National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses 976MELVIN KONNER Why the Reckless Survive991NEIL POSTMAN Virtual Students, Digital Classroom 1000EDWARD O. WILSONIntelligent EvolutionSTEPHEN JAY GOULD1007Darwin's Middle Road1018LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND MEDIA1026One Writer's Beginnings 1026Good Readers and Good Writers 1032NORTHROP FRYE The Motive for Metaphor1037KATHA POLLITT Does a Literary Canon Matter? 1046NGUGT WA THIONG'O Decolonizing the Mind1053ADRIENNE RICH When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-visionVIRGINIA WOOLF In Search of a Room of One's Own 1074JOHN UPDIKE Little Lightnings1085Moving Along 1087SCOTT MCCLOUDUnderstanding Comics 1091SUSAN SONTAG A Century of Cinema1097EUDORA WELTYVLADIMIR NABOKOVSUSAN ALLEN TOTHANTHONY LANEGoing to the MoviesThe Sound of Music106111051108TERRY TEACHOUTThe Beatles Now 1115AARON COPLANDHOW We Listen1121Prose Forms: Fables and Parables 1126The Frogs Desiring a King 1127The Allegory of the Cave 1128JESUS Parables of the Kingdom 1131ZEN PARABLES Muddy Road, A Parable, Learning to Be SilentAESOPPLATOMARK TWAINThe War Prayer11351134

xivCONTENTSPHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIONLANGSTON HUGHESANDRE ACIMANRITA DOVE1139Salvation 1139In a Double Exile1141The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians 1144DANIEL C. DENNETTROBERT GRAVESCommon-Sense ReligionMythology11531160Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 1164MARTHA NUSSBAUM The Idea of World Citizenship in Greekand Roman Antiquity 1174VIRGINIA WOOLF The Death of the Moth 1188ANNIE DILLARD Sight into Insight 1190GILBERT HIGHET The Mystery of Zen 1201JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Existentialism 1209HENRY DAVID THOREAUAUTHORS1219PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTSGENRES INDEX1259RHETORICAL INDEXTHEMATIC INDEXINDEX1273126312691251

CONTENTS PREFACE XV INTRODUCTION: Reading and Writing with The Norton Reader xx PERSONAL REPORT 1 CHANG-RAE LEE Coming Home Again 1 JOAN DIDION On Going Home 9 ANDREA BARRETT A Hole in the Wall 12 LARS EIGHNER On Dumpster Diving 20 WALLACE STEGNER The Dump Ground 29 MAYA ANGELOU Graduation 34 ZORA NEALE HURSTON HOW It Feels to Be Colored Me 43 ALBERTO ALVARO Rfos Green Cards 47