Emily T. Period 3

Madden has an interesting viewpoint on essays. He begins his writing with a quote from his college professor asking him what he was planning on doing with his writing once he runs out of ideas. He gave a clever answer by saying that having children provides plenty of funny and interesting stories. Being able to write from your experiences helps create an eventful story. I find it interesting how he focuses on foreign words that he had been taught. He includes words like “amanuensis” and phrases like “la vida cotidiana” and incorporates that into his style of writing. I really enjoyed how he included bits and pieces of different writers writing. It lets the reader, aka us, read others point of views that isn’t just the authors. I found it interesting how he also wrote about the common topics that people write about like death and breakups and how his students couldn't move past writing about those kinds of topics. All in all, Madden is an interesting writer.