Chapter 8 Reflection -Phillip Niewald

Chapter 8 of The  Curious Writer was mainly about writing a critical essay. A critical essay is defined in many different diciplines as an essay which makes an argument for a certain interpretation of something, typically a critical analysis. One of the things i found interesting from this chapter was how the author stresses the importance of looking at all angles of an argument. A good critical paper considers the other points of view other than just the on which it is trying to convey.
Another part of the chapter I enjoyed was the short story, “Lullaby” by Leslie Marmon Silko. The story described a Navajo native woman named Ayah, who lost all of her children. She lost her oldest son, Jimmie in the Army and later her other two children, Danny and Ella, were taken away from her by white doctors. She mournes by going into the hills with Jimmies old Army blanket and singing to herself. I think that the song she sings to herself is very deep and interesting. It contains alot of refrences to Navajo culture by personifying  nature and its processes. I thought that this was a veryu interesting way for the writer to end the piece.