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Chronicles Of A Death Foretold Essay

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The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

Towards the end of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicles of a death foretold, the protagonist, an old high school teacher travels to a small Colombian school to share with the students his life experiences- the wisdom he gleaned from his years as a tutor. He posed a rhetorical question that took the crowd by surprise. The protagonist was captivated by the overweening pride people have in their images while being totally ignorant about their shortcomings. But he did put his hands on quite a puzzle: Why are people unable to look at themselves? Why are they so myopic about their weaknesses? After a moment of silence, the author himself answers this by saying that people are this way because they are never …show more content…

If we keep on encouraging a person’s good qualities while disregarding his negative actions, he may think that he is doing all right which may lead to a smug self-image - a pernicious trait. However, if we constructively criticize his actions, by explaining what is wrong and the why behind it, he will develop the quality of learning from mistakes- a paramount quality that contributes positively towards his life. For instance, Sachin Tendulkar, the god of cricket, was lambasted during the initial stages of his career. Experts thoroughly criticized his inchoate batting style. The positive approach he took at these criticisms motivated him to work hard thereby improving his batting tactics. Now history represents him as the best batsman of the 20th

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