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Socratic Seminar On Friday

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The Socratic Seminar on Friday mainly discusses how tone has a large impact on the reader’s understanding of an essay or piece of writing. One point that Juliana makes is that tone depends on the type of writing. For example, in creative and narrative writing, when an individual is writing about their experience or understanding, the tone of the essay would be more subjective. More specifically, the genre of this essay would determine the type of tone that the author establishes. In the text, “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, the tone of the story is hopeful and positive. In the text, it states, “Inside our house, each family member existed as a separate paragraph but still had…common experiences to link us” (Alexie 4). This depicts that

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