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Bonneau
“Thinking as a Hobby”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
The easy ones. . .
1. Identify and explain the three types of thinkers.
2. Where are there tone shifts? What is the purpose if the shifts?
3. Each of the statuettes in the essay match up to a type of thinker. How would you match
them up?
And now the hard ones. . .
Explain the effect of Golding’s syntactical variation in the second paragraph.
What is Golding’s repetition of words suggesting the process of seeing?
How does Golding employ appeals to logic and emotion on his explanation of grade three thinking?
How does Golding employ appeals to logic and emotion on his explanation of grade three thinking?
What is Golding’s rhetorical point in adding the anecdote about Einstein? How does this purpose
connect to the ethical appeal in this essay?
In the second to the last paragraph, beginning “Now you are expecting me. . .” Golding ends his
sentence with a TRICOLON – a repetition of three parallel clauses. How does his syntactical choice
contribute to the meaning of his sentence?
What thematic point does Golding make by his ending, which arranges the statuettes so that “The
Thinker” is “sunk in his desperate thought. . .(with) shadows before him,” with the leopard :at his back.
. .crouched and ready to spring.”