Write a five-paragraph critique of the article provided based on the following five categories and answer the questions:
Questions of Author:
1. What is the main idea of the article?
2. What seem to be the authors perceived situation and the strategic response (that is, what is the purpose for writing?)
3. How does the author conceive his/her role? What persona, or mask, does the author put on: scholar, scientist, prophet, reformer, poet, judge, chronicler, wit, or what?
4. What mood or tone does the author write in? Does this change?
Questions of Craft:
5. How is the article structured? Is it structured around a central theme? Individuals? Religions? Movements? Situations?
6. What single word (or two-word phrase) best crystallized the article? Why?
7. How does the author give substance to the explanations? (by appeals chiefly to facts, logic, sentiment, ideology, tradition, values?)
Questions of Explanation:
8. What kinds of connections does the author make among the disparate levels of experience? And how? (e.g., literature with history, politics with art, novels with popular culture, the individual with the larger social environment, event with motives and consequences)
9. What is the authors basic locus of cultural reality? What is the locus of control? (How does he/she locate where the action is in ideas? In politics? In lifestyles?)
10. How does the author explain what moves people? What are the shaping forces?
Conclusion:
11. Is the article positive or negative? Why?
12. What two things did you learn from the article?
13. How would you have improved the article? For example, would a diagram, a better definition, or more examples have improved the article?
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