Day: October 17, 2016

In this essay I will be explaining how Ron suskind presents the difficulties of cedrics education in part one and two of his articles. Cedric goes through many diffuculties when in ballou high and in MIT, in ballou high violence, drugs and gangs and in MIT peer pressure, confidence and hard work. Throughout the articles suskind uses various language devices that suggest it was difficult for Cedric to maintain his education.

One of the devices suskind uses is metaphors. He uses this in article one, this can be seen here “the arduous odyssey of Cedric” this suggests that cedrics succes is s long, rough journey. I know this because the word ‘ardous’ means a long or hard struggle; then the word odyssey is taken from the Greek myth which tells the story of a man who goes on a tough long journey. This links to cedrics duffulcities in school because it’s suggesting that Cedric hasn’t got an easy journey in school, he has a hard one

Similarly, where the metaphor “the arduous journey” speaks  about Cedric facing diffulcites on his own, in article 2 rob suskind does the same. This can bee seen here  “for Cedric MIT has taken on almost mythic proportions” This suggests Cedrics individual difficulties. This also suggests that Cedric believes that him being in MIT is unreal, I know this because the author says “mythic proportions”.