Week 4

Please choose one of the following quotes and respond to it in two fully developed, edited paragraphs. In the first paragraph, explain what you think the speaker means. In the second, explain how the quote relates to the book you are currently reading.

“Good literature substitutes for experience which we have not ourselves lived
through.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

This is due before school starts on Monday, May 3rd, 2010.