Questions for Active Reading

Questions for Active Reading pg. 73
1. The experience that changed Smiley's belief about chores was her work at the stable. Smiley introduced her change of belief in the middle of her passage, after she states why she does not view chores as a positive thing and confesses that she was never one to do chores growing up. If Smiley had introduced her experience at the beginning of the passage I would think that she would hold a different opinion about chores.
2. Smiley supports her argument about chores by giving an if then situation. the example that she used was that if a child did not vacuum the parents would still love the child despite what the child did. She also supports her argument by describing how the child would feel while doing the chores as well as after they accomplished it. She also used her husband and support as to what she believes children who do chores will end up. She states that her husband despises doing chores and tries to hurry them up so that he can go do what he enjoys.
Since Smiley's support and evidence was not scientific nor did she include statistics or facts which shows that she is not writing to people who may be able to discontinue chores for children but to an audience who may want to try to persuade their parents to not give them chores.
3. Smiley uses rhetorical questions to get her audience to form their own opinion to have a belief of their own before hearing and understanding her point-of-view. I personally agree with Smiley not only because I'm still a child myself but also because I can relate to exactly what she says about not having to lift a finger in the house. I especially agree with what she says in regards to children growing up to just finishing their chore because they have to do it and it is not something that they enjoy doing. However, on the other hand I also agree with when children grow up and have to live by themselves as a parent I think you would want to know that your child is capable of taking care of them self. And as a child I would think there comes a time in your life that you yourself will think ok I am old enough to do certain things on my own and want to feel a sense of respoisibility.