What made them funny to you

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To participate in this unit's discussion, please choose 2 of the prompts below, and craft a 1-2 paragraph response to each prompt. Remember that your instructor is interested in your ideas, interpretation, and analysis, so take your time to craft a thoughtful response! There are many possible "good answers" to each of these prompts. Choose the prompts that most interest you. Please tell your classmates which prompts you are responding to!

Question 1: Plato's "The Allegory Of The Cave" has proven to be one of the most important texts of Western culture. Plato's allegory can be dense and intimidating, but at its heart, "The Allegory Of The Cave" is a straightforward parable about the power of knowledge. Let's think about Plato's work as a story about learning. Who or what is doing the learning in Plato's allegory? What is being learned? What happens as a consequence of this learning? And what does Plato's allegory suggest about the nature of learning, education, and knowledge? How do you know?

Question 2: David Sedaris is usually described as a humorist, meaning that his purpose as a writer is to make his readers laugh. Did you find Sedaris's essay funny? If so, what specific moments in the essay were most funny? What made them funny to you, exactly? Besides humor, Sedaris seems to describe something important about the nature of learning -- what is that? To Sedaris, what is learning best compared to?

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