History of Geek Civilization
...hey need is in the computers. People became more dependent on computers and slowly reading is taken for granted. With the A History of Geek Civilization, the writer told the readers as what according to her is the meaning of geek. She said that reading books at an early age is a sure symptom of being a geek. Many believed that being a geek is being a genius but she said that although she reads a lot, there is no guarantee that you’re going to get good grades because based from the writer’s experience, she only got good grades in literature but not in physics, chemistry or even math. In short, she believed that reading would not guarantee good grades. She also said that people who make fun of those who read are illiterate. As for Between Sherman and Shakespeare, I think if not for reading, people won’t be motivated to write—people won’t dream of becoming the next Rizal and write the second Noli or be the Filipino version of Shakespeare. I think because of what they have read, people appreciate the work of the great writers and they are dreaming to be like them. The attitude of the essay Interactive towards writing is that even though a person is surrounded by books (just like the son of De Quiros) you are not guaranteed that you’ll be able to also write, an example of this is the son of the writer, I think the boy wasn’t influenced by his dad to write because he is into computer. So this only shows that even if someone in your home were a writer, you would possibly be a writer also. In the essay Sherman and Shakespeare, the writer of the essay said that writers are not born, and writing can be taught with the help of different workshops regarding writing. But to be a writer, according to the essay, one should have a more than adequate facility with the language, an artist’s sensibility, and determination to plod at ...