We read and close read Arthur Millers blog called Tragedy and the Common man. I'm going to be completely honest, his article is a disaster. I have no idea what hes talking about. I've read it so many times through, each time very carefully and thinking hard. We even talked about it a lot in class. I even have Sana's paper with everything she highlighted on it and I still have literally no clue. I just can not wrap my brain around it. He's talking about tragedy and how there aren't as many of them written today. I have no idea what his main point is. There seems to be no structure to his article. Now some people would read this and talk about how great and smart it is, and how well written it is because he doesn't follow the boring 5 paragraph structure and he doesn't plan state his thesis and stuff. Now I'm fine with that part, but I'd argue that the paper is not well written if almost nobody can understand it. Almost the whole class read it many times, and nobody had any idea what it's talking about. Most people are just BSing it. And were in AP Lit, we're supposed to know what we're doing. But, some people would argue we aren't his audience, and he's only writing for the people extremely into literature and who would be able to understand and appreciate this nonsense. I understand we're there coming from. Anyways, I have read this thing so many times and the only thing I can get from it is tragedy applies to everyone (the common man) and not just kings and rich people. I think he then goes on to back explain why.
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