In class we are assigned a reading, and we read and annotate it for homework and post the response and pictures of the annotation here.
In Kenneth Haltman’s writing on the candlestick telephone, he spends a lot of time describing the materials and the look of the phone. On the first page he begins with how he is “notorious” for not liking phones. That can lead the reader to believe he was going to start talking about the phone and how it is useless, but then he talks about the phone and says he likes being in control of it because it is useless and no one will call him. His writing flows in that direction, where the reader doesn’t know where it is going. Then the description of the phone lasts for so long that it becomes hard to keep focus on what the essay is about or what he is talking about. His writing is good, I wish he took out where he said he is notorious for not liking phones, especially because the object he is talking about isn’t even a functional phone.
