A Discussion of Platitudinous Melee

I don't know that I've ever said I just want to be average, or nomal, or anything else of that nature. In Mike Rose's article, "I Just Wanna Be Average," he tells the stories of his classmates and his journey through the school system. Will all it's ups and downs, not to mention the plethora of attitude and personality, he makes it seem unbelievable that any of us make it through with anything that resembles an education. Were it not for one singular teacher of regard, his time spent would've been wasted entirely.

It appears that he grew up in LA going to a religious school, Catholic I supposed, where many of the teachers were underprepared, unstable, and/or lacked the authority nessecary to attain and deserve the respect required to hold the attention of a bunch of irreverent teenagers. At some point in his article, Mr Rose relinquishes complete blame on the educational system and agrees to accept some himself. At some point, however, he is presented with an unorthodox, but hip and befitting teacher that managed to pique his interest in things that matter and save him from his vocational training. This one fortunate happenstance made him into the person he would eventually become.

Mr Rose's style of writing is the kind that I appreciate most; the kind that tells a relevant story, that is flowery and full of detail, that makes me think about his perspective as well as my own, and appears to come from a different enough point of view than my own, that I get to travel to another destination and time. I appreciated his talent for diction.

I regret that I seemed to have lost what I thought was his objective somewhere early in the story, but it may be that I had a misunderstanding of where we were going.