Suffian Stevens

Suffian Stevens achieved a metaphoric analysis of the education system without directly stating it. I thought the most thought provoking situation was when I realized that the child was learning to read from food labels in a grocery store. I thought it was both ridiculous and ingenious at the same time. I wondered what good would chemical and ingredient names do a chidl in learning to read? But then I thought that that was the irony. That he could write an introduction like this and have learned to read form a grocery store. By no means was I believer of such a ridiculous claims.

Not to mention his reading of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I was no believer of teh fact that he had read all 3,568 pages in one night. When I attempted to even read some of such a book I was bored and didn't get far at all. In retrospect when I have read books I am interest in, at most I can read a book of 1,000 pages in about a day, but to more than triple that? I don't think I was expected to eblieve that he read that book in one nigh, that is part of the irony- that this is a book of unrequired reading and he read a very large novel. I figure there is more to his fake reading than there is to believe he actualy did read it- that each and every story has a point- a thought provoking factor.