Summary And Synthesis Of Mike Roses Lives On The Boundary

Summary and Synthesis of Mike Rose's "Lives on the Boundary"

Carl Woodward's article in the Battalion relating to the idea that undergraduates do not care about
important issues is on average totally inaccurate. "Lives on the Boundary", an excellent, informative essay
by Mike Rose is a great example of how and why education should be equal for everyone. My fellow
classmates and I mostly agree with Mike Rose's essay and disagree with Carl Woodward's opinion. We
care about important issues and think that education should be equal for all.
When Mike Rose was growing up he had only a few books available to him so he began to buy
comic books because he "loved the heroes' virtuous omnipotence." And after comic books he moved to
other items such as the instructions to his chemistry set and science fiction novels. He wrote very little in
his schooling until his last year of high school where a teacher helped him find an interest in doing so.
Although he was a good reader he did inefficiently on literacy tests. It can be said that he only thought
about the concrete reality. Basically he was only educated by what entertained him, like Elizabeth Ewen's
quote says (Rose 98-99).
Rose further goes on in his essay to explain the circumstances of immigrants in our country and
their struggle of learning the english language in order to improve their life style. He says "a failed
education is social more then intellectual in origin." For example he explains the es...

Summary And Synthesis Of Mike Roses Lives On The Boundary

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