<p>How can I do better on the easy questions for Critical Reading? When I looked at the score report, I had gotten 4 easy questions, 2 medium questions, and 1 hard question wrong. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?</p>
<p>Also, did I really deserve an 11 for my essay? Now that I can reread it, it seems awfully inadequate. Here it is on the bottom.</p>
<p>Is it sometimes necessary to be impolite? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<pre><code>It is necessary to be impolite in order to achieve a specific goal. This is evidenced in various novels and movies of today.
For example, in the novel The Scarlet Letter written by Romantic Author Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main character, Hester Prynne, must go to her city’s mayor and reverend in order to keep custody of her daughter, Pearl. The mayor believes that Hester is an unfit parent because she does not conform to the rules and restrictions of her Puritan society, and so she has to argue and persuade him by negotiating with the Reverend, Arthur Dimmesdale. Although she made rude and impolite statements, Hester was able to persuade Dimmesdale and the mayor to allow her to keep custody of Pearl. If she remained passive, however, she would have lost custody of her daughter, and would have lived a life of misery. Thus, impoliteness allowed her to attain her goal of keeping her daughter.
In addition, in the novel The Kite Runner by author Khaled Hoesinni, impoliteness is needed in order to find a specific person that was in danger. Amir, the main character, needed to find Sohrab, the son of his former friend Hassan. However, after the rise of terrorist groups in the country of Afghanistan, Assef, on of the major political terrorist leaders, had boughtSohrab froma poor orphanage in the city. But when Amir arrived at the orphanage, the owner was reluctant to give out any information of the terrorist regime that ruled the area.In order for Amir to receive the information, he had to threaten and yell at him. Only then would the orphanage owner lead him to Sohrab, and therefore, indirectly saving the orphan’s life.
Lastly, the movie The Wrestler also shows why it is necessary to be impolite. The main character, Robin Ramzinski, wanted to repair a damaged relationship with his daughter, Stephanie. However, she had shunned him out of her life, and refused to speak with him. In order for Robin to finally repair the relationship, he has to go to her house, uninvited, to talk with her. Although they argued for a long period of time, they finally mended the relationshiop. Therefore, impoliteness, indeed, is sometimes necessary to achieve a goal.
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