Writing Workshop - Review "Guns for Teachers"

Instructions

This week, you will read Warren Bowe's "Guns for Teachers" (p. 68). Your workshop reviews should focus on how Bowe creates this narrator's voice. What can you say about this narrator? Do you know the gender? The age? What's the narrator's attitude toward the topic? Your goal is to zero in on what works for you in the piece of writing and what doesn't work. As in last week's workshop, it's not enough to simply identify this; you must be able to explain your responses. This is a bit tricky. Because good writing is an art as well as a craft, the whole will always be more than the sum of its partswhich is to say that a piece of writing will almost never be fully unraveled and dissected to reveal all its secrets. However, writers are always interested in learning what they can!

Answer

Review "Guns for Teachers"Warren Bowe's "Guns for Teachers" is a good example of good American sarcasm. The idea of passing a new bill is discussed that requires teachers to carry sidearms with them in school. On the surface, Bowe seems to support the ludicrous idea, but peering into the text closer, one finds humorous comments of sarcasm and irony questioning the rationality of the concept. Look closely at the narrator's voice, Bowe presents a persona who sees logic in the gun-toting teacher's idea. However, the gender of the narrator is not depicted clearly, but it can be likened to a young male. Besides, the statement, "most important, how threatening would students need to be before we get to shoot them?" (Bowe, 2010 p. 68), is the biggest issue in passing such a bill. What if a mental...
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