Themes
The disadvantages that Gladwell suggests Goliath may have suffered from this condition affecting his vision.
What is Acromegaly?
“The Italians say, “Dalle stelle alle stalle” (“from stars to stables”). In Spain it’s “Quien no lo tiene, lo hance; y quien lo tiene, lo deshance”(51).
What is a foreign language?
“One of the ways to test for the presence of dyslexia in a small child is to have him engage in “rapid automatized naming.” Show him one color after another—a red dot, then a green dot, then a blue dot, then a yellow dot—and check his response. See the color. Recognize the color. Attach a name to the color. Say the name” (100)
What is mirror the cognitive experience of a dyslexic child by breaking a normally fluid process into its painful, halting steps.
Bar graph on page 216
What is Logos?
In chapter 2, “He was at the point where money starts to make the job of raising normal and well-adjusted children more difficult. The parenting graph looks like this” (Gladwell 52)
What is an inverted-U curve?
“And remember what Walker said? I wasn’t really thinking much a nothing, you know. When it happens, it happens, you know. It just happened suddenly. We were just out doing what we do. I mean, that’s all I can tell you”(242).
What is past speech?
Shift in sentence length (30, 40 section 1)
What is syntax itself enact the emptying out of the school?
“My mother, who is West Indian, was taught Anansi stories as a child and told them to my brothers and me when we were young. Anansi is a rascal, who is not above cheating and sacrificing his own children (of which he invariably has many) for his own ends. My mother is a proper Jamaican lady, but on the subject of Anansi she becomes the picture of mischief” (Gladwell 170).
What is Ethos?
“But so much of what is beautiful and valuable in the world comes from the shepherd, who has more strength and purpose than we ever imagine.”(275)
What is underdog actually has an advantage?
“But Clear’s point is that if you lock up too many people for too long, the collateral damage starts to outweigh the benefit”(446)
What is emphasis?
Passage with short, declarative sentences. (71, 72)
What is mirror how Salon usually judges and ranks the artists in an authoritative and clipped tone
“His mother was not. He saw her lying lifeless thirty feet away” (Gladwell 274).
What is Pathos?
“What the Israelites saw, from high on the ridge, was an intimidating giant. In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness, battles with all kinds of giants. The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem.”(14-15)
What is too much power as a disadvantage?
“Lawrence writes in Seven Pillars of Wisdom about one stage in the journey”(24).
What is a title?
“Usually you get a diagnosis at eight or nine,” she went on. “And we find that by that point, there are already a lot of serious psychological implications, because by that time, you’ve been struggling for three years. Maybe you were the cool kid on the playground when you were four. Then you entered kindergarten and all your peers suddenly started reading, and you can’t figure it out. So you get frustrated. Your peers may think you’re stupid. Your parents may think you’re lazy. You have very low self-esteem, which leads to an increased rate of depression. Kids with dyslexia are more likely to end up in the juvenile system, because they act up. It’s because they can’t figure things out. It’s so important in our society to read.”
You wouldn’t wish dyslexia on your child. Or would you?
What is a pivot point to close up the section about disadvantages and opening up the one talking about oftentimes unseen advantages?
“Seventy-five and eighty children were packed into cells intended for eight” (Gladwell 188).
What is Logos?
In chapter 1, the opponent team can be compared to this character when Ranadive said, “he played basketball the way basketball is supposed to be played, and in the end they lost (Gladwell 38).
What is Goliath?
“Please, Brer Connor, please. Whatever you do, don’t throw me in the briar patch. And of course that’s just what Connor did.” (183)
What is a quote from a story
“If we were asked if we would wish a childhood like Freireich’s on anyone, we would almost certainly say no because we could not imagine that any good could come of it. You can’t have a remote miss from that kind of upbringing. Or can you?”
What is question and sentence length?
The “Big Five” is the standard that social psychologists use to measure personality. Social scientists are not always big fans of personality tests like, say, the Myers-Briggs, because they think those “lay” tests overlook key traits or mischaracterize others” (Gladwell 116).
What is Ethos?