roman’s blog

I didn’t realize the entire picture about bias until we’ve learned that everything written has a bias of some form or another. The written work we went over in class this past week has had some clear and obvious example of bias especially from first story from the ‘Old Favorites of the McGuffey Readers.’ Summed up, the author in it insists that he/she knows the exact definition of an ‘honest’ boy and a ‘thief’ and also the punishments and rewards for both. Obviously through the context of all the other stories and some of the occasional biblical parallels make it pretty obvious that the author is writing from a form of Christian perspective. When talking about the thief who stole an orange and got kicked by a horse, the author describes the publics reaction to situation as him having been “… rightly served’ (104). But was it really a fair punishment or does the author just think that? Maybe this is stemming from what the author has been taught in his lifetime about specific rewards for good deeds aka, something from the bible or other religious teachings. It is also interesting to look for the settle biases because they seem to sometimes say more about the author than other ones. I’ve also noticed that bias can be easily spotted in the form of an adjective and in how which words an author chooses describe a person or an event.