Write an Essay after
reading the book Attached_ The New Science of Adult
Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love (2010, Penguin) by Amir Levine
and Rachel Heller.
It can be personal, but it must include at least four other sources. They could be about the author, about the author’s
other works, from interviews or other media, but they could also be from other
experts on the same topic area or other concepts you want to talk about in
relation to your book. They must be, as always, quality sources and cited
properly.
Here’re two example source for reference:
Attached – How Your Childhood Impacts Your Relationships!
https://bookwritten.com/attached-by-amir-levine-and-rachel-s-f-heller-review/1795/
Are You Anxious, Avoidant or Secure?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/style/anxious-avoidant-secure-attached-book.html
The paper should
include what you learned from the book, how it applies to your life, how it
made you think and feel, and what you might understand about life differently
after reading it.
Make sure you
have a thesis/main point in the Introductory paragraph. One way to do this is to
include 3-4 points or take-away ideas from the book that you think are
important, that mattered to you, that you can apply to the real world, or that
you think other people would benefit from learning about.
For each
paragraph, start with a topic sentence. Then support your claim by providing
evidence, reasoning, or data etc. When you reference a source, it should be
sufficiently analyzed. Connect the sources with your explanation. Don’t forget the
conclusion paragraph. The narrating part of the paper should be at least four
pages(not including the outline and the Work Cited page).
Consider these
questions as you think about your approach: why you chose the book you did,
what it was about, what you learned from the book, how it applies to your life,
and if you think other people would benefit from reading it and why.
Prompts:
Post: What is
the central focus discussed in the book? What issues or ideas
does the author explore that made you choose it? Are they meeting your
expectations or surprising you? Are they personal, sociological, global,
political, economic, spiritual, medical, or scientific issues, and now that you
are reading it, are they what you expected? What is surprising you about the
book?
Post: Do the
issues affect your life, family, or community? How so—directly on a
daily basis, or more generally? Now or sometime in the future? This is a
super crucial part of the reading experience as you consider why this book
matters—or doesn’t.
Post: What evidence does the author
use to support the book’s ideas? Is the evidence convincing…definitive
or…speculative? Some of these are more science based with a lot of research.
Some or are more philosophical. Does the author depend on personal opinion,
observation, and assessment? Or is the evidence factual—based on science,
statistics, historical documents, or quotations from (credible) experts?
Some of these books are about cutting edge ideas where the theory and the proof
are still coming together.
Post: What kind of language does the author
use? Is it objective and dispassionate? Or passionate and earnest? Is it
biased, inflammatory, sarcastic? Does the language help or undercut the
author’s premise? Do the ideas or the anecdotes help you to apply them to your
life?
Post: What solutions does the author
propose? Are the author’s recommendations concrete, sensible, doable? Who would
implement those solutions?
Post: How controversial are the issues raised in the book? Who is aligned on which sides
of the issues? Where do you fall in that line-up?
Post: What are the implications for the future?
Are there long- or short-term consequences to the issues raised in the book?
Are they positive or negative…affirming or frightening? Why does this
author’s “voice” and ideas matter? How do they contribute to your
thinking and/or to how the world thinks about the topics?
Post: Talk about three specific passages that struck you
as significant—or interesting, profound, amusing, illuminating, disturbing,
sad…? What was memorable? Cite them.
Post: What have you learned after reading
this book? Has it broadened your perspective about a difficult issue—personal
or societal? Has it introduced you to new ideas? What relevance is there in the
book that might be useful for other people?
The book is in the attachment.