This summary provides an overview of three documents. The first document is an editorial by Mitch Albom arguing that it is the person, not guns or society, that is responsible for violence. The second document by Joan Pagan discusses the large amount of food wasted in America each year. The third document discusses two quotes from the memoir "An American Childhood" by Annie Dillard. The first quote relates to getting swept away by books, while the second discusses the difficulties of growing up and having to do things that bore or infuriate a teenager.

1. EDITORIALS
By: Katie Grant

2. Its not just guns and society.
It’s the person.
Im America we have the right to
bear arms, but many people
oppose this because guns can be
dangerous. But guns do not have
a brain and can’t pull their own
trigger, people kill people, not
guns.
http://www.freep.com/article/20120722/COL01/207220526/Mitch-Albom-
It-s-not-just-guns-and-society-It-s-the-person

3. Its not just guns and society.
It’s the people.
To “buy” the audience the
author, Mitch Albon, uses “And when a mind snaps evil, that's when
emotional examples to prove easy gun availability becomes a factor; that's
his point. He talks about when violent images may fuel the imagination;
previous shootings and how it that's when an alienating society may fan the
was the person and not the murderous flames” (Albon).
gun.
I agree wholeheartedly with Albon. When something is illegal,
that doesn’t mean it goes away. If someone wants to murder,
they would be able to find a gun.

4. About that steak on your plate.
By: Joan Pagan
About that steak on your
plate talks about the
amount of food and energy
people waste.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-23/news/ct-edit-food-20120823_1_food-
waste-food-items-blueberries

5. About that Steak on your Plate
The author
uses direct
facts and “Americans waste $165 billion in food items each
year. The average family tosses 20 pounds per
statistics to person, per month” (Pagan).
prove her
point.
I totally believe the argument. people waste so much food every day! At lunch I’ll
see people throw away half of what they bought. All of the energy put into that
food was just wasted. In my house, I would say there is definitely food waste. The
author does a good job persuading people that food waste is a problem because
she uses you as an example.YOU wasted the energy and money.YOU throw away
about 20 pounds per month.

6. An American Childhood
Quote:
“Books swept me away,
one after the other, this
way and that; I made
endless vows according
to their lights, for I
believed them” (Dillard,
85).

7. Book
quote review:
I believe this quote to be brilliant. I can
totally relate to this quote because I love
to read and think that every book is a new
adventure I can be there with the
characters. Okay, well not every book, but
the books I like. I make promises to the
characters and try to be like them, I make
“endless vows” too. Books stay with me
even after I’m done with them. I think
about the stories and how I would change
it or what I would do, all the time.

8. Quote #2
“On my last visit, I was
fifteen. Everything I was
required to do, such as sit at
a table with other people,
either bored me to fury or
infuriated me to a kind of
benumbed lethargy. I was
finding it difficult-finished
with everything I knew and
ignorant of anything
else” (Dillard, 218).

9. Quote #2 review:
I found this quote, not brilliant, but
important. Every single adult has
gone through this and every child
will. When the expectations of you
change and you have to grow up.
Of course, everyones story is
different. Some kids have to grow
up and take care of their younger
siblings. Or, like Anne Dillard, it
would simply be having to stay and
visit with family rather than
running around, having fun.