I love the way this essay
begins by describing the school and giving multiple examples of how this school is
different from other schools. In the first paragraph, the school is
being described as "a small desert college in the American West" in then goes into detail about the students of this school's students: "for which young men at
eighteen are plucked from the East and delivered to a campus surrounded by
mountains, the size of Manhattan, closed off from the world by a series of
cliffs, honor, dehydration cattle guards, mountain lions, community censure,
nearly fifty-three miles to the next human outpost, and the lure, at eighteen,
of a world behind walls where boys can be boys,".
As I read D'Agata's essay, it made me think of a piece of literature entitled Lord Of The Flies because of the setting. The description
throughout this essay is very vivid and I could definitely compare the essay to what it said college was like. The essay talked about meetings, Student Council and Greek life. John D'Agata did a phenomenal job at expressing the details of college in this essay.
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