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Submitted by Valz03 on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Unofficial Advice
In "Speech for a High School Graduate," Roger Rosenblatt offers up several tidbits of what he considers good advice for his son who is graduating from high school. He lets the reader know early in the essay that this is not going to be the usual advice given by the "official speaker" at the graduation ceremony (98). Most of the suggestions the author offers make sense to me. While some of the ideas don't seem as important as other, I can honestly say that I am in agreement with what Rosenblatt tells his son, and I would give these same bits of wisdom to my own son.
One piece of advice Rosenblatt gives his son concerns the importance of institutions. He says "Believe in institutions—governments, universities, families, all that" (98). But then he tempers this advice with some caution, reminding his son to "Believe in institutions, but do not marry them" (98). Institutions are important to me too. As the author points out, they help to balance society, and they are useful, but we must " . . . keep a safe distance" from them (98). In other words, they have an important place in our lives, but we must look beyond the mere institution to something else that is important—our "home", or as Rosenblatt calls it, "Where you live" (98). By this, I think he means the real essence of each of us as an individual. No institution should take the place of how we value ourselves in our natural, true modes. We cannot let institutions
have absolute rule over us; we must be true to ourselves, aside from the school or whatever other institutions we are a part of.
Next, Rosenblatt gives a bit of advice that might be taken the wrong way without the reader's careful consideration. He offers "As far as how you live, be out of things as much as possible" (98). He asserts...
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