follow-up for the previous reading text

1. Circle the thesis statement. How does Golding classify people?
Golding divides people into three categories: grade-three thinkers, grade-two thinkers, and grade-one thinkers.

2. Underline the topic sentence of each body paragraph.
According to Golding, 90 percent of the population represents the largest category, called grade-three thinkers.

These grade-two thinkers, who make up 9 percent of the population, see corruption in the world

The remaining 1 percent of the population are what Golding calls grade-one thinkers.



3. How does the author describe 90 percents of the population? The remaining 9 percent? The final 1 percent?
90 percent refer to the people who are docile,whose follow orders and they obey other people's wishes. the remaining 9 percent represent to dictator who see the corruption of the world and the final one refer to the population who are what Golding calls grade-one thinkers. They not only see corruption, but they also know how to seek truth

4. Underline the examples used in the third body paragraph to describe "Grade-one thinkers."
Mozart, Michelangelo, and Einstein

5. What is the writer's opinion of Golding's essay? In which paragraph do you find this opinion?
the last paragraph.
Golding may prefer to believe that intelligence prevents people in the top tenth percentile of the population from following political dictators, but the number of doctors, teachers, lawyers, and writers in many countries who were willing supporters of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao shows that this belief is incorrect.

6. What support (facts, examples) are used in the conclusion to argue the writer's point of view?
Sometimes the common sense and compassion of the ordinary man is all that stands between civilization and barbarism.