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English 10/10H
Critical Lens worksheet #2
Directions: Read each of the critical lens statements and provide an interpretation of each one (in your own words) in the space provided.
1. “If there is no struggle, there can be no progress.” --Frederick Douglass
2. “A thread runs through all things: all worlds are strung on it as beads: and men, and events, and life, come to us, only because of that thread.” -- Emerson
3. “And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything you risk even more.” –Erica Jong
4. “The difficulty in life is the choice.” --George Moore
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