SAMPLE CRITICAL LENS STATEMENTS:

1. It is not what an author says, but what he or she whispers, that is important.

----Logan Pearsall Smith

2. When writers write from a place of insight and real caring about the truth, they have the ability to throw the lights on for the reader.----Anna Lamott

3. Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through.---Alexamder Solzhenitsyn

4. In literature, evil often triumphs but never conquers.

5. What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

6. All literature is protest. You can't name a single literary work that isn't protest.

7. What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.