Fely Rose B.

Samson December 13, 2019

XI- STEM Service Critique Paper

The book is entitled ‘The Man in the Mirror’ Solving the 24 Problems Men
Face written in 1989 by Patrick Morley, a business leader, a premier Christian
men’s leader, a speaker and a best-selling author of twenty-one books. This book
gives a deep purpose, meaning and relationship with God. It is a forthright
viewpoint on the 24 obstacles that men encounter from a man who watched on
his own mirror and dislike what he saw. When a man stares in the mirror and come
up with difficult questions that include our individuality, on how we manage the
time, our prospect to money, relationships to others and our disposition. It offers a
probing, practical and life-changing outlook of manhood. We can discover our
perception about ourselves, to know the God’s plans for you and to meet a
friend. It reveals truths and helps a Christian man to live his role.
Upon reading this book, it gives me chills for it is a life-changing book. It is a
highly recommended book for the reason that it is indicating the problems that
all men faced. The author used the real-life events to make biblical insights. It has
interesting questions, biblical perceptions, and anecdotes in each chapter that
are might be suitable for a person or group of people.
This book helped numerous men in finding profound importance and
accompany more balanced lives. Each chapter has different topics and factual
struggles of a manhood. It gives us guidelines on how to keep our main focus to
our God which is a pragmatic one. It is beneficial to every man because it speaks
to all men who are serious growing up as Christian men and it shows how real man
looks like.
This book may be written specifically for men, but it is not only a great book
to men but also to the women. Women, especially the married ones, somewhat
can gain a lot of insights about marriage. It can help them somehow to
understand their husband on what they are thinking and everything that goes on
in their life. It has ideas that are useful to men to think deeply and talk about their
lives. It also helps the men to determine on what life’s real priorities are. It helps to
understand all the why’s, how’s, what’s in life and fix all the wrong ones. It helped
thousands of men to find their purpose, direction and the point of life. It is really
an influential book, that is why it is a strongly recommended book, especially for
those people who are looking for a change.
However, there are a lot of statements that have been repeated which it
can lose interest to read. Also, some parts of this book are hard to understand. As
a student, I do not have that much knowledge about issues between husband
and wife. Also, it is somewhat like a business text book that has charts and figures,
where I find it too complicated to understand. People, like or even me, who have
not encountered these kinds of charts and figures ever before, who have not
been through this kind of education, may not relate or understand.
There are claims that do not have supporting ideas, which is a wrong move.
Also, at some point, some single men may find this book unhelpful for it talks about
marriage life, maybe some will understand, but it must consider the subject, which
is the ‘men’. It is also having sensitive topics for it have some callous statements
that talk about suicide and depression which is not a good idea, especially to
those people that are so conservative and insensitive.
There is a passage where it became biased for it talks about inequality
between women and men, where the statement is “men should be the
breadwinners, women should raise the family”. Also, there are parts that put things
in prospect that just didn’t apply at all. In the part of financial section, mentioning
the 10-percent tithe is said to be as caliber of believers, where it comes from the
Old Testament Jewish Law that was fundamentally an income tax system that it is
not appropriate to our giving recently. It is somewhat more than that 10-percent.
We are ordered to be generous and give what our hearts can give. No fix
percentage are set. We are commanded to support the church, priests, those
who are in need and those who are sick. We must help as much as we can,
because that is what true Christians are. The book is somewhat wrong in that part
that gives confusion to men.
If you will be writing something, I suggest to avoid from repeating the
statements that can lead to redundancy. As a reader, it might be a reason to lose
interest to continue reading. Paraphrasing is one of the methods to avoid this
problem. Next one, is when you will present complex ideas, make sure to consider
your readers. It simply means that you should elaborate more those ideas for your
readers to be able to understand what you are trying to convey and to be not
confused. Other suggestion is to avoid presenting false information for the reason
that it can lead to confusions and fallacy. A book is one of the sources to gain
information and knowledge, fallacy and fabrication should not be included.
When writing, putting supporting details is a must to have strong claims to
persuade your readers by putting claims that are strong enough. Also, when you
will be writing, you should consider that other side of the reader, which is to give
you readers authentic content that they need and to not be biased. You should
also consider the accurateness of something and researching might be a help to
avoid fallacy. Lastly, presenting ideas that are applicable to life can help your
work be better. These ideas must be useful to your readers to persuade them.
These are just few suggestions when reading and writing something. As a writer,
we must read and read for us to be improved.