READING THE WHOLE ESSAY

By:
Group III
A. Definition Of Essay
In the Big Indonesian Language Dictionary
(KBBI), an essay is a prose essay that discusses a problem
at a glance from the author’s personal point of view. In
general, an essay is a prose writing that presents a subjec-
tive-personal idea about a problem based on the author’s
personal point of view. In other words, an essay is a
writing containing someone’s opinion or opinion on an
actual problem or attracting attention.
B. Note On Reading The Whole Essay
Regarding the note reading the whole essay, there are several princi-
ples of good reading, which have been put into practice, namely:
1. Force yourself to read slightly faster than it seems comfortable. Rapid reading
actually help you to concentrate better on ideas and the relations between ideas, for
you will not have time to concern yourself with individual words.
2. As you read, try to get a sense of the writer’s organization. Look for the central
ideas, but do not neglect the supporting detail which the writer uses to reach his
conclusions or support his argument
3. Do not stop if you come to an familiar word. Continue your reading, and it is
very likely that the rest of the sentence (the context) will make the meaning of the
new word clear to you.
4. Do not allow yourself to go back and reread words and phrases. Start with the
idea that you will comprehend everything the frits time, and you will soon lose the
habit of going back over parts of the material you have already read .
 C. The Comedian: Charlie Chaplin
By: Ann Douglas

Every few weeks, outside the movie theater in virtually any American town in the late 1910’s, stood the
life-size cardboard figure of a small tramp-outfitted in tattered, baggy pants, a cutaway coat and vest, impossibly large,
worn-out shoes and a battered derby hat-bearing the inscription I AM HERE TODAY. An advertisement for a Charlie
Chaplin film was a promise of happiness, of that previous, almost shocking moment when art delivers what life can -
not, when experience and delight become synonymous, and our investments yield the fabulous, unmerited bonanza we
never get past expecting.
Eighty years later, Chaplin is still here. In a 1995 worldwide survey of film critics, Chaplin was voted the
greatest actor in movie history. He was the first, and to date the last, person to control every aspect of the filmmaking
process-founding his own studio, United Artists, with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D.W.Griffith, and pro -
ducing, casting, directing, writing, scoring, and editing the movies he starred in. In the firs decades of the 20 th century,
when weekly movie a national habit, Chaplin more or less invented global recognizability and helped turn an indus -
try into an art. In 1916, his third year in films, his salary of $10,000 a week made him the highest paid actor –possi -
bly the highest paid person-in the world.
Connection…...
Born in London in1889 Chaplin spent his childhood in shabby furnished rooms, state poorhouse and
an orphanage. He was never sure who his real father was; his mother’s husband Charles Chaplin a singer, deserted,
the family early and died of alcoholism in 1901. His mother Hannah, a small-time actress, was in and out of mental
hospitals. Though he pursued learning passionately in later years, young Charlie left school at 10 to work as a
mime and roustabout on the British vaudeville circuit. The poverty of his early years inspired the Tramp’s trade -
mark costume, a creative travesty of formal dinner dress suggesting the authoritative adult reimagined by a
clear-eyed child, the guilty class reinvented in the image of the innocent one. His ”little fellow” was the expres -
sion of a wildly sentimental, deeply felt allegiance to rags over riches by the stars of the century’s most conspicu -
ous Horatio Alger scenario.
Thank you