Questions about logic (logos)
1. what are the major claims or assertions made in this reading)
do you agree with the author's claim that people who try to
look different are really looking for attention and approval from
society? explain your answer.
2. do any claims appear to be weak or unsupported? which ones?
what makes you think they are unsupported?
3. what counterarguments does the author not consider?
4. do you think the author has left something out on purpose?
explain your answer.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.