Reaching Out The two essays, "The Sanctuary of School," by Lynda Barry and "'I Just Wanna Be Average,'" by Mike Rose, are two essays concerned with children and the way a school system affects a child's life. Barry and Rose use situations in their own life to help readers understand their point of view. The responsibility of parents, the assertiveness of their teachers, and the way they used their unique situations to help solve …showed first 75 words of 1048 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1048 total…Barry and Rose are laudable people whose personal experiences and tribulations helped shape them into the auspicious people they are. Works Cited: Barry, Linda. "The Sanctuary of School". The Brief Arlington Reader: Canon and Contexts. Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom and Louise Z. Smith. New York: St. Martin's, 2004. 301-11. Rose, Mike. "'I Just Wanna Be Average'". The Brief Arlington Reader: Canon and Contexts. Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom and Louise Z. Smith. New York: St. Martin's, 2004. 311-19.