English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 112

Garland uses some colorful images to communicate her ideas. For instance, in paragraph 5 she writes, "Finally [the troublemakers] are bumped off the conveyor belt at the end of twelfth grade, oftentimes barely literate, and passed into society as high school graduates. What does the image of a conveyor belt imply about schools and about the troublemakers What do the quotation marks around high school graduates imply