Quiet By Susan Cain Chapter Summary

Chapters 1–5 introduce an average boy who would become a remarkable man. Born in 1917, Louie Zamperini was the child of Italian immigrants. Growing up in Torrance amidst poverty and anti-Italian bias, Louie got in the habit of running outside the law. He started smoking when he was 5 years old and drinking when he was 8. He stole anything he wanted—mostly food, money, and whatever else he could find. He ran small scams and vandalized property. Pete, Louie’s older brother, became concerned.

Susan Cain, a well known and appreciated writer from America in the field of psychology, recently held a speech on one of the famous TED talks and entirely captured me by trying to give the audience an understanding of introversion.

Susan Cain’s Ted Talk The Power Of Introverts brought a new conversation to society in how introverts are treated. Five years ago (when this took place) this topic was not very well discussed, which made this piece very eye opening for some. Using Aristotle's appeals: logos and pathos, as well as a comparative argument in her ted talk, Cain persuades viewers that we as a society oppress/shame introverts, not allowing them to strive or be themselves in our now extroverted society. She advocates for a more balanced society that serves both introverts and extroverts instead of just extroverts.

In her article Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic? author Susan Cain addresses many of the preconceived notions society has against introverted people. Cain argues that society tends to favor the outgoing and extroverted and shames those who prefer to be alone rather than socialize. The author utilizes certain writing strategies as a way to change her audience’s original views surrounding introversion. Cain’s use of comparing and contrasting, specific examples, and strong transitions that bridge various ideas to each other make her argument, that introverts are essential to society, much more persuasive.

Susan Cain’s “Power of Introverts” talk was all about the importance of people who are considered introvertly inclined in our society. In her talk, she described first how her family influenced her in being an introvert. Reading is her family’s social activity and that one can roam around through his or her own imagination. She also discussed about her memorable summer camp story where she has discovered the way extrovert people live and tried to shift in this kind of life. With all these changes in her life she never left her introverted life and espoused the ideas that when it comes to creativity and leadership, the society needs introverts and the things where they excel most. She explained that introversion is how one responds to stimulation including social stimulation which is different from a person being shy – the fear of social judgment.

A famous short story, “The Quiet Man,” by Maurice Walsh, tells the tale of the protagonist, Shawn Kelvin, who must come to a resolution both internally and externally throughout the story. Shawn experiences a rollercoaster of up and downs during the story, around the 1950’s in Ireland. Shawn finds the women of his dreams and he marries her, but her brother, Big Liam O’Grady, is the man of the town. Traditionally, dowry is given from the bride’s family to the groom's family. Shawn has no respect from Big Liam O’Grady, or the town. Shawn wants to receive his respect from Big Liam O’Grady and love from Ellen. Shawn is willing to do anything for her, even it comes down to a fight. Shawn fights himself and others, internally and externally, to

The article “Introversion: The Often Forgotten Factor Impacting the Gifted” by Jill D. Burruss and Lisa Kaenzig begins by giving examples of how an introvert may behave. The authors continue by explaining that introversion is in not an issue, but a personality type which differs from that of the “normal,” more outgoing and friendly personality type, extroversion. Introverts and extroverts are different personality types, most people fall into one of the two categories. Typically, an introvert’s main focus is in the internal world of thoughts, while an extrovert's main focus is on the external world of people and events. Introverts tend to enjoy alone time, working on their own, and are usually quiet, and extroverts are typically social, enjoy

When reading this chapter she creates the feeling of unity because she is standing up for the introverts along with being on their side. By creating this feeling along with documenting her authority she did a great job at establishing ethos. Being an introvert gives her the authority to write this book for the audience of introverts in addition to extroverts. Using her previous knowledge about introverts as well as how introverts may act in groups of people create the sense of

In the memoir of Quiet Odyssey, Mary Pail lee explains in detail about her daily life of struggles through poverty, racism and harsh working conditions as an Asian- American women. Lee encounters with cultures other than her own, as a child who was part of a very small group of Koreans who immigrated to the United Stated due to the many Japanese soldier's invasion around the 1900s. One aspect of her life in America at the turn of the 20th century had the most impact on her identity was where she grew up from. She stated "Once he was sitting out on the porch smoking after dinner, and I asked him what we had to be so thankful for. He said, "Don't you remember why we came here?" I had forgotten that the fate of out family in Korea was much worse

Susan Cain is an honors graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School. Since graduating Cain has become the chief revolutionary and co-founder of the Quiet Revolution and the co-founder of the Quiet Schools Network and the Quiet Leadership Institute. Cain is also the author of the bestsellers Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts and Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking, which has been on the New York Times bestseller list for almost three years and was named the #1 best book of the year by Fast Company magazine. The goal of the Quiet Revolution is to unlock the power of introverts for the benefits of everyone which was discussed in the TED talk that is being analyzed in this essay. The TED talk “The power of introverts” has been viewed over 17 million times and was named one of Bill Gates all-time favorite talks. The purpose of this speech was to inform the audience about how introversion is not what most people make it out to be. Throughout her speech, Cain compares and contrast introversion with extroversion and

In World War One, the war was fought in two places, in France and in England. England was never physically in the war, but France truly saw the actions. The citizens of England put their best foot forward when it came to contributing to war. The truth was that there was a great divide between the two fronts. The war front, fields bloodied and smear with greasy mud. The home front, standing tall with pride, patriotism, and power. In the book, Not so Quiet…. written by Helen Smith, who have experienced the cruel harsh reality of the war, she describes the ugly side of the war and how everyone view the war. When the war started in 1914, there was need for manpower on the front line, men and women step up to take on roles, Helen was among a group of other girls that contributed on taking on the role of taking care of the wounded and the deceased.

For starters it failed to mention how the researchers took into account gender, race, nationality, on or off campus to ensure that these factors were isolated so that they would not impact the results of the data. Although it can be inferred by time spent in the secondary source that the popularity of extroverted people is the main reason for the composition of a persons’ friend group, it does not explicitly state that the popularity is the main factor shaping social interactions in this study. Another factor that the study did not mention is that the potential criticism, that the authors acknowledged, which is that MBA students are likely to be more extroverted than the general population. The authors do however say that the study is generally applicable because they are making claims about any social environment. It does make me wonder though if the difference between extroverts and introverts is actually understated with less introverts being in a pool of MBA students.

Miriam Meyerhoff is trying to explain women silence in chapter 13, “Doing and Saying.”According to Meyerhoff, “To a linguist, whenever a person is silent it is always superficially the same—silence is, after all, by definition, the absence of speech or phonetic content—but that hardly means all silence is the same”. In this chapter Meyerhoff mostly focuses on women and how they communicate by being silent. Then Mererhoff mentions the thought of being silent, and how silence leaves behind words women could have said. After that, Mererhoff tries to explain how sociolinguist is a way to be extralinguistic. Mererhoff then relates female silence to gender issues and how they live different lives compared to males. All in all, Mererhoff is

It is an unfortunate fact that extroversion has become the standard (at least in the Western world), but nonetheless a fact. The main reason is – and not to offend Introverts in any way – Extroverts seem more interesting. They are active, social, the life of the party. We are quiet and less expressive. People become wary of us. They mistake us as being antisocial and rude. Socializing requires a great deal of effort on our part and we get tired (more) easily - but more on this later.

According to many psychologists and other social experts, there exist two major social behaviors that are widely adopted globally by a person as they mature into young adulthood: extraversion or introversion. Extroverts are expressive individuals who appear to be energized and enjoy seeking activities that involve socialization with others where as a reserved individual (introvert) prefers solitary pursuits where he or she often partakes in a favorite pastime. In her novel Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life is Your Hidden Strength, Laurie Helgoe statistically explores the fact that more than one half of the American populace claims to be reticent and encourages those folks to embrace their natural selves (“Book Details” 1). Introverts