Critical Reasoning (PHL 115, Winter/Spring 1998-99)
and
  Introduction to Ethics (PHL 203, Fall 1999)

Student Essays on "The Kool-Aid Wino"

 Richard Brautigan's short story "The Kool-Aid Wino," which appears in his book Trout Fishing in America , is available on-line at
http://www.jough.com/poetry/brautigan/c1.shtml
(Scroll down about two thirds of the page and you'll find the short story "The Kool-Aid Wino.")

Issue:  In your opinion, is the  boy who makes the Kool-Aid a  positive or a negative character?  Directions:  Write a 1-2 page  argumentative essay which  responds to the above issue. Be  sure to take opposite and/or  different views into account.

Positions On The Issue

1. Essays taking the position that the boy is more of a negative character:

Logo Alva
Hope Call
John Cychosz
Brent Eickhoff
Heather Holtmyer
Sarah Kehm
Marilyn Kerans
Collins Love
Kim Patrick Neurath
Whitney McGinn
Jennifer Powers
Gretchen Walker
David Welch

2. Essays taking the position that the boy is more of a positive character:

Joscelyn Baines
Dawn Baker
Ronn Baker
Pamela N. Brinkman
Melissa Corwin
Kathleen Delehant
Karen Eakins
Jessica Erickson
Stephannie Guilfoyle
Jamie Krajicek
Adam Kucirek
Bradley L. Kusel
Anna Liebers
Kristi Livingston
Jon Anthony Lucas
Mayra A. Orihuela
Timothy J. Robeck
Sandy Shupe
Katie Timperley
Nelsy Toledo
Jennifer Waltke

3. Essays taking a position other than the first two:

J'Shcarla Adkins
Rena Bates
Lisa Conover
John Gruber
D.J. Leffers
Suzanne Schueler
Mary Slapkauskas
Nicole Smith
Ken Townsend Jr.





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(more essays will be on-line as they come in)