In class we had looked at a few articles all relating back to David Foster Wallace’s “Consider The Lobster”. In this we had annotated and asked questions about the reading to further our understanding of the reading and then, as a class, would discuss the reading in depth to see what the true message of the story was trying to portray. When looking at “What the Crows Know ”, the article at first seems as if it’s going to be rambling on about a bird hospital in old Delhi, but it turns out the story is much more complex. The author continues to share with the reader how smart different birds are through different levels of consciousness. At first there was so much I was marking up I couldn’t really tell what I wanted to focus on. Then I remembered to ask myself what is the author really trying to portray, this led to me simplifying my annotations and keeping them more around the central argument. I had found myself focusing less on the interests of the birds’ unique behavior and focused more on why the birds seemed to express this behavior. In the first place, what gave these birds drive and grit. When translating this back to class, I had found I was able to pose strong arguments about what I believed was the central argument the author was trying to portray not only in this essay but in all of our works that we had read through an annotation. Before this class I had never really taken the time to ask myself questions in the reading but this only furthered my understanding of what my argument was expected to look like.