I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read Question: Whom does Prose blame for this state of affairs? Does assigning blame affect the cogency of her argument?

Prose places the blame for this current state of affairs on the teachers who expose these students to literature and guide them through without educating them on the important themes. Those teachers are the reason that today’s students lack creativity and imagination. She clearly has a lot of emotion on the topic and feels very strong about it. I interpreted this as clouding her judgement and no longer presenting a sound, logical argument. She lets her emotions get the best of her. Her argument becomes less reliable by putting the blame on someone specific. She now takes an accusatory stance rather than a credible one.

The details that best show evidence of tribal traditions are, "never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue” and "it has never been heard," was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.