In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell makes a rather bold claim: underdogs aren’t really underdogs at all. He believes that we often misread and misinterpreted these conflicts of ordinary people facing giants—bigger, more powerful opponents. (6). Gladwell asserts, “David came running toward Goliath, powered by courage and faith. Goliath was blind to his approach—and then he was down, too big and slow and blurry-eyed to comprehend the way the tables had been turned. All these years, we’ve been telling these kinds of stories wrong. David and Goliath is about getting them right” (15). In order to dispel the myth that underdogs achieve improbable victories, Malcolm Gladwell identifies the misperceptions embedded in our established view of Davids and Goliaths. He examines what we believe to be advantages and disadvantages, and then demonstrates our misunderstanding of these. By pointing out the flaws in our perceptions, he explains and thus clarifies how and why underdogs really succeed. Prompt: In an essay drawing from chapters 3-6 of David and Goliath, explain what Gladwell believes to be our misconceptions about underdogs, as well as what he proposes to be the overlooked realities of the circumstances. You must use textual evidence from at least two chapters to support your response to the prompt, one of which must be chapter 5 or 6.
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