Essays

Our English teacher instructed us to write an analytical paper on the book we were reading. She wanted us to focus on on excerpt from the whole book that seemed to us to be the biggest phenomenon in the book and connect it to the rest of the book. She also wanted us to do research and connect it to our idea. This was probably one of the hardest assignment I've had to do because it was so hard to make a rational connection between on little part, the rest of the book, and the research. Plus we had to be meticulous with out research and make sure we didn't plagiarized. We also had to make sure we had reliable sources. If there seemed to be anything that discredited the authority of our sources, we couldn't use them. This paper had to be an eclectic paper, and I was so intimidated by it. I had to put together an incredibly well written essay that was somehow composed of different sources from my research and from the book.

I had ample worries about this paper, but the paramount concern was that I had no idea at all to write about. I was completely clueless. I often have copious notes about things I would like to talk about, but this time there was nothing. I hadn't understand half of the story because it was so filled with metonymy and oxymorons that I failed to comprehend. It all seem to me very contradictory and unknown. I mean some of the stuff they mentioned, I hadn't even heard before. The author also used a lot of periods that I hated so much because they were so complicated. The story was also filled with so much vocabulary that I had to look up a word in the lexicon every three second, which would make me loose the flow of the reading. On top of this she used to much abstraction and no concreteness in her story, and so many things just seemed out of place. Idea after idea was simply an anachronism. There just seemed to be no sense of sequence in the story. So as I finished the book, I realized I had to idea what it was about; hence, I had no idea what I was going to write about.

But with the help of my teacher, I was able to come to a conclusion, and form an idea. This was simply a nascent idea that eventually turned into a huge on, and resulted in my senior thesis.