Rough Draft

‘Grapefruit is the bane of my existence”

 

If I were you I would surely be thinking, “Why the hell is grapefruit the bane of your existence?” I never have the patience to deal with metaphorical titles that connect to the narrator in some contrived way, but there is no other way to describe this point of my life. Middle School for most people is the most unbearable, horrifying, and lack for a better word, crappiest point of most their life in school.

We always have philosophical discussions about the media and how it distorts our self image. Whether it be in a class or with friends it usually goes like this, “ ‘Obviously that is not real’, ‘ Well someone should change the media’, ‘Those models are dangerously skinny’, ‘blab, blah, blah…’.” It is the same conversation over and over again and we discuss how disgusting we think the media is and how we need to change these images. I love how we all disagree with the media but we buy into it and help feed the monster our self image on a silver platter. To quote Sir-Mix-A-Lot, “ When it comes to females, Cosmo ain’t got nothin’ to do with my selection. 36-24-36? Ha, ha only if she’s 5’3”. All girls are hypocritical, we disagree with the image the media is feeding us but we stop feeding ourselves to meet that image.

I cannot use the epithet that would really greatly describe how my seventh grade was, to use the cleaner version, it was just simply bad. If 36-24-36 were the perfect measurements I was way too off! 

I found the writing group to be extremely beneficial . Reading my essay out loud helped me see the flaws in my writinG. When you write you are in your head and you know what you are trying to say, since you know the story you cannot judge if your writing was effective in showing your story. Since my essay is not completed my group gave me great ideas of how to finish my essay.

Outside Reading #1

'Father and daughter were soon partly reconciled, but after three years away from home,  I knew that I could not remain there.(pg. 14)"

This is a quote from the book, "Pioneer of the Future". This book is about Margaret Sanger and her life. This quote doesn't show imagery or inspire you to change, but this quote really hit home for me. In this part of the book Margaret's restlessness with life and her need for something better is highlighted. I can totally understand Margaret's restlessness. Writing is about expressing yourself and in that journey of expressing yourself you find a way to connect with complete strangers who are reading your work. This book doesn't have a flashy storyline or amazing imagery but it is simple, and in this simplicity the reader gains a sense of familiarity. Instead of highlighting why Sanger is different this autobiography touches on the fact that she was just like every girl and that we can accomplish the same things, if not more then Sanger. This book and narration welcomes the reader instead of alienating them.

Response to Freewriting Essay

So in this essay the writer touches upon the fact that freshman entering college have a very formulated, scientific equation that they think they can plug their thoughts into and will receive an "A". The writer obviously does not agree with this because she touches upon the fact that free writing helps up break that mold and that their is something unnatural about the "5 paragraph essay". Obviously that type of essay is not inborn but beat senseless into us every time we are forced to write an essay. We keep reading these essays about how writing is art and that there is no "right" or "wrong" and that passion is lacking in high school writing but it seems to me that there is a lot of talk and no action. Teachers instruct you to be creative and original but to adhere to there specific essay construction "formula". Freewriting does however help students break out of the 5-paragraph essay mold, it's a sort of detox if you will. It helps us make our writing become more fluid because we do not have to stop and think if we are backing up our thesis and if we are using the right words. Freewriting helps students find their opinion on a subject and since it is our own and we have gone through a very organic process we are more connected to what we are writing about. Passion+Purpose= Success!

My first blog!

Hola mi amors. This blog of greatness is for my Senior Composition class with Senora Knox! I am supposed to write about literature and other peoples writing. I like long walks on the beach and running in the pouring rain. I also enjoy this class not being Humanities, and I enjoy eating lots and lots of Candy Corn!