Essay Writing: Challenges and Conquests

Writing essays has never been one of my favorite things, although believe it or not, I've come to feel more confident in my essay writing this year and therefore enjoyed writing them much more. I do think I am well on my way to being an accomplished essayist, but not quite there yet. I still struggle on some categories, but do think that with all the writing help I've gotten this year that I will be a successful writer the rest of my English years. Literary analysis has helped me get a deeper meaning and although is a hassle at the time, really does help in the long run. I've come to search for symbols, figurative language, themes, character development, and so on, naturally now.

After looking and the rubric and then reading over my essay I noticed that I repeatedly made the same mistakes over and over again. I tend to over use the same word because I think that I need to so that it ties into the thesis throughout the entire essay. The repetitiveness is very obvious and makes the flow of the writing choppy. I also find myself writing my essay to someone who hasn't read the book and summarizing the quote after citing it, when really I should be using my own words and ideas. I will edit my essay and work on these things this weekend and hopefully turn in a mistake-free essay Monday!

Summer Reading.

I'm really excited for the books I plan on reading this summer, they've been on my list to read for a while now, I just haven't gotten around to them yet. First and foremost I would like to read It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzinni. Last year a lot of my classmates read this and said how much they loved it, and the plot sounds very funny so it seems like my kind of book. Also, I've read other books by this author and really liked them. Another book I plan on reading is The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. I usually like to read the book before I see the movie, although this way it will be the other way around. I thought the movie was great and think the book will be even better.

Fate.

My birthday is March 22nd, and so my horoscope sign is Aries. Aries personalities are independent, and they are often go-getters, leading the way. This partially goes along with my personality as I tend to take the lead in things and also work better and faster independently. Aries are good friends, always looking out for the people closest to them. I would also like to think that this goes along with my personality because I try to stick up for my friends whenever possible. Low tolerance for boredom and lack of patience goes along with Aries, if the excitement is gone from their business idea, they go search for it somewhere else. Once again, I believe this fits for me. I try to have the mindset of "You only live once", and don't usually stick around when I think I would be having more fun somewhere else. It is said that Aries will often lie to get themselves out of a situation, although they are not good liars. This partially makes sense for me because I don't usually lie due to the fact that I'm not a good liar and people can see right through it.

I feel that all the websites I went to to research Aries all had really broad ideas of how their personalities are supposed to be and how they normally act. Many of my findings were true for my personality, although I think it would be the same for most people because it is so wide. In Romeo And Juliet, fate is a major theme. In act 3, Romeo and Juliet are meant to be together and it is fate that he wasn't sentenced to death and that he was just exiled. And eventually will come back for her and they will be together.