Essay Writing

When it comes to essay writing, I think I am pretty accomplished. I know when I am writing how to write a thesis, embedded quotes, meaningful analysis. The problem with essay writing for me is whenever I try to write all of these things, it doesn't sound very organized. I would say that I do know a little of what literary analysis is about. To me it is just analysing how, what , and why the author wrote something some way. The purpose would be to understand what you are reading more. The challenges are knowing whether or not your assumptions about the selection is right. Its rewards would go with its purposes ; you are able to understand the selection more.

If someone were to read an essay of mine they would probably say that it's okay but not great. I feel like when I write essays, the things I have a hard time getting right on the rubric is repetitive use of words. I may have 5 errors just because I kept forgetting to put an apostrophe in "it's." Many of my sentences come off as awkward and unorganized and I often worry about having an original idea. They only thing that I am confident that I have is the right parts in each paragraph.

Sumer Reading List

I really haven't thought much about what I will read over the summer. Seeing the reading list for the end of the year has inspired me to read one book in particular. 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult. This book seems interesting to read because it is about a school shooting. A school shooting is something that I can relate to because it could happen to me. Another book I would want to read Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. I would want to read this because I liked the movie and because the author is one of my favorites to read from. I don't know if this counts but I would also read or look at a book called Post Secrets: Extraordinary Secrets from Ordinary Lives. It is a book of cool postcards that people sent to this one man telling them about their deepest secrets.

Fate

I was born on January 13th 1995 which means that according to astrology I am a Capricorn. This means overall in character, I should be fearless reckless and eager to meet the challenges that I will meet in life. I am supposedly emotionally unstable, I am able to learn from my mistakes and can find the humor in a bad situation. My positive traits includes being very disciplined, ambitious, patient, resourceful and humorous. My ngative traits include, being selfish, pessimistic and grudging.

I am not much of a person who studies their horoscope or lves by it; ihave never really cared until this assignment. Most of this information I found right. But some was also wrong. Unlike me the characters believe that the stars and heaven will give them signs of the future.When Mercutio is yelling "A plague o' both your houses!"(3.1.111) he is saying that because of his death there will bad things happening to both the Montagues and Capulets. Another example is when Juliet says that if romeo were to come, he would the face of heaven. This means she knows the future will be great when he is there.

Culture Shock

OK I am totally going to hate myself for posting this, but there was one instance recently where I saw a Romeo and Juliet reference in New Moon. In every Twilight book the author has a quote giving a sort of hint about what the novel will be about. For this book she used a quote from Act II, Scene VI:

"These violet delights have violet ends

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,

Which, as they kiss, consume."

Throughout the novel the character compare themselves to Romeo and Juliet. Considering that vampires are one of the most popular thing to talk about right now, I think that the fact that Romeo and Juliet was mentioned in a twilight book, clearly states how big the play still is in our culture.