If you sawed open my head at the moment I was writing my essay, you'd probably have a seizure if you're epileptic. Or even if you're not. I swear, sometimes I think strobe lights are flashing and there is an entire rave in my head waiting to bring me off on a tangent or distract me. For this essay specifically, I sat down and powered out about half of it, and then my brain rave took off and I couldn't focus. Was this because I'm possibly/probably insane? Maybe. But I had just written about guilt, and failed attempts at helping Sohrab. I think that the time the little ravers in my head chose to act out was significant, seeing as this is the break where my essay goes from Amir's failures to Amir's awesomeness.
When I write, I can't sit down and write a whole essay, or even necessarily write in the order it's going to be in in the final essay. My thinking pattern is a scattered one. Is this effective? Sure, it gets done. Maybe it's not the most efficient method of thinking, but it's definitely the easiest for my brain to grasp. During the break I took from writing my essay, I actually was reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which I think helped me not only to get my mind away for long enough that I could come back and focus without getting a brain overload, but it allowed me to focus on writing through reading another writer's work.
So is my writing style effective or efficient? Maybe not for others, but it is for me. I know how my brain works, so I can follow my train of thought until the final paper comes together, but it's probably hard for others to do the same, so that's definitely something I will work on in the future.
And now the ravers in my head are calling me away, so I can go not do my other homework. :)
Monday, October 12, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Blogging Around
To Anna's connection:
Well here's my comment, regarding both this blog post and responding to Jordyn's. Though they talk little about Bella's childhood, they do talk a lot about Sirius', and since they come from the same family you can see how they are much the same. Anna, I think you're absolutely right, and the little we know about both Assef and Bella's childhoods illustrate your point well. You said, "Assef grew up in a country where fighting had been a way of life for centuries and Bellatrix lives in a fictional world where the limits of one‘s imagination are tested." and I agree, but even if you think of Bella as a real person, she really has grown up in a society where fighting and fear was absolutely normal. Voldemort's army simply terrorized the wizarding world and everyone is afraid...even to simply say his name. They actually had remarkably similar upbringings, except for Jordyn's already stated point of Assef dominating his parents and Bella simply being taught by hers.
ps. I love you for making a connection to HP.
To Katie's It Matters:
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE.
Though I must say, I have read/watched most of the things you rag on, I completely agree. At the moment, I am finding time between homework and everything else to read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Why? Because I want to. I have so many friends who commonly say "I don't read." or "That's too many pages, it'll take me forever." What they don't know is that the power of words is MUCH more than what a director can pour into your mind in 2 hours. When you read a book you get to know the characters, and there are many times when I'll find myself trying to think of something a particular friend did or said and realize that I'm thinking of an event in a novel. Reading is such an integral part of life for me, my mom and I did the same thing as you and your mom. I can't imagine my life without the books I hold so dear. Plus, where would movies be if they hadn't come from books first? I don't know of any movie that can do more than what a book can, or that can bring you more joy. I simply don't understand why people don't find joy in reading...maybe they just haven't found the right book yet.
Well here's my comment, regarding both this blog post and responding to Jordyn's. Though they talk little about Bella's childhood, they do talk a lot about Sirius', and since they come from the same family you can see how they are much the same. Anna, I think you're absolutely right, and the little we know about both Assef and Bella's childhoods illustrate your point well. You said, "Assef grew up in a country where fighting had been a way of life for centuries and Bellatrix lives in a fictional world where the limits of one‘s imagination are tested." and I agree, but even if you think of Bella as a real person, she really has grown up in a society where fighting and fear was absolutely normal. Voldemort's army simply terrorized the wizarding world and everyone is afraid...even to simply say his name. They actually had remarkably similar upbringings, except for Jordyn's already stated point of Assef dominating his parents and Bella simply being taught by hers.
ps. I love you for making a connection to HP.
To Katie's It Matters:
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE.
Though I must say, I have read/watched most of the things you rag on, I completely agree. At the moment, I am finding time between homework and everything else to read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Why? Because I want to. I have so many friends who commonly say "I don't read." or "That's too many pages, it'll take me forever." What they don't know is that the power of words is MUCH more than what a director can pour into your mind in 2 hours. When you read a book you get to know the characters, and there are many times when I'll find myself trying to think of something a particular friend did or said and realize that I'm thinking of an event in a novel. Reading is such an integral part of life for me, my mom and I did the same thing as you and your mom. I can't imagine my life without the books I hold so dear. Plus, where would movies be if they hadn't come from books first? I don't know of any movie that can do more than what a book can, or that can bring you more joy. I simply don't understand why people don't find joy in reading...maybe they just haven't found the right book yet.
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