The Last Blog

One huge aspect I noticed throughout all my writing is that everything I read seemed to instantly bore me. There was something annoying in reading my words over and over and over again. Other than that I'd have to admit there are certain characteristics of my writing such as my over-adjectivednever ending sentencesare extremely apparent.Also, I've noticed that I use silly catchy phrases like "such as" and "before I knew it" that I guess I can't resist. Not only that, but I also seem to add and build in my witting, something that tires me when I read it now, but something I guess I never noticed when I was writing that way. My paragraphs are often flooded with "also"'s and "as well as"'s that by the time I read ALL my passed blogs i was getting REALLY tired of myself. Noticing things in MY writing that actually bothers Me, makes me think that I must have learned a lot this year and really grown as a writer. Or at least I hope so.

One other thing I noticed, that didn't really surprise me, was that I was most interested an attentive to the writing I actually enjoyed writing. When I read a poem I wrote for Animal Farm, I was truly interested. It's been so long that each phrase surprised me, but also pleased me. If I read something I liked, I'd think "wow that's good" then think "jeez, I wrote that." It actually made this assignment really fun. well REALLY fun, but that was diffidently a fun part of it. I did NOT enjoy reading things that I'd not enjoyed writing. To be honest, it was just boring. I'd made it boring by embellishing it with fancy words and phrases, but leaving out any excess energy that could of actually made it nice to read. A theory I'm developing right now is that if i enjoy writing it, someone else might actually enjoy reading it. Just a theory, but at least it keeps ME interested in my writing.

I hope I've grown as a writer. I hope my writing is becoming at least a little more interesting to read, and it's easy for me to see the distinct traits that mark MY writing, even if I may start trying to fix them.

Essay Writing

Throughout 9th grade Honors English, I've received a huge amount of of tips, instructions and guidance that I think have greatly improved my writing as well as enhanced my knowledge of essay's and how they're built. I do understand the purpose of literary analysis, and how discussing and sharing interpretations can help to build a clearer understanding of the general plot and small nuances of a piece of writing.

One of the main challenges I have with essay writing is to come up with original ideas or interpretations of the text we're writing about. To write an essay, well supported, with clear distinctions of every part, and to also connect each piece of commentary to a specific line, while bringing up totally original ideas, has me struggling. However I think that that skill might be easier for me as I become more confident and sure of what is reasonable in a essay, often I work hard on making sure I get everything all polished and nice and end up turning in a perfectly ordered essay that's really boring. Sometime along the way I hope I can start writing essays that are just as orderly and polished, but with interesting concepts and thoughts that someone would actually want to read.

Summer Reading Books

First I'm definitely going to read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. my friend just finished reading it and has been telling me everyday since she started that i had to read it too. so of course i will.

The second book I'm planning on reading over the summer is probably the sequel to The Hunger Games, because you know, that's how it works. If i was gonna read a third book though i might try reading The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series again. Again because i tried once and got to the part where the whale falls out of the spaceship and turns into a flower pot before it hits the ground, and then i don't really know what happened after that. I think I watched the movie one time but i still just blank right after that part. I'm kinda bummed though because some girl in my Spanish class told me everyone dies at the end, so yeah, that was really lame.

astrology thing

I sort of actually love astrology. it's a thing me and my mom do on rare nights where my brother and dad are gone. Total girl time. I'm a Pisces for starters, but my rising sign is in Scorpio, my moon is in Aquarius and my Venus is in Capricorn. The Pisces sign is all emotional and jazz, supposedly relating to the fluidity of water or something, and it's also dramatic and creative and expressive. Fun stuff. Now my rising sign, Scorpio, is intense, and stubborn and very opinionated giving a boost I guess to all the dramatic emotional stuff from Pisces. Then there's my moon sign, Aquarius, which is supposedly to be a humanitarian sign, all about seeing the big picture and different sides of situations which is pretty cool. and lastly, there's my Venus sign, Capricorn. so Capricorn is not exactly that fun for the planet of love and jazz because it basically says that I'm cautious and practical and like "conservative" or something.

those are the only parts of my chart that i know about, or at least the one's I remember

Romeo & Juliet

The Reflections, "just like Romeo and Juliet"


"Findin' a job tomorrow mornin'
Got a little somethin' I wanna do
Gonna buy (gonna buy) somethin' I could ride in
a-Take my girl (take my girl) datin' at the drive-in
Our love's gonna be written down in history
a-Just like Romeo and Juliet

I'm gonna buy her pretty presents
Just like the ones in a catalog
Gonna show (gonna show) how much I love
Let 'er know (let 'er know) one way or the other
Our love's gonna be written down in history
a-Just like Romeo and Juliet"


in the song they're saying that their love is going to be as tremendous and awesome as Romeo and Juliet's, and therefore also written down in history. Romeo and Juliet are obviously still huge icons for romantic relationships.

Skits

One scene I think would be good would be the one of pip's first visit to Jagger's house where he's accompanied by Herbert, Startop and Drummle. Specifically I think the part about Molly's wrist would be really cool because for one it was really intense and creepy the way jaggers talked about them, and secondly, it's a pretty important part in the plot foreshadowing all this stuff revealed about Estella and her parents.

Another scene I think would be cool is the one where magwich arrives at pips place and reveals himself as pips benefactor. The dialogue with which magwich revels his identity is really funny and clever and I think the contrast in attitudes (pip's and magwich's) would play out really clearly when acted out.


One more scene I think would be interesting to preform is the one at the blue bore where pip runs into Drummle on his way to visit Miss Havisham and Estella and they have a stand off regarding their space at the fire. This scene seems important because it seems to stand for more than just fire space. It ties into their pride and feeling of special connection to Estella. And the brief dialogue they do have just spells out the dislike they have for one another.

Another question about a passage

In chapter 49 on page 404 pip walks back into Miss Havishams house peeks through the door, and all of a sudden she jumps up all on fire and runs at him! there are a lot of things i don't get about this scene, for one, how does that effect the plot? why would that add anything to the plot, especially since she's all OK and everything, and secondly, how did she even catch fire? was she just too close to the hearth?