Essay 1

I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do for my first essay. I have re read all of my different journal entries concerning all of the stories we have read thus far and have decided on certain issues I want to focus on.

There are a lot of important stories that we have read thus far but I think I want to focus on the story “A Good man is hard to find”. There are a lot of different themes in this story that I really enjoyed when I was reading it. The overall outcome of the story is also one that I really enjoyed.

One of the first themes I really liked was how the writer made the villain not exactly a villain. This style of writing is a very interesting style. I find that it works almost every time a writer uses it. He made the villain seem superior in motive to that of the main character and he made the main character just not that identifiable with. I thought this worked really well.

One other theme is the use of the epiphany in this story. There are many different uses of this in this particular story. The main villain has one and the main character has one. They are at really well done places too. The two epiphanies occur at the exact same time. I really enjoyed that about this story.

I am really excited for this essay and I think that I have chosen a proper essay to write an essay about.

Our Hurried Children

I just finished reading the article “Our Hurried Children”. This article was written in 1981 and I found it to be very interesting. I don’t normally like or read that much nonfiction writing but I thought this article was very well thought out. I don’t think there are going to many many thingsa to try and find a deep meaning for but I will discuss it.

I agreed with most of what the author said in this article. I didn’t however agree with some of the things that he was talking about. I don’t think that the expression “Early ripe, early rot” should apply to all of these aged children. I think this has worked for some children. I have actually had friends with crazy parents who only wanted to talk about how their kids were so smart and would make their kids skip grades and stuff. These kids still turned out fine however. The only problem with some of these kids I know is that they are a little conceited in their own self image, but truly who isn’t a little conceited.

I did agree with the sexuality of teens becoming a huge problem though. This is becoming a huge problem in today’s society. Adult clothing companies are targeting younger and younger ages and it is getting pretty ridiculous. The fact that 9 and ten year olds are wearing the same type of clothes as 17 and 18 year olds is a huge problem. The fact that girls are wearing make up at a younger age is pretty bad too. It doesn’t make sense because from the second a girl puts on make up the brain automatically thinks that she can’t look good without it and the girl is constantly having to wear makeup. Things are definitely getting worse.

This article was very appealing to me because it was on a topic that I like to talk about. Most non-fiction writing bores me and I am unable to focus on reading it, but this article was a very good read for me.