Essay Packets

  The essay packet 1 was very detailed and was one of those readings that made you really think. Some of the essays were a bit excessive and they didn't really follow my tastes in things to read. I didn't really like these essays for the most part. Although, there was at least one or two essays in the packet I did like. One was "Things to do today" which caught my eye because of the way it was structured. It was written as a list and the list included many things that were more negative which I felt was a good approach because its not one of those happy ending kind of stories but its real and forced your to try to relate with each and every part of the list as you read it.

What else i liked was in essay packet two with the Prevallet writings because they had the details that you would see in any other essay to really make you sit and try to draw a mental picture throughout. The imagery was great in terms of trying to portray an image in your mind. Then at the bottom of each there was sort of a poem or a symbol that allowed you to think about what was being said and also to build your own conclusions about the entire thing. What made it weird was that she used comparisons to build your mental pictures. In Synthesis V, she talked about a fly the entire essay at the top then when the top portion was coming to a close she ended it talking about honey. After that, the bottom part talked about a bee which almost binds them together.