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#his point is a huge far-reaching one about the very nature of parenting and selfhood and love and also (idk if this was even on purpose)
teeforhee · 3 years
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MOST of the time I have better motives than spite. love, or joy, or curiousity, or doing well to show off. however SOMETIMES my English teacher will give such a bare-bones surface-level cream-cracker-boring analysis and now. now this essay is fueled by spite.
#i cant even remember what he said exactly but i remember the bubbling rage of hearing it and it has fueled mw#walking away is super interesting!! theres a lot going on on the surface level and a lot going on underneath that!!#his point is a huge far-reaching one about the very nature of parenting and selfhood and love and also (idk if this was even on purpose)#he describes his son as being moved withour agency over and over - he is 'wrenched like a satelite from its orbit' or he is 'eddying away'#in a crowd of other kids. and then at the end. his son is Walking Away. the two other times his movement is mentioned it is withour agency#without action from the boy himself. he is Being Moved he is the object he is not performing an action. he is an object. he is Day-Lewis'#Son. and then at the end. he is Walking Away. doing an action. moving himself with choice and purpose. he is Doing not Being Done To#i just find that endlessly fascinating and essays at my year are still so strictly formulaic to make them easy that it makes it really hard#to express my actual thoughts and feelings and analysis!! bcus if i dont stick to the strict formula - topic sentence period. quote#'this has connotations of... which implies...' and quote name technique 'the author is ... which makes the reader think...' repeat for all#quotes next paragraph. repeat. introduction paragraph is Introduce Poem with 2-3 positive adjectives. describe surface level meaning. link#to question. end introduction. like it's That Simple which is super easy and all. but I've never learned how to do like. A Real Essay.#like an independent one. i dont know what they need what this structure Fullfills what would actually make it Good rather than just#Will Get The Marks; Contains Necessary Information; Demonstrates Understanding Of Text and Techniques#like i wanna write ESSAYS. GOOD ONES!!! but i dont know how to jump the gap between fill-in-the-blanks style essays and actual real ones#mine#isbdjsjsbs sleepy. ignore this if you wish. also ok to rb i dont mind
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