Justice Toailoa
Sutherland
English Period 2
24 May 2011
Back In Time
This year has definitely been a journey to remember and I for sure will never forget it. One thing that will help me remember what I have been through is my blog post. It has helped me grow as a writer and showed me what kind of writer I am. After looking over everything I have done, instead of analyzing everything at once I decided that since it’s my blog I’m going to pick the blogs that I want. Which one is my favorite and which one is my least favorite blog post that i did not seem to care for much. I think this would help me the most because we have done a reflection before and that is when I reflected on everything because that is what I was supposed to do or the class but this time I am doing it for myself. I’m creating my own final.
Starting with my most favorite blog post which is Why shouldn’t teenagers be allowed to vote. I chose this as my favorite blog post because well first off I got a lot of feed back from lots of other people and even people I did not know. Like how convincing I came to sound and also how I saw that a lot of students responded to my post because they saw that the topic was something that they also had strong feelings about. It also came to be my most popular according to the blogger stats I had a lot of views coming from that post. It really helped me because in that blog post i really got deep into the topic and was able to express how i felt about that specific situation. Although i may have sounded really opinionated I did try to have an open mind, but including how I felt. For example, when I said
“Also because of the fact that there minds are fresh they could be open to many different idea's about America and the rights that we are supposedly voting for and are going by the vote. In my defense I would like to hear a reason why a teenager should vote because at this point I can't think of anything. Also don't you think that some teenagers may even be a little more mature then there own parents.”
Here you can see that I become very opinionated about how kids should be allowed to vote. I even get a little aggressive which in my opinion I think it’s good because in order for people to really listen to I have to say I need to get their attention and in order to do that they need a little knocking on the head. This post sometimes inspires me because it shows me that I should be strong and speak my mind whether it be aggressively or in a simple conversation. Which is why this is my favorite blog post because it means more to me than what is says.
Now with having a favorite there is always the one you do not not like the most and the one i least like would have to be The Child Called It First Paper Clip. This is my least favorite blog post because it made me said to have to write about this book that was so horrific and it was hard to have to write about it with out saying exactly how i felt towards some of the things in the book like when I wrote;
“The book is about a young boy named David who is brutally abused by his mother. In order to survive and live till the next day he plays her games and knows her tricks. Today i want to discuss the subject of why? I didn't fully understand why she had to abuse him the way she does. She continues to fill his head and make him believe that he is worthless. She calls him a bad boy when he does everything she always asks him to do! She makes him clean , cook , and makes him earn his food. Even though he still does what she asks and he earns his food all she ever gives him is the leftovers from his other brothers food.”
As you can see I was not able to really express how I felt about Davids mom because it was more about what was going on in the book rather than what I felt about the book. I just would have rather gave his mom a piece of my mind than having to right a piece about her. Though i would have to say that writing this blog post did kind of help me grow as a writer in a way. It helped me push my self to get past writers block and actually coming out with a piece that I probably would not have been able to write at the beginning of the year. Just because I would have said that it is too hard or I can not write because it is too hard to write about the book when I want to confront the book than rather talking about it. Which is why I did not really like this post because unlike the other post where I got to express myself and I could be inspired by it which is why I loved it. Unlike this post now I did not have enough room as a writer to be free and open minded about how I really felt.
So as I sit and write another writing piece that is making me grow as writer the more and more I write every word on this page I can now reflect on who I am as a writer and rather than trying to become a different writer I come to realize that I just needed to perfect the writer I already was and become better as I kept writing. And now you have seen my writing at my worst and my writing at my best which took a long time to see, but now i know as a writer that even when people say that the writing i have created does not make any sense or is not right. I just think to my self that it does make sense and it is write your just the one who can’t understand it.
No comments:
Post a Comment