essay writing

Writing can mean whatever you want it to mean to you. You can write for fun, for school, or any other reason you would just write. When it comes to me and writing, it is just mainly for school. I wouldn't say that I am an accomplished essayist. But what makes me better is when I have a friend or a parent or a teacher read my essay or writing piece and give me constructive criticism. The things that these people write when they critique me is stuff pertaining to literary analysis. Sometimes you can obtain a habit of your writing that is always bad. You don't know it but other people notice it. When people tell you what you are doing wrong you can fix it and thus become a better essay writer.

There are many things that I need to work on when I write my essays, because to be honest I am not the best essay writer. You would know that if you have read any of my work. A thing that I need to work on is my vocabulary. I always try and use big words so my essay sounds sophisticated but it doesn't always work as planned. Another thing is my transitions. This kind of mixes in with my vocabulary because the transitions I use are the same ones I have used all my life haha. Sometimes I can kind of swoop in and smoothly roll into the paragraph but I definitely need to improve on that.

Summer reading

Well during the summer I don't really read very much unless my dad and I have a competition of who reads the book faster and who comprehends it the best. But I know if I want my reading skills to get better than I need to read. I know later in my life I am going to have to read Shakespeare so I figure why not read more. The next most famous book by Shakespeare would probably be "Hamlet". I am planning on reading Hamlet or any other Shakespeare book that I encounter.

A second book I would like to read would be a present day book. All year we have been reading Charles Dickens and all these old novels and plays of which the writers aren't even alive so maybe a book written by someone that isn't six feet under. Luckily for me I have never seen any of the "Lord of the Rings" movies and I would like to get into a nice series of books that will occupy some of my time.

Dreams

This may sound a little weird but usually when I have dreams they are not very scary (probably because of my dream catcher), but they are either flashbacks or awesome dreams. Some of my awesome dreams have been if like I get something I have really wanted like a new phone or a new pair of shoes. About 50% of my dreams are warnings so to speak. My dreams are my school journal. A lot of times I will have a dream that I forgot a paper that needed to be signed or I forget my baseball jersey, and then I wake up no matter what time it is and I get what I saw in my dreams. Also some of my dreams are foreshadowing. Ill see a house or some object in and then I will see it later and have the weirdest sense of deja vu. I think that my dreams are more like Romeos because when Romeo talks about his dreams it is all about foreshadowing like when he was going to the party he was talking about what he dreamt was going to happen.

Modern Culture

It seems like the play Romeo and Juliet is everywhere. Relationships are constantly related to the play and the awkward situation of the secret love between Romeo and Juliet even though the two families hate each other. Many movies have had the same plot based over forbidden love between two people whether it is because of the social class or a rivalry between two families. For instance West Side Story, Step Up, and many other romances in television shows and in songs. Lastly many people in movies refer to the perfect guy or girl as Romeo or Juliet.