I am sitting in a Westin hotel room in downtown Charlotte,
trying to relax, when I get the urge to do my homework. Why not? It’s 10 pm and
I want to sleep in tomorrow so I’m just going to do it now. I’m here alone
while my mom and aunt are at a Bachelorette party and I’m stuck here with the
flu. Figures. The irritating thing is
Wi-Fi is $12.95 to use…Seriously? People charge to use Wi-Fi?? So instead of
writing this directly on my blog, I’m writing this on a Word Doc and then
tomorrow I will copy & paste this on my blog. I kind of like writing it on
a Word Doc first, it’s easier. Moving on…
This WID is one of my favorite ones for sure. I chose one
from class, this past Thursday I believe. It is from this story called Girl by
Jamaica Kincaid. This author writes her stories in a very different way. I’m
not sure how she came up with the idea to write this way but it gets points
across in a differently. I really liked how she wrote her story. It’s hard to
explain through a blog, you just have to read it for yourself. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwM_mqgmQbT3S2YzUTlfYkluOXM/edit
For the WID, we had to pick an idea that dealt with our
literacy narrative, and write it kind of like Jamaica Kincaid did in her story.
Now at first I thought it would be kind of difficult just because I’ve never
written anything the way she did. All of the essays I have done have been like…
point-blank I guess. I’ve never really tried anything different. To me, the way
I write essays is the way I’m most comfortable with. I can easily get a point
across and explain it in terms that I feel are understandable. But this made me
think. All my essays have been about something else, and never narratives. In
elementary school I wrote narratives but never in high school. You aren’t
really given opportunities to speak from your mind, or tell a story. Usually we
are given a couple topics to choose from. Rarely are we able to tell our own
story about our own idea. So the way Kincaid wrote her story gave me a new
idea. I like how she wrote her story, and I want to try it myself one day.
In class, we were able to write our own story like Kincaid
as I said earlier. Here’s mine!
I’m proud of mine because Lacy said it was really good and
she liked it. (:
$12.95 for wifi? That's ridiculous! I liked how the author wrote in Girl too. It kinda felt weird not having sentence structure.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this post! I also enjoyed reading Kincaid's piece. I am also enjoying using writing techniques like hers. I loved your journal entry you wrote after listening to Kincaids writing. You are a talented writer!
ReplyDeleteOne of my friends dad has to travel a lot for work and he said "the nicer the hotel, the more expensive the wifi." i dont travel enough to know if that us true. But, i agree with you WID is fun and very interesting
ReplyDeleteKesley, once again your giving the context for your blog writing with the $12.95 wifi story (that is completely ridiculous... I don't think it costs that much in NYC) really works to draw in the reader and situate your writing. I am interested in what you are saying about not having space at school to write many narratives after elementary school. Something I want to think about with our class is how narratives do create arguments and do have something to say.
ReplyDeleteSo....I saw your blog today when Lacy pulled it up in class and the title pulled me in, so I purposely came to find yours, so I could read & comment on it :) First of...12.95 is absolutely ridiculous, word doc was def the way to go for the night. I like your train of thought because I, too, liked the way she wrote...but have never written that way myself. Until class of course. It made writing somewhat interesting and in a way...quicker and shorter? I don't know, but good blog! Enjoyed reading it.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I appreciate your feedback!
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