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Charles-Anticipating Our Next Book

MD-Failure 

Hits and Misses

My biggest miss if you will is most definitely the research paper. Not because I thought that it was hard more or less just because it was such a drag to write about. Because it was such a drag for me I feel that personally I did not learn everything I could have. Another large but not the worst miss is the blog post about writing a poem. I personally do not like writing poetry or really cliche poetry. However, if the poem interests me I can really enjoy poetry. On the other hand having me write a poem is something that not only is stretching something that I can do but is genuinely difficult and requires me to sit down for a long time.
My greatest hit is the Literary Analysis on Lord of the Flies. I feel like not only did I grow as an English student but I also grew as a writer. I thought that sense I was given the freedom to go in the direction and take this as deep as I wanted to that I was able to find something that I really enjoyed writing about. Another hit would be my blog post about my personal narrative. I actually really enjoyed writing about this because it made me think deeper than most other things. Unfortunately it spiraled into me just ranting but I still find it to be one of my most successful pieces of writing.

My Personal narrative that is most likely garbo

By me responding to this I am going to write about this prompt don't really know if that is what is wanted or not but I don't really care I'm doing it. By the way I am going to respond to multiple prompts making on reflection. (22 14 27 21) not in that order. This will be a message type of dealio to older me and younger me if he could read it.

Dear  younger Alexander Morgan Harlan, you will soon learn that family is more important than you think. For most of your younger years you will try and be that lone wolf that you always wanted to b because honestly you don't want to have to rely on people. STOP that as soon as you possibly can, because me oh my will it cripple your social life. Be open and weird don't be afraid of being what you actually are the people that stick around and put up with you will become such close friends that they are pretty much a part of your family. Do your work because it will pay off by not having all hell rain down on you when your parents see you have 37 outstanding assignments in Latin. Also don't make the point that you have a high B because that gets you grounded for a while and that sucks. Listen to your parents when they tell you that if you every want to try anything illegal to ask them first so they know to be expecting a call for help. 

Dear older Alexander Morgan Harlan, remember those old people you thought belonged in a museum? Well now you should know that you are also one of those prehistoric people. Don't do what everyone did to you as a child and assume because you were born in a new generation that you are just like the rest of the people in your generation. NO not everyone born in the twenty first century will grow up and be able to become a technology wizard. Also don't assume that just because they look like the do insane amounts of drugs that they actually do use drugs. Trust me if you don't recall that it really sucked. Remember all of those people  that accepted you for who you really are. Yup if they weren't your family they are now. They will help you through tough times now just like they did your eight grade year.

Prompts

What do older generations misunderstand about yours? 

Who is your family? 

What have you learned in your teens?

How do you define ‘family’?

Purple Hibiscus strategies

While reading Purple Hibiscus I tried to go into the book as open minded as I possibly could so that the read would be as easy and painless as possible. However that worked for about two chapters. Once that idea ran its course I immediately slowed down when it came to reading. The strategy that I am using now is that I should read everything as if my life depends on me grasping at every detail. In case you could not notice I do not like being forced to read and I like to read at my own pace. However by doing this I have forced myself to read deeper into the book and forced myself to want to know what comes next, and try and make this book that doesn't make a lot of sense to me make any sort of sense.

One of the largest challenges that I have encountered would most definitely be the fact that there are times where I just don't care. Now I know that is not exactly a good thing to write about but if I'm being completely honest I do not find this book to be all that entertaining. My lack of caring for the actual plot of the book and me caring more for lets see if I can make sense out of this. I feel like I have this problem because I am trying to understand it in modern society.