The Storm of an Adults Distress...........Poetry Q1
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Right before writing this piece our teacher, Mr. Chase, taught us about how in the first draft of their stories authors always let their inner children fly free and when they were done they looked through their piece for bits and pieces that they wanted to make it into. I let my inner child flow free and ended up writing about a woman having a midlife crisis. I wanted to create and share a feeling of despair and hopelessness in this piece, so I needed it to have some aspect which was chaotic and you couldn’t control, so I made it in the middle of a storm. I don’t know why but when I experience those feelings I get this feeling in my hands as though i'm digging through dirt and I can feel it inside my nails, I wanted to somehow put this feeling in paper so I made it so that the woman was searching for something she could not find in the dirt. Before starting this poem I hadn’t really experimented much with poems and when I did I didn’t really like the outcome, mostly because a lot of those times I forced myself to write poems when I didn’t want to but once I started writing this piece it just shaped into one.
Suicidal Dolphin...........................Prose Q4
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This is probably the weirdest piece in this portfolio. I wrote this piece right after my spring vacation where I had swum with dolphins and Mr. Chase prompted us to write about something related to it. I decided to write about dolphins but I added a little twist because I honestly had no idea what type of story I could write about dolphins, they're awesome and all but don't really make for great writing material. This is sort of an absurdist, satirical piece and I love it. I think I excelled in the absurdist comedy as well as the narration and the investigation on how dolphins in captivity live. A good quote that shows how well I did my research and dramatized is; "He wasn’t alive to them, they didn’t care that he had anorexia and only ate 2% of his body weight instead of 4-9% of its body weight per day in order to have the perfect dolphin body..". I like this story because it's good for a silly laugh. I think the ending is lacking because by that point I had written a lot and I knew how I wanted the dolphin to die but I somehow just couldn't write it down properly so the ending kind or ruined the story but it's still pretty funny overall.
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