Most Valuable Thing

My most valuable thing learned this year in English III AP is………………

You see I’ve never been good at writing for a prompt. Actually, I’ve never been good at writing in general. I honestly really hate it which is one of the reasons I don’t do so well when it comes to English classes. For some reason however, I made the amazing mistake of signing up for an AP level course in English. This odd choice led to my discovery that while I may still suck at writing, it can, on occasion, be fun.

This discovery came from the creation of this blog. In reality, at the time I made it, I thought the idea of making a blog for English class was idiotic. As time went on however, my opinion changed, and eventually, when writing about what I was thankful for, it clicked in my mind why I changed my mind.  With more freedom and a more relaxed atmosphere for writing, I wrote what I felt with little attention to whether my writing had the same stiff structure that so many persuasive and analytical essays I had written before had. It was more natural, and while I often found my clarity lacking, I enjoyed what I wrote. This is why the thing that impacted me the most this year was the blog post about being thankful.

Transcendentalism

In the 1820s and 30s, a new philosophy rose and became popular. Transcendentalism would be behind the ideas and written works of many great men such as Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. In essence, transcendentalism is the idea that man is good at heart and that isolation and self dependency are necessary in order to show this internal good.

A good example of this is in the movie “Up”. In this movie, Carl Fredricksen is a grumpy old man who wants to move away. After he flies his house into an isolated land, he becomes self reliant and happier. His internal good is shown through his decisions and rises to the surface do to his isolation and self reliance revealing the transcendental ideas in the movie.

The Story Without E

In writing my thoughts, I find that oft I cannot display my thoughts properly through ink. My opinions and notions turn to rubbish as I fight to show what I think. This spawns my hostility towards writing as I find it painful and taxing on my mind.

With this blog post in which I am not to apply a symbol I am finding additional difficulty in displaying my thoughts. I find Googling assisting in finding synonyms for words which I am trying to apply to my writing. With this though, I am still straining to construct two paragraphs without said symbol in a way that is logically sound.