Eulogy Speech: What Makes A Dead Relative?

Writing a eulogy speech, is a perfect chance to express oneself. A short time to show one's artistic and poetic prowess. Maybe even some time to get out some much needed anger or regret. Writing such a speech could even be fun, right? Wrong! Writing an assigned eulogy speech is like being told you have a thousand dollars to spend at your favorite store but all the items have been replaced with rotting cacti. You may say I'm being dramatic but have you ever been forced to write about a dead relative? It was about the middle of the second semester of eighth grade and I was ready to get out of there for good. It was just another boring day identical to the last two-hundred or so, for a time at least. I was just sitting at a table with my friends Kristine, Alfredo, and gaby working, presumably, on some God-awful group project. I thought that that day would be just another run of the mill school day, at least until my english teacher, Mrs. Smith, got up in front of …show more content…
Even as the deadline to get this project done drew ever closer, I still couldn’t even decide on a person to write about much less knowing what I was going to write about said undecided person. Maybe if I had actually enjoyed this project or the class that had resulted in this assignment, then this knowledge of an ever closing in deadline would have given me new found motivation and writing prowess but this was not the case. To tell the truth, the deadline sort of knocked the fight out of me, I just felt resentment towards my teacher and the class and started to form a mentality of “I won’t do this project so I can spite you” towards my teacher. Truth be told this was completely illogical as I didn’t even dislike my teacher, I just had a sense of disdain towards the school as a whole; I was acting as though I could just ignore the assignment and make it go