Into The Wild Analysis

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Today, April 18, 2016, marks the six month ending period of my relaxation and semi- isolation from the world that I myself created to live in. Since our last letter, I decided that I needed to go on a self-discovery journey. It all started with an e-book that I was reading on my Kindle called “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer. I will not tell you about the book, so I recommend for you to go read it. Anyway, after finishing the book within a few hours, I realized that I couldn’t continue living the way I was. My heart, mind and soul demanded a change. However, unlike the main character of the story, I decided to find ways to escape my depression and anxiety while staying connected to reality and family/friends.
This journey was probably
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I had the pleasure of presenting information of this word to my fellow classmates. Deconstruction was a term coined by Jacques Derrida, a philosopher. A simple definition of deconstruction is getting something, a house, a conversation, a poem, and breaking it down to see what it took to create such works. These letters are an example of deconstruction of the poem 1266. With poem 1266, I tried to show you that a lot of complexity went to “building” it. Reading a poem, any poem, cannot be read just once to be understood. Effort needs to be put into the critical thinking department to get a full understanding of the poem and about the person who wrote it. I think I did a pretty good job explaining everything to you because it was my best. By best, I mean that I would stress over what I was writing. Like I said before, this assignment was new to me. I have never been ask to teach someone through a letter especially on material that was foreign to me. I am not your typical English major. I don’t read Dickinson or Foucault for fun. Nevertheless, these letters were not only a teaching tool, but a learning one as …show more content…
I was supposed to start student teaching this semester, but in August, I made the decision to drop the certificate. No need to feel sorry for me. I realize now that teaching was not my future. Anyway, my first day there, I was instructed to teach a small group of freshmen about literary analysis. In my head I cursed at the heavens, analyzing text as never been a strong point of my English abilities. In reality, I was too sacred to say anything so I did what I could. Students are asked to write literary analysis essays because this type of assignment encourages them to think about how and why a poem, short story, novel, or play was written. The educators want their students to being using their critical thinking skills and want to develop/enhance the fourth level of Blooms Taxonomy. This assignment was not high school level like I thought it was going to be. In fact, it proved to be the hardest literary analysis paper that I have ever written, but it also proved to be the most educational and beneficial paper I have written in my college career. Without knowing it, I actually wrote a 15 page research paper in the form of five letters. How cool is that! With the breakdown of parts, I was able to focus in specific areas of research and was able to develop full ideas and thoughts about Emily Dickinson and her

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