Sorry Wrong Number Short Story

The suspense essay was a surprisingly hard essay to work on, I say this because I already know i'm not the best writer, so doing this was extremely stressful, but I completed it. When we first were told about the essay we had to choose what stories we were going to write about, I chose the stories “Cujo” written by Stephen King and the story “Sorry, Wrong Number” written by Lucille Fletcher. Once we decided on the stories we had to work with a partner to chose two pieces of evidence from each story, this is what we would be mainly focusing on in the essay. Next we were given a green sheet of paper, this was our graphic organizer, this would help us lay out our essay, anything from the attention grabber all the way to the closing sentence. …show more content…
The author shows foreshadowing when we find out that Mrs. stevenson was directed to the wrong phone line and she hears a conversation.” I changed my whole bridge because as I read through my essay for the first time, it didn't make any sense at all. I thought by doing this it would one, make my paragraph flow better and two, it would just help me and my overall essay grade in general. Something else that I changed that impacted my essay greatly as well was in my opening paragraph, I say this because I practically rewrote the entire paragraph. One specific part was in my attention grabber. For my attention grabber I decided on a quote, and for my first quote was a Stephen King quote, I thought this would work because one of my paragraphs were about Stephen King. Once we did peer edit reviews one of my comments were that they thought my quote didn't work with the background information and claim that I had, I will have to admit I did agree with them on that it didn't fit. I ended up changing my quote to “As Mark Billingham, once said “There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and …show more content…
It wouldn't surprise me if I got a C+ to a B- or even lower on this assignment only because, I didn't do everything that was suggested we used to help with our essay, nor did I do everything we should have just done by using common sense. I say this because by reading my essay I see that I have a lot in the 3 column such as, common word choice, basic, predictable language, sentence structure is simplistic & the reader occasionally struggles to grasp meaning, and several run-ons & fragments, etc. that is just a small fragment of what I think I got. One of the biggest thing I felt I learned about myself as a writer was that I am a good writer and have the right idea as i'm writing but I can easily fall off topic or add unnecessary