The Notebook

what the importance of keeping a notebook. At the end of her essay she made a conclusion that the purpose of a notebook is to record the feeling that a person feel at a particular moment. And it doesn’t matter if what it is in the journal is not what actually occurred, as long as it connects some memory. In the essay Joan gives many examples of something that she has written down, stylistic writing, and tones to support what she thinks the purpose of keeping a notebook. The author gives many…

Reading Responses #4 The reading, On Keeping a Notebook, by Joan Didion, is an exceptional excert discussing on why one would write in a notebook. Joan uses many different perspectives to look at the idea of a person writing, why they do it and what it means to them. She starts off by talking about a tiny note that she had written in her notebook one August morning. The note had no context and little information. She had wrote it so that she would remember what she wanted or had taken from that…

Joan Didion in the article, “On Keeping a Notebook,” explains that keeping a notebook is very different than keeping a journal. Didion supports her explanation by giving examples of what she wrote in her notebook, and explaining why she wrote those things. The author’s purpose is to inform, in order to let her audience know that keeping a notebook is important. The author writes in an informal tone for the audience. Joan Didion writes using pathos, ethos, and rhetorical devices. Throughout her…

types of personalities which shape someone to who they are. A personality can ultimately determine the type of person someone is. In “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and “The Golden Notebook” by Doris Lessing demonstrate how a personality can be shown through colours, animals and nature, and how they have an ultimate effect on dreams. “Identity” is a very strong word that defines a person on who they are and what…

read and edit all of Tennesse William’s thirty notebooks that he has written in the duration of writing his plays, poems and other pieces. The thirty notebooks are the behind the scenes of Tennesse Williams as in what he felt or why did he deceide to write that play or name it that specific way. In these notebooks, it consists of Williams talking about his feelings about each of every piece he has ever written. When the author was given the notebooks, it was out of order with missing dates and…

1960’s essayist, Joan Didion, in her essay, “Los Angeles Notebook,” writes about the Santa Ana winds and their effect on human behavior. Didion’s purpose is to not only explore the Santa Ana winds, but to especially explain how these unique winds influence humans. She adopts a perturbed tone in order to unnerve all those who read her essay. To achieve this tone and her purpose as a whole, Didion employs the powerful effect of diction. Didion begins her essay by introducing the Santa Ana winds…

to isn’t reading what you took so much time and effort to express? The theme of unattainable love is present in the novel Perks of Being A Wallflower and the movie The Notebook. Charlie, the main character in Perks of Being A Wallflower has this infatuation and love for Sam the same way that Noah, the main character in The Notebook has for Allie. The way these two main characters act out about how they feel are similar, neither of them give up on their love for Sam or Allie. No one can control…

Pat, having spent eight months in a mental health hospital in Baltimore for bipolar disorder, is released and sent home to his hometown of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania into the care of his mother and father, Dolores and Patrizio. Soon after returning home, he learns that his wife, Nikki, has moved away and his father has resorted to illegal bookmaking to earn money with hope to open a restaurant. Pat is determined to get his life back together and reconcile with Nikki, who had obtained a restraining…

I have lost somebody who didn’t love me, but they have lost somebody who loved them.” When I read Joan Didion’s piece, “On Keeping a Notebook”, I knew that I could use my writing as a device that would enable me to see the world more clearly, to “remember what it was to be me: that is always the point.” My journal became a place of self-discovery; it was no longer just a collection of…

came from the cultural and artistic explosion of the Harlem Renaissance. African American writers such as Langston Hughes and others laid the foundation for the new black identity. From all these great influences, Aimé Césaire wrote his length poem, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. This poem emphasizes the theme of a new black identity completely separate from Eurocentric ideas. Also, how blacks need to abandon colonization and it’s history to be completely free. Césaire concept of…