This week in class has been pretty enlightening we spoke more in depth about our essay, what I remember most about this week is Sabatino telling us not to defeat ourselves, not to put ourselves down before we even begin to write. This spoke to me because I tend to look at anything English related and automatically assume that I will fail at it. I feel like I have nothing to write about and even if I did I wouldn't know how to put it into text. Our teacher taught us that we all lead interesting lives and if we trust ourselves it will present itself in the intensity of our work. I learned that this Creative Nonfiction Essay is giving me a window to be creative with my truthful information. Sabatino armed us with an arsenal of tools or literary devices to assist us in writing this essay. Each text that we read in class gave us examples of how to use these Literary Devices. For example, in the article Everyone Knew I Was Gay, Except My Brother by Brian Douglas Kennedy, when he wrote "My sister-in-law was wearing clean, white Keds that had yet to be touched by the City's filth." There is both symbolism and juxtaposition used in that one sentence. Her clean, white keds symbolized the perfect, normal, untainted life he believed his brother and sister-in-law led, and the cities filth symbolized his perception that his lifestyle and sexual orientation were dirty or wrong. We also read a chapter from a memoir called My Name Is Margaret by Maya Angelou. I thought she used foreshadowing by mentioning that the help used the back door a couple times so they are not to be seen and at the end Margaret holds open the front door for everyone to see Mrs. Cullinan is hysterics.Also, Mrs. Cullinan's china that Margaret had broken may have symbolized generations of Cullinan family wealth and power.
This week at home was like any other. The rat race is the new normal. I am becoming increasingly worried that I won't be able to handle work, school, and home for to much longer before I break down. Things have been extremely stressful. I work less to make sure I have enough time to study, do my work, go to class, and make sure I spend enough time with my son, I'm just not making ends meet financially. I know that if I take on more hours at work that it will impact my work at school and that will also take time away from my son. I am beginning to resent my husband for everything that has happened. I was angry with him before but this last week has gotten worse I'm finally seeing the big picture that all the smaller mistakes he made led to huge issues for me. Hopefully next week will be better.
This week at home was like any other. The rat race is the new normal. I am becoming increasingly worried that I won't be able to handle work, school, and home for to much longer before I break down. Things have been extremely stressful. I work less to make sure I have enough time to study, do my work, go to class, and make sure I spend enough time with my son, I'm just not making ends meet financially. I know that if I take on more hours at work that it will impact my work at school and that will also take time away from my son. I am beginning to resent my husband for everything that has happened. I was angry with him before but this last week has gotten worse I'm finally seeing the big picture that all the smaller mistakes he made led to huge issues for me. Hopefully next week will be better.