Questions!!! Blog 12

1. What tone will you take with your essay? I will use a informal/ entertaining tone in the essay.
2. What narrative perspective will you use?  First-person? Second-person?  Third-person?  Will you switch between perspectives?  Why or why not? I'm going to use a second-person perspective, and just for personal examples I'm going to switch it to the first-person perspective. 
3. What point-of-view will you use in your essay? I'm going to use my personal point-of-view.
4. How much psychic distance will you create between you and your subject? There is going to be just a small psychic distance between I and my subject because basically everything I'm going to write is going to be based on my experiences in life.
5. How will you weave story and idea?  In other words, how will you shift between summary and dramatic narrative? To do so, I'm going to try to involve the reader more in the essay using general events that most people are likely to had experience in their lives. 
6. How will you begin your essay? I'm going to begin my essay with a general idea of what does "lost" mean to me.

7. How will you structure your essay's middle? The middle is going to develop with examples of how people struggle with life
8. How will you end your essay? The end is going to be of how people overcome difficult situations giving a positive point of view of having struggling sometimes

"Lost"

In my "Lost" essay I'm going to use different rhetorical modes. I want to use narration, I want to tell about a time where I was feeling lost to illustrate my point. I'm planning also to use compare and contrast situations where people can feel lost, for example when you lose your job or when you lose a significant other. how are those situations similar and different from each other? I think for now those two rhetorical methods are going to be helpful for me essay.

Lost in the world

To be lost in the world can have a lot of different connotations and differ from person to person based on personal experiences. I can feel I'm lost in the world if I have experience the lost of somebody who was really important in my life, and that my everyday activities where surrounded by that person. For example, a person can feel is lost in the world if she/he is getting divorced, if a loved one has passed away, if she/he has lost his/her job, and so on. 
Being "lost in the world" refers to the feeling of not knowing what to do because you are experiencing a difficult time where you have to balance  your life, make decisions, and accept your new reality. 

Effective description

  “You were the wind and I the sea.” (From “After Love” by Sara Teasdale)


The author is using this metaphor to led the reader make interpretations about the relationship between the two characters is this metaphor. 
The wind influences the temperature and direction of the sea. The sea is a docile large body of saline water that the wind, with kindness can give directions. If the wind is cold, the see is cold too. This metaphor shows the relationship between two people; one who is strong but led the other person lead his/her pathway. 

Assignment 8

All your senses are involved in this rendezvous with art. I closed your eyes and breath deeply, there was an amazing strong, aromatic, and smooth smell of coffee and chamomile tea, it was almost like I could taste it, a symphony of flavors.

Questions and answers (essay 2)

1.  What will be the subject of your profile essay?  What place will you profile?
The subject of my profile is a local rendezvous for all the community in Bakersfield, but specially for people who are interested in doing art as a means of recovery for any physical or psychological problem they may have; the place is the chapel located next to the Mercy Hospital in Downtown Bakersfield where the Art for Healing program takes place.

2.  What will be the dominant impression your essay will evoke?
The dominant impression my essay will evoke is to find a place that cares for the well being of the community based on my perception. 

3.  What narrative perspective will you choose?  
I'll use first-person.



4.  What will be your "Beginning"?
My beginning will be about my first impression in the Art for Healing program, making a description of the place, and explaining what's the purpose of this place in the community.

5.  How will you structure your "Middle"?
My middle will be about my experience in this place and how my perception and expectations from the first visit to now has change.

6.  What will you use in your "Conclusion"?
In my conclusion I'll make a summary of the most important facts and impressions about this place, why do I consider it important for the community, and how people can do to join this place. 

7.  How will you use dialogue?
I will use dialogue to make more vivid my profile essay introducing dialogues between me and the  director of Art for Healing, and a few people I've met over there.

8.  What "Characters" will your essay feature?
The characters will be me, the director of the program, and one or two more people. 

9.  What "Illuminating Details and Anecdotes" will you use?
I will use vivid descriptions about the place and what I consider is meaningful to the story, giving my opinions and experiences. 

10.  How will you use all (or most of) the senses?  What visual images will you use?  What auditory images?  What tactile images?  What gustatory images (tastes)?  What olfactory images (smells)?
I will emphasize my descriptions based on my senses. Since it is a place surrounded by art, it's going to be easy to makes descriptions and the use of all my senses is essential. 

11. What verb tense will you use?  Past tense?  Present tense?
I will use present tense.

Assignment 6, Death Valley

For this assignment I decide to read Desert Byways, about Death Valley. The author does a very good job doing the description of the place since the beginning. His descriptions are so clear that they help us picture the weather, and this is very effective to decide if you want or you don't want  to go visit Death Valley (especially during summer). He uses lot of  descriptive words. In the first paragraph he describes "the ground will become so hot that it will still be sautéing sandals come midnight", helping you understand how hot it really is over there. Another good thing about this profile is that he gives good directions about the place giving references.