Well,
we made it halfway. As the first semester comes to a close, I would like to
thank Ms. Serensky for providing me with my only slightly bearable homework,
the weekly blogs. Each entry aides me in articulating my thoughts in a humorous
way, and I always look forward to reading my classmate’s fantastic entries. I
hope I provided them with some enjoyment as well and that my efforts to impress
succeeded. I remain particularly proud of one of my entries, “Pondering
Purposes,” and believe it stands as my most well-written post. My successful integration
of a humorous anecdote and analysis of the importance of instilled meaning made
the post both enjoyable and thoughtful. Moreover, I utilized relevant quotes
from “The Balloon” and literary terminology without it sounding like
term-dropping. I believe the entry flows well and holds interesting thoughts,
and I hope it proves an entertaining read. Another entry I enjoyed writing and
trust readers would appreciate, “Materialistic Monkeys,” contains a variety of
tales form my work experiences. I find this blog post particularly interesting
as it contains multiple humorous anecdotes. By emphasizing one story in particular,
I illustrated the initial judgments of materialism we all often express.
However, I also wanted to portray that we all contain this greediness and share
it with many of the characters in The
Great Gatsby. In addition to the entertaining tales, I hope my blunt
assertions increase the appeal of this entry. Although I thoroughly enjoy composing
blog posts, my favorite blog-related activity remains reading comments on my writings
and remarking on others’ works. I received many amusing comments throughout this
semester but my favorite came from Victoria Sevich. After a week of speculation
regarding Gabe’s mysterious absence, I decided to blog about the relation
between the rumors we started about his location and the fallacies about
Gatsby. Victoria commented on this post
stating that she knew all along that Gabe just went to Florida, and only made a
single, feeble attempt to clarify it. I found her statement extremely humorous
and began to imagine her as the Nick to Gabe’s Gatsby, the only one who Gatsby
trusts with the truths in his life. I look forward to reading more comments
like this in the second semester! Furthermore, I cannot wait to attempt to
entertain and be entertained as our classes’ blogging skills continually
improve.
