Blog 2/Revised

The piece that I chose to analyze for this assignment was from a Mississippi History class. The story is "The Wide Net," by Eudora Welty.

The context of the story to me was for entertainment. Ms. Welty told a story about a husband and wife in old time Mississippi. The story told of William Wallace and Hazel Jamieson. Hazel was big and pregnant and feeling lonely because William was still going out every night carousing with his friends. This does not set very well with Hazel and she sets out to teach him a lesson. Now that I have given a brief overview of the story my belief would be that William ansd Hazel's marriage is what is at stake.

I have not read any other publications by Ms. Welty but she did an awesome job of telling a story of what my idea of ole time Mississippi would be like. She brought the characters alive, makig her readers feel as though they could be there walking down the dirt roads of Mississippi right along with her characters. I do not know if Ms. Welty is from the south, but she did an excellent jof protraying the southern charm in her characters.

The author's call to write, as I mentioned above was to entertain, but I also believe that she was trying to give insight into what life in the ole time south was all about. She shared with her readers what I feel was how things happened in the south during that period of time. Women were expected to stay at home, take care of the house and have babies. While men folk did what they pleased, as William showed as he was out cavorting with his friends and getting drunk. I believe that Ms. Welty was trying to get the point across to her readers that they should cherish what they have because they never know when it will be gone. She told this by showing how distraught William was when he came home to find Hazel's note saying she was going to the river to drown herself. She made the reader feel William's pain as he headed to the river to drag it to find his drowned wife.

The intended audience would be anybody. This is a very entertaining story and I believe that it could be a great read for most readers. Since the story was assigned in a Mississippi History class I think that it would also be a good read for those interested in southern history.

I believe that Ms. Welty did an awesome job of telling a story of how the south was during that time period. The story was enjoyable and able to keep my attention from the beginning. This to me is what makes a writer's work worth reading.

Blog 2/Eng 333

The paper that I chose to analyze for this assignment was from a Mississippi History class. History is not my field of study but it is one of my enforsements. I am a Special Education major as I mentioned before but Social Studies is one of my endorsements. Therefore, I do a lot of history papers. The contet came from the story "The Wide Net." We were given the assignment to outline the story "The Wide Net." We weren't given any other sources or material to use other than the story to use in writing the paper.

The topic was chosen for the class of course because we were all reading the same thing. I don't think that we were were expected to learn anything through the writing process, but I do believe we were expectd to learn something through the process of reading the story and putting what we had learned from the story onto the paper in our own words.

The audience for this paper was my teacher only. I didn't know a lot about my reader other than he was my professor and that he was very knowledgeable in the subject that he was teaching. I wasn't trying to estabish a relationship with my reader just trying to get my idea of the story across to him.

My call to write was trying to give y point of view on the story that I had read and what my thoughts of it were. I addressed the issues that I did because I felt that they wer the overall important facts of the story. I felt that the facts that I brought out were the ones that told the story of William and Hazel in the best way possible. I made the paper my own by using my own tone in the paper. I used language that sounded like I was sitting down at the table talking to y profesor instead of writing it all down on a piece of paper for him to read. I feel that is the best way to communicate what we are tyring to way when we are writing. When we say things like we are in conversation with somebody and not worrying some much about the grammatical and other errors. While these things are important; I believe the storytelling is more important.

In writing this paper, I was trying to relay to the reader what I had gathered from the story. I wanted them to be ablel to understand the story without having to read it. I wanted it to paint the reader a picture of the story that made then want to read it and to enjoy it as mch as I had enjoyed it myself.

As I stated above I tried to use a conversational tone in my paper. I wanted my reader to be able to feel like I was sitting there telling them the story instead of them being bored to death by mumbo jumbo or just retelling the story word for word. I think I used a lot of country slang in my paper. This was a story written in Mississippi and it had a lot of southern slang, so in writing my paper I felt the need to add that into it as I wrote.

I feel that the goal the teacher had set in having us to write this paper was to make sure we were doing the reading that assigned to us, but the main goal was to make sure that we understood what we were reading and that we were able to convey that back to him on paper.

About Me/ENG 333

Hi...My name is Susan Peterson. I am a Senior and will graduate in May 2012. My major is Speical Education with endorsements in English and Social Studies. I am currently a full-time student. I have been a stay at home wife and home mom for the past 18 years. My husband retired from the Navy after 22 years of service on February 1, 2011. I have one son he is 15 years old and will be a sophmore.

As far a writing that I have done regulary for my major it seems all I do is write, with English being one of my endorsements I have taken a lot of Enlgish courses, so I have done a lot of essays, research papers and things of that nature. Also, with Social Studies being my other endorsement I have done a lot of researxh papers in those classes as well. So, I would have to say the majority of my writing in college has been research paper. These are not my favorite things to write I can honestly say.

I do have to do a lot of writing of IEP's (Individualized Education Plan) in my classes. These are very time consuming and are a LOT of writing. These will probably be what I spend most of my writing time on once I graduate.

I love to write. I express myself better with pen and paper than I can ever think about doing verbally. I tend to get all tongue tied when I am trying to convey what I want to say face to face but if I sit down with pen in hand the words just flow smoothly from my mind.

So, that is a little about me and the things that I have written and the things that I like to write.