Essay #10 In-Class

Everything Has to Come Around in a Circle;

Sooner or later

An Essay By Hanna Kronholm 

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

In To Kill A Mocking Bird, there are so many events happening it’s hard to remember the most important one. The plot of the story is to make Boo Radley come out. There are a lot of events that happen in the middle that make us wonder if Boo is ever going to come out. Harper Lee, the author, brings it all around in the last few chapters of the book. She brings the book around in a circle almost like the opening and closing of a book. She keeps us guessing through out the story making us wonder and leaving us hanging at the end of every chapter. Just like in life, there are things that leave you hanging and things that come around in a circle.

      
          TS Everything good or bad in life has to come around into a circle; come to a conclusion. SD In to Kill a Mocking Bird, the story starts by telling us the end. CM It starts to come around in a circle in chapter 28 when Jem Finch breaks his arm. CM The event of Jem breaking his arm was actually told to us in the very first page of this book. CM To our bewilderment Harper lee was telling us the end in the beginning of the book when she said, “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." SD Harper Lee keeps us guessing all throughout the book, she starts with the plot of the book to make,"Boo Radley come out." CM She distracts us for many of the chapters by making us think about topics that are of the horizon like the trail with Mr. Tom Robinson. CM Then in the last couple chapters she brings the book back around to the plot of “Making Boo Radley come out." CM In the second to last chapter, Boo Radley comes out in a way that no one would expect. CM He is there saving Jem and Scout's lives. CM After the fact, Scout greets Boo with a "Hey Boo", like she said it every day of her life. SD Scout has grown all though out the book and she has almost come around in a circle. CM She has matured into a young woman, when Aunt Alexandra first came to Maycomb her goal was to help Scout become a young woman. CM She started by saying things like this to Scout, "Jean Louise, come speak to these ladies." CM Being very proper Aunt Alexandra was trying to ware off on Scout, but Scout was not looking to become more proper. CM  She was fine with the way she was, a girl who was independent, a person who stood up for herself, a young individual who didn’t know what she wanted, a young girl that didn’t think It was a problem not know what she wanted to become just yet. CS Now that Aunt Alexandra is about to leave she has reached her goal she has almost come around in a band.

              TS Everything in school has to come to an end; come around in a circle.  SD Essays are one thing that always have to come to an end. CM Essays are one thing in my life that are repetitive. CM You always have to start with a introduction and end with a conclusion. CM Inside the essay it ends many times, each chunk has to start and end. SD The school year also has to come to a completion. CM The teachers try to bring everything you've learned around in a circle. CM They try to bring all the content we’ve learned to an end weather it be the end of a book, or the end of a chapter in Math. SD Exams are one thing that bring the school year or the term to an end. CM They have almost everything you've learned in either the year or that term to an close. CM The exams rap everything up, and give you an idea of how much you have memorized and gained through out the year or term. CM It gives you a perspective and lets your study more and revokes what you learned months ago. CS Everything has an end, and everything does come to an end.
          
           Weather you know it or not, everything as to come to an end. People grow and things change, which means that everything has to come to a conclusion. "Do you ever get the feeling that the whole thing is changin'? Like somethin' is coming to an end because somethin' else is beginning?" ---Mark, That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton. Like a circle it starts and then connects back and relates to the beginning. 


Self Assessment----

1.) I am continuing to work on the way my essays flow into quotes. I worked very hard on picking out the right quotes and the right places to place them carefully in this essay.

2.)I believe that one strong point in this essay is the FAST words I looked through each paragraph, looking for a word that I could substitute, searching for a word that wouldn't be "awkward." 

3.) One of the weaknesses I see is some of the grammar, I tend to have problems deciding were commas go and don't go.  But over-all I feel very confident.

4.) On this essay i would give my self a A- I spent a lot of time proof reading this essay and I'm very confident in it. I believe that it demonstrates some of my best work. And I am proud of the way it flows with elegance.