Ty's essay 2nd post i hope =)

Ty LeVarge

Professor H. Salsich

English 02

22 September 2008


The essay by Mrs. Goldman is a very formal and sophisticated essay filled with more details than the story gave originally. She seems to also have taken quite an interest in the story since she knows a lot about the story and gives some background information stated in her essay. Based on Mrs. Goldman’s essay, I would say that she is a great essay writer and a great professor as well. I also realized that she uses lots of FAST words in her essay which enhanced her essay even farther.

I have analyzed her essay and found out an unbelievable amount of literary terms ranging from FAST words to loose sentences to great introductions of sentences. She has started her paragraphs and also sentences in an intriguing way that interests me. One interesting fact was that when she was summarizing the story, she mentioned each major part as a “movement” which puzzles me because it is something that we don’t see in most essays very often. In the beginning of her essay, she tells most of the background information like the year it was published and also gives details about them. Mrs. Goldman also mentions many specific and interesting additional details about almost every part of the story that she mentions during her essay. During her summary of the different parts of the story, I have realized that she adds additional details than the story may give sometimes. I have also realized that she gives great FAST words such as “profundity” and “surrogate” which are two great examples of the many that are spread around in her essay. Mrs. Goldman presents a lot of great details within her essay and shares a lot of really great points as well.

My personal thoughts about the essay would be along the lines of a great essay but more specifically, that it has good organization and great summary details. My thoughts about the summaries that Mrs. Goldman came up with were some great ideas. Main thought that I thought up of was that she discusses the summary is almost as if you were reading the story only a more formal version of it. She also has added a lot of details but has dispersed them evenly so it doesn’t ruin the essay which is a good strategy to balance out your essay. I also think that Mrs. Goldman’s organization is critical and was very well done. She doesn’t jump around on different subjects randomly; instead, she keeps everything in line and doesn’t let anything go out of place. She also does not mention anything off topic anywhere in her essay at all. All together, Mrs. Goldman has produced a wonderful essay and with great organization and detail.

The essay by Mrs. Goldman is a version of the story from the reader’s view and how most thoughts from the reader would be almost the same material. Mrs. Goldman is probably a professor that is a great teacher that her students would deserve. She writes very formally and must have learned a lot from her teachers and is hopefully teaching her students the same thing. In my opinion, Mrs. Goldman is worthy of the name professor and should feel honored to pass on her teachings.





Works cited
Goldman, Suzy. "James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues': A Message in Music," in Negro American Literature Forum, Vol. 8, no. 3, fall, 1974, pp. 231-3