Ty's ssay #7

Ty LeVarge
Mr. Salsich
English 02
November 4, 2008

The essence of another reading
An essay on how another reading of a story
Can reveal things never noticed before

TS How could reading a story you have already read possibly help you in understanding a story and finding great writing tools within it? CM It could help you indefinitely with understanding the plot of the story and finding interesting points that you may never have noticed before. CM In the Garden Party, there have been many discoveries that I have made and some that are still waiting to be found. CS If re-reading a book, look into it as if you were looking for gold, and you will find something eventually.

TS As I re-read “The Garden Party”, I have noticed several things that I missed during my first reading that ,I thought, seemed very intriguing. SD One example of what I found would be one example of purposeful repetition that I didn’t notice before on my first reading. CM I noticed that on page 11, the author uses extravagant a lot. CM It also blended well with the rest of the paragraph and flowed well with what the author was saying. SD Another set of purposeful repetition was on page nine and was also repeated throughout a few sentences. CM When Laura is talking about the incident and how they must stop the garden party is where she uses “stop” about three times to add power. CM Just saying the sentences with power behind “stop” adds emotion and seriousness into it. SD Also, when Laura is putting on the new hat, I realized that something made that seem a bit unusual when her mother interrupts with the hat. CM This was a way for Laura’s mother to stop the words of the man being killed and to distract Laura. CM This was a good tactic deployed by Laura’s mother to stop the news of the incident form ruining the garden party that was prepared for by hard work. CS This goes to show how re-reading a book can be essential.

TS A connection bonds a story and its reader, and that is how many times you read the book and how hard you focus on it. CM The more you read the book and the harder you focus on it, shows how strong a reader and the book are together. CM Same if you read the book less and don’t focus on it, you get careless, and you are not taking the book as seriously as you should be. CS This is a great lesson to keep in mind, if you like a book, focus on it, and read it often, because you never know what you could find that you never thought of before.