Weekly Reflection 4

08.01 - 08.04
This is the second to last week of summer classes. This week we had to create a syllogism. Syllogisms are pretty confusing and hard to write but it is good for an argument essay to make the essay more effective. We constructed an argumentative paper and the professor gave us options for a topic. We could either disagree or agree on our topic but we had to have 2-3 articles to prove our arguments. We had two writing workshop days to write our drafts and individually we had to talk to the professor about our topics and to see where we were at with the paper. The most interesting thing I’ve learned this week is “Love”. The reading “On Love” really defined what love is and it was truly an amazing story. The way the author portrays the story was interesting because she starts off with her marriage and then writes about her life after her marriage in ten years. Also my favorite part of the week was when we watched Marina Abramovic performance. I felt like art can be shown in many ways and Marina portrayed that in a unique way. At the end, she cried when she seen her ex husband. That shows that they had a great relationship and they truly loved each other.

Reading Journal | "The Death of the Moth" Virginia Woolf

The story "The Death of the Moth" Woolf uses many types of modes but the most effective mode she uses is Description. Woolf utilizes extremely specific words instead of using vague descriptions. Woolf begins her essay with a general description. It begins when Woolf describes the day of the moth and the narrator surroundings, using very vivid description of imagery. The narrator is watching the moth as it attempts to the leave the room by the closed window. She states "Yet, because he was so small, and so simple a form of the energy that was rolling in at the open window and driving its way through so many narrow and intricate corridors in my own brain and in those of other human beings..." Also throughout the story, she pays close attention to every detail of the moth and the detail of the moth's movements. During the description of the moth, she writes, "Nevertheless, the present specimen, with his narrow hay-coloured wings, fringed with a tassel of the same colour, seemed to be content with life." Woolf expresses throughout the text how the death of the moth made her wonder about and question the moth’s death. After the death of the moth, Woolf expressed her curiousness of how death can overpower a person and take full control of a situation.