WOW!
Can you believe that this is the last monthly blog? It feel like just yesterday that I began this humble blog in order to receive a grade for the monthly blog assignment for Mrs. Burnett’s class.
So, in thinking about what work to write about this month, I realized that we have not really studied one work in particular this month. So, I hope that Mrs. Burnett will not mind me using a work that we have previously used this year.
In this blog entry, I will talk about the work that I have given the Underdog Award, the piece of literature that I feel was very strong and important despite the fact that most of us did not like it. The recipient of the first and last Underdog Award ever is a work that we read during the first marking period and many people disliked because of its structure. That’s right, the winner is …………………….....................
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I know that many of you probably just spit out your drinks and are now wiping off your computer monitors right now, but you heard it correctly, Portrait is the winner of the Underdog Award. Now, before you close the browser out of sheer confusion and anger and never read this blog again, Portrait wins this award for two reasons:
1. As a piece of art, Portrait is a brilliant work that I respect, even though I did not enjoy reading it.
2. I pretty mush enjoyed the rest of the works that we read in class this year.
So, you all must be wondering what I want to write about Portrait. Well, after June, we will all be responsible adults that must take care of ourselves during our future adventures in life. In Portrait, Stephen abandons all that he knows and becomes an entirely new person after he leaves home to go to college. In his own words:
“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile and cunning.”
The point that I am trying to make is the fact that we are all going off to discover ourselves once we step out of the door of our parents’ house and enter the harsh realities of the real world. Most of us will face trial after trial in our quest for success, and many of us will fail several times before we reach happiness, but the thing that truly makes life living is being an individual and doing what truly makes you happy.
