Reflection

I just read all of the readings we were suppose to read for class and I was a little bit surprised by them. I think that visual messages are very affective and creative. The cartoons helped associate the idea with the message and people could portray them in different ways and have their own reactions towards them. They were really short but I think both of them portrayed symbolic messages and made a good point. The first one, "Montage of a Dream Deferred" uses a creative message to get across the message. I think that it means that we should give up on our dreams because we might never know what could happen to them. I think that you should never give up on your dreams and you should do whatever to it takes to accomplish them. The next one, "Poem 288" is symbolic because it represents all the people who feel like they are nobody and how they wish people would notice them. A lot of people may feel this way at one point in their life but I feel like there is always someone who thinks you are special and not a nobody. I thought the cartoons were very insightful and they were interesting because they made you analyze the pictures that went along with the text. It makes you think and I thought it was a good way of interpreting the message that the author was trying to make. Good writing really does matter and it is very beneficial to a person to be a good writer. Bad writing affects your image and it can be very unprofessional. Using bad grammar can be confusing and people may have trouble comprehending what you are trying to say. I make mistakes but I always try to fix them or learn how to fix it so I do not do it again. I have trouble writing sometimes and I would not consider myself to be a very good writer but I am always trying to improve the way I write. There is always someone who thinks you are special and not a nobody. I thought the cartoons were very insightful and they were interesting because they made you analyze the pictures that went along with the text. It makes you think and I thought it was a good way of interpreting the message that the author was trying to make. Good writing really does matter and it is very beneficial to a person to be a good writer. Bad writing affects your image and it can be very unprofessional. Using bad grammar can be confusing and people may have trouble comprehending what you are trying to say. I make mistakes but I always try to fix them or learn how to fix it so I do not do it again. I have trouble writing sometimes and I would not consider myself to be a very good writer but I am always trying to improve the way I write. I envy when writing comes easy to people and they are able to get their point across so creatively and in a way that it really affects readers. My goal for this semester is to become a better writer and to try to analyze the way other people write so I can become better because of it.