Easy Essays Aren’t Life
When I took the AJSS Test and the ACET, there was one essay in the reading comprehension part that managed to make me think about it more than I ought to. The essay seemed to be written by a man, for - no offense or whatever to us ladies - only a man would be able to come up with something so drastically… simple.
The author of the essay was completely at odds with the idea of having a course that taught Creative Writing. He said that even though a student masters all the mechanics of good grammar and etc., he or she will never be able to write well if he or she is not blessed with the gift to observe the world in a perspective different from those of the people around us.
He also said that literature is basically just a cycle. If anyone would bother to observe, stories preserved in pen, ink, and any other form of publication are actually alike. I completely understand what he’s trying to say but I find it quite difficult to explain the idea.
For example, girls nowadays still suffer the same problems as Lizzie from Pride and Prejudice. Injustice such as the one exhibited in Count of Monte Cristo still stands. Hasn’t it ever occured to anyone that there could have been a slightly mor demure version of Mia Thermopolis in the seventies?
Life is a cycle and history almost always repeats itself. I can attest to that.
I feel quite bad but I can’t share the cause of my grief and forlorn to you, my handful of readers, for doing so would qualify as a severe and most humiliating form of backbiting.
Sigh. If only directing the course of my life was as easy as writing an essay.
Poof!
