wild duck journal 2

To what extent would you agree that plot should be valued more highly than style in the work?

 

I would full agree that plot should be valued more highly than style because without the plot the play would have no conflict or reason to be written. The plot gives the reader a reason to have certain feelings toward characters, objects and etc. If there was not plot the reading would be pointless and ramble on with unimportant jibber. Style should build up the anxiety that the plot gives out. It should give all the foreshadowing to the climax and build up for the plot.

 

The style that Ibsen uses in the Wild Duck builds up for the plot. Ibsen's style of writing uses a lot of foreshadowing. Like the foreshadowing of the Knife for the death of Hedvig and the foreshadowing of the letter from Werle and how Hjalmar wrips it up yet he still keeps it around the house. Ibsen's style really builds up for the plot of the death and the unhappiness of the characters.

Wild Duck Journal 1

“Visual action can be as important on the stage as speech.”  How far do you agree with this claim?

On some degree i can agree with this claim, because in plays a character will make sudden movements or do something that will catch the audiences eye that will make them stop and think "was that foreshadowing or a key event?" Visual action is important in a play because the reader can not always visualize the scenarios properly that occur in key events because of the way they read it, and than turn the whole event the wrong way. The visual content will help the audience watching understand the conflicts of the characters. Also in plays the author could foreshadow with speech OR with visual action.

Why i could disagree with it is as important is because there are times in a play where they carry out the visual action to be put out to be more important than it really was. This could trick the audience to be lead onto another train of thought.

Oedipus journal 2

Setting:

The play Oedipus was written by the author who lived in Greece. This is significant because the setting is in a place that can be relate able for the audience that lives in Greece. Also the portraying of the prophecy and the leaders in the play gives a moral that the Greek people can relate to more than just another lesson in a play. Also the significance of the setting in Oedipus is that the war that they fight can be seen in Greece at the time because there were many wars, and the Greek gods would control the weather in other plays. This play gave me a resemblance of the Odyssey by the setting type.

oedipus journal 1

Point of view/Characters

the play Oedipus is narrated in 3rd person. This effect puts us in the scene listening to every one's stories and point of views and how they talk indirectly to the audience. As if we were in a circle turning to each character that was going to speak next. Instead of talking to the audience the characters are talking to one another as if the audience isn't even there. This intensifies the conflicts between two characters if they are arguing. Using the tone of the characters voice that is how the tone is portrayed throughout the play. Like when the chorus speaks it flows more and is not so choppy. I prefer 3rd person narration due to the intensity of the conflicts and arguments between two characters, but it all may differentiate between other peoples opinions.

TWD Journal 3

In the Wild Duck there are many themes and motifs. The one motif that stood out to me was sight. In the play it repeats how Werle is going blind and how bad of a thing that is. On page 63 Gina, Hjalmar and Mrs. Sorby are chatting and the discussion of Werle going blind is brought upon. When ever the conversation of sight is brought upon it is in a bad way. Like when Hedvig is telling Gregers that her parents don't want to educate her because it will ruin her eyes. And the same with the painting. They do not want her to see the truth of when she would be educated by the outside. And Hjalmar does not even educate her. The second motif is the invention. There never is a true "invention" because Hjalmars invention is just something that convinces himself to think that he is happy. There is no real invention because Hjalmar never started one or finished one.

Journal #3 1984

In the novel 1984 Orwell writes on how society has taken over the minds of people, and how they let society take complete control. This is displayed when Winston is being tortured and O'Brien was talking about how Winston must gain sanity back. Like being sane was a privelage. This shows that society  has taken complete control of all the citizens minds of Oceania and they have no control on what to think. I think Orwell is trying to say that Democracy is a bad thing in our society today because if we continue to let someone lead us and put all of our trust in them, than we will not have any say. And that means that we would all be zombies obiding by the rules of the Government,

If we all continue to let someone else make the rules than we will have no freedom is the warning Orwell is trying to make. When one obtains freedom and sanity by themselves than they will no let anyone else rule them. Orwell uses Winston as the exception in 1984 because Winston refuses to break in the torture room, and he has sex with Julia. Showing that Winston wants to rebel and not follow the rules of the Government. Now the thought police is a warning to our society on how if we choose freedom of speech then we must be careful of what we must say because someone can become extrememly angry in the higher power and want to kill you!!

Journal #2 topic B

I am going to analyze Julia in the novel 1984. Julia Is shown as a normal Oceania citizen and displays normal characteristics, yet she however is wanting to feel the need for rebellion. Because Julia is in the JASL party and it is against the rules to have sex because the party is trying to eliminate the need for sex Like Winston they both use sex as a form of rebellion to try and escape the rules of the Government. What was confusing to me in this novel was when Winston first met Julia he wanted to "smash her head into the cobblestone" (101). I was confused because in the end he likes her. Like how she is in the JASL (Junior Anti-Sex League). Why would someone feel the need to smash some one's head into cobblestone? And is Orwell wanted to put a significant character in the book why would he put such emphasis on him wanting to kill her when he first meets her. There has to be something deeper into the passage of Julia on page 101. I think that Orwell is trying to tell us that Julia has no real meaning to Winston. Winston just wanted to rebel and got caught up in the moment and never thought of her with real love or anything.

Journal # 20 1984

Journal #1

                In the novel the stranger the Government governs all. The people do not question the authority or the power of the Government because it is always right and they are forced to agree with the Government because of all the secretive societies telling them to and to think against the Thought Police. Like the Propaganda with all of the posters, and all of the Ministries. In the first chapter it shows that Winston is the only one to remember a time before the Totalitarian state in the Government, this is due to the fact that all the others are being brainwashed and cannot remember a time before their state of being. They have always been taught to follow whatever the Government says. I chose this next passage because it depicts how much of a higher power the government is than the “normal” people in society. This shows how they are all to have to upmost respect for the Ministries and how the people are physically more small than the Government itself.

                “The Ministry of Truth – Minitrue, in Newspeak* - was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on it’s white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”

(Orwell 4).

Journal #3

Metamorphism

1. You control your own fate.
2.Consequences result in your own actions. Therefore the mistakes you make in life are yours own and you must have consequences for the wrong.
3. You must change to let yourself blossom into who you truly are.
4.You choose what to do with your life. There is no higher power!

Journal #7

The bus and how each emotion changes when Mersault boards or talks about it.

1. "I'll take the two o'clock bus and get there in the afternoon." (3)

2. "And my joy when the bus [...] for twelve hours." (18)

3. " We headed toward the bus stop, which wasn't far." (48)

The bus also ties in with the beach and how when Mersault enters the water he is transitioning into more flowy sentences.

Journal #9

Thesis statement: Albert Camus uses the motif of the bus to express the transitions that Mersault is forced to take, but in the end Mersault wants change in his life and adapts to transition and change.

Journal # 8

I did enjoy this book more than i enjoyed TEWWG. This book was easier to read and Camus really emphasized how short sentences can mean more than long ongoing sentences. And thought went into each phrase of this book. I did not like how Camus never took the time to describe the physical attributes of the people the were around Mersault. If i had to read this book again i would read it even more in depth and pull out more symbols/motifs and find out their meaning.

Journal #6 Stranger

5 Questions:

1.) What is the symbolic significance of Salamon's dog?

2.) Could the bus represent a way of escaping for Mersault?

3.) Do the coffee and cigarettes symbolize freedom?

4.) Why is it that every time Mersault cannot physically escape a situation he gets very irritated with the people around him?

5.) Why does the sun always make mersault sleepy?

5 Answers:

1.) Tania: Camus is trying to give a relation to the reader and emphasize the age of Mersault.

2.) Tate: When Camus is using the sun on the beach i think it is the water that is more emphasized. When Mersault is in the water everything seems to become more calm. Even the sentence structure flows better.

3.) Travis: Camus also depicts the physical aspects of people rather than what the look like or how they act.

4.) Sean S: I believe that Camus could be somewhat sexist. In the fact that Mersault only cares for Marie in a physical and sexual way. And in no way does Mersault know how to love her. He is just infatuated with her.

5.) Omar: Camus divides Mersault away from the other characters to emphasize the relevance that Mersault has somewhat of a condition to distance himself. He doesn't like people.

Journal #5 Stranger

I believe that Camus split the novel The Stranger into two parts because they parallel each other. How do they do this you may ask? Well In Part one Camus shows that Mersault is an uncertain fellow. Who is not quite sure what or who to like. And a lot of the periods in the sentences in part one show that Mersault is uncertain of how he thinks. He over depicts certain things almost as if to try to reason to himself. In part two Camus uses more commas than periods. Almost as if to show that Mersault is adapting and learning to mourn better with all the conditions and bumps along the way.

Journal #4 Stranger

Questions:

1.) Could Camus be emphasizing the symbol of the bus as escape for Mersault?

2.) Could Camus use Salamons dog as a symbol of morality?

3.) Why does Camus emphasize that everytime Mersault is around the sun he feels tired?

4.) Does Mersault really love Marie or is he just infatuated with her physically?

5.) What is Mersaults perspective on race? Why does he only give the Arabians the name "arabs"?

Journal #2 Stranger

Part one:
I believe that Matthew Ward has more literary value because he uses words that relate the reader to Mersault more than Gilbert's interpretation of Stranger. In the first chapter Ward uses "Maman." This words signifies that Mersault could have been close to his mother, and also shows Mersault as a younger man. The reader can relate to this because they may feel sympathy if Mersault were to be a younger man rather than a 35 year old man who barely knew his mother. Ward also changes the miles to kilometers assuring the reader that could be French that he knew the measurement system they used.

Part two:
If i were to change the title of the Stranger, i would change it to Adaptation. I would use this title because in the book Mersault changes in a way. In part one Camus uses short and choppy sentences yet moving into part two Camus uses more flowing sentences. Placing commas more than placing periods. Camus gives Mersault this change in the book to show his over coming of his mourning and the adaptation to experiencing more of a decisive side of Mersault.

Journal # 11

What i will do better at this time around tabbing, will be to tab motifs and symbols with different colors. I now can distinctly tell the difference between the two so they should be in separate categories. I will also be tabbing themes more prominently and explain in my notebook why i believe it is a theme. I shall analyze quotes more in depth than i first did with TEWWG.


Colors of tabs:
Motifs - Pink
Symbols - Blue
Themes - Green 
Change in dialect - Yellow

Journal #10

Theme:
Judgement is the element that creates rumors. Rumors whether true or unreliable will spread into more judgement.
Quotes:


"Daisy is walking a drum tune. You can almost hear it by looking at the way she walks. She is black and she knows that white clothes look good on her, so she wears them for dress up. She's got those big black eyes with plenty white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a king of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it;s been around ham and got the flavor. It was spread down thick and heavy over her shoulders and looked just right under a big white hat."
Page 67-68


"Mis' Janie", Hezekiah began sullenly next day, "you oughtn't 'low dat Tea Cake tuh be walkin' tuh de house wid yuh. Ah'll go wid yuh mahself after dis, if you'se skeered."
"What's de matter wid Tea Cake, 'Kiah? Is he uh thief uh somethin'?"
"Ah ain't never heard nobody say he stole nothin'."
"Is he bad 'bout totin' pistols and knives tuh hurt people wid'?"
"Dey don't say he ever cut nobody or shot nobody neither."
"Well, is he-he0is he got uh wife or something lak dat? Not dat its any uh mah business." She held her breath for the answer.
page 102


"Joe returned to the store full of pleasure and good humor but he didn't want Janie to notice it because he saw that she was sullen and he resented that. She had no right to be, the way he though things out. She wasn't even appreciative of his efforts and she had plenty cause to be. Here he was husj pouring honor all over her; building a high chair for her to sit in and overlook the world and she here pouting over it!"
page 62


"Take for instance that new house of his. It had two stories with porches, with bannister's and such things. The rest of the town looked like servants' quarters surrounding the "big house." And different from everybody else in the town he put off moving in until it had been painted, in and out. And look at the way he painted it - a gloaty, sparkly white."
page 47

"The wife of the mayor was not just another woman as she had supposed."
page 46

"The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe's positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him. The bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because thw town bowed down."
Page 50

Journal #8

1.) Jim: "Twentyy yeahs!"
     Dave: "See? Ah told yuh dat nigger don't love yuh. Me, ah'll beg de judge tuh hang me, and wouldn't take nothin' less than life.
pg-68

In This quote Hurston changes her Dialect style. Usually Hurston uses names in reference to when someone is talking to or about someone else. Yet in this quote Hurston Clearly Hurston shows who is talking and wants to emphasize the speaker.

2.) "Ah know it and dat's what puts de shamery on me. You'se jus' disgusted wid me. Yo' jus' left here and went off somewhere else. Naw, you ain't mad wid me. Ah be glad if you was, 'cause then Ah might do somethin' tuh please yuh. But lak it is-"
pg-104

In this passage Hurston is trying to emphasize something because in all the other dialects the word here is spelled different. Yet here Janie is talking and the words here is spelled here. So the place where they are must be emphasized.
pg-94

3.) One day Hezekiah asked off from work to go off with the ball team. Janie told him not to hurry back. She could close up the store herself this once. He cautioned her about the catches on the windows and doors and swaggered off to Winter Park.

In this Passage Hurston really changes her style of her relationships with men and women. When she uses the word "asked" it shows that Hezekiah might be afriad of Janie, so to say that she would be the one in the higher position. This could conclude that Hurston thinks that women may be in a higher position than man in certain relationships.

Journal #9

Kelly walked to the door, slid it open and stepped out slowly yet rapidly. She grazed over the yard entire and watched as the man was lifting the rocks with his wrist and tossing the rock in the water. Everything was not right. The tree overhead cast the man's tall and lanky shadow on the shore. Kelly felt a heart in need to talk to Danny about the mistake she had mad yet her head felt a slight tension between the heart. Before Kelly knew it Danny had come up behind her. She felt horrible for judgin him, but she didn't know what else to believe. "Yah can't tell me yah think i really set dat church on fire could yah?" pleaded Danny. "why din't yah just ask meh? Ah could have told yah dah truth but yah din't give meh time tah give dah answer." Kelly though to feel shamed. She felt that she didn't know who she was anymore no more than she knew who Danny as a person was. And this made her feel grave aggravation.

The three stylistic elements i used were diction. I used phrases highlighted in green to show diction. I used diction to help give the reader a vivid scene in their head. I used the blue highlighted phrases to show the oxymoron like Hurston uses to emphasise or give a greater picture of what is going on in the passage. And the Last element i used is highlighted in pink is when Hurston switched words around in a phrase to give emphasize to the meaning of the words. In this passage i used the switch to emphasize that Kelly was using her heart instead of her head. The theme i used in this passage was judgement. In order to know who one is you have to be able to accept others as who they are internally and externally.

Journal #7

That one day that Joe found her. The body of a flower and the wings of a butterfly, Love. What great ways she had with all the folks in town. She kept peoples wants high with the desires of hope. Joe paced the baseball field entire. Hoping to find the sense of walking in lines of straightness. What would be the destiny of Joe in the few moments of time? Her Wings of a mountainous beauty sore through the skies of hope. Joe Strode to the fence where he found Nancy. Her long flowing hair lay down across her shoulder, the color of a daisy meadow mixed with honey. Could this be what she wanted for Joe? He paced in front of her and hoped for her mouth to project a phrase that he would not have to say first. Nancy pulled at Joe's hand, to lend a graceful look. She looked sympathetic, and yet anxious. Joe, outbursted "I love you Nancy" and Nancy let go of Joe's hand. The face of her's full of rose. She turned around, off the tree plucked a flower and looked back at the young boy's face. "I love you too Joe." she exclaimed. She was looking over the shoulder of Joe after all. The petal of the flower slip off and slowly dived to the ground. Letting Joe know her wings were always there. A guardian angel with the eyes of a hawk.

I used the same sentence structure as Hurston, and i tried to keep the passage that i wrote with vague words such as she and her. I wanted the reader to feel anxious for Joe yet have a real graceful look at Nancy. I tried to create as much emotion in it as i could and let the butterfly evolve into a guardian angel.

Journal #6

Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West. The great one who lived in the straight house like a platform without sides to it, and without a roof. What need has Death for a cover, and what winds can blow against him? He stands in his high house that overlooks the world. Stands watchful and motionless all day with his sword drawn back, waiting for the messenger to bid him come. Been standing there before there was a where or a when or a then. She was liable to find a feather from his wings lying in her yard any day now. She was sad and afraid too. Poor Jody! He ought not to have to wrassle in there by himself. She sent Sam in to suggest a visit, but Jody said No. These medical doctors wuz all right with the Godly sick, but they didn't know a thing about a case like his. He'd be all right just as soon as the two-headed man found what had been buried against him. He wasn't going to die at all. That was what he thought. But Sam told her different, so she knew. And then if he hadn't, the next morning she was bound to know, for people began to gather in the big yard under the palm and china-berry trees. People who would not have dared to foot the place before crept in and did not come to the house. Just squatted under the trees and waited. Rumor, the wingless bird, had shadowed over the town. (84)

Decision:

-Zora hurston is constintly using the trees to symbolize something. I think she could be trying to show that the tree's can symbolize something dying off. Like seasons go the leaves get brighter, turn yellow/orange and than slowly die off. Just like a persons life and Hurston could be trying to say that since she replaced her husband so fast after he died its like the leaves, dying off and coming back around.

Decision:

-Hurston Personifies death as a character, as a being. Not just a natural cause that happens to everyone. Hurston shows that Janie can see death, as a "Wingless bird" it is helpless, no one can save it because it's wings cannot grow back.

Decision:

-Hurston also tells that death has been here since there was no when, where, or then. This is telling that death has been around forever and death cannot be killed itself.

Decision:

- Hurston calls death a him or he. This could be calling death god, as a higher power. hence the "Been standing there before there was a where or a when or a then."

Decision:

- Hurston uses a motif as death "standing". This could symbolize that death has a character and can move around standing and watching everyone til their moment of death comes, then death is not motionless.

Journal #5

Thesis statement:

Zora Hurston uses the motif of dialect change in The Eyes Were Watching God to symbolize the independence of each character in the book.

Journal #4

Patterns:

Pattern 1:
I have noticed the sun is repeated in this novel and i think the sun could represent a higher power.
"Janie are heartily and said nothing. The varicolored cloud dust that the sun had stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees." -5

Pattern 2:
The other object that has seemed to become a pattern in the book is the trees.
"Two men who were sitting on their shoulderblades under a huge live oak tree almost sat upright at the tone of his voice. they stared at Joe's face, his clothes and his wife."- 35
This passage could symbolize the tree as a symbol of protection.

Pattern 3:
The pattern of a girl and her blossomy leaves is repeated again.
"She had no more blossomy openings dusting pollen over her man, neither any glistening young fruit where the petals used to be."
I believe that this paragraph is describing how the wife is too old to please her husband and he is to become unsatisfied.
              

Journal #3

Part 1:
The person i chose from the Harlem Renaissance was Louis Armstrong or also known as Satchmo or Pops. Armstrong played the trumpet and tended to play it very well. He was known as an influence for the genre of jazz. Not only was he great at playing the trumpet but he was known for his gravely voice and he was a scat singer. He was a grand influence on popular music as well as jazz and was one of the first African American singers and entertainer to become popular.

Part 2:
The character i chose to create is named Doodli Gidget Wizz. He has come down from the planet Zarcranium. He has come to the planet "Earth" to make a pit stop to the restroom, but only to find a very annoying musician who is not of any help.

Phrases:
1. To say someone is dumb - You are a diamond in the sky
2. Where are you going - Are you in the nut house?
3. To be great - Extrasuperdifity

Grammar:
1. Doodli always talks in third person.
2. Talks in present tense
3. Sentences may contain the word grand more than three times.

Pronunciations:
1. This - Tis
2. Absolute - Obsolete
3. Everyone - you

Part 3:
Armstrong found himself strolling down the yellow brick road and ran into the stop sign. Except the stop sign did not contain the words stop, it said " You may want to halt if you do not want to get run over by a grand car." Armstrong stopped in confusion and starred for a moment, then he felt a slight tap on his calf. "Hullo!" said the little blue figure standing two feet high. " I am Doodli Gidget Wiz and i am so grand to have met your acquaintance." The blue figure shoved out his hand as if he were threatening Armstrong to give a truce. Armstrong held his hand limply out, still dazed at the blue critter that was no higher then Armstrong's knee cap. " So you Doodili Doo Bop, how may ah help ya'll?" Armstrong exclaimed. " Doodli is abstracting tis brain cell to digest your grand purpose on tis grand place you call "Earth." Armstrong looked even more confused than last time. So he pulled out his trumpet and played a tune. The blue creature covered his ears, or so that's what they looked like at the moment, and he shouted "turn down that grand loud music, it sounds grandly horrifying and it is making Doodli's efernus's obsoletely bleed!" Armstrong placed his trumpet at his side. "Well ya blue thang i find you a bit mighty annoyin with all yous big words comin outta that tiny mouth." Doodli looked up with a glare on his face. He stomped his foot and grew to the exact height that Armstrong was. "Where is your head? You are a grand diamond in the sky if you think to call Doodli grandly annoying! Doodli shall put you in the grand place of putting!" At this moment the sky graduated to a shade of grey and the rain started to sprinkle its way down like leaves floating from the tops of the trees'. "Woah there tiny blue thang i did 'n mean to upset ya. i was just showin ya mah music and ya'll called it racket. My trumpet ain't no thing for playin tennis." The blue creature flamed into the color red and shouted " you grand mule! To think that Doodlie shall call your piece of metal an object to hit a round object with is a grand joker!" Armstrong was too confused to understand the complexity that Doodli was calling him stupid, so he turned around and started to walk the other way down the purple brick road. Doodli called, "Are you in the grand nut house? Tis Grand that you walk away from Doodli! Doodli shall send his brothers down from Zarcranium and turn Armstrong into a walruis. Wait Doodli did not mean to grandly yell at Armstrong! Please come back Doodli needs to know where you have arranged the place known as a bathroom! Doodli needs to empty his tank!" Armstrong was too long gone to hear Doodli and he walked away playing his jazzy tunes down the purple brick road.

Journal #2

"After a while she got up from where she was and went over the little garden field entire. She was seeking confirmation of the voice and vision, and everywhere she found and acknowledged answers. A personal answer for all other creations except herself. She felt an answer seeking her, but where? When? How? She found herself at the kitchen door and stumbled inside. In the air of the room were flies tumbling and singing, marrying and giving in marriage. When she reached the narrow hallway she was reminded that her grandmother was home with a sick headache. She was lying across the bed asleep so Janie tipped on out of the front door. Oh to be a pear tree--any tree in bloom! she was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. Where were the singing bees for her. Nothing on the place nor in her grandma's house answered her. She searched as much of the world as she could from the top of the front steps and then went on down to the front gate and leaned over to gaze up and down the road. Looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made.". - page 11

1. uses a tree to symbolize Janie in a blooming state of age.
2. repeats the grandmothers house
3. why does Janie wasnt to struggle with life?
4. symbolizing bee's with birds because bee's do not sing
5. road is a symbol of the road in Janie's life.
6. why does she not just say entire garden? instead of saying garden field entire.
7. Zora is vague with "the voice".
8. Grandmothers house is a symbol of a resting place. As Janie can find her answer.
9. Marriage is a symbol of unwantedness.
10. personifies the grandmother as a higher power to show ownership in this passage.
11. why not say sick with a headache? than say sick headahce?
12.the glossy leaves personify her skin tone
13. vague as to what was Janie's question?

Journal #1

When i would tell someone my story, it would have to be someone who i would need to have the most trust in. It would have to be told to someone who i knew could be able to keep it to themselves. I have no ordinary life. My parents got divorced when i was twelve yet they never really got along in the first place. I live with my mom full time and tend to see me dad on certain occasions. I have a job at McDonalds, and the majority of the customers are regulars sad to say. People tend to make or poke fun at my job, yet i just remind them that i have a job and i am paying my way through life. I have one sibling who is nine years younger than I am, and he tends to annoy me at times. All the bumps in the road of my life have all come to make me who i am today though.

I would start off my life story by when I was four than i would work my way up to present day. This was the story would seem clearer and not confuse them with all the misshaps and vague little details crammed in the middle. My life is like a giant chocolate chip cookie. It has lots of different ingredients mixed into it, but their are very sweet moments in my life hence the chocolate chips. And when it is baked and ready to be called a cookie and not a mushy goop of dough, it is the final piece. My life has made me the person i am today and just like the cookie it has many little things thrown into it.