tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post9040424795992684788..comments2023-09-07T04:49:10.648-07:00Comments on Literature and the Contemporary: Second Parable of the Sower: Prompt 1Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post-42288979138916394082011-03-13T12:15:48.659-07:002011-03-13T12:15:48.659-07:00Your use of capitalization at the end (but also th...Your use of capitalization at the end (but also throughout) in apparent agreement or at least sympathy with Lauren is quite interesting. If you are trying to write an essay about the objective truth (as opposed to just the truth of it within the novel) of earthseed, though, I think you could have been more clear about it.<br /><br />Your choice of verse was good, although it is, as you acknowledge, quite complicated. This isn't a terrible thing, but it made your essay a little more scattered than it might have been. You are somewhat successful in using Keith to focus your essay, but I think that if you had specifically framed the essay as being about an interpretation of Keith's character (specifically, his failure) by means of the verse, you would have been able to clarify your argument and push it farther, while trimming some of the other material.<br /><br />Many people struggled to really find a focus with this topic; I think you're much closer than most people are, but that you're still not 100% there.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.com