essay #12 Morning time.

Cooper

English 8

Mr. Salsich

January 21, 2009

Morning Time:

Pleasures of a Brand New Day.

    When bedtime comes around, the last thing anyone wants to be is angry. After a full night of rest, a fresh morning start recharges your batteries and positively sets your mood. At least, this is the case in To Kill a Mockingbird, after Atticus loses one of his bigger court cases. After he rests, he hides the entire event and acts like his attitude is back to normal.

     TS No matter what happens during the day, "things are always better in the morning". SD  In To Kill a Mockingbird, anger at bedtime never lasts for long. CM Right after Atticus decides to go upstairs to bed early because he lost his court case, Scout narrates,"thing are always better in the morning". CM This statement holds true as she continues to describe the next morning as a calm and peaceful one. SD It seems to be the same a few days later when Aunt Alexandria yells at Scout, telling her she's "enough of a problem to [her] father as it is". CM Sobbing, Scout runs upstairs into Jem's room when the shouting subsides. CM After Jem, feeling and sharing Scout's pain, comforts her and tells her its going to be okay, she goes to bed(Participle S-V split), then wakes up in the morning back to normal. SD A while back in the book, we saw the Finch family having a holiday dinner together. CM When Scout goes outside, she talks to her cousin Francis and after a while, their conversation leads to Francis sprinting towards the kitchen and calling Atticus "nothing but a nigger-lover". CM This comment brought Scout to the brink, but when she got home, she went to bed and tried to forget about it the next morning. CS Any problem can be solved over a night of sleep.

    Even after the worst day ever, a good night's sleep in clean, crisp sheets can rejuvenate the most shrouded of minds. Anger is, in my morning, the last of the emotions felt. Scout must feel like this all the time. When a major event in the story affects Scout, she is devastated. The emotional ruins are forgotten until later in the day, they are found, to be fixed again by another night of sleep.


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self assessment.

This entire essay took a lot of time for me. Thinking of the third supporting detail was very challenging. I picked a random chapter, and was fortunate enough to find the third supporting detail in chapter 9. the most significant difference between my two drafts was the streamlining of a couple of sentences including the first supporting detail. I think the most pleasing phrase is the first sentence of the concluding paragraph because it is very descriptive and was calming to write. although i dont know how I could fix this, I thought I repeated "good night's sleep" too many times. I tried to vary the delivery of it, but I quickly ran out of ideas.
Grade: B