My Writing Course Analysis

Throughout the course of the spring 2016 semester I have learned so much about my writing, the type of writer I am, and how I participated during class. We were required to write three essays over the course of the semester. Before taking this English II course I knew I was going to have a tough time writing essays. Essays are usually not my strong suit and I always struggle with writing them. I am usually always stuck on how to start off a paper and formulate an appropriate thesis. By writing these essays and receiving the feedback on my papers I have realized that my writing has changed significantly from first semester to now. I am very proud of how my writing has changed and know that if I continue making these changes, it will only help my papers. In our first assignment of the semester, we were required to write about fiction. I chose to write about the “Gender Barriers between Men and Women in the 1800’s”. I talked about The Yellow Wallpaper and how it represented

I was not particularly excited about the topic that we had to write about or the story that we had to read. We had a choice of what to read and I picked the play Death of a Salesman. I know that I could have done a better job writing this paper but I was just not interested in the topic or the story. Plays are my least favorite and it was not that interesting for me to write. In my paper, “The Fall of Willy Loman”, I analyzed the play and I wrote about the main character, Willy Loman. Throughout the paper I discuss Willy Loman’s mental health and how it decreases throughout the play. “Over the years Willy has become very delusional and talks to himself a lot. He will change the way he sees reality at that moment to benefit himself. He blames his family for always contradicting him but he is the one who usually contradicts himself with his daydreams and fantasies” (Sigler