Writing this essay is not easy at all. In doing so, I knew I had to write about something I was dealing with at the moment. Any time I am up against an obstacle or affected by it, I find that communicating with others helps. This can be done in multiple ways such as jokes, songs, therapy sessions, and of course, writing. The most difficult aspect of this assignment was being honest and revealing myself to strangers. In my essay, I revealed ugly parts of myself through a previous altercation. As much as I would like to blame disagreements on the opposite parties, I found that maybe there was fault in me as well that was hard to admit. Initially, I thought about writing about a failed friendship, but that was not the only problem that was bothering …show more content…
Sarah Manguso’s writing in The Grand Shattering was authentic, raw, and she spoke from personal experience. “I think I might be having a miscarriage,” I told him. At least you aren’t having a kid, he replied, shuddering. We both laughed.” In this article, Manguso did not care about how readers perceived her and that is what I want to exhibit in my essay. “However, if you would have opened me up, walked down the long corridor, went downstairs to the attic, and opened the box on the top shelf in the back corner that says “secrets,” you would have found something different; I did not give one fuck.” I used profanity because I wanted the reader to hear my voice and use the raw, honest, and personable Sarah Manguso. Chuck Klosterman’s article You Say You Want a Revolution questions American citizens’ potential to start a revolt against the United States government. This question motivates the reader to question their own capability in this scenario to overthrow the government. “But it’s hard to imagine these weapons employed in any kind of popular uprising, even if a majority of American adults unilaterally agreed that such an event was necessary, whom would they presumably shoot? Probably no one, and possibly no one