Resilience Story Essay Discussion
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1)To be frank, I struggled a lot before making my choice between the two optional films:
The Shawshank Redemption and To Live, especially when I found the former one on the
top of the recommendation list by Professor Caputo. Undoubtedly, both films are
outstanding resiliency stories in relation to their respective cultural and historical context.
The Shawshank Redemption enjoys popularity among the audience as an uncrown king
and is the favorite to my mother who introduced it to me when I was only five. However, I
finally chose To Live because it deserves more attention as a saga of an ordinary
Chinese getting through those difficult eras. Instead of totally giving up The Shawshank
Redemption, I involved it and two other masterpieces of 1994, the craze year in the
cinematic history, in my analysis to make comparison with To Live. Up to now, I have
finished the major part of the body, and I am satisfied with my attempt to analyze the film
rather than introduce the plots. However, it looks more like a film review since I haven’t
completed the part related to a contemporary concern. Every time when I watch this film,
I cannot help pondering how resilient a person can be to suffer such heavy loss in life
and regain the inner peace after the storm. Is resilience the decisive quality for people to
move on or to give up? To contextualize my essay, I have done some research on the
suicidal problem, including searching for the latest information on people’s reaction in the
ongoing pandemic. I will add the relevant sources to my revision to make my essay more
contextualized and academic.
2) Writing my resilience story analysis has been smooth far because the comparative essay
analysis enlightened me on how to go about when composing multi modal essays. I
have strived to avoid all the mistakes that I made in the comparative essay which has
made writing my current essay smoother. The annotated bibliography I composed before
delving into my fast draft prepared me adequately in providing points and evidences
which I will incorporate in my essay. There is no much struggle with thesis essay
because I focused on an inspirational documentary which I had watched before this
class. Besides aiming for a higher grade, I am aiming at embracing resilience when
dealing with various obstacles in my life. In my final editing I will ensure that that all
captions are formatted uniformly. Moreover, I will ensure that the images which I add to
the essay are integrated to the paper smoothly. Another revision I will do is to ensure
that all the sources are formatted according to MLA.
3) My Reliance story essay so far has been really intriguing and fun to write so far. I
get a lot of comments on my thesis statements being unclear. I think I truly have
struggled with thesis statements for a very long time. I’ve always either written
too much or too little. I’ve also always been terrible at transitions, I’ve always
thought they were tedious and unnatural in my writing. I’m hoping to refine those
minute details so I can feel more confident in my essay. Overall, I’ve been pretty
motivated by the prompt, and the sheer brilliance of the movie, so writing and
revising has gone quite well. I am also a little confused on if the essay is
supposed to sound this summarizing and whether to intertwine the academic
literature throughout the paper, or if I should simply have a section discussing it,
and then relating a few points from the essay simultaneously.