Journal 3

Wow. I would say it is rather humorous, and Moore is really trying to get us to enter her crazy mind. I think her main goal here is the sarcasm of playing along with certain stereotypes of writers in general and how it really is kind of boring to deal with the common questions.

I am naturally a pretty goofy person and I enjoy making people laugh. Most people would probably say that I am immature and maybe a little childish, but to argue that I can say that well maybe life is too serious in general and someone has to make it interesting. Sometimes I feel that my life also has no plot, there is no great conflict or a rise and fall of a hero, there is no real point or lesson that can be taken from my life. I do think however, and just like Moore’s passages, that this isn’t really a bad thing at all. Ultimately my life is a story and there are parts that will make you laugh and parts that will make you cry, however I think that most would say, “Ok what was the point to this?” my reply would be “Yea but I made you laugh”. For that x amount of time I stole that person’s emotion and controlled it the way I wanted to and the entertainment of the story is the most important part.

Speaking towards the whole five-paragraph essay is a touchy subject for me. My whole life has been based on the quality of a five-paragraph essay. A very awkward and strict way to present thoughts and really took all the personality out of everything I wrote so naturally I was terrible at it. I have read a lot of essays and the only ones I like are a lot like the ones we have been reading. Kooky and humorous little personal essays that make me say, ”Oh hey, that’s exactly how I feel” They are often quite lax and follow no real written template like the five paragraph set up.