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Erica Marquez
Dr. Preston
AP English Literature and Composition
31 March 2014
Reunited
With Myself
When I came into
this world and took my first breath of oxygen I stunned many and became a
special case for the doctors. I was premature and unable to eat without
assistance. As I see it, I just could not wait to start living. As I grew older
I found things that I liked, people that I loved, and experiences I wanted to
go through. As I kept existing in this world I forgot what it meant to live. I
forgot what it really meant to enjoy life. I got so wrapped up in what life and
my education should be that I forgot what I loved about these things. I lost an
essence of who I was and this course helped me reunite with that person.
When I began this
course I was slapped with the big question. I thought and thought, and I
wondered should I strive to impress or should I be truthful? I went with
truthful and there my journey began. I felt like I took a fresh breath of
oxygen. I took this course to
heart because then is when I knew that it would benefit me. Working with
others, making connections, and sharing my ideas allowed me to become
interactive in class. It allowed me to enjoy the course and I would definitely
say that we as students deserve that opportunity. We deserve the opportunity to
finally breathe a breath of fresh air; a breath of a new system.
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Literature is
about learning and reading, and writing, and loving, and feeling, and emotion.
It is so many things in so little pages. Part of our experience in this course
was literature. My favorite pieces of work from this year are “The Kite
Runner”, “A thousand Splendid
Suns” and, “In The Time Of The Butterflies”. These were my favorite because I
am very passionate about justice for all. I like to think that we all have
voices and that they should all be heard. These novels have many injustices
embedded in the story lines. They are so raw and are based on the reality of
two countries, Afghanistan and the Dominican Republic. Reading about these
events reminded me about my life, it reminded me of how grateful I should be,
and about how I want to change the world.
I could breathe
since day one, but I did not know how to live or what I would live for.
Connecting with myself allowed me to realize that there is so much to be done
in this world and for the world. I could be a change. I could be passionate
again. (I lost that in school) I could express my feelings and share my
concerns in this course. I could talk about the campesinos and their
injustices. I could hear about
other peoples passions like
teaching, releasing stress through blowing fruits up, inspiring others through
films, creating websites to help and entertain others, etc. The list of
passions and interest goes on…The fresh air is breathed, it is contagious in
this environment.
I
like oxygen and breathing this type of fresh air, but what really made me
inhale and exhale lots of it were Javi’s and Izamar’s In Loco Politico post.
The
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sarcasm and truth to their post was
the freshest of air. Also, the class readings of plays like Macbeth, and
Hamlet. They were very fun and entertaining.
In
that class we all breathe the same cool air. We all have a passion or something
we care about and want to share with others. Kristen, Jacob, Kendall’s,
Kylie’s, Maria’s and Javi’s and Izamar’s presentations were all connected and
unified in two things. I felt like their presentations were focused on identity
and change. They all put something on the table, something that they liked or
could identify with and they talked about changing it, being innovators, trying
to understand it and making a contribution to it. They all let us have a breeze
of their wind.
This
year I not only stunned many…I stunned myself. I fought many battles, and I
struggled to breathe the fresh air. Despite these gust of winds that seemed to
tumble me and shake me once in a while I became aware of when I needed to hold
my breath and when I could breathe. And finally I could breathe…
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