Reading the book

The Invention of Wings

       Reading the book the “The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd” was one of my greatest achievements this semester. First of all before starting to read the book I took my time to learn about the author, Sue Monk Kidd and the previous books she had written. After knowing about the author, it was then that I knew this book would be a master piece. After identifying that the book was organized into six parts I organized myself and put my own targets to finish the book. I gave myself a week to finish it, considering my schedule.

​I was able to finish Part 1 of the book within two days and that set my pace for reading the book. Part one of the book made me want to know more of how the story unfolds. As I was reading the book I was often moved by the suffering of the slaves and there were instances that I could really feel their pain.However, this did not stop my zeal to want to finish reading the book, instead I wanted to know more about how what Sarah would do and what would happen to their friendship. As I started the second part I found the story being even more interesting and thus I found myself reading the book even more than I thought I would. On the third day, I was already way ahead of my schedule since I was through with the third Part of the book. Keeping in mind I had only three parts remaining to complete the book and 4 days remaining as per my schedule, I knew that I had ample time to understand the book effectively. 

       Having completed the third part I couldn’t wait to start on the fourth part since the book kept being more captivating as I went on reading. As I was reading through the fourth part of the book I was so excited and I kept thinking that the liberation was close and that the slaves would be free within no time. This is because in this part of the book, we see Denmark as the hero and I was sure that he would deliver the slaves. After finishing the fourth part I realized that would not be happening any sooner since their hero at that time had been killed. This never killed my hopes of reading but rather I was curious to know more about what Sue Monk Kidd had for us in the later parts of the book. Congratulating myself for completing the four parts of the book, I settled down to finish the remaining two parts of the book. The last sections of the book were even better and left me happy. The ending of the book was marvelous and left me smiling.

Reflection

Reflection

Reflection

To prepare myself effectively so as to be able to handle the paper effectively, I first of all went through the question more than once. After understanding it, I went through two you tube videos that were explaining on how to write a good argument. To be able to pick the best article to discuss, I took my time and went through all the articles that were available and thus I had an idea of what each article was talking about and hence it was my time to choose the best article. I chose “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” written by Jean Anyon. I found the article exciting and very relevant to my life experience as a child and thus I easily settled for it and supported the arguments being put forward by Jean Anyon.

Having written before in this class, there were fewer negative thoughts and thus my main issue was whether I would be able put out a strong argument on the paper and also if I would be able to cite the document appropriately. I kept encouraging myself as I wrote the first paragraph and by the time I was on my third paragraph I was already familiar with my work and thus I never felt bothered again. On the other hand, my main source of motivation was the fact that I wanted to share my experience as a child as m main arguments in the paper and that really motivated me in writing. The other source of motivation was the fact that my class interactions with class members and thus I would get my source of motivation from them.
 

As I kept writing the paper, memories of my childhood education kept going through my head and I would often giggle or smile as I remember what education was back then. I also read a wide range of journals to gain extra knowledge on the topic so that I could also understand what other individuals had to say about the argument. This was very important to me since it enabled me to understand some of the arguments that had been put forward by Jean Anyon.

Generally, I can say that it was a great experience the paper and that not even the negative thoughts could hinder me from writing a good paper. Being optimistic and doing wide research is what contributed towards my successful completion of the paper.