This class has personally helped me in my writing. Two pieces of texts that has helped me is Tocqueville, and the fiction packets. Both texts helped me be more poetic than more of a standard writer. More emotion is involved in my writing, and I can be more descriptive than I was when I first started taking creative writing this semester. Both of them has majorly impacted my writing.

            Tocqueville has helped me a lot with my writing emotionally. For example, I  the book, it talks about how his best friend got arrested for uploading child pornography which made me become more realistic in my writing to grasp the reader’s attention. Another way Tocqueville has helped me with my writing is helping me be more emotional and make readers feel the emotion through the text. In the book, he talks about how he had to kill his child, because they forced him to bludgeon his baby or they will kill him but still ended up cutting off his arm toward the end of the book. So much emotion was shown in those sentences and can make the readers sympathetic, but make readers keep reading.

            The next piece of text that affected me this semester is the fiction packets. For example, in Oates Girl with Blackened Eye it talks about a girl who goes through physical and mental conflict. I automatically felt the emotion personally because I am a female. For example, he hurts her mentally by calling her a nasty girl, selfish, and hurts her like every one of her privilege. This showed a lot of emotion and how someone can really hurt you and mess you up mentally. It personally affected me because it makes you want to write about something as deep as such because you want the audience to be influence and affect the reader I some type of way and this specific piece of text has done to me.

            Overall, Tocqueville and Oates Girl with Blackened Eye is two piece of texts that has affected me personally and my writing. They both inspired me to out more emotion in my writing, and made me realize that writing is way more than just words. They both are full of emotion and are both good texts that can grasp a reader’s attention.