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Tess Catalano "Take Back the Night" and other academic essays, 1982
Catalano #11 Page 3
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Number eleven. Perhaps this is not what the assignment had in mind, but nonetheless this is what I created from it. The task of writing paragraphs and pages from a massive metaphor has always bothered me. My attempts now, and earlier were too trite, and contrived. The nature of the assignment I fear, I chose rather to move from a metaphor that is never clearly stated. So that what I wrote was generated from the metaphor, rather than actually being the metaphor. I worked from the equasion: Jill's heart/beat = a symbol of her pending death = a symbol of her struggle to live = a sound that nutures me, makes me strong = a symbol of strength = is rejuvenating, resurecting (like the operation) Perhaps the connextion between this equaion and the paper is not clear within the paper. But again I tried to stay away from the sentnace. Jill's struggling heartbeat, is like life to me. I did make efforts to load the paper with metaphors: the house, the operation. But admitedly they are not terribly deep. On the whole I like this paper. More than anything else from this class. I think it was closer to me. (The trick, of course, being, to find passion in the assignment) I cared about this paper more.
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Number eleven. Perhaps this is not what the assignment had in mind, but nonetheless this is what I created from it. The task of writing paragraphs and pages from a massive metaphor has always bothered me. My attempts now, and earlier were too trite, and contrived. The nature of the assignment I fear, I chose rather to move from a metaphor that is never clearly stated. So that what I wrote was generated from the metaphor, rather than actually being the metaphor. I worked from the equasion: Jill's heart/beat = a symbol of her pending death = a symbol of her struggle to live = a sound that nutures me, makes me strong = a symbol of strength = is rejuvenating, resurecting (like the operation) Perhaps the connextion between this equaion and the paper is not clear within the paper. But again I tried to stay away from the sentnace. Jill's struggling heartbeat, is like life to me. I did make efforts to load the paper with metaphors: the house, the operation. But admitedly they are not terribly deep. On the whole I like this paper. More than anything else from this class. I think it was closer to me. (The trick, of course, being, to find passion in the assignment) I cared about this paper more.
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