Final Reflection
From my Inquiry I paper I want to take away the close reading skills I came to better understand and develop while writing this paper. I liked being able to watch a film and look deeper into the meaning of certain scenes and actions by the characters because it really does give you a new way to watch movies. This particular inquiry required me to choose one scene from a movie and do a close reading to find something more than what the scene seems to show at face value. I chose the final dance scene from the film Silver Linings Playbook, which at first may appear just to be a competition. After close analysis and re-watching it countless times, I found that the dance could stand for how the main character's lives have really changed since they came together. The main take away from Inquiry II for me was connecting my ideas back together and making sure my sources were relevant to my main idea. Specifically, I had a hard time keeping one focus throughout my essay from my thesis to all of my quotes from outside sources. Finally, from Inquiry III I took the importance of reflection about my own writing. when writing the writer's reflection for this inquiry it required me to take a close life at things in my life that have shaped me and my personal canon over the course of my life. For example, I talked about how my private Catholic education helped shaped me and my values as a person which has an effect on what I chose for my canon.