Reactions to the CCM essays
I thought the CCM essay "Soft Rain on a Hot Mind" by Maisie Laud was the better essay overall. I like the writer's letter where she walks us through her analysis and writing process for this essay because I think she gives the audience great insight into her process of writing a paper on a close reading. She talks about how first she only sees the story at face value, but then decides to dig deeper with her analysis and apply her knowledge several different factors which hep her to better understanding of what's going on in the story. I like that she is able to take one line and really go deep into its meaning by looking at a few short phrases at a time. In the beginning of her essay she talks about how the sentence she's analyzing affects the readers, and I think she does a good job of keeping that focus throughout her paper. I would like to incorporate the same depth of analysis in my Inquiry 1 assignment just so the audience can get the full understanding of the movie.