Reflection on Reflective Assignment

For the first English 131 assignment, I was very interested in the Reflective paper due. I've always enjoyed writing narrative, and descriptive pieces. I think the reason is that as a person communicating to others, I tend to "talk too much" when describing an event, who I've met, or even what I've experienced. I tend to explain things using my 5 senses of what I see,hear,feel, touch, and smell. So when it comes to writing descriptions, it tends to be an easier task to me then other assignments like an informative or argumentative assignments. (sorry, Dave)

For my paper, I reaccured the event of being abandoned from my first adoptive family and the painful experience of being left behind. At first I had problems trying to figure out the best ways of explaining the event. I wondered at first if I should make the paper into an actual story and instead of explaining things, just use dialogues. But when I did my outline, I finally agreed on an approach of being more reflective and "past tense" then to make the paper into a full fledge story. I'm pretty happy with the way I finished it and I like the way I seem to be very expressive with my feelings. My emotions were pretty strong at the time of the event and I wanted the readers to see the pain that I had experienced.One of the comments I had received was someone questioning what the thesis was. He had stated that he didn't find it in the first paragraph. I do want to point out that I did make the thesis pretty clear in one of the last sentences in the first paragraph. I am glad that the readers have commented have all pretty much said the story was interesting and compelling, and in which I hoped to accomplish.

I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome of the paper but I do wish I could of gotten away with writing a little bit more. At first when I had written the story, the paper was about 7 pages long. But with the required amount of pages stated, I had to cut it down to 5. I do feel that I wish I could of made the story longer to explain a few more things and get more into depth. Such as specific things I had experienced from my mother of the abuse she had inflicted on me. Or even talk more about my second adoptive family and how much they had saved me from self destruction. If I was able to write the length that I had desired, I think I would of been 100% satisfied with the over all outcome.