Literacy Narrative Reflection

Reflection 
Throughout the literacy narrative, I had a bunch of struggles on how I would write the essay. The essay’s topic was to explain how we felt about the image Charcot, “A Clinical Lesson at the Salpetriere.” At first, I imagined a bunch of emotions and thoughts as I was studying the image. I felt angry and uncomfortable by the way the men were looking at the women. However, I was struggling to put my emotions into words. While I was writing my first draft, I started off writing about the image and then I went to how men were greater than women. That was completely off topic, I went from talking about my emotions to talking about the rights for women. I was completely wrong with my essay and I sure needed help. I went to the writing center, where a teacher analyzed my essay. They told me since the essay was about your emotions, why not be a little personal with it. So I used that idea to bring in my religion and compare the image we were studying to the religion I follow. My professor said I can go in depth talking about it because it was all about my emotions. I changed my whole essay compared to the first draft. I learned how to analyze better and also learned how to compare using rhetorical devices. After writing my second draft, I felt confident that it was a good paper, because I changed and analyzed the task even more. The days kept going, more discussions happened in class, which helped me think more about my piece. At the end, I wrote it more confidently than my first draft. With my first draft, I was repetitive and unsure.