Reflection of WC essay

During the class, we had chance to read through over our papers that we wrote about The Glass Menagerie, and to revise it. After receiving remarks from partner and Ms. Guarino and reading through my paper, I realized that I still have some part to revise and add more details. First of all, I did not write the title of the essay; title could be one of the important things of essay since title abstracts the whole content of the paper. Also title can give people first impression about the paper. Through writing more creative title, people are able to easily understand the main thesis or content of story before reading the whole paper.

In the introduction, I well provided context or background information about my character Laura, clearly showing Laura’s timid and shy personality. However, I should have written stronger analytical thesis statement at the last part of the introduction through using text in the book to strongly show her relationship with other family members and with Jim. I described how Jim was a important role who transformed Laura to gain more confidence, however, I could be more specific and add detail through providing text from book. Additionally, I only described and highlighted the relationship between Laura and Jim, but nothing about Laura and her family members like Amanda and Tom; I could have more explained about her mom Amanda that how she treated Laura differently compared to other girls due to her crippled leg and shyness, and also how she rushed Laura’s marriage, in order to support the thesis statement about Laura.

I should definitely add more specific details about my performance tactics and my reflection on performance and improvements of it. While writing paper, I actually wondered if I wrote too less about my performance strategies but only focused on analysing literary features of Laura and her relationship with Jim. However, the rubric showed that I need more details about the tactics, and I certainly have to more describe about my acting strategies such as my movement or body gestures, walking direction, way of talking, and eye contact with other characters; for instance, I lowed my voice with blurred face and stared at floor to describe Laura and she being shy in front of Jim. I could relate my acting strategies with personality of Laura, therefore providing stronger explanation of the characters. Likewise, I could more talk about my improvements or difficulties while acting as a Laura.

In conclusion, I only wrote about the conclusion of acting as a Laura, and reflection of my performance. However, I had to underline again about the Laura itself and the affection of the Jim, so readers can remind of their relationship and well relate to my acting performance. I made some mistakes while correcting MLA citation used for quotations since I put period before the citation, but I should have put after the citation.