Saturday, April 27, 2013

Critique on "Excerpts"



Sara Angela Rodriguez
A415-002/Chambers
Student Critique/ Excerpts
4/26/2013

When I first read your piece I thought that it was made up of a collection of different diary entries form a young girl’s life and that an outside narrator was telling us about it, but when I came to the end and saw that the narrator of each excerpt was actually 30+ I was a little confused.  I think that it was at that time that I realized that there was no way that anyone can document their own birth or the events that led up to her childhood because they are too young for that. So, I just assumed that she was retelling the stories she heard about her childhood and giving them approximate dates. I found no correlation between the dates, they weren’t consistent and it didn’t look like they were separated by any specific time, but I wish that they were. I think that it would be best to either spread the years of these events apart or add more years that cover the girls life into childhood, adolescence, and even into young adulthood. As the piece is right now I feel that something is missing. Though, I must admit that I really loved the different scenes presented in each diary entry, or excerpt. Like I said before, all you have to do is add a few more sections or spread them out through more years and your piece will be great. Keep up the good work.  

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