The word that I am going to develop my little piece of nonfiction on is struggle. This word can go with so many thing in my life. Even if its good or bad there's many stories to be told behind this word. The word struggle has many meanings behind it and I plan on portraying the few sides of the word through my story. I hope that I can make it good and really get this assignment down to the T because its interesting and different. I chose this word because I couldn't really think of  word at first and then I just thought like well my whole life has been a struggle that I am blessed to be making it through because there's not too many people that can actually say that they have overcome there struggles. Some people are still living in there struggle from being a child, Can you imagine that?Having to deal with something your whole entire life. Depressing is the word to describe that.

Maps To Anywhere, when I first got this book the cover just threw me off and make me thing a lot if things about how creative writing was going to be. I was like "what the heck we need a book of maps for??" Then I opened it and seen what was inside and skimmed through to kind of get the jest of why it had that title. Inside are some stories about places and some about objectives and things of that sort. Its an ok book so far, doesn't really catch my attention that much.  There's isn't a theme that ties the stories together, many essays include different points about the beginning topic within the few pages in which the work resides.  These writings are very diverse and recounts Cooper's lessons and important stages in his youth and throughout his life. It tells stories about how things came along to be and how they were developed and just they story behind it all.

A story that I actually enjoyed reading was Potato Spirit. It reminded me of my addiction to French fries. I just love love love them. Everyday I just got to have them. Potatoes are just amazing and they fill you up when your hungry. Matter of fact I just got hungry thinking about them. The one painting that's The Potato Eaters doesn't reflect how I feel because I feel that potatoes can fill you up and stop you from being hungry. Potatoes are just good.

In the essay packet 1, there's a new story on almost every page. On the first page I become confused already with the statement that the author used she said " the air of the loom." I don't get this what is the author trying to compare the air to? It tells about a fox and a hawk . I think that its telling the story of a hawk hunting the fox but in the end it the fox got away and everything was back to being ok. There was a story on a recipe that was the the great grandfathers in a drugstore in central Illinois. Everybody loved his Mint Snowball invention, people drove from all over just to buy it. But everyone dies so his time came and he before that he decided to sell his recipe to somebody for $100. This decision didn't make too many people happy because they felt that it should of been inherited down to the rest of the family to be carried on.

'The Mute Dancers: How to Watch a Hummingbird' explains the story of hummingbirds and what they do, who they are and basically whats important about them. It tells facts that people wouldn't even think of or know unless they did some research on them. It compares the birds to many things such as dancing, cats, dogs or humans and even places. It tells about how there's 16 species of hummingbirds in North America, and it just goes on to let the reader know more and more interesting facts about hummingbirds. Inside of the story is a story about a neighbor and how she was attacked by her bird. That's something I could never think of a hummingbird being aggressive to that extent.

The Essay on the Sublimation of Dying has 6 synthesis in it, why?? I honestly don't get it. There's like little poems at the end of each page.It had a story that on one side that was like a contradiction to the story that is on the opposite side. For example Synthesis I, the left story was mythology and the one on the right was a homonym. then under it was a little poem I guess which was about the word moth and how it was burning and on fire. I don't get how that relates to the sun but this whole little story is just really confusing me. Synthesis III and IV are different they have different endings. One has lines with no words at the end and the other has a picture of something that I cant really make out but it doesn't look like it has anything to do with the story  just like the poems at the end of the first two.

 The first little story called "When It Rains It Rains a River." It tells the story of playing in the rain and how the brothers love it and the mud. Its like its a part of them, singing, eating, fishing, running, drumming.  That's the scene that they make. Then it tells the story of the how they make girls out of the mud. Each body part especially the knees are mad of mud and they said this because they always have the boys kneeling on their knees. As the night approaches they come alive and wake up and stare into the eyes of the boys. Now the girls are sisters so the story now has sisters that are sisters and brothers that are brothers. Its a little love story to me of the imagination of little boys and the mud girls they created.
 The singing fish is a continuing of brothers and this cave that is the body of a sound asleep girl. They see a lot of stuff going on inside of this cave "girl". there's words and carvings inside of this cave on the walls. they make out stick figures and words but not words they couldn't tell exactly what it was. then the next story tells about how these brothers get in trouble because of what they mothers told them. to not get muddy and they did anyways.
Then the lasts stories were fiction so they were real and told about a real life event or whatever. They were much longer than the short stories and they had titles that pertained to something that was in the story. for example one title was a specific date and places that were real. its called August 25th 1983. Its about a room, a dream and all that and it is kind of confusing. All the stories were about real stuff and the last story was called "The Fifth Story" and its about cockroaches and how to kill them. Very disturbing. It made me itch. Who in they right mind would want to tell us about this. UGH it really didn't have anything to do with what they other stories were about.