Sunday, September 14, 2008

Gopnik essay

i actually enjoyed most of this essay. for one thing i didnt feel like it droned on like some of the others have. and the POV seemed different from the others also. by what this essay says this is a succesful man with a happy family. a far cry from a gay teenage boy or a woman dealing with her grief by having copious sex.
i liked the idea behind the essay. he was just concerned about his daughter but ended up figuring out a bigger picture his society. and although not everyone's from NYC i think the image is more universal than that. he basically came to the realization that maybe people live their lives too fast and too busy for other people.
the only time i had a problem with the essay was pages 107 to 109. i felt sidetracked from the story and a little bored with all the history babble. i realized the necessity and point to it all by the end, yet still i could have done without all of the background. still, when the end of p 109 came around and the point was reached i think i got back to enjoying the bulk of it.

1 comment:

Lauren K. Hansen said...

I completely agree about the excess of analysis and explanation on the pages you mentioned. I think the important thing to pull away from that would be to make sure that in our own writing, it's important to stay entertaining (or at least interesting).