Writing this paper made me feel stressed because I feel like my class did not have enough time to get the paper done. I had less than two weeks to write the paper, and get help from tutoring. I chose the idea of hysterical men for the reason that my professor said that no one has done it before. The topic immediately caught my attention and I wanted to use condensation and displacement. I did not want something easy, I wanted a real challenge. This was going to be the final paper and it is worth forty percent of my overall grade. I had to give it my all and write about something that has not been written about before.
At first, I was going to use ‘A Country Doctor’ and ‘The Rocking Horse Winner,’ but after talking to my professor I thought a more approachable idea would be to use “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo” and “The Black Cat.” I enjoyed reading the story with Katagiri because it was surprising to be reading from a mystical point of view. I did not like “The Black Cat,” mainly due to the fact that I have a black kitten. Reading about how the narrator abused the cat made me feel heartbroken. The show had to go on so I put my personal feelings to the side and incorporated it into the paper.
My favorite part about the paper was coming up with a unique title. I combined the words men and women by crossing out the “Wo” and kept the “men” to emphasize what the paper was going to be about. The introduction was not a challenge. I was having trouble analyzing “The Black Cat” because the literature is intense. My tutor and I agreed to make a timeline of all the events that happened in the story. I made an outline in Mrs. Killebrew’s class and that helped a lot. She taught me how to properly use citations. She even helped me find outside sources for my paper.
The ending of “Super-Frog Saves Tokyo,” made me feel gloomy because Katagiri lost his only friend which was a figment of his imagination. He came to a realization that the world did not have to know about his accomplishments and how he and the Frog saved Tokyo. All that mattered was that he knew. I felt a connection to the ending because society is always going to be judgmental. The best way to deal with that is to ignore and just keep doing your own thing. Writing my conclusion, I connected it back to my thesis statement. I finally finished my essay and got my main point across. I proved that men could be hysterical too.
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