Ryan Donovan
Application essay rough draft
“Select a creative work- a novel, a film a poem, a musical piece, a painting or other works of that that has influenced the way you view the world and the way you view yourself. Discuses the work and its effect on you”(New York university)
A creative work that has influenced the way I view the world and I view myself would be Stephen King’s Dark tower series. Stephen King’s Dark tower series takes bit of pieces of all his novels and it’s self to make a grand tale. It changed the way I think when i started to read between the lines. This made me realize that that insignificance makes us significant.
The novel deals with vast scales that made me realize were on a spec on a spec on a spec. Such insignificance made me think does this insignificance that are us makes us greater? Yes for we constantly try to out do our selves and improve who we are. And earn our goals. A man that has all he wants will never improve upon anything or gain a thing, the sky is his domain but there is much beyond the sky and he doesn’t realize it. Having all you truly want isn’t a gift but a curse for how can one improve or be happy if he truly has it all? But if a man continues to climb and climb he will surpass the ignorant man floating in the sky and go beyond. But even the universe might have an unreachable limit.
This piece changed the way i viewed my self in that I strive to do better to improve upon my self and climb past the sky.
Hi Ryan:
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased that you've chosen this topic and that you are writing about a piece of writing that speaks to you: great.
But now comes the really hard part: you have to find a way to bring your reader into both King's world and your relationship to that work. For example, I don't really get what the book (are you focusing on one in the series?) is really about. I don't know of any characters or plot lines or anything, really. Nor do I know much about how you've been influenced by the work, as required by the question. In the end, I don't really learn much about YOU. See my and your problem, here? You will need to let your reader in.
post write?
capitalize and underline title? Dark tower
itself? it’s self
we're? were on a spec
fragment? And earn our goals
comma splice? A man that has all he wants will never improve upon anything or gain a thing, the sky is his domain bu
why the shift to "you"? all you truly
I? i viewed