Workshop

"My friend is wacky"

My friend is the wackiest person I’ve ever know. She has driven into the McDonalds drive through and placed her order into the trashcan instead of the speaker. Another time she discovered that she had washed her checkbook with her load of dark clothes. (Actually it was a load of multi-colored clothes because she never sorts her laundry). She has mistakenly thrown her cell phone, Diamond earrings, various pieces of her grandmother’s silver, and the bag of newly purchased light bulbs into the trash compactor. I could go on and on, but wouldn’t you agree that she is a completely wacky? 

Workshop

Word: Hyperactive

Telling: “ My friend is hyperactive”

Showing: My friend is the most hyperactive person I’ve ever known. He can’t stay in one place without doing anything, one day we were at the church and he took a pen and started scratching the church wooden seats. Also, when we were at school he had to drink some pills to be controlled and quite because his hyperactivity didn’t let him pay attention, he was failing all subjects because he got distracted with everything and he didn’t stop doing something else. He drew, he played with his materials, he bothered his friends next to his desk, he threw paper airplanes and he couldn’t stay calm. I can describe many moments were he was hyperactive, but with all I’ve said would you agree he is hyperactive?

Truman Capote

1.     What motivated Capote to write?

When he was a child, he was very different among the people he lived with, so that ideas of difference motivate his writings. He was also homosexual and that make him different; although, this became a reason to write in his teenager stages or older stages of his life.

2. What kind of stories did he write?

He first wrote short stories, until graduate and started sending his stories to magazines and when he finally was getting famous he start to write novels.

 

Capote Quote

" Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it." Truman Capote

I think that with this quote he refers to the sensation he feels when a good book is finished. I think that when he loves a book or like it, the book is a sequence of interesting events that when it is finished there is a nostalgic momery about the sequence that will not conitnue anymore. Is a bad sensation because the reader finished a very good story that probably he didn't want to finish. In relation with the child, he felt thse same sadness as if a child was killed.