Self-reflection for short story analysis

     With this analysis paper, I struggled with the writing portion of this process. I chose the book easily. I chose this book because I "judged this book by its cover." I assumed that because it was titled The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, that it was about the Roles church ladies are expected to play and the images and impressions the are expected to make and or uphold. I thought it would bring down the walls of assumptions, expectation, and statistics and it would shed light on the fact that church ladies are human too. they make mistakes like everybody else. they get happy, sad, angry, devious, etc. However, this book turned out to be the complete opposite of what I thought it was, although it did bring down the walls. 

    In the developing process, I decided that I wanted to focus on the sisterhood that was so present in this story. Since the main event the started the story was the death of the father, I thought that I could show how in the midst of a lose, the bonds of sisterhood can help keep the sisters together. 

    For my invention technique, I used brainstorming. I also jotted down a few questions to help me think about facts that I felt would help my analysis. But I encountered a few hurdles when I began to research sources that may have helped me be more efficient in my analogy. Everything I wanted to find, I couldn't. I continue to search for reliable sources and found two. They didn't give me much InSite to go by, but something was better than nothing. Or so it had seemed. 

    When it came time to start on the rough draft, life happened. I got sick back-to-back which had me down for two weeks. As if that wasn't enough, I then had a medical situation that rendered me handicap for about 3 days. With all of this going on, I miss the deadline to turn in my rough draft and was late turning in my final draft. With that being said, I never mentioned my situations that I had going on to any of my instructors because to it all sounds like high school excuses. I just decided that late or not I wasn't going to give up. I got to work really hard and really long hours to get caught up all my classes and I'm determined to do it.

    With my final copy of my analogy, I ended up not using any of the sources that I researched only the book itself. I re-read the story again to make sure I was on the right track, and I realized that even though the event that started everything was because of the death of Stet, it wasn't the main message of the story. Once I realized how the story was mainly focused on their family dynamic on what type of people they were individually and as a family and how in hard times, whether they are happy with each other or not, they are always there for one another. The story showed how much they support each other not only as women but as sisters to. so, even though I wasn't able to tie in the connections of suffering from a loss with sisterhood. I was able to focus on the sisterhood, the love and respect that they had for each other.