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2. If I could give someone five years younger than me any advice, I'd tell them to value the relationship they have with their parents. It's so easy to get caught up in thinking parents are trying to keep you stuck at home, but building trust makes life so much easier. The older you get with builded trust, the more freedom you get. Along with freedom you get an awesome relationship with the people who know you best. Parents are irreplaceable people, and have so much they are willing to share with you. I'd also tell them to start good study habits young. It's easier to maintain postive study habits than it is to start them later in life. My advice is given based on my own experiences. I am so grateful for the relationship I have with my mom, and I know that having her so involved has helped me through a lot of things. I thinking working is also a really good thing to do. You learn the value of money, and start to break away from being completely dependant on parents. Overall keeping a strong base of people is important, as well as starting good habits early.

3. Great works of literature are a rarity in today's society. At least in a sense that they'll be known years from now. Most known works from the past all have characters that we can truely understand. And contain subjects we can relate to, or can completely put ourselves in. Not only are they well written, and relateable, but they contain truths of life. The truths that are behind the story are timeless and universal. You don't need to be a specific gender, or race to understand true love. Or fighting for personal freedoms. That's something everyone can put themselves in. In today's society it's hard to create a story like that. Especially in this country. As a whole, our society is very selfish and literature isn't a focus.

1. How important is theme in what you write? Does a great piece of literature need to express an idea? Explain your thoughts on the matter using examples from things you've read. In your response, address the opposing viewpoint. (Write at least 100 words.)


2. What might be a theme that you'd consider communicating through your play. It could be a theme about something that concerns you (think back to what you wrote in your first blog), a theme about something you see socially or politically. It could be a theme about anything else. Write about that theme and why it is important to you? (Write at least 100 words).

3. What is one conflict you write about in your play. Generate some ideas for conflicts you could write about. This may or may not be connected to potential themes. (Write at least 75 words)

Blog #1

1. The importance of reading to a writer is crucial. A person learns how to read stories before they know how to write them, and through reading a writing can develop their own style. Reading exposes people to different things that otherwise they may never experience. It can also put you in someone elses mind, and as a writer it is important to learn how to pull yourself away from your own thoughts and put yourself in someone elses mind. Reading widens your vocabularly, and in the end can only help a writer develop further.

2. Something that really concerns me is state of our country, and the chosen leadership the U.S. has. Our economy is falling apart, and billions of dollars that could be put into our country are being spent on a war. At home there is a national drug crisis, vast homelessness, and an upcoming energy crisis. The money being spent in places we have no business being could be put into discovering new forms of energy, and becoming more self sufficent as a country. Before we know it, China will become the worlds super power and we will be forced to take a look at our own country when it is too late.

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