Speaking Of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

My Learning Summary

What I Have Learned About Writing Notably, during this semester, I have learned about the importance of the first word of a paragraph and the last words. While looking back at my older essays I noticed in my first essay I wrote for this class, Giving Opportunity, I began my first paragraph with “during”. If I were to re-write that essay, keeping in mind the importance of the first word, I would begin my essay with “traveling”. Another lesson I have learned is that good writing does not include extreme words such as “every time” or “never”. When I replace those words I actually capture the reality better. I also avoided using extremes when I am talking to people because sayings this like “you never vacuum the room” tends

I think One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was the first book that I was eager to read and analyze. Speaking of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest, it has become one of my favorite books and it is not a book that I would have picked up on my own. This has taught me to be more open with the books I read and it has also inspired me to choose Without Conscience: the Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us as my summer reading book. I am now curious about what people who end up in asylums sometimes act as they do. My note taking skills have also further improved as a result of the reading we did for class. In my previous school, writing in the books was something that was frowned upon. We were expected to jot down notes in a notebook, which ended up breaking the flow of the reading and it was more difficult than just highlighting a section and writing a quick note. Because of this rule I did not take notes about the book I was reading very often, thus I did not learn how to properly annotate my books. I now keep character lists in my book as well as highlighting possible foreshadowing, symbols and motifs, and different literary