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Writing essays have never been easy for me. Describing my thoughts and feelings just don't seem to turn into the right words I want to say. Coming up with a theme and an argument is hard to convey, making the reader see what I'm truly trying to say. The hardest parts of writing essays for me is coming up with the right things to say that correlate to my argument and doing so under a short period of time.

The most difficult part about writing an essay is getting started. Writers block is definitely a writer’s biggest fear. Hours upon hours spent drawing blanks, chewing away at the top of the pencil searching for ideas is certainly common for even the best writers. Even the author of Please Don’t eat the Daisies Jean Keer admits that she feels most inspired when she reads labels.

Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. Dover Thrift Editions. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2015.

Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck. The book tells a story of how two opposite individuals, George and Lennie cope with their problems as they travel around California in search of ranch work. Throughout the story Steinbeck displays realism. This category of literature is where the author does not sugar coat life. Steinbeck does not “romanticize the natural world or human nature” (Curry). In doing so in this type of reality many people have a “dream”. To give an example, Lennie and George had a dream of owning a shack on a piece of land. Each time these two individuals thought of the “dream” it creates comfort and security for them because it gave them hope. In Of Mice and Men the “dream”

The term dream is known for imaginative thought, feelings, emotions, and perhaps deep wishful thinking: wishes dreamed to come true. In Jack Stillinger’s 18th token Interpretation, Authenticity of dreams, he describes about the many readings that are connected within dreaming and how it is the most common images in Romantic poetry. Stillinger describes the difference and similarities with Realism vs. Imaginative dreams and supports his theory of dreaming well with some readings he gives. He states how dreams can sometimes as well be a negative perspective such as the feeling of emptiness and the unreality that a person may be missing or wanting in their lives. The following will describe about Stillinger’s theory of Authenticity of dreams and

Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart and Virginia Woolf’s A Haunted House creates two very different worlds for the audience. The biggest difference between theses novels is the tone in which the author describes their story. Although different in style, both authors seem to be heavily influenced by the concepts that are associated with dreams. What is also evident, are the overlapping correlations that appears in both stories. Therefore, it is clear to see that these stories are both alike and dissimilar in their ability to manipulate the concept of a dream.

In the poem “dreams” by langston hughes, the author shows us how important dreams are. Also without dreams /goals life becomes barren, and that we shouldn't give up on hopes and goals, also to keep on trying to achieve your dreams.in particular mr.hughes uses metaphor and personification to convey to the reader the message of this poem.

Dreams originally were admired as being a source of knowledge, giving information to the dreamer about their present and future prospects. The dreams held secrets, but it was not always easy to access them as you needed an interpreter to discover the hidden meanings. After the dreams were read, only then they would properly belong to the dreamer. This was the theory long before Freud, but then a new understanding of dreams came to show that a dream was more about one’s past then their future. This meaning ‘that dreams were a symbol to your future’ was to inform us what was yet to come in your life. Also that your path in life had already been written out for us to for fill. A great example of this is the story of ‘Oedipus’ because his fate

All established writers and poets understand that literature goes beyond the rhymes and literal meaning; The work’s personal relation with the author has more than a substantial amount of importance as well. The behind the scenes aspect to literature is what allows both the figurative language and story to thrive. This is especially true in the iconic Edgar Allen Poe poem, A Dream Within A Dream, as it is heavily connected to his life and philosophy which further enriches the writing. However, the overwhelming significance of the historical factors in the poem does not diminish the value of the peculiar yet erudite syntax, structure, and unembellished plot. These two factors work in unison to successfully create the unity of effect, evoking emotion in any reader: an art in writing that Poe mastered and reveals through

“Four days will quickly steep themselves in night. Four nights will quickly dream away the time”. From the very first line of William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, we are introduced the motif of dreams which is present throughout. The significance of the role played by dreams cannot be stressed enough. It is present in almost all aspects of the play, no where more so than in the woods, where the four lovers of the story flee to. The dreams in a MSND are not just a thematic setting but also serve to delve into the true natures of the characters themselves. For my presentation today I will be exploring a number of different aspects relating to the role that dreams play, as well as the role

The third and final article, Morewedge, and Norton (2009) “When Dreaming Is Believing”, a study done to study amateur’s beliefs about the importance of dreams, the way the person interprets their dreams, and the consequences of the interpretations they make on their behavior. The authors stressed that dreams vary widely across psychology, such as Freud’s “Royal Road” to that of a simple byproduct of an increase in brain activity. Morewedge and Norton (2009) suggest that amateurs take up the “Royal Road” look on dreams, that dreams hold information about oneself and their world, and that their interpretation of their dreams impact their waking lives.

In my opinion, the author is trying to inform people of ways to achieve writing success by overcoming the inner critic and using your emotions to let you just flow, write without thinking, and write from your emotions. This process from my point of view helps gather your ideas, and you are able to process those ideas by getting them written down on paper. The reason I believe that it helps gather your ideas is because if you don’t write it down you may forget it, giving your inner critic the upper hand.

Dreams that have been overlooked can creep back into a person’s thoughts and plague the mind. They can give an almost draining effect if they are left to parish, instead of pursued. Theories arise from what could have been, and perhaps what should have been if only there had been more attention or effort directed toward these dreams. Surely it is easy to touch lightly on this subject, but to go in depth about what other possibilities are present and the intricate ways a deferred dream can influence thoughts and the mind can bring greater understanding. Exploring further shows just how powerful dreams truly are.

However, that extremely daunting task of writing knowing that it was going to take a lot out of you emotionally is what makes it feel so important to write. Moving on, I noticed -when writing this essay, I had to take a few breaks and come back to it. Every time I wrote something that happened, the memories resurfaced, so as you read what I wrote you are hearing it for the first time; but for me, I was reliving it like it just happened. For example, when I scrivened “Driving the jeep home, was like the way my life had been for the previous year, suffocating and uncontrollable as the exhaust walked into my lungs.” (Babson) To this day, I can still smell that awful stench of the exhaust pipe; it was not fast and sudden like someone running into the car but it was a slow sneak, creeping into your lungs until all of the sudden you can’t breathe and didn’t even notice the change. That feeling of suffocation, and the uncontrollable loss, hit me as I was writing this. It was so unbearable, I often had to walk outside or go swimming just to overcome the claustrophobic feeling. Another example would be when I stated: “…but on the inside she was dying. Who could save her, from herself? That final sentence probably hit me the hardest when reviewing my life story; no one realized how much I had stored

The poem “Dreams” is about how important dreams are and how the reader should always have dreams that do not go away or never are let go. This poem is an eight line two stanza poem that follows a rhyme scheme of A-B-C-B. This poem makes the reader think of a harsh, cold land with no sign of life. The poem “Dreams” also makes the reader feel chills and sadness. Mr. Hughes did a good job on making the reader capture a specific landscape and view.