One of the first things I took note of while reading this essay was the argument between redemption and contamination writing. I defiantly believe that redemption writing is the most common form of writing when telling a narrative. People love being positive, and they especially love having a positive ending after having failure. This is what most people follow, including myself, but there are also people who write with contamination, which is the complete opposite. I see this as someone who doesn’t have a lot of faith and someone who is depressed. If someone were to write a narrative with negativity being the end, there’s a reason for that, and read flags should automatically go up.
Another part of this reading that stuck out to me was how people try to predict the future based off of past experiences and foreshadowing. This one is tough to wrap my head around because I both agree and disagree with this statement. The first thing that popped into my head that I can relate this to is watching a football game. If it is the middle of the season, and a team has won all their games so far, and the team is playing the worst team in the league, humans can foreshadow that the undefeated team will win. However, this isn’t always the case, and that is why the term, “upset” exists. Foreshadowing does sometimes predict the future, but it’s never a definite.
The last part the stuck out to me in this reading was how people can re-write their past. I never really thought of this until I read it in this essay. This is definitely true as well. People will change their past when they want to, and they will also change their past based on who they are telling their narrative to. Let’s us the movie Happy Gilmore for example. Happy claimed he was always a hockey player, but because he’s really good at golf, he became a golfer. So, when Happy tells people on what he does, he’s probably going to tell people he’s a golfer, rather than a hockey player.
overall a good response, I liked how you connected the subject to real life things, ie the football game analogy. The few corrections I have would be to maybe work on the beginning of your paragraphs, avoiding “The first thing” and things like that. Another thing would be to work on spelling and grammar and how things are worded, there a few spots that are awkward to read. I was a little confused in the beginning because the meaning of contamination and redemption werent explained. The second paragraph was very strong and had really good ideas woven into it, the football analogy was a really good addition.