Blog #10

I will say that reading this essay a second time made a lot more sense. It made so much more sense, that I even crossed out some of my original annotations because they were wrong. One thing I did differently this time a round is I defined some many words I didn’t understand. These words included: enquiry, virtuoso, curriculum vitae, and so much more. By defining these words, the essay flowed a lot smoother for me, and it made a lot more sense. Something that didn’t really make sense to me the first time around was how the author defined what Narrative with a capital “N.” The second time I read it, I realized why he did it. He wanted to express his meaning of a narrative by giving it a unique twist with always using a capital N. Another thing that cleared the fog for me was what multiple selves meant. The author agrees that people have multiple selves, and it just depends on the situation the person for which self is used. In comparing my annotations from last time to now, it just made more sense. The essay was very confusing the first time I read it, and because of this, my annotations were all over the place. But being able to compare my annotations with my reading the second reading, I realized how wrong some of my annotations were, and it created a better understanding of the reading for me.