Would I confess?

Mistakes have always occurred and most of the time it is a shame to admit a mistake. What if the mistake were something so terrifying that it would cause both you and your whole family shame? I find it difficult to believe that I would honestly confess to my mistake. I would most likely search for another way to get around the truth. Perhaps I would make small white lies to cover myself or maybe I would try to avoid the subject of my mistake all together. In The Crucible the confessions are mainly focused on the confessions of witchcraft. If someone is accused of witchcraft (as many were in the Salem witch trials), the person accused has the option to confess and avoid being hung or to stay with the truth that they did not commit the charge and hang for their truth. I think that I would confess. I currently have a long life ahead of me and I would like to see how it turns out. However, there is the question of whether or not the shame of my life after being accused was too great to bear. If I were unable to live life the way it ought to be lived (with happiness) then maybe there would be no point in living at all. It is honorable to die because you told the truth but I believe that it is much more satisfying to live because you had to tell a lie that someone pressed upon you. The people that confessed to witchcraft only did so because they were pressured to admit to a crime that they did not commit. If there was no pressure to admit to the charge, then no one would admit to witchcraft because the shame is too great. After being accused, one has a terrible shameful life full of people whispering about them and never truly being able to go about life as a person free of judgment. It is said that God is the only one able to truly pass judgment but that does not stop others around you from wondering how God judges. This in turn makes other people judge you. So I suppose that in conclusion, I would confess to see how my life was to turn out even if my life would be messed up after words. I think that you never know what life holds and to find out what will happen you have to live it for better or for worse.

Free Write: Analyzation of Literature

From the time when I was in third grade, reading comprehension was a key skill. When I entered seventh and eighth grade comprehension was analyzing why events were necessary to happen and how the events came about. In the beginning of high school I had to start analyzing how time periods and styles fit into a story. By the end of ninth grade I was well adapted to answering the basic comprehension and analysis questions, who, what, where, when, why, and how. These are called journalist's questions. These questions help to understand a basic plot of a story or article. However, just as my concept of analysis changed over the course of the years, it is time to add another piece to the puzzle.
Now it is time to look at the relationship between the journalist's questions. This is something that has been skirted around for the past 8 years and is finally becoming clear. There is a tool called Burke's Pentad to help analyze a story's relationships. Burke's pentad helps find relationships and meaning in events. It goes beyond the basic questions of who, what, when, where, why, and how and instead goes for what made this event special or significant. The five subjects of Burke's Pentad are act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose. The act asks what happened and what needs to be explained. Scene asks where did the act happen and what were the circumstances? The agent asks who did the event, and what the mental state of the person of action was. Agency wonders how was the event done, what instruments or means did the purpose use. The last of the five Burke's Pentad subjects is Purpose and this is a straight forward why question, why did the event or act take place. These questions need explanative answers which requires more than a few sentences.
When answering the Burke's pentad questions it is good to remember why one is answering the questions and knowing where the questions are headed. If you are writing a paper based on the event, you may want more explanative information. If you are simply providing an overview of information you may want some explanation but not too much because you don't want to overpower a summary. Lastly, if you are reading for comprehension, two or three sentences for each subject of Burke's Pentad should be plenty to get going on understanding the story or article. Overall, Burke's Pentad is a more detailed version of the journalist's questions. It describes relationships that can help the reader to understand a situation better.