NON-fiction roundup

Jennifer Cooper
English 2020
“The Drama Bug”
Sedaris treats himself as If he is a great, but misunderstood actor.
My senior year in high school I got really into running. I didn’t have a full class schedule so in the time when I didn’t have class I would change in the locker room and go run on the track. I toned my body up from doing it and I thought that I was getting good or at least better than the people who didn’t exercise regularly. So when I would go running occasionally with friends who never went out and went running on their own I thought I would kick their butts at it. There were times that I was better and other times when people who came with me had no problem keeping up and doing everything I was doing, it was very frustrating.
“Shooting Dad”
My mom used to charm warts off of her by talking to them or singing to them and she would go out and tell people about it as if it were fact. It was funnier than mortifying really.
When I was younger, I tried to rebel against everything that my dad said or did no matter what it was. At times it would be country music which was the only kind of music he listens to, John Wayne movies, or even food that he liked. I would hate it just because he liked it. Even if secretly I was into the same stuff. Now that I am older I like to agree with my dad and be able to share common interests.

Rosa Parks, C’est moi
She throws in her opinion by saying that she doesn’t think that you can compare all the things that the people were fighting for to a black woman in the fifties who stood up to a white man on a bus.
The people in this essay such as the mime, the smoker, the adult dancer, and the dairy farmer could be compared to the girl and the dad in the essay “shooting dad.” The dad in that essay was a guy who was a gunsmith. As the writer of the essay, the daughter said, he had a sarcastic view of history. He seemed to think that wars and things that had happened back in the day applied to him now. Like the people in the other story that compared themselves to Rosa Parks.
Something that outrages me is people who do drugs around their young kids. I don’t know that I could necessarily turn it into an essay like this one, but I couldn’t definitely write something about how harmful and wrong I think it is.
The Village Watchman
It sounds like the writer holds nothing back that the story is completely true and all of what is in it really happened.
There was a young man at Salt Lake Community College who was mentally challenged like Alan in this story. He looked pretty normal in appearance, you couldn’t tell by looking at him that anything was off except he did walk a little funny. He was very friendly though and he would always come up and say hi to you. He remembered nearly everybody’s name that he talked to.