Journal Two from Clayton

Clayton Tackett
English 1109 at 10:30, T-Th
1/12/2020

                                     My Introduction 

            Hello class my name is Clayton Tackett.  I’m thirty two years old and was born on August thirtieth in nineteen eighty seven.  I have three daughters starting with the oldest Maddison who is eleven, Anna who is five, and Jude at four years old. Unfortunately I only have custody of the two. I’m a freshman in my second semester here at OSU at Marion and am very proud to be able to say that. A fun fact about me is I’ve been with my spouse for over ten years and have two daughters with her.  I’m scared to death of writing and blogging doubly so,  but I am confident that this class will help me learn to overcome those fears.

     I feel the theme so far in A Long Way Gone in my opinion is that not only is war frightening but the aftermath is also sometimes too much to handle.  This is something that no child should ever have to experience.  I believe that it was important to start the book like this so the reader can understand how big of an impression or impact the writer’s first introduction to war had on them. I think that Ishmael wanted the reader to know that it was was worse that he could have ever imagined.  I have never experienced this with war but I have experienced this in the opposite direction with college.  I always thought it was an impossibility, that I would hate it and that it was too difficult for someone like me, but in fact I’ve found out that I love it and I can get pretty good grades too.