Monsieur Loisel (The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant)

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Hi. Yes. This is a school essay. No. You should not leave.

ALLOW ME TO EX-PUH-LAIN MYSELF.

Alright, so today for English I read "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, a French writer from the 1880s. And then I got an assignment to analyze a character from the story (Monsieur Loisel) and write an essay stating either that he is content with his life, or discontent  with his life and to argue for your thesis.

I did the pre-writing great, writing all my thesisiesis (plural for thesis) and my reasons, and my EVIDENCE and aaall the bullshit, cool. I was perfectly ready to start my first draft.

But here's the thing.

I wasn't ready to start my draft.

I had writer's block.

Yeah. Fuck.

I kind of suck at writing formal essays (I mention in my bio that English pisses me off sometimes), but I read a lot about how to write good ones, so I know that the perfect medicine to get over writer's block is to just write. And I definitely tried! But the thing was I kept on writing really bad cliche sentences that I just knew none of my revising could fix. 

I was trying to write formally, but formal isn't my style. Then I thought, "Well, racoon, you're always analyzing characters from Wattpad really nicely, why don't you just make your first draft like a Wattpad comment?"

So I did. And it worked. Suddenly I discovered all sorts of details to add, and I was able to address things that you can't when trying to write formally. I had a lot of ideas that were great, and just as many that were bad, which is ideal for first drafts! 

I ended up finishing the draft in a little while, and my plan is to revise it, changing some words to be more appropriate, more evidence, organizing things differently, all those things. It's in sarcastic internet form right now. I'm planning to upload my finished essay here just for fun too.

I decided to publish my rough draft here, because it's kind of a way of honoring Wattpad for helping me with my essay. Plus, I might even get some good advice to help me with the revising part which I would gladly take.

However, here are a few things to take into account if you want to give me advice:

1. This is a very rough draft, and I am aware that it is inappropriate. You don't have to point it out. What I would like is maybe some tips (if you have) on changing it to the appropriate form. Or maybe you can point out if you didn't understand something so I can know I need to specify more.

2. You don't need to be nice about it. I know that rough drafts are shit and mine is no different. I do NOT mean hate. I just mean you shouldn't worry about hurting me, I'm a big girl, I can take it! 

3. Putting only two rules is weird.

Enjoy! And please comment!