Painting Story Draft

The wind brought the smell of the sea, and a house stood nearly the tall cliff quietly. The sunset made the sea seemed to be golden, everything was quiet and beautiful, and especially a man and a woman who looked like a couple lying on the beach together. A painter was in the house, smiled and looked at them peacefully and was trying to paint them on the paper to keep this scene forever. He just wanted to make this scene persistence.

The painter was a good friend to the young couple; they knew each other for a long time. One day, the young woman, called Claire, asked the painter would he mind if they plant a tree before his house. “Of course you can, but I won’t help you plant the tree or take care of the tree. That’s what Lucas need to do.” He blinked his shining brown eyes and gave a wide smile to Lucas. Then, Lucas said, “I will definitely do that, thanks for your permission.” And he touched his wife’s curly, long hair gently with loving eyes. “Wow!” Claire became so happy that she jumped really high and looked like a little child.

At the day they planted the tree, the weather was nice with gentle breeze. Claire ran and ran, she already thought the place they were in was so boring and so deserted for a long time, but it would change that day. Lucas looked at her with a simile that showed he would do whatever she wanted him to do. He loved him so much. The sunshine made her to be so divine, the soft breeze quietly blew the small leaves. He wished these things could last forever. The painter looked at these from the window, and he wished so. He wished everything that’s wonderful could last forever.

Unfortunately, sad news came one day, Lucas and Claire must leave the beach and go to different places. Claire firstly thought she would never leave Lucas firmly. But both her and Lucas’ family didn’t allow them to stay together. So, they left each other sadly. At the day they left, it was raining, and the painter could not really identify the water on their face is the rain or the tears. He also felt really sad that two of his best friends could not stay together anymore. They were lastly separated, everything were so depressive and could never get better any more.

A day a year later, the painter that was still live on the seaside looked outside the window again, but there was no happy laughter and cheerful voice anymore. The world was inanimate and decayed for him. The tree died, no body took care of it anymore. Everything made him feel the despair in his life. He started to paint again, by using really depressive colors, to paint the world with no love, with some melting clocks showed the persistence that people wanted to have. But still, the couple cannot be on the seaside anymore, so, the melting clock can only be the wishes of them at the same time. At least, the memory can last forever.

In class writing- reflect on your essay

According to my essay, I am good at to emphasize my main purpose of the essay. I always use many sentences for helping me state the idea, the topic that I chose. The strength of me are I can analyze in a good way to support my thesis successfully. Also, I think I did well in the choosing of thesis that I choose a good topic that can make me thinking a lot to write.

For my weakness, my grammar is not really well and I am really bad at fiunding my grammar mistakes myself. Also, it is so difficult for me to write lots of details. I can hardly find some words to describe what is in the painting and describe. Even though I can easily tell readers what the scene of the painting related to the emotion of painter, I still cannot say how the painter show that and I cannot really describe the beauty of the painting to somebody that didn't see the painting yet.

Then, if I have more time, I am sure I will write more details, and to find more things that are in the painting. Also, I would fix my essay to be more fluid and better to be read by using more beautiful words and fix all of my grammar mistakes,

The depression of memory

What is a clock looks like? Most simple clocks are round and stable. However, Salvador Dali’s painting, The Persistence of Memory, the clocks seemed different. Has anyone ever see a melting? The clocks in the painting are melting, which seemed really inanimate and forceless. Then, for the scene part, the cliff and the seaside seemed really hopeless that nothing else is there and the colors seem so dark. In the painting The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali expresses feelings of sadness and depression in the contrast between the light blue sky and the dark soil and the melting clocks.

First of all, about the melting clocks, he was the first person to show people a kind of clock like that. Clocks, in people’s minds, are always serious things because they are related to time. Nobody could really imagine these soft, liquid like and unstable things are clocks at that time. All the clocks were showing the same time in the painting and they seemed different, but they were still melting. Some of the clocks are colorless and clear and some of them are having dark colors, they are different type of clocks but all melting. Thus, it showed that the depression of memory always last a long time whatever where people were and what time that was. Also, it could imply that they were clocks from different places, and all the clock owners are thinking of this place together.

On the other hand, by looking at the background scene of the painting, the cliff that in the right part of the painting also showed a feeling of depression. The yellow brown cliff seemed so high, and under the cliff, it’s the deep sea. People cannot even see the end place of the sea. That made people feeling that they are so small and so dangerous to stay in the nature. It still gave people a great scene that showed hopelessness. Then, about the contrast between the light blue sky and sea and the dark seaside, the sky and the sea seemed more hopeful. However, people at that time can never reach that. There are no people in the whole painting, but a dead tree. The tree in the painting isn’t so tall and also cannot touch the hope. It’s near the sea but still dead, and it could not survive still. They could only stay at the seaside, and have wishes for hope but live in that despair forever.

Admittedly, according to the background information, the painter Salvador Dali was really shown his long to his hometown. It was a painting that had the same scene with his hometown. Then, he added these melting clocks, to imply his wish to make the time last forever and also imply his despair that he could never get back home (MoMA). The painting was a real classic that if people see that, they will never forget that. People would always see that melting clocks anywhere in their life and always wish the memory could last forever. Even though, the memory always gives people more despair, these depressive memories are always remembered.

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The memory of Hometown

According to the melting clocks, the Persistence of memory that painted by Salvador Dali is a attractive painting that can last forever. Because of the deserted scene over the seaside landscape on cliff, the emotion of the painting seemed so depressive and inanimate. It showed the scene in Catalonia, Spain, where is the painter Dali's hometown. When Dali looked outside his house, he can see the blue sky, the brown beach and the cliff. Thus, the painter should trying to express that he really miss his hometown.

Due to the background information of the painting, it's like a dream side to show up the scene that Dali missed a lot. Because of the melting clock, it shows Dali wished the time could stop and then he could go back to his hometown. He wanted the time to be persistence but actually he could not go back to his hometown ever. So he just drew down what he saw in his dream and wished the memory could be persistence.

Lastly, the not normal way to draw this painting made people to remember it forever, and the melting clock, the landscape on the cliff and the contrast of the bright sky and dark land got all together to combine this excellent painting.

My writing life

Writing things is like a part of my typical life. I would like to write diaries, short stories and some novels. I started writing things since I’m in my elementary school. It started firstly because of that’s my homework. Then, because of my dad is a talented man in someway, he taught me to write and brought me to travel through many different places. After the travelling, I should write my feelings, write what I saw in these places and what these places made me know. After that, when I was in junior high school, I read some books online, I knew that writers are not really too high for me to approach, then I started to write some novels. In the meantime I don’t write dairy everyday, but if I found something that make me really happy or really sad, I would write.

Writing is just a way for me to express myself. Or sometimes I have some secrets that I cannot say, and I would write them down. These writings don’t need to be in order, don’t need to remained in the previous place; it’s just a way for me to write these thing down. After that, I can throw these paper of delete the documents in my computer, then nobody would know that secret. In the meantime, I would feel better by sharing my secrets, even though no one really knows that.

Also, I had written some short novels in Chinese two years ago. The novel had been finished and I didn’t upload it to the Internet, I knew I have many disadvantages that I need to improve. Nevertheless, I still love writing. Actually, I am so busy now and I need to read more books, I need to finish my homework and I need to do more other works, so I don’t really have lots of time to write. Then, I stopped writing novels but still try to improve my writing skills and try to write more details in an essay.

Last but not least, I like to write on my computer. It’s because I’m really good at typing so I can tell what I want to say as fast as possible instead of forget many important things. For the same reason, I always try to finish my writing work as soon as possible. Then, my favorite place to write is my room and in the classroom.

So, that’s my writing life and I wish I would be improved when time passes this year.

who am I and what am doing in this course

The first song I choose is Michael Jackson’s “you are not alone”. (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/michaeljackson/youarenotalone.html) I like it, because I’m a girl that always feels I’m alone and I am really afraid of being alone. So, the song told us there’s still somebody with us. Also, I have friends and I have lots of people that I love and love me. Thus, I know I’m not alone and I don’t need to be afraid. Like in the lyrics, it says “in the morning, in the evening, not alone, not alone, you and me, not alone.” It’s true that I came to America by myself so I miss my hometown and I miss my family in China, but I found new friends and found there are many great people. Then, I’m not alone anymore.

On the other hand, I also like Michael Jackson’s “we are the world”. (http://www.songlyrics.com/michael-jackson/we-are-the-world-lyrics/) It’s a song that gives people lots of hope. From the song, it says, “we are the world, we are the children, we are the one to make a brighter day”. It’s like we are the hope of the world, it tells us everyone is important. Then, it’s like we all have responsibility to the world, we have things that we need to do. We will make a brighter day, and that’s why I need to be myself and I need to do something for the world. It doesn’t matter what I will do is big or small, but I need to do something. I should be hardworking, because I need to do something for making a brighter world. So, it also motivates me to work hard and to be a better person.

Thirdly, I want to talk about Miley Cyrus’ “The climb”. (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/mileycyrus/theclimb.html) It tells people a positive attitude for doing things. It’s like when I’m climbing a high mountain; I always want to give up because that’s a really long distance and difficult to stick out. But lastly, I would still tell me that I’m nearly arriving and still climbing the mountain. Then after a long distance, I would lastly arrive at the top. And I would love the scene on the top of the mountain. Then, it’s like all the pay out during this process is worth. “Sometimes might knock me down, but No I'm not breaking I may not know it, but these are the moments that I'm gonna remember most, yeah Just gotta keep goin”. The song is just talk about this. So I really need to never give up. When you reach what you want to reach, you cannot imagine how great that is.

Lastly, for the academic goals I want to gain this year are, I want to get an A in this class, I want to improve my grammar, and I want to learn the American way to think and write.