Why I Hate Garlic
9/3: It’s the fourth time I have written about a garlic clove and I still can’t believe I have to keep going. I have to admit, this is really boring. I am starting to hate this assignment just a little bit. This kinda blows.
9/6: I have spent the last 4 days writing about the most boring plant in a grocery store… a clove of garlic. I didn’t bond much with my garlic. I mostly wrote about how much I despised writing about it. I got pretty far from garlic on some of my entries. I found whatever popped into my head, which was barely anything while writing about garlic, and I wrote it down. That could’ve been about garlic or pencils for that matter. I truly had nothing in my head about garlic. I still don’t. The main thing I wrote about garlic, was how boring it was.
I enjoyed how you were not ashamed to express how you truly felt about the garlic and the assignment. Your use of strong words like “hate” and “blows” really added to the emotional effect.
Thanks man!
I love the effect you’ve given your free write by changing the background to a dark color, giving off a sense of gloominess. Furthermore, I loved how you added to your tone and position on the topic by using diction such as “boring”, “hate”, and “despised”. This adds a smooth flow to your thinking and display your empty feelings towards the clove of garlic.
Thanks Ryan!
Bonding with garlic does sound tough. Those little cloves are like the seeds on the cones that fell from my family’s white pines when I was a kid. I love the taste, though. Garlic olive oil is currently high on my list.
I’m really sorry the garlic was a drag. I think of Ann Berthoff’s advice that we read: “If the observing becomes tedious (and it will), stay with it, regardless; if it becomes intolerable, get yourself another object.” I think you were well into the intolerable zone!
I think I could have done a better job explaining the role of boredom in this assignment. Writing about an organic object can be like freewriting: in both exercises, boredom can be something we have to press through to explore our thoughts more in writing. It’s really my bad.