My view on "I stand here writing"
             Among the four essays we have read, obviously "I stand here writing" is the most difficult one. The first idea comes to my mind when I read this essay is it is particular weird. Different from others, although it is also a personal, autobiographical essay which wants to use personal experience to demonstrate some opinions, it contains lots of little stories which seem unrelated. However, I like it after I have read it again and again. I found that some new ideas appear after thinking and thinking, and even disparate experiences can have, or they definitely have something in common.
             The author has written about 6 totally different stories about her life, which includes her mother sending her four-leaf clovers, her debate about Persian Gulf War, a distinct student in her class and so on. These stories are different experiences happening in different periods of her life, but she puts them in one essay, that's the reason why most people feel it's strange when they first read it, which also includes me. But if you separate this essay into several sections and make a summary to each section, it is very clearly to see the opinion the author wants to show us is, as a writer, it's important and necessary to use a different way to think, it will help you to find new characteristics and traits so that get inspiration to write, and sometimes when we need to compare two things, it help to find new traits and discover the relationship between different experience, ideas that seems unrelated.
             Thinking in a different way instead of using others words or ideas is very important because it will help us to avoid losing our own. The author gives us a good example to explain this. The story happened when the author is fourteen years old. At that time she is a member of high school debate team and has a debate about the Persian Gulf War, but she hasn't prepared well for the ...