Bella Greco- Period 5

I didn't like this essay at all when I started reading it. It wasn't making very much sense to me, and there were too many big words that I had never heard, and quotes that meant nothing to me. It wasn't until I read the last page and understood what it meant. Madden tells about an experience he had. One of his professors asked him, “What will you do when you run out of experiences to write about?”. I liked how, rather than taking this question as offensive, he took it as a sort of positive criticism. He then said that his children were a renewable source of material to write about, that he can always write about the experiences he has had with them. He knows that there will always be something to write about. Basically, whether it be a serious topic, or a raw little vignette, it's something. My favorite quote from this essay is, "The exercise of writing from the infinite suggestiveness of common things has proved fruitful for me time and again... I’m addicted to that world’s whisper." He finds anything to write about, and he enjoys it. I ended up really liking this essay. I liked how he showed that even when there seems like there's nothing, there always somthing.