By far, my most memorable assignment, and certainly the one that I worked hardest on, was the essay on Great Expectations. The essay itself was a fairly standard, three-chunk, five-paragrah essay. However, there were a few complicating factors. First of all, although this was not the first of such essays I had written, it was the first the use chunks, and to enforce them stringently. Secondly, I had not particularly enjoyed Great Expectations, and I especially disliked Pip, the subject of the essays. Additionally, the prompt was a bit confusing, requiring connecting the apparently disparate elements of Pip's character development, and another, separate aspect of the novel. And to cap it all, I had gotten what I consider a rather subpar grade on my immediately previous effort, the TIoBE group essay.
However, I managed to recognize the main issue with my previous essay was my rather weak point sentences, and busied about fixing this. The prompt, additionally, settled itself once I made my choice and began thinking. The chunks were not that difficult, and although the paraphrasing required some thought, Dickens' almost obscene verbosity helped in finding useful quotes. And, most interestingly for me, the more I analyzed Pip, the more I could understand and sympathize with him, and the more real and less annoying he became. In the end, I got an A on this essay, which I was quite proud of, particularly for learning from my mistakes in order to finish.
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