QUOTE RESPONSE INSTRUCTIONS

~Welcome to the CMP 272 Winter 2009 Quotes Blog~
*Choose a quote with a KNOWN author.
*Compose a short essay on why this quote has meaning in your life. Include interesting information about the quote author that is relevent to your response.
*Complete drafts for in class revising, and editing sessions.
Your quote should be set up in the following manner:
*Create a title for your post.
*"Put your chosen quote in quotation marks."
*List the author of your quote underneath.
*Leave a space.
*Somewhere in the body of your quote include a picture that enhances your quote post.
*Key in your short quote essay to the blog AFTER it has been through the draft, revision, editing process.
*Please have all quotes posted by the end of week 5.
*When all quotes have been posted, I will instruct you to make comments (minimum of two).
*Please do not post comments until all quotes have been posted!
*Pick two or more quotes by fellow classmates and add a comment to their post. You may comment on their quote or on their author or on the information they shared.
*Comments should be posted by the end of week 8.
*Inappropriate quote posts or comments will not be tolerated and will result in a failing IRP grade. Build each other up, not tear each other down.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

No Regrets

"You couldn't get hold of the things you done and turn them right again. Scuh a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still tring to rewrite their teens."
- Stephen King
At a certain age, everyone looks back on at least one point in their life and think how the might have been able to change it. Things happen to people, including myself, for one reason or another. I hear my parens telling me all the time that all they are doing in trying to help me improve my life so I don't make the mistakes that they did. Can you really live a full life without taking the responsibility of making the mistakes?

When Stephen King was younger his parents divorced. After tha the moved around alot and then finally moved back to his mom's home town. King graduated high school and attended college at the University of Maine where he graduated in 1970. While attending college he met Tabitha Spruce, his future wife. After they married King developed a drinking problem, which stayed with him for over a decade.

Many think that King recieved his tormenting, mind twisting writings from an early childhood incident. This may be true. When he was a child he witnessed the death of a good friend. They were playing on the train tracks when his friend was hit by a train. They are not sure exactly how it happened. Psychologists say that he does not remember this because he was in shock.

Even though my parents are not divorced, my dad is never home and I've lived with my mom moving around from town to town like King did. I don't have tormented writings as King does although I do write about everyday tragedy. I feel as if I regret things that had happened in the past but I think King's word is true. To change everything that you wanted to about your childhood would not work for the best. Things happen for a reason and it is to teach you a lesson. You can only learn by making mistakes and if they are not made you can't learn right from wrong.
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