Masks

I enjoyed this piece written by an anonymous first-year composition student. She delivered an excellent performance by describing the settings and feelings that were involved in her story, and yet didn’t overcomplicate the writing. I surprisingly found that through her skillful writing technique, she stylishly made her reader connect to a familiar inadequate feeling they surely have experienced in their own life at some time, if only to a certain degree.


Describing in thorough detail successfully gave one a clear sense of the emotions involved, the setting in which they took place and which chapter was occurring in the writers’ life. By use of comparisons, she describes one character as “like a beautiful perfume you smell but can’t name” and “like a whisper that wakes you from a dream and turn out to belong to the dream”. In doing this, she feeds a clue of the title choice “Masks” for this writing to the reader. The brief last paragraph fruitfully unfolded the entire value of the story. In such few words the writer was able express a powerful awakening.


I wish to achieve paralleling some of this first-year composition students’ talent and abilities in the writing process. To be able to captivate an audience, with proper use of detail, connection and interest is a skill I find intriguing and hope to someday realize.