crying essay

Crying

An Essay on an Important Emotion

By Emmanuel Perry

Pine Point School

October 12,2010

            Crying- boy does it have a lot of variations! It shows happiness, sadness, and anger. It also shows pain. Crying when in pain is considered showing weakness among many people. I personally used to cry a lot and I’ve realized that it does not mean weakness. In fact, it sometimes helps those who cry.

        (T)  In TKAM 9 (To Kill a Mockingbird), Scout and Jem found this tree with a little hollow inside that had something new in it every day. (SD)When they decided that no one owned the items in the tree, they decided to take the things in the hollow, keeping them all to themselves, telling no one about what they found. (CM)As time went on, they found two soap hoodoo dolls carved to look like them. (SD)Scout seemed to recognize them as hoodoo dolls, which probably works like a voodoo doll; you do something to the doll and the real person will feel it. (CM)As the story progresses, Scout realizes that Jem has been crying, hiding his tears. (CM)They also had some intense itches for the same reason; the hoodoo dolls! It makes sense that that would be why Jem was crying. (CS) His doll probably got punctured by a needle or got squeezed. In conclusion, I believe Jem was crying not because of the tree being cement filled, but the fact that he was in pain.

(T) Many men and some women often say that crying shows weakness.(SD) To me, crying is a little more complicated than that. (CM) Crying is often linked with being sad. However, it is also used when angry, happy, or emotionally confused. (CM)Some people cry when a loved one dies because they are sad. (CM) In addition, you may cry when someone breaks your favorite possession because you are angry with that person.(CM) It does not show weakness at all. It's just used when in a very stressing time.(SD) Interestingly enough, crying also does something for a person. (CM) When you cry, it usually gets any sadness out of the way or extinguishes a building anger. (CM)It also makes people ask you what is wrong and may even comfort you in your hard times. (SD)  When I was little, I had a hard time doing my math, and my mom tried to help me. (CM) It was going ok until I got confused (again…) and my mom couldn’t help me understand why my answer was wrong. (CM)We got into a heated argument and she finally stopped giving help.(CM) I was so frustrated that I cried in my room. After crying, I felt refreshed and went back downstairs to finish my homework.

     (T)So, in conclusion, you now know my opinion on crying and why it is used. (CM)Jem used it for pain since he was pricked by it. (CM)I used it because I was confused and frustrated. (SD)Have you ever cried? (CM) How did it feel when you were done?  (CM)Did it help you at all? (SD)Finally, it is ok to cry; it doesn’t show how weak you are.(CM) It shows how you feel inside. (CM)What matters are the feelings inside.(CM) Not what people say.(CS) So feel free to cry today if necessary.

self assesment

1. I am working on making ssure the chunks go together.

2. I do better when the writing is about me and my opinion.

3. When I don't do all the paragraphs in order, the paragraphs don't go well together or make sense.