My Weaknesses and strengths as a Writer

I believe that being able to distinguish our own strengths and weaknesses as writers can help us become better individuals in our writing. Knowing yourself as a writer and what you can do or can’t do, can help you recognize and overcome your weaknesses.

As a writer, one of my greatest strengths is the ability to organize my paper well and. whenever I get an essay to write, I write the important things first and the least important things last. This helps me write faster while thinking thoroughly about the prompt or the question that is been asked. Also, it helps me hand in my work on time and organize it well. In addition to that, another strength I have is being patient and not giving up whenever I face obstacles, such as having no ideas at all or having tens of other work to do. Whenever an obstacle arrives, I leave my room and avoid thinking about the paper because being away from the paper for awhile gives me the time to relax and most of the times more ideas flow in.

Every writer has some problems or weaknesses in his or her writing. One of my weaknesses is the luck of vocabulary. In order to become a greater writer, having the ability to use vocabularies correctly in a sentence is an essential skill to have. Also, another weakness I have is the ability to think in English in my head and then put all of my ideas on a paper. I started learning English four years ago so I still struggle in that task. Finally, my only saving grace is I still want to learn these skills and overcome my weaknesses. 

Shooting an Elephant: George Orwell-Summary

The narrator, who we presumed to be the author of Shooting an Elephant,  George Orwell, talks about being a police officer in Moulmein, Burma, a town where “[he] was hated by large numbers of people.” Being a police officer during a tense of anti-European sentiment made him a target and a symbol of the cruel colonial power, the British, even thought his beliefs and supports go towards the Burmese. Every day, he wakes up to be mocked by the people whose his intellectual sympathies lie with.

Shooting an Elephant reached its climax when the narrator was informed that an elephant lost control under the attack of “must” was “ravaging the bazaar” Taking his rifle, “an old .44 Winchester” the narrator went to finish his mission, killing an elephant, along with a few thousand people. The elephant’s mahout, the person who controls the elephant, went the wrong direction, and it will take him awhile to go to the elephant’s whereabouts and cool it down. Therefore, the police officer has to do something about the elephant whether it is shooting it down or letting it live peacefully. A decision has to be made and the police officer gets so much pressure from his surroundings that it wasn’t permissible for him to think clearly. After all, putting bullets in the elephant’s heart seemed to be the only option he had. After a long time full of struggle and pain, it took the police officer five bullets to put the massive elephant down. Ultimately, at the end of the story the narrator confesses that he killed the elephant not to protect the elephant from hurting more people or destroying more properties but so that people can stop mocking him for working the oppressive imperial.