Shacora+Lens2

Shacora Hayes Reader as Writer for Monster Lens 2 2/16/11  When I first opened the book // Monster // my very first comment to myself was, “Are you serious?”. I have never seen or read any book written in that style before. I have read other styles of writing but never a script like that within a book. I thought I was going to completely hate this text and everything about it. What ended up happening was the complete opposite. After I decided to give the confusing style of writing a chance and to focus more on the story than what I was looking at, I began to enjoy the story and what was being told.  What I liked most about the style of writing was that after I got over all the side notes and the things I did not understand in the black bolded parts that told the actions of the camera, it allowed the readings to go by faster and before I knew it I was on page fifty in no time at all. As I think about it I am not completely sure if I was a young adult having to read it for an assignment if I would like it the same because it might have made me frustrated that it was somewhat confusing at first and I might not have wanted to give it a chance. However, as a senior in College I do liked it, after awhile that is. What had caught my attention most about it was the obvious thing that it was an interesting way of writing style. It was different and like I had stated earlier, it was something that I had personally never seen before.  What the story has done to help me within my own writing is that it has led me to believe in new way of writing. I often would write on my own when the mood struck and only when I was inspired by things that were going on in my life. I would mostly write poetry. I also enjoy writing short stories for class and have ideas for short stories but never have the time to write it. It shows me that Perhaps I could write a screenplay or something like it. It makes me interested in writing a script like story or perhaps add it in a short story.  In the end, though it did not appeal to me at first, after I gave it a chance I enjoyed the writing style and I enjoyed the story. The story itself was moving and it helped for the reader to understand what the writer was going through. Maybe if I had viewed this style of text as a teen than maybe I would have been more prepared to read it now. Or perhaps if I would have read it at a teen I would have been more likely to write with this style now.