Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Letter to a Friend


In the moment my firends from colombia figure out that i was moving to united states for the rest of my life, they were really frustrated and sad.
after a couple hours all my friends gave me every type of letter that you can ever imagine.
it was different kinds, like ones with picuters, others only with leters, just saying how much they loved me, others with cartoons it was amazing!!! it really caught my attention!.
In that moment i felt like the president, no kidding;I felt like i was the most important person in the whole world, it was amazing!! and really, come on! if u get something like i did u have to give a feed back. because if u give something to someone that u love, u would expect to get somethig back from that person. and of course thats what i did.
I gave each of my friends a letter to show them how much i love them and how much i will miss them.
Each of my letter's were totally different to each other. but with the same genre. Lovely and friendly!! with alot of emotional moments that we had together.
I didn't want to talk to them and just give them a hug and a little kiss,
because those things you can forget about really quick, but if you give a letter; That's something that u can save all the time.
In the moment that you pull them out you can read over and over and think about the moment that person gave it to you.

I try to put together all the special moments that we had together like parties, boys, lies, parents, everything that we had in common.
like that everytime they read it they can remember the good moments and the time that i was there to do all that stuff with them.

I was really sad in the moment i gave the letters to them. they were all crying and hugging each other. they even read parts of the letter at loud like that we all can hear what i write and we can laugh together.
I was happy at the same time. i was really happy to see that i made my point. which wasn't to make them sad, but to make them realize that am still being a friend , just in a long distance.

After everything happen and i moved down here we still talking and we still being friends. so thats a good thing that proves that friendship can last for ever.

before i knew about the rhetorical situation i used to write just because I had to do it without a knowledge, and it was without a point, because, I wasnt thinking about the witer, topic, or the attention of the writer, it was without a purpuse, but now that i know the rhetorical situation my next letter or the next thing I would write, It would have a consistence and a real topic that It's going to get the attention of the audience.

Rhetorical situation Its a way to find things more interesting if you want to put it that way. because knowing that you have a topic an audience and a context that its going to call attention it makes you feel more interest in reading. knowing this everybody can wirte.

1 comment:

dr.mason said...

I think you point out something interesting when you state about the letters that you can "pull them out you can read over and over and think about the moment that person gave it to you." So much of what we write has delayed effects far beyond the original moment we create it for, and sometimes far beyond the original audience we intend it for.

Whether such writing has enough context built into it to be intelligible by other people is an interesting question, although I'm guessing it would be easier for a future audience to simply understand them than to have anything near the emotional response you had to the letters. And the opposite is probably true as well--how many times has someone reacted emotionally to something that was intended just as an informative message to someone else? It really throws into doubt whether you can really anticipate all the potential audiences of what you write.