Montage

For our class today we were assigned to read Keep It Real pages 95-108. The topics included, “The Lyric Essay,” “Metaphor,” and “Montage Writing.” So last night I sat down to do the reading, and I scanned over the first two chapters, and then I got to montage writing. And by that point I had already read the story called “The Brown Study” in In Fact, which I didn’t enjoy reading at all but that’s beside the point. So by now my eye lids were growing heavy and I didn’t really want to continue to read about montages. So I read the first page or two, and I went on with the rest of the reading that I had to complete. Yes of course as the average college student I left my homework until way later than I should have. Either way, I get to class today and what are we talking about? Montages. Oh god. “Well at least I have a slight understanding of what a montage is. This shouldn’t be too bad,” I thought to myself. And in essence it wasn’t too bad, but I just couldn’t get inspired at first to get something down on paper. Dr. Morris, as well as the class, kept giving examples of movies and writings that montages were used and either I had never seen the movie or I didn’t understand the concept they were trying to get across.

Dr. Morris gave every student in the class a piece of paper with a quote on it, which was set to be our inspiriation to write our own montage. Me still not completely certain what a montage was I was filled with anxiety, as well as a few of my classmates. No one wanted to be the one that messed up or be the one to do the assignment wrong.

My quote was, “some people would rather die than think,” by Bertrand Russell. It immediately reminded me of all the people I know that would rather do thoughtless things rather than intellectual things. There are definitely times that I am one of those people (I love trashy television), but there are other moments were I would  much rather read a book than do anything else. I drew on real like conversations that I have had with people and came up with this as my montage,

“Dude I am so pumped that the new ‘Call of Duty’ video game came out. I’m going to try and beat it tonight. I’m not going to sleep until I beat this video game.

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The new series ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ starts tonight. I wonder if Theresa will flip a table this season like she did on the season finale. And I wonder what Danielle will do. She is such a bitch.

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Obama you have about five minutes to wrap up this speech about our involvement in Libia before you cut into Dancing with the Stars’. You’re already taking up the time slot for ‘Wheel of Fortune’. Wrap this shit up.

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I am definitely going to the bar tonight. It’s karaoke night. I can’t miss out on that. All my friends keep telling me to put off studying at least for happy hour, and then I can go back to studying.”

I was worried that it wasn’t too much of a story, because it didn’t have a beginning, middle, and an end, but I was happy with the outcome because all of those montages definitely connected together with my quote.