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A Writing Oddysey

My Writing Odyssey


As far back as I can remember I have always been told by educators that I'm a very creative writer. My first year of high school was an

interesting time to see where my skills in English would take me. For some reason every semester in High School my progress in English would

fluctuate. Some professors assumed it could be better, some assumed it could be no better. For my first year of High School,l I attended

Jamaica High school. I can remember on the first day of English Class the Teacher handed out a book entitled "The Odyssey" by Homer, which

was translated by Samuel Butler. The homework later that day was to make a short story of our own little odyssey, and I did just that.

I wrote a story relating to the amerindians, which were people that were living in South America before the Europeans arrived, and acient

women who were sent to exile for performing certain tabu's (since women didn't have much say in ancient societies) in the the Amazon rain

forest, I wrote about unusual rituals performed by the women of the amazon, like the brain surgeries, heart surgeries, and wearing the skulls of

Jaguars on their heads as helmets, I described them as having beautiful skin, cat like features, such as their eyes, and postures, and described

them as worshiping anything in the felis genus, describing statues of many kinds. I wrote about the many different healing remedies they beheld,

making them seem like witch doctors, forcing people with illnesses to try and find where in the dangerous forest they would reside in as their only

option to be cured for whatever disease. I also made my self one of the people who set out looking for them, proving an ancient legend to be

right.

When I came back with the assignment completed, the very next day I saw it up on the bulletin board. The Teacher was so flabbergasted

with my work,he made copies of it and handed it out to the class. He called me...