Writing my project paper

My project paper started off by writing a rough idea for my paper. Then, I passed it up to Cik Pah to let her have a review on it. When I’ve gotten it back, my comments were the choice of author and his works are too complicated for secondary schools students since I want to imply the theme of escapism by using John Keats into the classrooms. So after hours of browsing, I finally chose two Emily Dickinson poems which were much simpler than Keats.

I wanted to analyze the theme of escapism because I find it is something that exists in our everyday life. Day in and day out we faces things that we don’t like whether it’s a demanding boss, mountains of homework, stress, misery and so on; we just want to forget them for a while by escaping from reality. Escapism can be a good thing. You don’t need to do big things to escape. Escapism could be something as easy as reading a book, surfing the internet, watch tv and so on. It can be something simple that can distract us from those stressful moments. This topic is very common in our lives and should be discussed. The implication of this theme in education or teaching is very simple. Teenagers go through a lot of confusion about their identity, self-esteem, purpose and so on. These things make them want to get away and be in their dreamland. So, they tend to use other method to escape like excessive videogames, smoking, drugs, and other bad habits. I feel that it is the teacher’s job to introduce this topic through literature because literature is something that can instill values into the students. Teachers can use literature to help students to realize their habits are because of wanting to escape.

Basically that is what my project paper is about. I still in the progress of writing it and so far writing about the implication is a bit difficult. Hopefully , I can manage and produce a good paper for this course.