When I started writing my essay I was very scared because I thought “ Will this be a good essay.” After that I read books, “ Each Kindness , Those Shoes and Ruby the Copycat.” Then I wrote mini essays to get my mind thinking. “What essay will I choose?” After I read the books I chose the book “Each Kindness.” The hardest part about writing the essay was taking evidence from the text and incorporating it into my essay. Once I wrote my essay I had to elaborate on my writing by sharing why my evidence is important and supports my claim. My favorite part about writing my literary essay was seeing the finished results. When I published my essay I felt very accomplished with what I made. The most difficult part was revising my essay because I did not see any mistakes but when my teacher looked she said, “Are you sure that you checked it because I see a lot of mistakes.” I learned to check over my work even though the first time you don’t see anything “ CHECK AGAIN!” I also learned that you have to go back into the text to find evidence and lift a lot of lines.

Each Kindness

In the story Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson, the character Chloe is unkind.

One piece of evidence is that on the first day a new girl named Maya came in and took a seat next to Chloe and Maya smiled at Chloe. After that Chloe did not smile back at Maya. This proves that Chloe is unkind.

Another piece of evidence is that one day Maya came over to Chloe and her friends and showed her new jacks Maya got for her birthday and said, “ It’s a high bouncer.” After Chloe said “ None of us want to play.” Then Maya played all by herself. This is important because Maya really wanted to play with someone but Chloe said she didn’t want to play. This shows that Chloe is unkind.

My final piece of evidence is that one day Maya came to the class and Maya said to Chloe, “I bet you can’t guess who the new Jacks Champion of the world is.” After Andrew said to Chloe “Chloe’s got a new friend, Chloe’s got a new friend.” After Chloe said, “ She’s not my friend.” This is important because Maya wanted to have a friend but Chloe is saying NO! This is another example that Chloe is unkind.

Chloe had many chances to be nice but she chose not to be kind. This all proves that Chloe is unkind.