Essay 3 Postscript

I chose to write about the cover image of the 2009 edition of Jeffery Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides. I first read The Virgin Suicides in middle school, and it was an eye opening read into the real world. Before, my books consisted of easy, fairytale endings, but with this book I realized that life was hard. This book was teaching me how to navigate my way through life. I chose this book cover because I already had some insight to why the author had chosen the image, being that it matched themes in the book. In my final draft, I didn’t change much besides a few mechanics errors and elaborated more in my ideas. A few of my statements needed further explanation to connect my thoughts together. 

My peers collectively thought my paper was a good analysis of Justine Kurland’s Orchard photograph on the cover of Jeffery Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides. They praised my detailed background of the photographer, and how the image connected to the book. My peers did state that I had some mechanics and punctuation errors in my paper. These errors were mainly not italicizing the titles of Kurland’s photo and those of magazines. I edited a few of my sentences by taking away some commas where they were not needed.  I also had originally mixed up my MLA citations with APA citations which I fixed in my final draft of the paper. 

If I were to continue working on my paper, I would elaborate more on Kurland’s journey to creating her Girl Pictures. As I researched Kurland, I learned that she grew up in a cramped New Tork apartment, and would go to rural Virginia to visit her grandparents. This spurred her interest in incorporating nature into her work. I wished I had included this information to provide a better underdog how the photographer connected to her work. It would have also provided a better understanding of the work itself. I also wished that I had added a better description of the visual. Even though I described multiple elements of the image, it still felt unfinished. I believe that my description was missing more descriptive details, or better described details.