Essay #1 Graphic Organizer

The Connections between “For a Dancer”, “A Dream Deferred”, and My Life.

Introduction

(TS) Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “For everything you missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

(CM) Explanation about how the quote relates to my life.

(CM) Explanation about how the quote relates to the song and poem.

(Thesis) The writers and I might have gained for everything that we lost.

Body1

(TS) There are certain connections between the song and my life.

(SD) “I don’t remember losing track of you.”

(CM) I did not expect to leave them and study abroad.

(CM) But having better education.

(SD) “I must have thought you’d always be around”

(CM) Departure from my Korean friends.

(CM) But gained American friends.

(SD) “Along with whatever meaning you might have found.”

(CM) Culture is different

(CM) Along with American culture that I have learned, I become a better person.

(CS) Lose one, gain one.

Body2

(TS) There are certain connections between the song and the poem.

(SD) They both talk about something they have missed and lost from their lives.

(CM) The poem elucidates about what will happen when your dream is postponed.

(CM) The song illustrates the loss of his love.

(SD) They both talk about their dreams not becoming true.

(CM) The poem illuminates about the dream of freedom becoming adjourned

(CM) The song signifies about his dream of being united with the writer’s wife.

(SD) They did not lose their wishes.

(CM) The last line of the poem.

(CM) The last line of the song.

(CS) Even though they demonstrated the losses from their lives and did not accomplish their goals, they did not abandon their hopes.

Conclusion

(TS) We gain from everything we lose.

(CM) What I could achieve.

(CM) The writers of the poem and song did not give up their hopes, even though they did not accomplish what they have desired.

(CS) Quote.