Conflict essays...9/20/10

                      In the first conflict essay writen by Matt, he tells a story that starts off very dramatic. He begins the essay by saying " in sixth grade my world took a wild trip down the road of life", it was a good metaphor but i feel like it was too heavy for this topic. The author then proceeds to explain how his life changed when he was able to finally take guitar lessons, he mentions his dreams of becoming famous. His first perspective in the story was that anything he desired was accesable as long as he worked hard enough to reach his goal.
                       The conflict to this peice was that after he had got a "gig" at a club he and his band members did not sell enough tickets, the problem grew when on the day of the show his manager said that the author never called him to speak about the ticket sales and therfore it was the authors fault. The band was then forced to performe two hours before they were set to go on stage and all of there fans who had boaght the tickets missed the show.
                       The authors final perspective by the end of the story was that he couldnt trust anyone and that you dont always get what you want most. It seemed as though the author was heartbroken and dealt with a hard lesson. The second essay elaborates even more on why he felt so strongly about attaining his dream, paragraph 11 states "My parents told me that musicians that i was looking up to at the time were losers, bums, and drug addicts."
                      The two conflict essays written were by the same person but were actually very different in form. Both were telling the same conflict though the second was alot clearer to understand.After i had read the first essay i thought i understood the basic points of the story and what it was about, but surprisingly i missed major details to the story. Once i had read the second essay it became much clearer and was alot more descriptive even about small events. I did however find the same personal perspective's in both essays, the writers seems to put alot of blame on others in the essay. especially when he is speaking about the ticket sales and making phone calls to clubs so that they can start performing publicly. This shows me that he is confident that everything that took place was not his faul, and that he still holds strong feelings about what happened that night.