What is magic? In my opinion, magic is something that is difficult to explain with words. Magic captures your being like an invincible claw and forces you to think about things that you would not normally think about. However, the steps of creating magic in an essay are similar as to the process of magician who creates magic in a show. Magicians cannot just create magic from nothing. They have to cast a spell or do some invincible moves to convert their energy into magic. The steps that we are using in creating an essay are like casting a spell because we turn our energy and thoughts into words. Things that make an essay magical unconsciously force the readers to bring out their emotions and understanding of the author’s intention. Due to this, steps of writing an essay are very important because they are the most essential in creating magic in an essay. In my opinion, choosing a good topic, being creative, using the correct vocabulary, creating an attractive world, making readers think deeply about authors’ messages in the essay, and having good examples are the steps that create magic in every essay.
Choosing a good topic is the first step of creating magic in an essay. A good topic can capture people’s attention and attract them in reading the essay. People can be a good source for finding interesting and unusual stories. Each person on this planet is a story of its won and there are no two identical persons with the same destinies. There are many moving stories around us, and there are many issues that worth discussing and praising. We cannot discuss everything in one essay, so we have to identify a topic and mainly discuss about that topic in the essay. However, everyone’s interests, hobbies, feelings, and understandings of the topic are different. Therefore, it is very important that the author knows the reason for writing the essay and target the intended audience. If the author knows that the readers’ age and educational background, he can develop his essay easier and choose its words appropriately. For instance, the authors of children’s books will not use proficient vocabulary because their readers are children and the vocabulary has be to appropriate for this age group. In addition to this, writers need to decide whether they will praise or criticize things based on the topic in the essay. Praise should be pitched at the right level, and criticize should be directed at the point. Authors need to convince their readers in the reasons for praising or criticizing. Therefore, authors need to have their own standpoints in order to praise or criticize, and they need to have a lot of evidences to prove their viewpoints. If their evidences are convincible, they can make the readers believe they are right about something they try to express. Moreover, if the evidences that they use to support their concepts are strong and valid, they might trigger readers’ emotions. Therefore, picking a good topic creates magic in an essay because it arouses interest of the readers in an essay.
Use of the correct vocabulary is also very important for creating magic in an essay. The word is a powerful tool that can wake up the most hidden emotion. The different word choice creates the different meaning of sentences, and these sentences create an essay. The graceful vocabulary makes the essay more attractive to the readers. The vocabulary makes readers understand authors’ concepts more easily, and helps them to enter the world created by authors. Authors should describe the surrounding in details so that the readers can imagine the background of the essays more easily. They can introduce the readers into their mind by using a correct vocabulary, and the carefully chosen words can bring out the emotions of readers. Also, the vocabulary represents author’s viewpoint of the essay. When the author is using strong words, readers feel strongly about the topic that the authors want to express. We can look at the essays of eminent writers; the vocabulary that they are using is very different from the informal, everyday vocabulary. For instance, the vocabulary the one of the most known writers, William Shakespeare, used is very hard for understanding for many of my peers. If we put aside the fact that his plays were written in The Middle English, his thoughts are dark and even today many interpreters of William Shakespeare have counterarguments of what he wanted to say with his plays and characters. This indefinite disapproval and arguments makes Shakespeare attractive as a writer even today. Magic that Shakespeare created in his literature incorporates the steps of having a good topic, being creative, and using the correct vocabulary. Depending on the reader’s current emotional state, each reading of Shakespeare can be differently interrelated. The scholars discuss and argue about the meaning of sentences in his plays. In my opinion, no one would discuss or argue about the meaning of his plays if he used different and approachable vocabulary. To conclude, using vocabulary wisely creates magic in an essay because it affects the deepness of an essay.
Being creative is another important step of creating magic in an essay because people are more interested in something that has a new and different approach. People are bored with the reading of the same format of an essay. Also, people love creative essays this tone of creativity breaks the routine of their lives. Most people’s lives are constant repetitions of the same actions and they forget how to be creative in their lives. When people reassess their lives, they notice that their lives are filled with working hours, sleep, and watching television. However, the creativity in essay writing is a key that takes us away from our reality. An essay can be our shelter where we can declare our thoughts without being judged and scrutinized. We can enter the world that is created by the author, and experience the different life that the characters have. Therefore, authors need to have something that is unique, and it should be something interesting for the target audience. For example, there are many books about wizards and magic, but what makes Harry Potter, written by J. K. Rowling from 1997 to 2007, the most popular one? My opinion is that it is because Harry Potter is very creative and the approach to the world of wizards in different than in other books. However, the topics that the authors can write about is limited, and then how should they make it different from the others? The first step includes identification of the topic and the brainstorming. Ideas are important, and the variety of ideas contributes to developing a good essay. The moment of inspiration is important. No one knows when the inspiration will appear. When something inspires you, and you think you have to write something because the inspiration has fully occupied your mind, you can write a good essay. In my opinion, having inspirations and creativity gives to the essay magic because readers are interested in something new and different.
Creating a world that is attractive to people or a world that can draw people’s attention is another spell that creates magic in an essay. In “Economy,” (Thoreau) Walden lives alone besides the Walden Pond for two years. He builds his house by himself, and he hunts animals, cultivates crops to support him. He creates a living place that is far away from the city and people to meditate and write. Searching for the loneliness to inspire his hidden thoughts about life, he founds pleasure and calmness. He quietly unloads the city, and writes alone with his heart. In my perspective, Thoreau creates a world which can draw most people’s attention. The world that he lives in and the way he lives his life are attractive to readers. He advocates a simple life not because he wants people to be frugal, but because he wants people to live in accordance and harmony with the nature. He writes about lifestyle in the book because he wants people to know that they can live in a way which will make them become aware of this world. His life is simple and boring, but his spirit is colorful and fantastic. The example of finding piece and simplicity of deep and profound thought is presented in Economy. Our lives cannot be perfect, and I think this is the reason why creating a world in an essay can create magic. Sometimes we have to bow our necks to reality, but those people in essays do not. They live the lives we dream, and we have the find a little bit of our dreams and longings in these works. I experience everything that the characters of the writers are experiencing. Therefore, whenever I feel lost in my life, I find a book and hide myself in the world that author creates.
Also, making people wonder and share their thoughts about the message the author is expressing creates magic in an essay. Thoreau states that “men labor under a mistake” (8), in “Economy,” Walden. Thoreau thinks that people are looking for unnecessary luxury and hoping that luxury can bring them the joy of life. However, by the time people buy lucrative things, they realize that they have wasted a lot of time. The message Thoreau is expressing is important because most people do not realize it until they read the essay. Thoreau makes people think deeply about their works and their attitude of luxury. Also, Thoreau thinks that people are the slaves of fields. Thoreau is cleverly uses literary device to force people to think about the human need to own more and collect material goods endlessly. People work hard on their fields because they wish to have a better harvest, but they do not need so many crops to survive. Moreover, in “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,” Walden, Thoreau writes, “Why is it that men give so poor an account of their day if they have not been slumbering” (42)? This is an idea that deserves contemplation because I think people are still slumbering today. People do not know what they are looking for, so they feel that they have done nothing in their entire lives. Thoreau is making people re-examine their attitudes towards life. Thoreau also states, “I did not wish to live what was not life” (42), in “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,” in Walden. He thinks that people live their lives blindly by following other people’s way. We have to keep discovering our lives in order to know what exactly life is. Therefore, he thinks that children know more clearly about life than men because there is no one to define life and impose rules. Children play life, enjoy life, and discover life by themselves. However, those men who think they are wiser because they have more experience are not wise because their experiences are from their failures (44). Thoreau is reminding that we should learn and discover life by the life itself, but not others. He makes people think about what is life and how should we learn by life? His thinking about life is worth for people to think deeply. In my perspective, making readers think deeply about the message that author is trying to deliver is a magic of creating a connection between the readers and the author. The process of making people to think makes people understand author’s thoughts clearly.
Prove an essay by having good examples creates magic in an essay as well. In Walden, Thoreau gives many good examples to prove his topic and make his essays more reliable. In “Solitude,” Walden, Thoreau states, “Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are” (58). He shows that people can learn only a little from each other, so they should not waste their time socializing with other people. Thoreau uses the example of how people meet each other, and what people acquire from each other to prove that this society is commonly too cheap. By having this example to support Thoreau’s thoughts about the society, people will be easier to believe in his essay. Also, Thoreau argues that, “I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house” (59), in “Solitude,” Walden. Thoreau thinks that people have to live alone in order to explore their lives by themselves, so he uses these things to prove that humans can live alone. Having good examples to prove the topic sentence will make an essay become more reliable and convincing. In my opinion, good examples cast a magic spell in an essay because they make readers believe in Author.
Cited work:
Thoreau, David, Henry. Walden.
