English 1101 Midterm Assignment: Finding "Reading & Writing"

In my english class, Lacy had given my group and I a mid-term assignment that required us to find a text and document our adventure in Atkins Library. Ok, so this is exactly how it went down.

6:30pm had hit the clock! Wildly enough, Randy had just arrived at least a minute or two late. Here we were, standing around the information desk beside the book shelf. And yes, all of us had this very curious face because we all didn't really understand the overall concept of our midterm assignment. So basically we came into a mission that we weren't quite ready for. As we were just standing there looking like we were lost, people around us glanced at us at times. I saw this one kid's eyeballs who was wondering when we were going to settle. HAHA, I wanted to say "what are you looking at" but I had to focus on my mission. We had to do something so we began the first act.

One of our members, Tyler, decided to use the computer as a start. So we used a computer near us, with Tyler logging in the 49ers computer. The first thing we wanted to do that could put our group's head back in place was to go over the midterm syllabus TOGETHER. So as we are skimming and reading the directions for the midterms, we found out that there wasn't a right or wrong, so that gave us a chance to do things our way that would probably get the job done. We needed help finding some text that could possibly be the anchor to our work, so we decided to ask the librarian at the front desk for help.

The librarian was nice enough to research some books that related to narrative literature. She looked like a graduate student. I forgot to ask for her name, but the funny thing was that she couldn't define a narrative literature so she looked it up. While the librarian was trying to help us out, another librarian, an older looking women, came down to help us also. So here we are asking and answering questions to the librarian; For example,some of the things we said was "Do you by a chance have a book relating to narrative literature?"  and "I don't know, any text is useful right now."The older looking librarian quickly found a book that we could use as a source. It was called "Reading and Writing: A Personal Account" by V.S. Naipaul. Everyone in the group seemed collective about it. The bad thing about finding this book was FINDING THE BOOK!

Sixth floor, here we come! It didn't seem that intensive but we managed have an eager sight for the book. Going up the elevator was pretty quiet, not to mention the elevator was kind of condensed. We finally reached the sixth floor, but it was still a long way to go! Shelf after shelf after shelf! Before we even began looking, our faces were as dead as a swatted fly. Each of the tree of us looked in the PR N32 section. It was taking FOREVER to find that one book, so I decided to look for another book on that floor that could possible help. Searching deep in section PN56, it seemed quiet. I thought I was deserted and it was that kind of feeling of where someone could get killed. While I was still searching, I  hardly heard my group calling my name, as if they were looking for me.

FINALLY we found the book! Reading and Writing: A Personal Account by V.S. Naipaul. The book had a plain black hard cover and looked old. We opened it up to see some info in it. It was about a man who tells a from first person a story about how he engaged in writing as he grows up. Growing up, Naipaul questioned so much about his parent's homeland, the culture, and the country he resides.

After my group and I finished the mission, we split our own ways. The elevator took us down, and we went our separated ways, finishing the midterm on our own computers.