1. This text is not organized AT ALL like any fiction or non-fiction you have been taught to do for the IGCSE or other school tasks.  Mark it into three sections (Beginning, Middle, & End). Does it have a thesis —a guiding idea— that the anecdotes and details support or prove or give nuance for? If it has a thesis, what is that idea? 

Personal essay – builds up using story recounting, until the last lines- which in my opinion is the thesis of the text.  “Because real love, once blossomed, never disappears. It may get lost with a piece of paper, or transform into art, books or children, or trigger another couple’s union while failing to cement your own.     space   But it’s always there, lying in wait for a ray of sun, pushing through thawing soil, insisting upon its rightful existence in our hearts and on earth.“

Aside from having the thesis at the end, there are 2 ways to look at this. Structured and Unstructured. In a way, there is a beginning, middle, and end – if you look at the story itself, for example, the dropping paper scene would be the beginning of the story and the getting married would be the finale. The reason why it could be unstructured is that there are 2 parallel story lines and no clear beginning, middle, and end.

 

2. Every time I read non-fiction, I ask how much I believe it. Even the best of us, in recounting a memory, is tempted to flatter ourselves or justify our actions. What details enhance the credibility of the author? Where do you think it might be “soft” in authenticity?

100%, there is always some sort of text transformation

3. If you were to make a 30-minute movie of this, what scenes would you want to include?

I would re-enact the separate events that occurred in the story recounting, for example, the dinner scene, the scene where he drops the paper and he can’t find her but she feels stood up.