Research and Writing 1
If I’m being honest with myself, I haven’t been making time to write my research paper outside of school yet. This is not good, because it’s due next Friday, which is extremely soon. Yet, all hope is not lost, and I’m still confident that I’ll get the paper done, but I know that I should really start to expand on my research and writing outside of school if I want to explore the ideas that Huxley writes, and truly make sense of them. I’m aware that I’ll have to put a good amount of time into researching the ideas that Huxley writes, considering much of them are allusions and require context to be understood in their entirety.
This is not to say that I haven’t started writing my paper yet, since I have a lot of it done in my writer’s notebook, but what I need to start doing is putting the ideas I’ve developed about my book onto the computer in an organized way. I’m still not fully sure of how all the chunks I’ve written will fit together, so I’m going to go through the rubric and try and organize them effectively.
For now, here’s a picture of Huxley on top of the cactus, peyote, which contains the psychedelic drug, mescaline. This plant along with the drug is definitely a source of inspiration for Huxley in writing Island, so I plan on citing it.












