independent writing 1 intro.

This particular piece spawns for my long-standing belief that our school, and in fact our country, needs gladiatorial combat. I was thinking about the actual process of people being forced to kill total strangers for no good reason, but that wasn’t particularly interesting so I dragged forth a well-worn plot from the hallowed past. Once I had the considerably worse-for-the-wear plot out of the way I got to focus on specific details, of which I included none. In a true Hemmingway fashion I included only one-tenth of my knowledge about any particular facet of the whole death in the arena song and dance, a move that didn’t really pan out in a manor that would have justified its use. All in all, not particularly profound, or particularly good, but it’ll do I suppose.