Boondock Saints

While working on this assignment I had to really try to focus on my thesis statement and find the right sources to open my eyes to different viewpoints or arguments.  My strong points lie in my understanding and knowledge of the movie.  It is definitely one of my favorite movies so I knew when I was first told about the assignment what I wanted to do it on.  In my paper it was easy to focus on the obvious parts religion played in the movie.  The brothers were clearly very religious and it was easy to see how their faith was the reason that they did go out on their killing quest.  I knew specific scenes of the movie that I wanted to use to help prove my main arguments.  I could have worked more on researching different points and then focusing on more solid points.  There were so many different views and tangents to go off on so it was hard to stay on one specific point that I was trying to make.  I always either felt like I was talking about too broad of a topic or going off in too many direction in one.  My argument is definitely lacking in the more support for the thesis.  In all honestly this first draft was very rushed and my mind was all over the place.  I also could have spent more time looking into the sources I was using.  I had time to browse and take some good notes, but divulging myself more into the journal articles and textbooks definitely would have helped me solidify my arguments and thesis.  The large textbooks also had a lot of information in them therefore it was impossible to read the entire thing in time and find the right points I wanted to use in my arguments.  Another problem I ran across was finding other types of arguments that still related to my movie and partially related to my thesis that I wanted to use, but would sound too much like tangents.  Despite these facts I was very confident in my argument.  I had my argument thought up before I even found my sources so I knew I was only using them to support my ideas.  I found good quotes but tried to focus more on the main ideas of my sources and paraphrase our use my own voice to describe their main ideas.