Essay #2

Montaigne's techniques and topics completely support Foster's notion. Montaiges techniques are all over the place, he truly speaks his mind and does not stick to a set plan, while Austen has a set plan her technique is well thought out and exact.

       Montaigne's writing sketched a small picture of what is going on inside a great mind. He has so many different thoughts at once that he is unable to keep them in order and get them out on paper in order. As Foster said it is barley a sketch which is very true it is not letting us see all that is going on in his head we only see one part the part that he wanted us to see. 

     Austen has a technique that is completely different, it is one that is well thought out she did not just start writing what she thought she planned things out making a love story as complicated as it could get. Pride and Prejudice was so well thought out that it is around 200 years old and it is still relevant to life today. As for Montaigne who's book is not as relevant to our lives today. Montaigne and Austen had writing styles that were so different it makes it interesting to read both works and compare and contrast them. 

     The human brain is an unpredictable thing that makes everybody a completely different person. That is why Montaigne and Austen have such different writing styles. The writing that they do lets us as a reader look at how they think and what they think about because their books are an expression of what they are thinking.