Essay!!!

My essay is about Cannery Row. No, not about the actual plot.... It is about the quest and how the quest is tied to the novel. For my examples, I am using Docs adventure to the boulder –strewn inter tidal zone down near La Jolla to collect small octopi as well as Mack and the boys attempt at adventure. I feel that parts of my essay so far a pretty good. The rest is what I need to improve. My summer reading essay is going okay. I think its going pretty slow. I am having troubles getting it started. I also am not satisfied with my essay right now. In my opinion, my essay is lacking good structure. I just do not think it flows. I think there are minimal stylistic elements included in my cannery row essay. I need to add my own personal voice to my paper because I feel like it reads like a robot wrote it. Not a human being with a mind of their own. Considering I only have to paragraphs that are completed, I would say that I should work a bit on the other paragraphs along with doing my absolute best to write a good essay. I can do this by editing my existing two paragraphs until they can not be fixed anymore. haha. :) I really want to attempt to put quotation into my text more smoothly than I have in the past. I want to make sure that the reader is not confused as to why I put the quote in the text or essay. If I need to change something I want to use brackets or ellipses to indicate a change in the quote. Essentially my goal for this essay is to try and capture the words of Thomas Foster and connect them to Cannery Row.