Reflection

Well, since I seem to be the only student in this class who doesn't seem to be majoring in any type of English, I will confess that I randomly took this class because I am waiting to get into the Nursing program and have already taken everything I needed to.  I also have always enjoyed English and writing my own fictional stories.  Overall, this class was not at all what I expected.  I'm used to the more traditional text book version of interpreting literature.  I guess I was pleasantly surprised.  It definitely helped me to grow because I have never looked at literature in this light.  

I found that the text I responded best to, and did my best response paper on, was the hardest one.....Shakespeare.  I don't know why I like his plays because I don't understand them most of the time.  For some reason it just provokes a lot of thought from me.  There weren't really any works that I absolutely hated that we read.  If I had to pick I would say I struggled the most with the poetry.  I've never really been a big fan and certainly can't write my own.

As far as graphic novels, I honestly didn't know they existed until now.  I knew of comic books but I didn't know there were novels that were all in pictures.  While I do enjoy them and they are a very quick read, I still have to say I prefer to read regular novels because I like to use my imagination as far as what the characters and settings look like.

I have never blogged in a class before and it was definitely something I enjoyed.  I like that I can just write what's on my mind.  If I had to pick one thing I didn't enjoy, besides being here at 8:00am....was speaking in class because I don't like to.  I try and I have gotten better but I would rather not. :-)

Like I said earlier, I feel as if I did do a lot of growing in this course.  I would say I feel better prepared to think critically about literature because now I am familiar with doing it the textbook way and the way I experienced here.  I can't really say I was hoping for anything in particular when I came out of this class so I guess I can't say I was hoping for more. :-)