Melody

This semester started off with a bang with the evil unit. This was definitely my favorite unit and I loved reading all of the interviews and articles. I liked applying the evil to history and today. After that, the Macbeth unit. I have never really liked Shakespeare and I probably never will. To be brutally honest, I really dislike Shakespeare. There, I said it. I have never enjoyed reading Shakespeare, I find it the most boring piece of literature one could ever read. But that’s just my opinion. Watching and reading all the different versions really put Macbeth into context and showed that a play is so much more than a play. It’s sometimes interpreted by so many different people of different backgrounds, into different languages and environments. The amount of changes you can make to an original work and still keep the basic elements is amazing. Needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway), Macbeth was not my favorite book. After that was A Lesson Before Dying. I felt that we really breezed through that book. I could be wrong, but it seemed like we spent the least amount of time investigating this book. This also was not one of my favorites. It was a pretty depressing book, especially in the end. I felt as though Grant Wiggins had not really mad as huge of an impact as he could have. It was incredible to change one life, but he could have taken that one step further and encouraged education even a little more, somehow. Anyway, Huck Finn was a great read. I guess it’s hard for kids our age to read it and really understand it, but it is good for us to read it now and be able to compare what we got out of it if we read it later as adults. I am sure there will be a completely different view of the book if we read it when we’re older. I learned a lot this semester. English never fails to amaze me because of how in-depth you can get with every book and every theme. Now and then I always think “what if the guy just wrote this without meaning anything?” but I suppose in the long run it’s more valuable to recognize the book’s themes now than when we’re in college. This coming semester I hope to read more (and free-read more) and maybe do some creative writing, which we’ll get to do pretty soon. I’m really excited for this semester to start.

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