Final Blog

Lit 110 this year was definitely not one of my favorite classes but I am glad that I took it now instead of later. The reason I took it now is because of the teacher. I knew that we would get out of some things such as the papers others have had to write and also I have had Ms. Scott for two semesters now and I know what she expects from her students.
I can’t honestly say that I have expanded in my literature experience because I simply will not let myself do it. As most of you know I hate reading and that is why I have not expanded. Although the experience was undeniable, I read a few stories that I thought were pretty cool and some kind of weird. Such as A Party Down at the Square, this story in particular caught my attention because at first you think that it could be an actually party occurring but instead it is the lynching of an African-American. The details of the crowd are so detailed as they persecute this man. Also a random airplane just randomly crashes into the city and after that event occurs they go right back to watching the man burn to death.
Another thing that really expanded my experience was going and seeing A Midsummer’s Night Dream that was performed by Illinois State University students. I thought that this was boring, bland, and very cliché at the end. But to be able to experience the play in person is very cool, simply because this is a play that has been performed throughout time ever since Shakespeare himself first performed this play himself. I also thought that it had a few parts in it that were comical but not too much.
This class also pushed me to experiment with a few new ideas or a few new ways of life. The biggest example would be Catskin which I don’t even know what to say about it because it was so strange. I also experimented with poetry. I wrote some poetry that wasn’t actually half bad and I was pretty impressed with myself. Also when we had to write the flash fiction story that was my kind of story. It had to be less than two hundred words, I mean how much better can it get. Plus it was simple it didn’t have to be some perfect paper that was going to be published, although it technically was.
For my conclusion of the class I would have to say that the class wasn’t a waste of time and money. Although having to sit down and do work during the summer was pretty rough and challenging at times. In the end the class really did change my outlook on literature and what it is all about.