The Final Blog

This class has really taught me how to take a closer look at literature and analyze why it brings out certain emotions. The novels that we read were different from most of the novels that I normally read, but really interested me for the most part. All of the novels expect for 1984, really elicited some form of emotion, whether it was anger, confusion or agreement with the text of the novel. The course challenged me to delve into why the novels caused these reaction and also challenged why I though about certain topics the way that I did. Most of the media pieces I had already been exposed to, but having to take a second look at them and really discuss what was happening in them caused me to have a new perspective of the media pieces. Many of the topics we discussed in class really made me take a look at why I believed certain things. For instance the activity where we were talking about censorship and the government and we had to move around the room, really challenged me to think about why I believed that the government should or should not have the power to censor it's citizens. Overall I enjoyed the class, most of the materials we were assigned, and the challenges that were present throughout the course.