Oh the joys of opening a book... Though I can't read, many of my classmates have enjoyed reading The American Dream, Pride and Prejudice and Ceremony.
Here's a summary/analysis of each:
The American Dream is a satirical play that criticizes the idea of the american dream. Unlike most other novels or plays about the american dream, the main characters, apart from the grandma, remain clueless on the unattainability of the american dream.
Pride and Prejudice by the 19th century Stephanie Meyer(not exactly a compliment), is a novel describing the economic relations of the 1800's through the life of Elizabeth Bennett. While studying the diction of the play as well as the details, I drew the conclusion that many females of the time solely relied on marriage as gaining weath and a future. However, many women were forced to compromise on their indepence which was Jane Austen's biggest critique of the current society.
Ceremony was my least favorite text. mostly because I didn't really understand it. The text was unique and opened my eyes to a different culture and different writing style. It is essentially a composition of oral traditions fused with the american writing style, Silko's writing works on many levels. The implications are very profound as the text itself is meant to be seem as an oral tradition and ceremony within itself.
Summarizing is very helpful and helpful for looking back and studying. But..I'm wondering where Death of a Salesman went? You seem to have forgotten Miller's play. If I'm going off the requirements for my comments and saying whether I could study from this...I don't think I would be able to. Just for me you add a lot of your own commentary to the summaries which is kinda distracting for me but it does still have some helpful information.
ReplyDeleteI think you set this up really well. I like that you give descriptions and that, hopefully, these descriptions spark your memories so you are able to remember what they are about. However, like Matthew said, make sure to add in Death of a Salesman and also Hamlet. Those two could be considered the most important ones we've read. Also, you could always add in how reading these books has helped you or add in what you have gained from reading them. However, that is a only a suggestion.
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