Reflection Paper

This course has helped me with my inquiry and analyzing skills when working with literary work. When reading I would ask superficial questions: “Why did that happen?”, “Why are the curtain blue?”, “What

effective because it allows the reader to envision the workspace. “Grammar is not just a pain in

The recognition of patterns makes it much easier to read complicated literature because recognizing patterns will help you relate two or more pieces of literature together, therefore making it easier to understand and analyze the literature you are focused on. Patterns in literature can help the reader understand plots, settings, themes, and other literary elements. I greatly appreciated the novel, Brave New World because of how different the society in the novel was from the one I live in. Using the Signposts from Notice and Note, I was able to see contrast and contradictions that enhanced my understanding of the book. I noticed how I was expecting Bernard, in Brave New World to be just like everybody else in the novel but instead he was a “normal person” that felt normal human emotions, such as the longing for love, that the other characters just did not feel. He also felt isolated and alone. Bernard thinks in a way we were not expecting. Patterns such as this helped me, the reader, to better understand literary elements.

or genre of the text and purpose (Hill, 2012, p. 87) this would help John in the role of text

Wiesel’s life made him an author and share his terrifying Holocaust experience with the world.

A very common type of writing you will produce in your academic career involves carefully reading and developing a summary of a given text. The ability to engage in close reading— to identify salient (key) arguments and represent them fairly—is foundational to entering academic conversations as a competent and articulate participant. Summaries also serve an important role in helping other readers make sense of a difficult text.

English Literature has enabled me to expand my capacity for independent thought, reflection and judgement through constantly reviewing and redrafting my coursework intensely. Studying “The Great Gatsby” allowed me to formulate my own view about the novel and about how 1920s America, optimism of the Roaring Twenties, and the period of The Jazz Age dissolved into the bleakness of the Great Depression. This has also allowed me to be more aware of my quality of work and time management, and has enabled me to broaden my vocabulary and ability to use critical terminology

In this paper you will learn my insights into my life. I will touch on my formal and informal education. I will reflect on the four Breadth areas of Ottawa University’s program of liberal arts studies. Future goals, philosophy, values, and obstacles will be discussed. This will include significant people and events that have happened in my life.

After Wiesel’s freedom was so rightfully restored, he mediated to himself that he could not sent back to the tainted memory of what happened in his hometown. Rather, he went to France to reconvene with his two older sisters that withstood the horrors of the Holocaust (Goldman, Horn, and Kerner)5.During his time in Paris, Wiesel proceeded to take classes at the Sorbonne. While taking the classes, he engrossed himself in the field of journalism (“Elie Wiesel Timeline . . .”)6.In due time, Elie found a job as a correspondent for an Israeli newspaper, and he began to circumnavigated the world for his livelihood. It was up until that time where Wiesel would decline to speak about what he witnessed in the appalling event that is the Holocaust (Goldman, Horn, and Kerner)7.That is, it was not until he was persuaded by Francois Mauriac that the people of the world are ready to listen to the damnation of what he experienced. With a bountiful number of stories to write, he started with the one that would portray his perspective of the Holocaust (“Elie Wiesel”)8.

The English philosopher, Sir Francis Bacon, once wrote, “ Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man”. Bacon expresses three ideas about how processing literature affects an individual. To explain, reading fills one’s mind with knowledge and ideas, talking about those ideas makes one adaptable to differences in others, and writing forces one is define one’s beliefs and opinions. In room 303, Bacon’s three statements are practiced regularly, as students read and annotate out of the hymnals, discuss major texts in class, and write essays each week over the material. During the last semester alone the Junior Honors English class read several texts by American Authors from the ancient oral cosmogonist myths of Native Americans to the Feminist literature of the 1890’s. In the entire range of different texts read, three specific texts were the most important in room 303.

Although a large part of this books deals with the method one uses to write a successful piece of

My plan was to begin with the foundations of my literary study to sharpen my skills. This meant the introduction of how we read and what to look for also known as “close reading.” The Introduction to Reading Poetry with Mr.Pogue equipped me to understand the poets hidden persona and how to make sense of it. As this was a challenging course I believed I still wanted to embark on this journey. The Foundations of Literary study with Mrs.Barksdale-Shaw molded me to decipher all types of works. Literary works ranged from poems, music lyrics, and even plays. By the time I completed the

From the age of sixteen, Margaret has had the attention of pursuing writing as her lifetime career. Her growth in Toronto continued, and after studying at Victoria University in Toronto for four years, she earned her bachelor of arts. Furthermore, a year later, she acquired her master’s degree in English literature from Radcliffe College in Massachusetts.

In the duration of this course, I was more informed on how English literature was started. I became more educated on how the styles and tones the authors utilize have an affect on the readers. Although I had already read many of the stories we studied, I became more enlightened on the background history of the authors of those stories. Becoming more cultivated on the authors enabled me to view their accounts in ways that I wouldn’t have usually considered.

Before I took this continuing writing course, I was completely unfamiliar with Willa Cather and Edith Wharton. Through this course, I explored several novels from Wharton and Cather such as Lucy Gayheart and The House of Mirth and got a glimpse of who were Cather and Wharton. Overall, by reading and writing about the novels, there four learning outcomes I was supposed to accomplish.