This week in class we discussed the summer reading homework and talked about what kind of metaphors we can find in literature. To explore this topic we broke up into groups and reflected on our chosen books and the one required book, and had to create a visual metaphor to show our ideas.Well I personally only read How to Read Literature Like a Professor and had not read my summer reading picks, I did read a plethora of other literature books for my own entertainment this summer. My partner, on the other hand, had not read the required piece, so we spent time explaining the other books to one another and sharing our thoughts about certain pieces and how they might interact with the other books. Matt and I were both very connected to the statement that “ all stories come from other stories, and all these stories are apart of just one big story” from How to Read Literature Like a Professor. To illustrate this we used a clump of vines growing from a tree. Well this week was entertaining, I feel like I did not learn so much as I revisited things that have been apart of my english education since later elementary. Looking at stories beyond surface level to find what the author is really trying to say is an integral part of the class, but I feel like the activity was a bit shallow, but I suppose that’s really up to us as the students to see it as more than just words and coloring.
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