I have always felt most comfortable reading and writing about fiction and non-fiction, and that was true in my writing this term. Writing about different works by Sherman Alexie cae relatively easily, and writing \u201cThe Thirteenth Night\u201d by Ichiyo Higuchi was also not so hard, even though the story was written a long time ago, in a very different culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would say that my paper about Sherman Alexie\u2019s \u201cThis is What it Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona.\u201d shows me at my best. I was able to use his biography \u201cYou Don\u2019t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir,\u201d which I had read previously and really liked. And because I looked at the story through psychoanalytic theory, I was able to use many things that I know about his life. I know that Alexie is a complicated person, but I can relate to the many medical problems he has had throughout his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have more trouble with poetry and drama because they\u2019re more abstract. I do like the poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca, though, so didn\u2019t mind so much analyzing \u201cSo Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans.\u201d The erasure poetry assignment was really hard for me, though. I couldn\u2019t really get that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And drama was hard to analyze, both Chekhov\u2019s \u201cThe Proposal\u201d and Alice Dunbar-Nelson\u2019s \u201cMine Eyes Have Seen. I like seeing plays performed on stage, but reading them is different, and harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have always felt most comfortable reading and writing about fiction and non-fiction, and that was true in my writing this term. Writing about different works by Sherman Alexie cae relatively easily, and writing \u201cThe Thirteenth Night\u201d by Ichiyo Higuchi was also not so hard, even though the story was written a long time ago, in a … Continue reading Final reflections<\/span>