My Thoughts On Literary Interpretation

I think this class has helped me grow as a writer. I've learned more clearly what is and is not appropriate and when it is appropriate. i have also had to go back and clean the dust off of some old English/grammar mechanical skills which is always nice. i mean writing isn't bad but unless you are doing it for a class it is kinda pointless i mean no one is ever going to read it so... anyways the text i liked the most was by far Blankets i loved this book and hit close to home for me this and one other book are the only 2 i wont be selling at the book buyback. the other is understanding comics cause i think my brother will really enjoy reading it. now texts i struggled with The Bluest Eye and Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.now i don't have anything against novels it is just A) these two shouldn't be one after another in my opinion. B) they didn't really draw me in, they weren't my style, and i couldn't relate to them at all. I am not black i did not live in the 40s and my knowledge of religion is just enough to know that people are retarded when it comes to it most times. i read oranges and the first half of the book i was pissed cause i think that the mom needed to get shot in the head. Also a big problem i had was getting lost in the bluest eye they leave the main story quite frequently to go down little streams of history for each of the characters, not really a big deal but it kinda bugged me. now as for the graphic novels i never knew they were this popular/widespread/deep i think i will have to look into them more i always liked comics but they were short and usually shallow and nowadays most of the comics i read as a kid are Saturday morning cartoons. was i challenged? no? impressed? yes. but i have to say the whole graphic novel bit would suck without reading McCloud's book first. but think of it this way you have opened my eyes to a new genre of reading that i really enjoy.
I LOVED our in class discussions/debates when people actually talked it was alot of fun, maybe i just like arguing but.. also the idea of blogs friggin awesome. on a side note i would reserve less class time for both of these cause people write crap blogs and surf the Internet also it might be a good idea to have a backup plan in case the class is less than talkative on a given day but i think publishing our blogs saves you a bunch of time and yet makes us feel like they are worthwhile to write because people are still reading them. i think i am more ready to take on some literary challenges.. throwing in some shakespeare helped shake things up a little and make it feel like we were in a normal lit class but other than that i didnt really expect more out of this class but i think you expected more out of us >.> o yea and i already said this but -gaiman +manga if the manga is anything like i think it is as in it actually retells the story and doest go off in some crazy sidenote of the story that would be really cool. also sometime in this class is felt almost impossible to get all the reading done. i think this is a good and bad thing. i think it is good cause maybe the slackers will drop it and thats always positive for the class but the negative is on the mon-wed gap heavy reading is a killer with other homework. i think it would be better to assign more weekend reading and less weekday reading so that kids can sacrfice their weekends instead of sacrificing other school work.