That's All Folks

I want to start this (FINAL YAY!!) blog by saying that at the beginning of this semster I signed up for Intro to Lit because I needed to finish off the last of my gen eds and heard it was an easy A. In no way has this class been "an easy A", and after looking back on how much I've learned I'm glad it wasn't. I feel that I got so much more out of this class then I have in some of my course classes even. Now I'm not going to say I've completely changed how I act and what I think because of this class, but it has made a difference in my life.


Through the issues we discussed this semester, such as Consumerism, Plentitude, Voyeurism, Censorship, ect... I now find myself thinking about and considering things that I hadn't before. Now when I'm shopping I try to think if I really need what it is I'm about to buy or if it's just a waste of money. I find myself trying to be more careful of what I put online because I'm not sure who is looking at the information.

I really enjoyed (most of) the nonfiction we read in this class. Although I had already purchased The Hunger Games over the winter and had planned on reading it once I finished my current series, I never would have read Feed. Even though it was an easy read, I feel that The Hunger Games was a great book. I finished the other two within the same week as the first. I noticed that I was thinking about the themes more analytically because of the dicussions we had in class and I was trying to figure out if the author had a hidden message or warning. And the rest of the material, even if I didn't like it as much, definitely taught me a lot and exposed me to topics I wouldn't have exposed myself to.

Thank you to everyone that contributed to my learning, and especially to Dr. Smith.

(And since I'm such an advocate of The Hunger Games now here is a clip I found)