Books 5 and 6--Classics (meaning I won't bore you with a plot summary)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin.
I read this for my 20th century women novelists class. It was a very interesting read for me seeing as it was the text that I first learned how to analze critically--this was back in the 10th grade in Advanced Placement English. Reading it again after approximately three years of college level English class (probably totaling 20+ at this point) was surreal. Suffice it to say I saw so many things this time around, so many paths of interpretation. And in my essay, yes, I will take the one less travelled. I hope it will make all the difference.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
This was my first reading of the novel. I'd seen the Emma Thompson/Hugh Grant movie production many times though. The movie always leaves so much out! And I always think one has some gripe or another with the directors choice interpretations and cuts. I don't feel Elinor ever would have cried once she was able to confess to her sister Marriane what Lucy had told her in confidence. She's too strong willed and emotionally stoic for that. And how can the movie exist without the second Eliza story? What gives?
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I read this for my 20th century women novelists class. It was a very interesting read for me seeing as it was the text that I first learned how to analze critically--this was back in the 10th grade in Advanced Placement English. Reading it again after approximately three years of college level English class (probably totaling 20+ at this point) was surreal. Suffice it to say I saw so many things this time around, so many paths of interpretation. And in my essay, yes, I will take the one less travelled. I hope it will make all the difference.
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
This was my first reading of the novel. I'd seen the Emma Thompson/Hugh Grant movie production many times though. The movie always leaves so much out! And I always think one has some gripe or another with the directors choice interpretations and cuts. I don't feel Elinor ever would have cried once she was able to confess to her sister Marriane what Lucy had told her in confidence. She's too strong willed and emotionally stoic for that. And how can the movie exist without the second Eliza story? What gives?
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