For my final post, I am choosing to write about one of my favorite assignments I had throughout all of high school:  The Cat in the Hat by Dr.  Seuss.  As a fun and creative assignment, my ninth grade English teacher had everyone in the class reread this classic storybook and apply Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory to […]

This week, I’ll be discussing A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.  Like most of the books I write about, I read this book as part of my AP English Literature and Composition class in twelfth grade.     When I read this, I admired that Hemingway’s style of writing made the book really easy […]

This week, I’m going to talk about another book I read in tenth grade, Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.  In the first semester, I mentioned that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was one of the two books I read that year that I never finished.  With that in mind, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is […]

It’s that time of the week again!  This week, I will be discussing The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.  I read this book in tenth grade, and at the time I did not have many good opinions about the novel.  In hindsight, however, I am glad to have read the book because I feel like […]

What kind of blog would this be if I neglected to discuss To Kill a Mockingbird, an American classic that practically everyone reads in high school?  Written by Harper Lee, this book is generally well-liked, and it was definitely my favorite book I read in tenth grade.   That being said, since it has been so […]

When it comes to certain books, I really do not appreciate them until after I have finished reading them.  The Stranger by Albert Camus is a prime example of what I mean by this.   I had to read The Stranger in twelfth grade for AP Lit, similar to most of the other books I […]

For whatever reason, William Shakespeare is a widely famed author when it comes to English Literature.  I know this sounds cliche, but I just don’t see why.   When I took AP English Literature and Composition during my twelfth grade year, we had to read Hamlet, which is technically a play but formatted as a […]

For this blog post, I’m rather interested in the responses I get because I’ll be sharing thoughts on an American classic that I feel like most people love.  Anytime I hear someone get asked, “What is your favorite book you had to read in high school?” a popular response is “The Great Gatsby!”     […]

As I planned out my schedule for my senior year at the end of eleventh grade, many seniors who were taking AP English Literature and Composition (AP Lit) that year warned me about the class by saying to only take it if I really like English.  Personally, I enjoy writing, so I wanted to take […]

New year, new me?  I’ll pass.  I figured I’d continue with reviewing books I was required to read throughout high school.  Anyway, this week’s blog is about Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.  The author wrote this book as a frame narrative by writing the book from the perspective of an unnamed sailor listening to […]