Many of us may be familiar with the phenomenon of absolutely dreading reading a certain novel because of how boring it is but then somehow growing to appreciate the work after finishing it.  That was how I felt about Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.   I was assigned this book as part of a summer […]

Here we go again!  This week, I’m discussing how I read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in tenth grade.   My class had to read this book for English towards the end of the year, and I was honestly tired of all of the books we had read up to this point […]

It’s that time of the week again!  For this week’s blog post, I will be writing about 1984 by George Orwell.  When I took AP English Language and Composition (referred to as AP Lang) in eleventh grade, my teacher required my class to read this novel as a supplement to learn more about rhetoric and […]

Hello, again!  This week, I am going to be discussing The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.  I read this book during my senior year of high school for AP English Literature and Composition (referred to as “AP Lit” for short).  For anyone who never took the course, AP Lit essentially entailed reading classical and contemporary novels […]

  When I was in tenth grade, my high school English teacher forced my class to read the most mundane novel of my high school career: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.  For anyone who has never read it, Sinclair’s novel depicts the story of a Lithuanian man named Jurgis who immigrated to Chicago with his […]

  Nearly every student is familiar with the moaning and groaning that ensues when English teachers assign books to read for homework. “You’ll learn from the reading,” they say. “You won’t be able to use Sparknotes,” they presumptuously claim. As the dusty stack of a particular title is pulled out of the old cabinet in […]