This week went by so fast that I almost couldn't remember what we learned, as it started to blend with weeks one and two towards the end. I feel like I've been going and going and going, and I haven't really had a chance to stop and breathe, let alone try to remember which lesson from the last five days of AP Lit specifically intrigued me. I think I'm going to use the quote from the board, "Don't use water to put out a grease fire" to help whoever's reading this to understand my progress in this class so far. I'll start with the grease. The grease would be my inability to understand literature (sometimes) in the way this class requires one to, and my very vague understanding of critical thinking when it comes to the understanding of the meanings of literature when we are to understand not only the literature itself, but also the different possible meanings of the writing besides what it may mean literally. The actual class itself is the burner, which is so demanding, intense, and a kind of stress I've felt before but that's familiar in the way where it's a huge burden sometimes. The burner is hot, and risky, just like one week of miscalculated reading can lead to a sudden drop in my grade, which, at the time, will feel impossible to recover with everything else going on in the class that I don't understand. When the burner and the grease mix, a fire is obviously a result, which in my poorly constructed metaphor would represent me crashing and burning, as I try to balance the critical thinking that this class demands with the fogginess of my brain filled with distractions from things outside of class. In the end, I try to put out my grease fire with water, which ends in me crashing and burning and understanding less and less how to understand the deep meaning behind the literature that I'm being told to critically think about. For now, I'm trying to find a better method to put out the fire. Read The Guardian article How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton by clicking the link below.
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Kayla Campbell
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