Monday, April 15, 2013

Response to Course Material

Ugh, I know this is late, but I swear it isn't "senioritis: slack on anything". I was actually gone the whole weekend with no access to computers... my apologies.

       Tracing my memory since the last Response to Course Material, we started and finished Ceremony with discussion here and there. I enjoyed this book; it was definitely better than R&G. I just think that if there is a plot or premise to the book, it's probably better than a play full of repetition and absurd questions. Ceremony didn't have the comic side that I'm used to seeing in AP lit however. Some of my friends thought it was really difficult connecting the time settings that were weaved throughout the novel. That wasn't so difficult for me. Two years ago, I read Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult and the time setting fluctuated from past to present every few pages. Totally different genre, but having read that was very helpful. To be honest, I couldn't finish the book by the first reading date. Not that it was long, not that it was switching settings on me, but grasping the symbols were difficult. Yeah, I got the surface understanding, but every time I read a line or page over again, It felt like I was being exposed to something brand new all over again. Something I found interesting was that Tayo struggles through an identity crisis and stumbles on deciding to live or die like all the other characters we've covered in this class. The difference I saw in that idea was that Tayo struggled from every point: family, friends, himself, background, and culture. He also didn't have a father problem unlike Hamlet or Biff/Willy. Ceremony is probably something that I would read again just to challenge myself in what more I could come across and how "deep" my thoughts are at each read... lawls.

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