Pick оne bооk from before the midterm аnd one from аfter аnd talk to me about why the posed particular problems for you. Focus on the gaps in your own background and education. It's not a critique of the writer or the course materials, but rather, looking very closely, in a detailed way, at specific quotes, passages, and ideas that challenged either: a) the way you're used to reading, b) the way you're used to thinking, or c) both. You can't start in the same place you ended. I mean, an essay that begins and ends with "I didn't like Stein because of all the nonsense" is an essay by a person who has read Tender Buttons and learned nothing. That is not a person who has a great deal of aptitude for literary study. You don't have to renounce all your beliefs, proclaim your wokeness, whatever. Don't waste your time or mine. The deal here is that by the time most people graduate from high school, they've been indoctrinated to think about literature in a certain way. Literature is a subject you study in school. It reinforces the power structure and the messages the power structure would like you to absorb so you can be a good little worker bee. So, more likely than not, by the time you show up to my class, you're walking around with a bunch of extremely rigid, built-in ideas about what literature is or can be. As is so often the case with great literature, the works we studied this semester were in very large part designed to disrupt those assumptions. And it begins on day one. What's that you say? Poetry has to rhyme? No no no, says Mr. Whitman. And so on. And look, this doesn't have to be an exercise in self-punishment. No one is suggesting you are bad naughty or ignorant kitty-cats. You have a lot better grip on the truth at your age than I had when I was taking core lit courses in college. Hell, I thought colonialism was a consequence of Europe overpopulation problems until I was in my 20s. School lies, sometimes without even knowing it's lying. Same as parents. They tell us what they were told. Well, sometimes, they were told lies. Put it this way: you showed up with certain ideas about what falls under the umbrella of literature. That umbrella should be bigger by now. Pick one piece from the beginning of the semester and one from the end that were difficult to fit under that umbrella for one reason or another at first, and then tell me how you finally got them under there. Remember, they all belong there. There is no text that I thought this semester that is not widely considered worthy of literary study, so this isn't just a matter of opinion. I mean, if you thought earlier this month and still think now that Gertrude Stein doesn't merit serious attention, it's not because you have some opinion that matters. It's because you're wrong. Note that this doesn't mean you have to like her. You just need to figure out where the problem lies. The problem lies with you. What is your problem? Was it your upbringing? Your teachers? Your parents? Your church? Are you lazy? Et cetera. Your humble professor was way too lazy for 17th Century poetry until he was in his thirties. Don't be shy. Just try to be introspective and honest with yourself and think about how your understanding of literature has changed. If it hasn't changed at least a little, chances are you weren't reading or listening hard enough. Deal with two authors. One from before the midterm, one from after. 30 points each for a total of 60 points. It goes without saying this should be a pretty hefty and thoughtful essay.
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