English Lit. 2010

When I first started this class I knew I would like it. I like it because one, I knew the teacher would be teaching from some interesting books and two, because I like literature. In this class I have read The Mee Street Chronicles by Frankie Lennon, which was a pretty good book to read. The reason why we read this was to show us what a memoir is. But that was not the only thing I’ve learned. In this class I also learned more about finding the setting, theme, plots, conflict type and things of that sort in the stories we have read.

To me it is important to know how to find these things in stories because many times we just tend to just read a book and not think about any thing else. If we look for things as plot or theme we tend to see more imagery and we are able to relate to what the author is trying to say. Also it is important to know these things because in many higher level books some times when reading a college level book there can be times where a whole chapter might be confusing because there is no setting or theme that you can find. This class is like a guide to help when situations like that come up.

After reading The Mee Street Chronicles and some of the other stories in this book I feel that I learned a lot about how to recognize what the plot or conflict tyoe is in a story. I feel that if I were to become a writer I would remember reading The Mee Street Chronicles and what I learned in this class so that I can reach my readers as Ms. Frankie Lennon did.