I hope to learn about different styles of literature in this class, as well as be able to evaluate what I have read. I love to read, to me there is nothing better than curling up and reading a good book or a magazine. What better than a class that I can read short stories not a dreadful text book?
My goal in this class for the semester is to learn as much as possible, and hopefully take those skills and apply them to other classes and my career. Other goals will be working on expressing myself on "paper", the more you write the better you get at it.I truly am not sure what makes literature great, I have often asked myself that same question when reading a book that critics claim is great. I remember picking up a book that my son was reading for a high school literature class, The Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck, and thinking the writer sounded illiterate. What made this book a great piece of literature that high school teachers would use it in a classroom?
