The Final Blog

Death –Questions why death and the afterlife is so prevalent in all ancient civilizations

The supernatural but mortal Beowulf-Related Beowulf to Gilgamesh.

"Spit her out...Let the girl go" –This is the quote from Antigone, It was probably my favorite post to think and write about.

I have selected these three posts to represent my best work over the semester,  because I feel that they represent my work as an overall.  I selected “Death” because in writing this post I felt that it made me think about a particular social aspect of the time, death and the afterlife.  It made me question why it seems like in every culture in literature, death and the afterlife is attempted to be written about.

“The supernatural but mortal Beowulf” I selected because in writing the post it made me refer to and connect a relationship between the two works Gilgamesh and Beowulf.  I enjoyed thinking about the two texts and finding similarities.

“Spit her out…Let the girl go” I selected because I enjoyed thinking about and writing about the quote.  When I read this quote from Antigone, I immediately took a pen and underlined it, I loved the quote, and one of these days will memorize it.

Since this is my fourth literature class from CWI, I kind of knew what I was getting into.  I think my ideas of literature have changed a little bit, not in a huge way, but I am definitely learning better skills of analyzing and writing about texts, which I enjoy getting better at.  From this course I believe I have learned to read literature at a more critical level, analyzing and drawing meaning from the text. 

One part of the course that I feel that I have learned the most was when reading from the Hebrew Text.  I have grown up with reading the bible and the Old Testament, it was fun and I learned how you can interpret, and especially analyze the bible in a academic way.  It made me look at the text in a different way, and look specifically what the text was saying, not what others interpret the text to say.

I believe that my performance in class was overall positive.  I did not miss a class the entire year, and participated in class activities and discussion.  Most of the time I completed the reading, and was prepared for class, class activities, and class discussion.

My strength as a writer is that for the most part I enjoy writing.  My weakness in writing is that I am not strong in vocabulary, punctuation, and the editing.  In thinking, I can come up most of the time, with original ideas (I have learned to do this from practicing analyzing texts).  My weakness in thinking is it takes a lot of effort on my part, and most of the time I have to put a lot of time into it.

If I were to give myself a grade in this class that reflects my performance in the class it would be an A-.  I feel that I have done the assignments, participated in class, and though I have received A’s on my papers, I feel it balances out.