Epilogue

        After completing all of my posts for the texts we read in class, I have learned many things about blogging and literary analysis. I learned that rather than writing a set essay as my post, I would rather display my flow of ideas while writing. It is perfectly fine to start your post with one idea and then explain how your thoughts changed while analyzing the text and conclude with a different idea on what the author was suggesting about the meaning of life. It was also very interesting to see the varying outlooks that each author seemed to have on life. Some texts were very dreary and they seemed to suggest that life had no meaning and none of it truly mattered, and other authors showed that life was about being resilient and seeing goodness even in the worst circumstances. I really enjoyed analyzing each text and seeing how the author's craft affected the themes. It was easy sometimes to get more hung up on the content and forget to analyze and identify the author's craft which was something I needed to work on throughout my blog. I think the texts we read this year were great as they had a wide range of themes and perspectives on what it means to be human. Many of the texts focused on themes of death which is important to acknowledge because death is a big part of being human and its effect on life can be interpreted differently by different authors. Reading these texts also helped me formulate my own ideas on what it means to be and why we do what we do. Overall, this blog has been very interesting to create and I have learned a lot and developed my ability to analyze literature.