As a current student, I’ve had my own experiences with writing about literature in school. I
could recall my first encounter with literary analysis while in high school, we were assigned to write
about on about the book we read in the summer prior to school starting. I found a little hard at first
since this was my first encounter with understanding how analysis essays work. However, with help
from my teacher it became easier to complete the piece and ended up enjoying the process of
analysing literature. With that I also learned to write about other various works throughout my
academic career, such as rhetorical and argumentative essays. I’ve written about various texts such
as “To Kill a mockingbird”, “Fahrenheit 451”, “Animal Farm”, and many more. I enjoyed writing
about Animal Farm the most, why because in all of it metaphors it was the book I could really
understand and, I thought that George Orwell was an amazing author overall. When it comes to the
things that I like about writing different pieces of literature it would have to probably be the ability
to search through complex themes and Ideas. It lets me interact with the text and make my own
interpretations of it. On the other hand, I dislike the ideas of complexity of literary analysis since it
can be hard to determine what is right or wrong when interpreting the text. Moving forward, in my
strengths and weaknesses with writing literature, I have strengths in the ableness to interpret
literary devices such as symbolism, imagery, and metaphors. Regardless, I tend to struggle with
building my essays in structured manner, which sometimes make my paragraphs to sound rushed
and not being able to work with my thesis. I really want to use this class to build upon the skills that I
already have when it comes to writing and be able to interpret text better and put my ideas down on
paper.