Class Thoughts VII

I have been sorely negligent with this journal/blog recently. Unfortunately, not being a "full time" college student has meant that my primary focus is not on school, homework, or anything remotely related to college. However, I would like to force myself to do this, so that I am able to have a little more focus on my remaining 2 literary analysis papers, and 1 research paper. None of which I have started, of course. After all, the primary distinction of college years is procrastination, right?

Class has been good lately. We finished discussing Othello, and wrote our in-class essay. The in-class essay went really well - I wrote like crazy, and finished just before she said "time to wrap it up." After Othello, we moved onto reading and talking about "The Glass Menagerie," a play by Tenessee Williams. I think we spent 2 or 3 classes, breaking into small groups and going over the questions Ms. Kolb gave us.

Then, our past 3 classes have been occupied by watching a film version of the play. Normally, I am not a fan of books being made into movies. However, because a play is truly meant to be visual, I've enjoyed watching this one. The actors did a pretty great job, although their "interpretation" of the characters was a little different from what I had imagined.

During class discussion, Ms. Kolb kept trying to suggest that sympathy for Amanda might be well placed. When we were just discussing and reading it, I definitely found some sympathy in my heart for her. However, the actress in the movie made most of that sympathy disappear. It's okay though - I think I have enough sympathy for the other characters to make up for it.

Next, we are wrapping up "The Glass Menagerie" by writing a literary analysis on it, and then we will be moving onto poetry. I'm not excited about poetry. Ms. Kolb is going to have to make it mighty interesting for me to enjoy it. But that's okay, because school isn't all about enjoyment, right?