Comments on: To Analyze or Not to Analyze/2017/09/28/to-analyze-or-not-to-analyze/Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:25:48 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Briana/2017/09/28/to-analyze-or-not-to-analyze/comment-page-1/#comment-4594Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:25:48 +0000/?p=8098#comment-4594In reply to Lee.

Sometimes I think back, and I’m honestly surprised I decided to major in English in college because my high school experience was really not great.

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]]>By: Lee/2017/09/28/to-analyze-or-not-to-analyze/comment-page-1/#comment-4564Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:50:19 +0000/?p=8098#comment-4564In reply to Briana.

Oh man I got really lucky with high school to be honest. My teacher never focused on things like that, but I’ve heard so many horror stories! If I had dealt with something like that I don’t think I’d ever want to analyze another novel as long as I lived lol

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]]>By: Briana/2017/09/28/to-analyze-or-not-to-analyze/comment-page-1/#comment-4563Fri, 29 Sep 2017 00:36:42 +0000/?p=8098#comment-4563I think part of my problem is really the way some high school teachers approach literary analysis, which does seem nitpicky and sometime arbitrary not really fun. It’s the whole “Why did the author make the curtains blue?” cliche, when really the blue curtains might mean absolutely nothing. Personally, I love looking at broader themes and overall messages of books and how they convey them. Analysis at the college and grad level is much more interesting to me, and I love that I get to think about things like “What is this text saying about male friendship?” instead of looking at books through a microscope and pretending that it’s overly significant that the character owns a purple chair or something.

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]]>By: Krysta/2017/09/28/to-analyze-or-not-to-analyze/comment-page-1/#comment-4558Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:53:20 +0000/?p=8098#comment-4558In reply to Lee.

Aw, thank you! 🙂 Your blog is pretty great, too!

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]]>By: Lee/2017/09/28/to-analyze-or-not-to-analyze/comment-page-1/#comment-4557Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:31:53 +0000/?p=8098#comment-4557In reply to Krysta.

Well that probably explains why your blog is so great!
And I hear you about skimming when it’s boring, I have major difficulty not skimming.

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]]>By: Krysta/2017/09/28/to-analyze-or-not-to-analyze/comment-page-1/#comment-4556Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:26:18 +0000/?p=8098#comment-4556But…your cat is so funny! 😀

I think it’s slightly harder for me to analyze a book I hated. Or maybe a book that bored me to tears. I don’t want to spend any additional time with a boring book! And if it’s boring, I probably started skimming parts, which makes it even more difficult to come up with something smart to say about it. If I like a book, however, I want to know more about it so I’ll probably end up doing research on it and reading literary criticism. Like the cool-totally-not-weird person I am.

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