In this class so far we have read four books that all relate to each other in one way or another. Everything in this class so far has gone back to the things that we have learned in the first week or two of class. That has never happened to me in any English class that I have ever been in, that includes elementary school, high school, and college.
Every book that we have read so far in class can be related to each other in one way or another. The four books that we have read so far all have characters that can be related to the characters in the other books. Celie from “The Color Purple” and Penelope from “The Odyssey” are a lot alike. They both are the stereotypical women. They both do all the stuff around the house for their husbands and children. The only difference is that Penelope is waiting for her husband to come home from a war that ended twenty years prior and Celie is doing it out of fear of her husband beating her. There are many other characters that are very similar. Another way they all relate is that they all have journeys in them that follow the monomyth.
I never have had an English class that relies on what we learned in the first week or two of class. The monomyth is something that we learned in the very beginning of this class and it is still present in the material that we are going over now in class. We also learned about the archetypes in the beginning of this class and now we are still describing the characters from the books with them. I think that this is a very good thing because it makes us as students have to learn the material that was taught at the beginning of the course and throughout the class.
