Ok, so today I need to stop by the library to drop off The Red Badge of Courage. I read my teacher's entry on this book, and I think I'm stuck in her "pre enjoyment" days. It was a quick read, true, and I liked how it ended, but, yeah, it's one of those gutsngloryboybooks. The whole time I kept thinking of Andersonville. So, in regards to American history and the homage paid to one of the saddest times in our past, I respect the book.
Our next Pod is poetry! *~Woohoo!! I'm glad we get to delve into it :)
Poetry seems to work in my mind more like math. It's best when I'm not directly thinking at it. I'll read it and then it works itself out while I'm focused on other things.
Something I noticed while flipping through our Lit book was an absence in the Art section of such American icons as Normal Rockwell and Charles M. Russell. But, as a student in 223 I have just corrected that glaring absence, at least to my satisfaction :)
I was not a fan of The Red Badge. It was a nice book, I guess, but I am with you and say it is a guts and glory boy book. The poetry section was fun, but really hard to read. I liked the classic Robert Frost poems, but I loved to read the poems I never get to see from him.
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