Individual Reflection For The End Of The Year

I think my favorite lesson for this year lays beyond academics. I was blessed to learn more about myself. I discovered that it doesn't matter where you come from or what your past holds. All that matters is where you are going, and how you plan in getting there. I found out that I don't have to let my past define me. It helped me to better understand myself, and to be able to love myself more. However if you want something you made us do, I have to say I enjoyed making a video based on The Taming of The Shrew. 

My least favorite lesson from this year would probably be anything dealing with the meaning of the work as a whole. No I'm just kidding. My least favorite lesson is probably the times writings. I hate those with a passion, however, I wouldn't get rid of them. I just struggle with them, but they are crucial to the class, and to the AP test. I just hated being dishes to write. 

Academically I have learned more about writing. I know that sounds crazy, but I just feel like my writing skills have improved. I also feel like my vocabulary has expanded, as well as my understanding of literary devices. 

Here we go. Life lessons. I have learned that it's ok to cry. Actual crying really helps. I have also learned that despite what your differences are, it's ok to have them. I went at it with a few friends and then I finally realized how much I missed them. It's ok to have differences as long as you don't let them come between you. I also discovered that when it comes down to it, people are going to walk in and out of your life. Sometimes it's going to hurt. Actually most times it's going to hurt, but you can make it through it. Sometimes it's for the best. I also learned more about me in a crazy way. Like English made me question everything about me, while simultaneously giving me a better understanding of myself.

I hate being asked what to change. I think the class is great. The blogs can be a handful sometimes, but I think I would keep them. I like the reading assignments, and everything about this class. I seriously can't think of any changes. It just isn't happening.

In all honesty this was one if my favorite classes of all times, and easily my favorite English class.

A Thousand Splendid Suns LRB #4

In part four of Khaled Hosseini's, "A Thousand Splendid Suns", the story ends by having the two continue on the journey of life. Laila and Tariq live in Pakistan for a few years, and then they journey to Herat. She feels like she needs closure, and so she goes to seek it. Then she decides that she wants to go back to Kabul. So they do. Then Laila works as a teacher at the orphanage, and Tariq works to fix it. That's how the story ends.

A Thousand Splendid Suns LRB #3

In part three of Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns" Mariam and Rasheed nurse Laila back to health. He pays a guy to lie to her about Tariq being dead. So she marries him. She's pregnant with Tariq's baby. But she doesn't tell Rasheed that. Well she has a baby girl which frankly kills Rasheed. He is upset because he wants a baby boy. Then he starts to be hateful again because he thinks Laila is awful because she had a baby girl. So Laila and Mariam are finally speaking and it is all because Laila refuses to let Rasheed beat Mariam. Then Laila tells Mariam that she plans on taking the baby and running away. She begs Mariam to go with her. Mariam agrees and the two of them leave one day. That was a fail. They get busted and get sent back to Rasheed. He beats the tar out of Mariam. Then he locks Laila and Aziza, the baby, into the bedroom with no food or water. They nearly die. They are scared to death now. Eventually she has a baby boy. She is forced to put Aziza in an orphanage, and she finds out that Tariq is not dead. Well then Rasheed becomes outraged because Zalmai, who is the baby boy, tells about Tariq coming to see Laila. He is about to kill Laila, so Mariam kills him. Then Laila takes her children and runs away. Yes she goes and gets Aziza, who is Tariq'a baby. They leave and go to Pakistan. Mariam refused to go with them. Which is heartbreaking. She is executed. She died for the family that she was never able to have. Laila became the daughter she never had. That's how part three ends.