We’re getting down to the wire! I just finished the first draft of my Reader Response paper, and I feel so good.
Listen, listen, I’m about to go out on a limb here, but I think this could be my best essay yet? Maybe? I definitely had the most fun writing it, that’s for sure. All I can say is that I’m more confident handing in this essay than I’ve been all semester.
Because this is the last essay of the semester and because all my other essays are strong enough for portfolio consideration, I felt a lot less pressure writing this one than all the other ones.
When we went over Jauss and Reception Theory in class I immediately knew that I wanted to use it to write about The Awakening. All these ideas just started coming to me, and for the first time this semester, I didn’t have trouble finding things to research.
When I was researching for the New Historical essay, reading biographies about Kate Chopin, I was so interested in the fact that The Awakening was not well received initially after publication. I wanted to know why people didn’t like it at first and why it became popular again in the 60s, so I’m really happy that I got to explore that in this paper. It really made me realize how huge of a role society plays in the success and failure of a literary work.
Anyway, the semester is almost over, and I can’t wait to be done. This semester has been the most impactful semester of my college career so far, but I want it to be over.
Alas, it isn’t over until it’s over, and there’s still work to be done. I can’t give up yet! We’re almost there, 305ers, you can do this.
