The most important skill I feel I've learned in the first quarter of English was probably the words that describe and help analyze literature. During the summer I was torn from my life of complaining about how little there was to do away to the land where I complained about how insane the workload was. I then went on a trek across the internet to discover meanings in these newfound wordlings, as I liked to call them. After I had finished the long and tiring work and school had started, we then spent an excruciatingly long time period dissecting TKAM. I will be honest when I say that it was not the most enjoyable experience I ever had, and that the unit seemed to drag on far longer than expected. However, the real importance of these events did not come at the end of my journey when I had thrown the plot coupon into the volcano, or when the volcano went off and I had to be saved by the mysticical avians, Deus Ex Machinas, but the valuable lesson learned afterwards. The words and the unit combined allow one to gain a new view of both individual books and literature in general. You can take a deeper look into the makings of a book to gleen a new message, and that can be something you can keep with you for the rest of your life.
Okay, yes I will admit it. Its very tempting for me to think the most important part was the part where the bad guy who kept trying to have me killed revealed that he was my dad and that if I only joined him together we could rule the empire as father and son. The only real reason that was overshadowed is because in retrospect I think I cried way more than I would have hoped I would.
Until we meet again,
-Aaron
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