You don't care about my degree so we'll get to that later. Let me tell you how I fell in love with Literature and English. When I was in 8th grade I hated English! I was a D student and was convinced my field of interest was music--I played the saxophone. Entering English one day my first thoughts were, "The Scarlet Letter will never have any kind of impact on my life and I really hate this book". Of course I was called on to answer a question about said book. I was a bit of a class clown and...
You don't care about my degree so we'll get to that later. Let me tell you how I fell in love with Literature and English. When I was in 8th grade I hated English! I was a D student and was convinced my field of interest was music--I played the saxophone. Entering English one day my first thoughts were, "The Scarlet Letter will never have any kind of impact on my life and I really hate this book". Of course I was called on to answer a question about said book. I was a bit of a class clown and told my teacher that I didn't know and went on to say I didn't care. Her response? "Okay, you can hate the book and still make an A". I was shook. No one told me that. How do I do that? What trickery is this? She told me as long as I have a reason to hate the book beyond, "it's boring" and can reason that out with clues from the book then I'm golden.
Because of that lesson, I have read The Scarlet Letter 26 times from cover to cover! I can tell you every little reason Hawthorne is a weak writer and why I hate Chillingworth. The best part is that I'm not opposed to hearing why you love the book.
Literature is about interpretation. It's about opinions! Everyone has an opinion nowadays! Don't sit in class convinced this is something you will hate forever because you might just be missing out on something really beautiful.
My quote of the moment
“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
-Virginia Woolf
(Pro-tip: Don't ever end on a drop quotation like I'm doing here. I'm including this because I just really, really wanted to share this one. I hope you can see why. I could write a paper on just this!)
I graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Tennessee in 2017 with a GPA of 3.91. My transcript is available upon request. My full time job is as a Quality Improvement Specialist with a major Foster Care Agency. My position is basically proofreading! Previously I worked in th
