Critically thinking literature

What is literature is a very deepened and unexplainable question that some of us ask our self. We believe we know the answer, but the truth is that we have to keep our understandings outside of the box other than just the basic and common responses. We have to think critically and that is what most of us run away from. We try to understand it and keep the understandings the easy way out. However, we eventually have to think critically for other things in our life. Yet, literature tends to signal that the fun is over. When we are asked to think critically we are asked the complex set of experiences that define us as human beings to analyze the work we encounter.

Literature matters to me a lot more when I think about it. However, I do not focus a lot of attention on that. Literature can be more difficult than fun, yet it is something easy to overcome. When we use critical thinking on literature it helps us focus much faster and the understanding is a bit deeper. Literature has a lot of importance to the fact that we have to critically read through our work. While we do this we have to ask our self a set of questions that we deepened and focus our understandings on. Such questions as what is the perspective of the author about his/her work? Those the authors experiences and views helps you like or dislike this work? Or does the author’s values and experiences reflect any of your experiences?

Literature has a very broad way of speaking to me. It illustrates the work and the understanding is much better. Depending on what kind of literature it is, the work can be an informative type of work that really helps and deepened my understanding when I read it and take the main points of the work. Through my entire school career, English has been my burden. It makes me a better writer, but at the same time it keeps me in fear in every single English class I take. It is a simple chain that causes a huge obstacle; it is English that deals with literature where we need critical thinking. Like I said it is a simple chain that has so much measurement of interest in it. Then again we use critical thinking in our daily lives but when I don’t see literature I don’t see any difficult in it and that is just the way I feel literature is carried among me.

I expect English 102 to alter my perception of literature in a good route. I believe this class will be another step of writing, critical thinking, and learning process on where I will try to do my best. I expect this class to be challenging and at the same time to make me a more competitive and skillful critical thinking writer. At the end of the term I hope that the world can be a step closer on leaving the fear aside and on making me a more perfectionist writer. Although through my past experiences that has not happened there is still the hope that that day will one day come.