The ideas we have discussed I feel all relate to consumerism and the media. I can see how the media is affecting our daily lives and how it is not always good for us. I think this class has really made me think about what I do in a given day and how people other than myself are affecting those things. Nothing really angered me in the discussions or in the class; however I feel that the video that asked teens questions relating to the Mark Bauerlien article was a little insulting because I feel it was controversial. I also feel that they asked a lot of questions that I knew and it was too generalized. I feel out of all the novels Feed was the most difficult to get through, but it put a lot of things in perspective and I realized that the government could do that in our society and it kind of scared me. I really enjoyed taking the Thoreau challenge and I learned that technology plays a bigger role in my life than I realized.
I realized through this class that a lot of the things in the world around us have more substance than we realize the media, technology, consumerism and even literature itself plays a part in our life that most of us don't even realize.
I have never been a person that liked to read, however I recently found myself ordering Mocking Jay and Catching Fire. I really look forward to reading them over Christmas break. I discovered that maybe I should look into more types of books within that genre because I really liked the book Hunger Games a lot. I also realize through this class that not every person interprets literature in the same way and one piece can contain several different meanings. I also realized that a lot of the quotes that I was writing down for the discussions were the same as some of the people within my group, which means I am not alone in my opinions and in the way I think about literature, which makes me feel more comfortable about sharing my opinions.
