"Perusing" our Text

I looked, quite thoroughly, through the book before our first day of class and the first thing I noticed, was that I've read many of these stories before. I don't mean that in the sense that the themes of the text are familiar to me, but that I have literally read many of these poems, short stories and essays before. In AP Lit to be exact. Of these stories my favorites that we covered, that I would recommend to anyone are: Trifles by Susan Glaspell (this one will make you think twice before you underestimate a woman again), The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (a classic), Cathedral by Raymond Carver (an eye opener) and A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor (twisted). Besides that though, titles that caught my attention were stories I have not read but have always been interested in. I have seen so many versions of Cinerella, everything from the Disney Classic to the dark German version. I thought it wold be fun to read the Three Tellings of Cinderella, which fortunately is a part of our reading assignment. The English Patient, Peter Pan and The Tempest by Shakespear are stories in our book that I have always wanted to know more about, or read the story rather than just know the movie. Maybe I can finally get a chance to do just that this semester.

"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"

I feel like there are many ways to interpret this quote. I think about writing when I read this. Many times when I write, I don't concretely know where I'm going with it until I am in the process of writing it. That is when everything comes together for me. Of course it's entirely possible that the word "see" isn't supposed to be taken literally.
As to the story, "Where are you going, where have you been?", I thought it was odd. Since the theme of this course is retellings I can completely understand why this was chosen for us to read. It's like deja vu almost. You know what's going to happen though it's never actually happened to you before. The intro, long as it was comparatively, threw me off though. I had no idea how it was relevant or where it was going until Arnold Friend showed up at her door. I suppose it was written that way to give us some idea of how the girl might react to this situation or just to provide more depth for the character.

Our First Day

Well I think it's safe to say that I didn't expect to be laughing for a good forty minutes on my first day of Lit 110. If this is a preview for what is yet to come I can't wait for what tomorrow might bring. As far as ice breakers go, I think that was a great success.
I'm not a big fan of blogging, but perhaps I will think otherwise after getting into a routine of writing about our discussions every day. We will see.