Okay, so today in my Lit Analysis class we were discussing The Great Gatsby. I hated the book in high school, but really am liking it this time. Well apparently I'm the only one...but hey that's cool, I like being kinda unique in book choices. I mean yeah I'm on the Harry Potter bandwagon, but I read other books, books that most people don't, or haven't even heard of. I'm cool with that. Although I like being able to discuss some, so if you've read Gregor the Overlander, The Awakening, The Importance of Being Earnest (kay that's kind of a common one), or A Ring of Endless Light FOR FUN, come talk to me, because not a lot of people talk to me about those, and I love them.
Anyways that's not what I'm complaining about here. Our professor decides to point out three words and ask us what comes to mind. The words: 'wafer,' 'garden,' 'host,'... I mean yeah maybe I was stretching on this one, but honestly Christ symbolism came to mind. Call me crazy, for not thinking 'oh that sounds like a tea party,' but seriously Catholic Communion=wafers, Garden of Gethsemane=garden, and Lord of hosts=Host...Christ, right? Right. That's exactly what my professor was trying to get us to say, but the minute I said it, I could tell everyone in the class was thinking 'oh yeah, right because Gatsby can have Christ symbolism.' Most literature has Christ symbolism, it's easy for people to understand and relate to...
My favorite was one of the three of us guys in the class. He's the 'your retarded' guy if you remember that. Anyways he's pretty anti-religion, and he just smirked when I said that I thought it was Christ symbolism. 'All you Utah Mormons trying to bring Christ into everything.' No. I don't think Gatsby is at all like my Savior. I just recognize that, because I've been taught how to notice it. It's there. Besides if you have a problem with Utah Mormons, why the heck would you choose to come to a school in Utah? Seems like a bad idea, but hey that's just my opinion.
Now for the random rant about this kid. Honestly, he's a good writer, but he's kind of a fail when it comes to analysis, but he has the ability to make you feel like your the dumb one. It's kind of annoying. He had a cow when we read two stories about the men being the bad guys in them, and the women being suppressed. 'How come we always have to read about the big bad man?' Because honestly for pretty much ever we the men have been an oppressive gender who wouldn't allow women to actually be who they wanted to be. So honestly I don't blame women for writing about that when they finally had the ability to break free and be published. Besides with as many lit pieces out there on that topic as there are, signing up for a class called "Literary Analysis," wouldn't you assume that you would be studying about that theme? Maybe it just seems like common sense to me.
Anyways that was my rant for today. I'm sorry that I actually can sort of analyze some books...
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