Response to Course Material #7 -Mar. 10-

Now after reading through Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, I now have a better understanding of the ideas that Stoppard has portrayed in the play. For example, the idea about how Ros and Guil are trapped within the book and that time for them is frozen. I honestly thought that was mind blowing, especially when thinking about our existence. It makes me wonder if this is all real life. I have to admit, I have a little attachment to Ros and Guil, they're actually lovable characters. But now that annotations are done and we're moving on, I'm quite glad. Even though we only went through the first few pages of Ceremony, I already find it interesting. The ideas about the spirits and stories are really interesting to me, and I can't wait to get through the rest of the book. I heard from a past AP Lit student that this book is mind blowing and slightly depressing. That only makes me want to read the rest of the book now (except for when we get to annotations, I hear those are pretty tough). Other than those two things we've done a few more atmosphere exercises. Those are fun as always and I always enjoy the sarcastic suggestions for the mood word for our pictures. We've also written an essay on a passage from Shakespeare as practice. I honestly thought that the passage was a bit difficult to pick apart without misinterpreting parts of the passage, but overall I guess it wasn't too bad. Though, after Ms. Holmes went through the passage, it was a lot clearer. I was able to identify more themes than before, and wished I had seen them when writing my essay.