English has always been my favorite subject in school. I love to read and write, so when I entered Forms of Narrative I thought it would be the same as other English classes. I was prepared to read books, memoirs, and documentaries and write boring papers that were a million pages long. I was surprised, however, to find that this class allowed me to express a more creative side of myself. The blogs that we wrote allowed us to say what we honestly thought about assignments and different aspects of the class. We were allowed, and encouraged to be funny, straight forward, and unique, even if it meant not following the traditional rules of writing that have been drilled into our heads all through previous years of schooling. The class was made to be very interesting and fun. We got to analyze TV shows, computer games, and comics. To be honest, I never read comics when I was a child so while writing about “Little Nemo” and other comics came easily to many members of the class, this was one of the more challenging assignments that I completed during the semester.

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