reflections on all class discussions

During most of our class discussions I have found new revelations in the reading that I had not noticed before in the readings, when we were discussing it in class. Since we have read the books,"The Great Gatsby," and "Nickel and Dimed," over the summer, I have been more interested in them than I was when I was reading them during the summer. At first I found," The Great Gatsby," to be just a story of a pathetic girl who got herself mixed up with Jay Gatsby, and after our first and second discussion about the book, I soon found that I was actually more sympathetic toward Daisy than Gatsby. This helped me to analyze characters more thoroughly and that maybe the way they act is the only way that they know how to live their lives. I have also found it extremely intriguing to find that some authors like to put an aspect of themselves into their books, just like F. Scottt Fitzgerald did in his book, and I found that talking about some of his work gave me a glance at his life. I have had a lot of "Lightbulb moments," as I affectionately refer to them as, in a lot fo our class discusions and am hoping to have more of these moments.