Amy Adoyzie

You have been studying English literature for almost two terms. Please ruminate about your recent experience with Literature to answer the following questions. Be specific.

You must use the following vocabulary words in your answer:
absurd / trepidation / blatant / inextricable / incite / negligible / reiterate/ acquire

Zoya has a knack for ornate writing, figurative language sprinkled liberally throughout her writing.
Studying literature is very important because it helps you to acquire analytical skills, so that you can broaden your horizon of knowledge. In the beginning, the students were filled with trepidation when the teacher kept on reiterating about critical thinking, and thought it was an absurd idea for them, who had been mugging up the text books for the last thirteen years. Learning one new work a day seems negligible amidst uncountable words, but it has incited me to use my vocabulary muscles which had been sleeping for years. The deeds that happened in the bast is often neglected by the people, but one should remember that past is an inextricable part of our present lives. Literature has helped me establish correlation between the past and the present events. It would not be a blatant attempt for me to say literature has bestowed me an extra eye through which I can see more vividly, from a different perspective.

Unaj is probably one of my most English proficient students. She’s also a bit of a snot and that’s why she’s great.
Literature is an important part of learning English as it includes reading, writing, listening and most importantly understand the text. The study of literature has helped me to acquire the ability of critical thinking and has also incited me to the think from another person’s perspective as well. Reading, writing and learning new vocabulary words each day is an inextricable part of the literature class, which initially was an absurd idea to me. I thought the course was a blatant attempt to make fun of the students who had never attended literature class before and personally I had a extremely difficult time getting used to the class. But all this pain and my idiotic thoughts are negligible compared to the knowledge I have gained in the class, that has encouraged me to let go my trepidation of not succeeding and keep trying even if I fail. The lesson I learned in my literature class, is to have faith in ourself and of hard work which I reiterate every morning to make my day worth living.

During the first weeks of this school, Jonu used to argue with me everyday asking, “Why is it important to study literature? Why should we care? What’s the purpose? Isn’t it a waste of time?” She’s also the same kid who never used to laugh in class.
A lot has changed.
When she wouldn’t stop bothering me with questions, I asked her to try to read a novel to see if she would enjoy it. Initially she found it really difficult to like Charlotte’s Web.
“It’s so childish, ma’am. The animals talk!”
I convinced her to finish the book, that if she let herself connect with it- she will. After she completed the book she came back to me and cried.
“What’s wrong Jonu?”
“I really loved the book. It made me so sad and miss my friends back home.”
“I’m so sorry. But I’m really glad that you liked the book so much.”
“But ma’am,” she wiped tears from her cheeks. “Now I cannot read another story again.”
“Why not? I thought you said you liked reading it.”
She made her patented inexplicable pain face, her brows furrow to the center and her nose wrinkles like she just swallowed sour milk. “It’s just…”
“Yeah?”
“Now I’m worried that I’ll never read another book that is as good as Charlotte’s Web.”
This is what she had to say about literature class.
Literary works have the power to incite the writer hidden within each reader to come out with all might, wiping away their trepidation and hesitation for writing. It is totally absurd to blatantly criticize reading literature as a waste of time as the time we spent on reading literature is negligible compared to the timeless knowledge that we acquire from them. As reading and writing are inextricably connected with each other, reading more inspires us to be better writers and it nurtures our vocabulary as the reiteration of the same words and phrases over and over in different books makes it easy for us to learn them automatically without much effort.

They just completed Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and it was no easy feat. Next term I hope to tackle Romeo & Juliet, Animal Farm, and one of my favorite short stories, The Lottery. I’m working on some other short story ideas, suggestions to keep them inspired and always on their toes?