Blog 19

I feel that the session I did fulfilled my expectations, but the session that my group was assigned to do, did not. The other sessions completed by my fellow students met the requirements that I thought were necessarily important. The activities that they chose focused mostly on the feelings of my class and me. I feel that my participation in my classmate’s session is at the top. I was able to fully understand the stories that they were given to do and the activities they used to apply what they learned from to us. The reason is because I read the stories before the presentation, so that I can get a better idea of what their presentation will be discussed about. I feel that I can re-use what I learned in order to explain the themes, point of view, tone and style in order to relate to this work of fiction. The things that my classmates included touched up on the necessary elements of literature that were required by our instructor. The way my friends demonstrated their understanding of the stories, allowed me to focus on the point of view and tone of how the stories are written. Each story had a different point of view as well as tone. When my friend presented the stories: “Stockings”, “Style”, and “Nightlife” or “The Man I Killed”, “Ambush”, and “Good Form”, they asked us to tell a story about what would it be like if we were in these character’s shoes as well as the meaning of survival. Another point is that the other students questioned our mind, about any memories that we thought were heroic or horrific just like the Vietnam War. That is how I am able to apply these comments to a more in-depth discussion of the stories in “The Things They Carried. “