Blog #4 Literature

Literature is a very broad topic with many different perspectives and is used to portray so many different messages in many different forms. In my opinion, I don't see literature as something that has to be in a written form in a book. I can define literature as a form of work that portrays some form of artistic merit. So for example, a book, movie, music, etc. Generally someone would say that a movie or music isn't literature, but the screenplay of the movie or the lyrics of the song are literature because they are words you can read. I see movies as a way to see your book come to life and music as a way to experience literature in another form having all sorts of feelings and emotions that you can't truly get from just reading a book. Technically you could ague that this blog post is in fact literature because you are having to read words on a screen, but I wouldn't say it's literature because this blog post lacks artistic merit which is needed in all forms of literature.

Literature is very important to not only ourselves, but of course everyone around us because it helps us establish a special connection with the people around us and the experiences or characters within a specific form of literature. For example, a person could relate greatly with the main protagonist of a book or the main character of a movie because of the experiences that protagonist/character undergoes throughout the story. With so many different forms of literature, we are able to see so many different perspectives of a story and be able to experience the differences between them by just reading a simple book or watching a movie. My favorite piece of literature at the moment would have to be the movie "Goal! The Dream Begins". This movie explains the life of an illegal immigrant from Mexico that moved to the United States at a very young age, but he copes with his many problems throughout life with his prowess in soccer. He is later given a chance to go to England and make a name for himself in the professional league. I believe this is literature because it shows artistic merit and also has that connection to many people around the world. This movie also teaches valuable lessons to always follow your dreams no matter how hard they may be to reach because the only thing stopping you is yourself. Overall this is my favorite piece of literature because I really enjoy the message it brings and I can relate to the sport of soccer which is a big focus in the movie.



Questions:
1. I learned how to be more descriptive with my writing and show rather than tell a message. I also learned many different types of essays such as a synthesis essay or an analysis essay which all helps make a great research paper that will help me out when I go to college.

2. I believe my writing has become stronger over the course of this year and I feel like writing the research paper was very helpful for not only next year, but also college.

3. I really struggled wish the showing exercises we had at the beginning of the year and also with finding rhetorical strategies to analyze in a piece of literature we had examined.

4. I wish we would have done more with film and revised a whole film and maybe written an essay on it. I really enjoyed finding rhetorical strategies within a film.