For me our first term was new knowledge!

Hi people! I hope you are doing fine. I just want to share with you what do I have learned this first term in my new class which is Literature. On the first week of classes, I was a little nervous because I was supposing that I will be reading boring books and copying many literature theories. Fortunately that was not my case. I really love my Literature class because I have learned a lot of interesting things. 

 First of all, I saw the narrative structures. Even if many people know about them, they do not know how are they named or what are their real purposes for each narration. Also, in this term we read part of a manga called Naruto. At first I was not convinced to read it but, believe it or not,it is popular literature that can also be analyzed due to its content related to Japanese culture.

I have learned that Naruto was a great way to start this semester. We have been analyzing Naruto's story and we were learning about the Japanese and not so Japanese themes that are in this manga. I think I am becoming addicted to reading the chapters and commenting them with my friends! We also learned about Japanese art forms, that are: novels, haiku, nontheatre and Kabuki theatre. Even the professor taught us how to write our names in Japanese!  To finish , we saw about how to write an academic essay and how we have to structure it. 

 Now I know that even mangas or comics can be considered literature. That knowledge I can share it with my friends or with people that consider it the opposite, like I was in the start of this period. I thought Literature was very boring but I have changed my perspective about that. Is about analyzing and relating all the elements that you can see in a literary work in order to understand it better. This new knowledge I had I will relate it to understand better throughout this semester future topics. Also this knowledge and perspectives will help me during the writing of my final essay. 

 Literature has make me more critical about literature works and to analyze them for me to enjoy better the readings. I cannot wait for knowing which literature work we are going to read on the second term! I hope each term of this semester will become better and full of new things for us to learn in Literature.