As Vast as the Ocean

       During this semester of AP Lit, I’ve been very grateful for the amount of reading I’ve done for the class. Picking short yet influential books has given me a variety of perspectives and different modes of analysis I plan to carry with me to college. It ALSO has had a very rewarding impact on my Goodreads account. Without The Stranger, The Alchemist, and other “The Blank” books that are around 200 pages, I would’ve never reached my 30 book goal, so with that I will dedicate the title of this blog to how I feel about that: “The ThankYou.” I would also like to give a special thanks to the singular week it took to read Candide, you will never be forgotten. All jokes aside, another aspect of this class hasn’t only been the reading, but the writing as well. Something this class has offered that other English classes lack is the philosophy that is so deeply embedded in all the lessons. I still look back fondly at the power paragraph where I talk about the color of gr...