A Lesson Before Dying Reflection Paper

Over this past month, I learned an abundance of the conflicts, characters, and themes of the major texts I read. In “A Lesson Before Dying”, I investigated the theme of recognizing injustice and facing responsibility through the character of Grant Wiggins. He resented Jefferson’s unjust imprisonment, but did not want to do anything to better the situation; his bitterness and pessimistic attitude only increased. Soon, Grant stopped seeing Jefferson as a stranger but as someone worth fighting for. He faced this responsibility and took the first step to bettering his society. This taught me that even as terrible and unjust events occur, moping and dragging your feet around does not make a change, you have to stand up and face the responsibility you have to try and stop it.

As I read “A Doll’s House”, I explored the sacrificial role of women and the unreliability of appearances through the Torvald family. Although Nora was married to a man who had plenty of

I found that only 2 out of the 4 novels given were able to be found online. I think that if more novels were chosen that were available online, students could benefit much more. The libraries were also on strike this past month, so that also limited our novel choices. I would also like to make use of all the resources D2L provided, mostly in the communication section. Personally, I think it could be useful using the chats as a way to talk and interact, maybe sometimes in place of discussions. However I did not know how to use the chats and a few other resources on this website, so if there was an orientation or guide that was available with instructions on how to use them, it would help many students. More specifically, I think the chats are a good way for teachers to tell students how they are doing in the course, besides the mark update emails. This way, they can also quickly ask any questions they might