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How To Read Anna Karenina

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Out of all of the pieces of literature that our class read this year, Ana in the Tropics was my least favorite. This was because I hate reading plays. Plays, for one, are supposed to be performed, and I’m supposed to be seated comfortably in the audience watching the play. I do not feel that I am supposed to be reading the screenplay, desperately trying to figure out which character is which and trying to remember who is who. Overall, reading plays adds complication for me and while trying to figure out this complication, the joy of reading is robbed from me and I’m no longer enjoying what I’m reading. Secondly, I believe that this book deals with a lot of real-world problems: affairs, economic hardship and violence. I believe that it is very important for these problems to be present in literature and other forms of media. However, I do think it is kind of corny that as the lector is reading Anna Karenina to Santiago, that his life randomly starts to resemble the lives of the characters in …show more content…

Overall, that was probably my favorite part about this book being assigned to us. I actually am planning to read Anna Karenina in the future. However, the intent of this book was to show how the lives of Santiago and his family suddenly began to mirror the lives of the characters in Anna Karenina. But by doing this, I feel that it was an easy way for Nilo Cruz to replicate the events of Anna Karenina and get away with it. Ctuz could simply use the events that happened in Anna Karenina and place them within a different context with a different context and different setting. Here, I think that Cruz was able to avoid having to write an original plot and was simply able to mirror the plot of Ana in the Tropics with that of Anna Karenina. I would have rather read a play in which the events of Anna Karenina somehow were reflected in the lives of Santiago and his family, but in such an apparent

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