Throughout this semester I have learned a lot about different writers and how their stories have formulated and how some of the different stories have related to the other one. When taking this course I was so confused on what the term of Major American writers meant and I have learned because of the books we have read and I have learned a lot about the different themes and what I liked most was learning about the author’s history and their story and how they related it to the themes of the book. Throughout the semester, we read five books called My Antonia, Winesburg Ohio, In Our Time, “The Bear” and Tracks. Each book had a different theme to it and followed different aspects of nature and all the characters in the book. In class, we were …show more content…
The theme in this book was explaining how the main character Jim wrote a memoir and he grew up throughout the book and how the memoir was “My Antonia.” The theme in this book relates to all the other novels because of how much it relates to the character’s growing up and that is something key I saw throughout the semester that I really enjoyed. Another thing that reflected the book, in general, was Willa Cather’s was her relationship with Antonia to contrast their lives and I thought that was very …show more content…
The main thing about this book was short novels written by Faulkner and the main Character in this book Isaac McCaslin and it shows how he grows up and he eventually discovers this bear along named Old Ben and I think out of the five novels we read this one and Tracks are the only ones that rely back to nature and I think that’s an interesting theme throughout the book and in the book as I wrote in my response paper that the book explained if Isaac was a good hero and I think that’s important because it's something the reader needs to reflect on and that san important concept I have learned throughout this semester because of what you need to reflect