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Weekly Review: The Two Readings That I Liked

This week’s readings were quite interesting. I liked them better than last week’s readings, honestly. I felt there was more backstory to them, or more historical content. There was a lot more to read but it wasn’t overwhelming. I still struggle on breaking down my notes a bit more when it comes to the reading. I feel that if I overdo the notes with the reading I’ll get lost in what I am trying to understand. The readings are sometimes are hard to understand, and to take notes on something I don’t understand, I feel is a lie. I do enjoy taking notes on the ones I did understand this week. In this week’s reading, I really liked The Luck of Roaring Campand Self-Reliance because they were two that really stuck with me. Self-Reliancewas very moving and I can see why it can be correlated to the Western natives lifestyle. The Luck of Roaring Campwas also one I really liked because it spoke about more than one theme. The many themes of the story were: love, gluttony, growth, care, etc. Although, Self-Reliancewas a bit harder to write in terms of it being a poem, I found it a nice chose to do a close reading on. The Luck of Roaring Camp was long and very resourceful. I ended up choosing these two readings to do my first project on because I felt they had a similarity in certain themes. They were different POV’s (that is obvious) but both had this sentimental feeling when I reading them. I purely enjoyed both and the information I found during my research on them. I do hope I am able to analyze them deeper as I continue. It would create less of struggle for me, to dig deeper in their meanings. 
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