What I Thought

Well, for the Catcher in the Rye, I thought that the book was decent. I am not fan of the book though. In the book Holden contradicted himself a little too much for my liking because he would say that he was going to do something and then not do it. This drove me crazy and I almost put the book down. I also thought the book was kind of pointless. Except from the whole teenage rebellion aspect of it, I though the book was a mumble jumble of an insane person’s weird trip to New York because it seemed like Holden had no real goal in doing anything. I did like how the book was a flashback since this made me actually want to read the book to see what he did to make him end up where he was. Overall, I seriously do not see why this book is so popular.

I really liked the play Inherit the Wind. It was interesting in that it was in a format of a play and was not written by Shakespeare. Also, I loved the plot of the play because it was logical and made a lot of sense. I also liked that it had some satire in it and was not serious the whole time and this made the play that much more fun to read.

I though the book My Antonia was a pretty good book. The plot was in chronological order and this made the story easier to understand. I also liked the ending of the story as it did not leave many questions unanswered. This, in my opinion, made the story feel whole and solid. Interestingly, there was nothing in the book that I really hated. My only gripe is that some events of the story were drawn out because I though sometimes Cather went into too much detail about events that were not that important. Though I do not see many problems with this book, I wouldn’t say this book is very exciting.

Overall, I though the novel First They Killed my Father was an okay book. The title, I thought, was kind of misleading. In agreeing with Kovalenko, I thought that the father would be killed really early on in the story. This kind of made me feel jittery in anticipation of Loung’s father’s death so I paid less attention to other aspects of the book. Also, sometimes the setting of the story was confusing as Loung would move around a lot and not make the foreign town names stand out. Because of this, I sometimes did not know where exactly a given event happened. Other than that, I though the novel was an interesting memoir. Especially, I liked how the novel had a lot of conflicts because this made the book more exciting and worthwhile to read. Looking back, except from some minor issues, I thought the book was worth reading it.

Lastly, I thought the book A Midsummer Night’s Dream was an average play. For me, I like stories to have a happy ending. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream the book fulfilled my wish as this Shakespeare play did not kill off most of its characters. On the other hand, I disliked how some of the characters acted. When Oberon reversed the flower’s spell on Titania, Titania acted like nothing happed even though Titania lost her boy and was humiliated. This injustice made me feel a little angry at the book. Thinking about it, this book, for me, was not the best, but not the worst.