Class Reflection

Most english classes I really hate going to the class but in your class I really enjoyed going to. Even though the class was fun we did a lot. We got a chance to learn about a local writer, John Steinbeck, and some of the events that inspired him to write the books. In most classes I go the whole semester and hardly know anyone but  this class is very group oriented and that we have to interact with the people around us.

Thank You for an other fun English semester

Peer Review Feedback

I didnt get to do a peer review because i didn't have my essay ready. Instead we grouped up and picked a passage in the book that we thought was very important. We ended up picking the park where Mac helps gives birth. This set the mood of the story, do whatever it takes for the greater cause.

Character analysis of Jim

Jim at the beginning of the book feels like he is not doing much with life and that he has no purpose in life. So Jim decides to move out of his place and joins the radicals. At first he would just type letters all day for Mac and have them but even then he was satisfied just because it was he was a part of something bigger. Later Jim wants to be more involved so they go out to the country and they meet with some apple pickers. Jim soon learns from Mac that you have to do whatever it takes to help the bigger cause. As soon as they get there, there’s a lady, Lisa, giving birth and Mac lies about have past experience with delivering baby. But all goes well and gains the trust of all the men there. As the novel progresses Jim as well becomes accustomed to doing whatever it takes to do it for the greater cause. It is unclear if Jim was doing it just to help out the picker or is it just to make himself feel like he is going something meaningful.