~> Conclusion

I really enjoyed this class. I mean, aside from the fact that I love to read, I can say I learnt a lot this years about literature, but not that kind of literature that we see every year, the one full of definitions, genres and authors... But the one that taught me how something as simple as a taxi, can be related to a broken heart, how there are some brave people in the world, that have the sufficient courage to put in paper something as terrible and painful as war, only because they don't want to pretend that nothing ever happened and how the way a couple talk to each other (either by prose or verse) define the kind of love they have, the level of maturity, and the level of reality.
Also, I loved the idea of creating our own blogs, I think it was a very good idea, because this is another kind of work and at the same time we had the opportunity of expressing ourselves.
I think I'll miss this class, but no one knows ;)

~> Neverwhere

Ok, I loved the book, I mean, usually what I like to read are romantic comedies or novels, I had read some "fantasy" stories, and one or two suspense stories, but I don't know, I really liked it, the way it was written, the story itself, the combination of characters, and how the author played with some of the names (like Door), at first I couldn't understand what the story was going to be about, couldn't find the relation between the explanation of Richard's life with Vandemar and Croup, but then they were all at the same place at the same time. Also I liked how as the story kept going, they explained you the reason why Jessica dind't pay attention to Door when she was bleeding (because the people from one London couldn't see the people from the other London), and why the "bad guy" first wanted Door to be killed, then protected and then caught.
But what I liked the most about the story, was that the characters that I thought were bad, turned up to be the good ones, because for example, when Vandemar and Croup told Door and Richard that there was a traitor between them, we thought (because I include myself) that there was The Carabas, but at the end they discovered that the traitor was Hunter. And what I think that amazed me the most, was to discover that the character who was behind everything, was Islington. So in conclusion, I think it is a great story, very explicit, and interesting.

~> MuchoAdoAboutNothing

In general I liked this story, I mean, I've always liked love stories, but there were also some details that were kind of boring. For example, Hero and Claudio's love for me, was too silly, because they were always talking to each other in verse (like we said in class) and that wasn't an effort for them. I think that is because they were a representation of "young love" when everything is pink and romantic, when there are no problems, and we see the other person as perfect. On the other hand, what I liked the most was Benedick and Beatrice's love, I think they were really funny and that in a certain way, they were honest, because as at first they "hated" each other and even the said they would rather be dead before loving each other, in a certain way we can say that they "know each other" with their faults and virtues. Their love I think was in a higher level than the other's, another characteristic was that they talked to each other in prose, and even in a part of the movie, there is Benedick trying to write a poem for Beatrice, but he can't. They just can not talk like this, and for me, that is the reason why I think their love is amazing and real.

~> "TheTaxi" by AmyLowell*

I think this is one of the best poems ever! I really loved it! Not only because of the theme, but because of the relation the author created between an everyday feeling like the loneliness of a person when leaves another with an everyday situation as simple as the fact of getting in a taxi and looking at the things that we see passing through the window, things that may seem very simple, but at the same time, can de related to our feelings, like:

"Streets coming fast,

One after the other,
Wedge you away from me,
And the lamps of the city prick my eyes
So that I can no longer see your face."

I really think this is one of the best poems I've ever read.

~> "Exile" by JuliaAlvarez*

In this poem, the narrator recalls her family’s risky escape from the Dominican Republic. They arrive to New York City, and the little girl, tells us what she thinks when her mom says they are going to the beach, how she pictures herself swimming, but the moment they look themselves in New York, she begins to compare her family with the families from the city. And at the end, she saws a family through a store's window, all dressed up in a "beach mood" and she thinks: Why are they wearing the clothes we should be wearing? I really liked this poem, because I think it reflects what a lot of inmigrants feel when they arrive to a new country, and how sometimes they are discriminated and feel less than the other people. 

~> WilliamShakespeare*

I enjoyed this topic a lot, I've always liked William Shakespeare´s work, all the imagination he had on writing his plays, and not caring about tha fact that at those times theatre was not considered as a "real work" and they had to fight a lot of unfair things, like the prohibition to women for acting, the bad conditions in which sometimes they had to represent their plays, tha lack of support, etc.
The play that I like the most is "A Midsummer's Night Dream". I love evertything about that story: characters, plot, setting, everything!
One play that I really don't like that much is "Romeo and Juliet" becau I think that is too dramatic, kinda boring, and if we analyse the story, it just talks about two teenagers "in love" (because let's be realistic, Romeo was in love with one girl at the beginning and suddenly, a minute later, we was proposing to Juliet, that's not good) that a day after they met, get married and the next day, the stupid boy (because Romeo was stupid) begins killing people, and then kills himself because he thinks Juliet is dead, when Juliet had already planned something for them to be together, and at the end, everybody ends up dead.
Still, I really like William Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

~> RevoltingRhymes*

I really liked this stories, specially "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf". I think it was hillarious, the best part was when Little Red Riding Hood pulls a pistol from her knickers and shoots him in the head. I mean, it was kinda weird but still funny. No one would have ever imagined that at the end everyone was impressed because of her  "lovely furry wolfskin coat."
On the other hand, I did not like "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". I mean, instead of seven dwarfs, having 7 ex-jockeys that spend all their money betting on horses down at the track? I did not like that idea, and the end... I did not like it at all.

Still, I think Roald Dahl is an excellent writer and I like a lot of his stories.