Final Post
I want to say that I greatly enjoyed this class even though it was not what I expected. This was my first time experiencing a class structured like this and I was a bit apprehensive about how it would go but I enjoyed the informality of the blog posts and the classroom activities a lot. For the novels I was split, I loved a lot of the earlier ones we read and hated a lot of the ones later on. My favourites would have to be Mad Toy by Roberto Arlt, Shrouded Woman by Luisa Bombal, and my all-time favourite is Nada by Carmen Laforet. I will be recommending all these titles to my friends in the future as they as introduced some sort of new perspective to what would otherwise be a rather common theme seen in a book. In Roberto Arlt’s book, I like the subversion of expectations that comes from the main character gaining happiness through betrayal. Though I am a firm believer that snitches get stitches I think that this ending made me see the whole book in a different unique way. For Bombal’s