Personal Reflection

Personal Reflection

In reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in my grade 11 year, I have evolved, matured, and learned new things. I’ve learned about Jane Austen herself, by wanting to, and conducting further research into her life and upbringing to further understand her reasoning and insights for this novel. Personally I feel I have improved and broadened my literary interests by reaching out a little farther into older, more classic novels. I usually tend to read fairly new and recent books and authors, novels such as J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter, Ellen Hopkin’s Impulse and The House of Night series by P.C. Cast. These books mostly have classic themes, but are written more to today’s standards. By including Jane Austen and Frankenstein and other such classic novels in my day-to-day reading I’ve become much more intellectual in my way of thinking and writing.

Having a wider audience in my reading, including everything now, from classic to futuristic, my writing has and will continue to grow into a more in-depth art form. The structures and literary techniques incorporated from all of these types of novels give new ideas and style into my own personal writing. Because of a psychology class I took last year, and all of the reading I did over that time, and since then, I have a broad knowledge of human nature. Knowing how and why certain brain maladies such as mental deterioration, occur scientifically; help me to understand writings about people who are dealing with those things in their everyday life. Knowing the how and the why together further boost my appreciation of the novel that I am reading.

I am currently reading Stephen King’s IT, which is about an evil, murderous clown. This novel is told from various points of view and time periods ranging over the last 30 years. This novel is very dynamic and sometimes a little hard to follow, but it too pushes my knowledge, reading and writing power with each new thing this infamous author has combined in making this best-selling thriller.