Challenge Check in #3

Check-in #3: After you complete your challenge, reflect on the process of your experience writing for this specific genre. How did completing the chosen challenge enhance your understanding of Gothic representations? What difficulties or issues did you have during the writing process?

This writing class was an amazing experience. My perspective of gothic changed greatly, and I realized that gothic is everywhere in society. Writing many different essays with certain structures will help immensely with my future in business. I did not know what college was going to be like coming in, but through this writing topic it definitely helped me realize that I can take and simple problem and turn it into a long persuasive essay. This was a cool genre because gothic was never really part of my life and made me realize it is not always necessarily monsters and killing. The class over all was very short, but filled with tons of valuable information. A particular favorite time in this class was when we went over what gothic meant to us and we filled the whole board with many different ideas and topics. That activity showed me that The Gothic is not just one simple idea, it is an abstract idea that can be interpreted by anyone. This class took the stereotypical idea of gothic and changed it into a much broader idea. I will for sure use the ideas from the gothic in the future while writing papers, and I will notice many gothic subjects in future readings.

Writing about The Yellow Wallpaper showed me another viewpoint of how The Gothic is represented even in small situations. It showed me that it can be in small or really big situations. This story specifically showed me how in a normal every day house just one small flaw can escalate quickly into a huge problem that could ruin someone's life.

I did not have many issues with the course over all, it actually helped a lot more than it hurt. I had issues previous to the class with structuring essays but after the class it became a lot easier to not summarize as much and evaluate the topic at hand.