What Is Literature

We began the year with the question: What is literature? We took a look at the different interpretations that one poem can have depending upon how each individual views the poem. We then learned about Sonnets and compared the sonnets of Shakespeare’s secular love with John Milton’s more spiritual love of God and learned that God’s love provides healing and protection. We then read Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and focused on the question of whether or not there are limits to redemption. We learned what makes a man truly heroic through studying the character of Jean Valjean and that only God can change a man from bad to good through the redemptive cross of Calvary. We also went on to read A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and asked ourselves – Does greed rule the world? We concluded that, though mankind can be trapped by the greed of this world, God will not allow us to live life without showing us that we need to change our motives and keep the golden rule, which is to help our fellow man on this journey we call life.

Miss Topale

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Topics: 9Ninth Grade
Date: Thursday, January 24th, 2013 4:13 pm