Kayla's Corner

     I dislike blogging. Last year, my teacher was the only English teacher who made her classes do weekly blogs. I was jealous of all my friends who were in different classes because they weren't forced to do them. When the year ended, I thought I was free. I didn't expect to be forced to write them for a second year in a row. My life would be so much better without them. However, I can say that the prompts this year are definitely better. I don't like writing them, but I do like reading them. It would be nice to get class time to read other peoples blogs.      Choice reading is not really "choice" reading. Yeah we get to chose a book instead of  being assigned one, but we can't just choose any book we want. Its highly recommended that we pick one off of the AP list which really means we have to select one of them. Not in a million years would I chose a single book off of that list if I was actually given a choice. I want to read a dystopian novel or ...

The play Fences can be analyzed in many different ways using multiple lenses. However, today I'll take a deeper look into the play, specifically the characters, using a psychoanalytic lens. In the play Fences , by August Wilson, Troy's approach to his familial relationships and the problems that arise within them, are influenced by his childhood trauma and past experiences. To prove that it is the childhood trauma and past experiences that affect his relationships, the play must be analyzed through a psychoanalytic lens. However, to understand this lens, some background on psychoanalysis is necessary.  Info on Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud in the early twentieth century, and it was used to treat people's emotional problems by understanding conscious and unconscious aspects in the mind. The conscious mind represents what people knowingly do whereas the unconscious represents what people do without knowing. In addition, the unconscious mind includ...