It's over!

Congratulations, all, on having lived through a particularly difficult exam. I understand that what we are looking for from you in terms of literary analysis can seem foreign and incomprehensible at the best of times, and that in the fifty-minute format of an intense exam like this one it can be enormously difficult to know what to do.

I am honestly looking forward to reading through your answers this break, and you should expect to get these back at the end of class two weeks from tomorrow.

Enjoy your breaks and get enormous amounts of sleep!

If you're worried about the second half of the semester in this class, I do have one quick recommendation: thinking about reading Beloved this week -- it's a short book, and you will be doing yourself a massive favor to read it both over break and again when it comes up in class after break. If you've read Morrison before, you might instead consider pre-reading Coetzee's Disgrace.

And, of course, I hope to see some of you tomorrow during my office hours, from noon to 2:15 at Steep & Brew. Come to ask questions about the exam, about your essay, about forthcoming or past course material, or just to chat!