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Connor’s sonnet today was a great example of how many interpretations can come out of one piece of writing. I had heard many stories of how sexual his sonnet was from kids in choir, so I came into class today with that premonition of his sonnet, which was not good, because I felt his poem was not very sexual at all. It all comes down to what experiences the reader brings to the story and the meaning they get out of the text. It is a real life example of the reader response perspective.

Today, I was extremely frustrated. Due to my injury, I was very limited to what I could do. It is so difficult to completely switch how you go about your life. I am forced to reinvent every action I make with a clumsy clump of gauze stuck to my hand. It is the biggest pain in the rear I have ever experienced. This injury and subsequent recovery relates directly to the underlying message in the short story, How Far She Went, I read for the creative response last week. The girl in the story hates her grandmother and it took a life-threatening experience to make her realize what she had. Although, I did not have a brush with death, I have realized how much I use my dominant hand, and how much I have to adjust when I cannot use it. From simple tasks like washing my hands to more complicated things like driving, I have to adapt. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I used the backspace button in this post! I now realize how important and essential hands are to the human being, and I can only begin to sympathize with those that live life with no hands. It seems everything I encounter in life can be related back to AP Lit!