FINAL REFLECTION

Final Project Reflection

From this experience I learned that authors can place characters in a various amounts of moods based on one situation. Even though most of this was left for interpretation, I could think of different ways the story seems if you think of it a different way. Such as if you thought that Huck was going from a place of sadness from his mother and that is why he escaped or that he was just a young boy that wanted to explore; it completely changes the novel. My representation of my lens was similar when it came to that both boys were very self centered and naive in the beginning and slowly grew up a bit. They were different, because in most novels you could see the book come out in multiple ways, such as Huck could have been considered very mature for his age and actually made all of those decisions with a lot of previous thought or vice versus for the boys. I think I saw the novels in a different way, because the other novels just scratch the surface of what is going on, but the psychoanalytical lens allowed me to actually view what the characters could have been thinking. I think I missed the bigger picture in some parts, because I was so focused on the in depth thinking. The benefits of using a critical lens is that you get to see a completely different side of the novel. A downside is that you usually miss a lot of other things going on, because you are not focused on catching it. My beliefs didn't really change about this topic.