Final Project Proposal

http://mysterious-kaddu.blogspot.com/2011/02/book-review-twilight-saga-stephanie.html

http://www.amazon.com/True-Blood-Complete-First-Season/dp/B001FB4W0W

http://www.vampirediaries.com/

For my final project I will be completing Option #2. I am choosing do write about Vampires. I chose this option because I am much more interested in contemporary books as opposed to classical literature. I’m also fascinated by Vampires and have already read several books and even watch a couple of television series about them.

The primary text I will re-read is Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and I will also incorporate the rest of the Twilight saga books which I’ve already read before. I will also use the TV show The Vampire Diaries and True Blood as secondary sources.

With this project I am going to compare the three contemporary ideas about Vampires and maybe discover their meanings behind the Vampire myths.

I plan to conduct research regarding some critical works that are about Vampires in general, or specifically the Twilight books. I will use the library’s databases for my research.

Here is a very interesting link about the history of Vampires and where the stories originated from.

Midterm Letter

Dear Mrs. Kline,

This semester so far has certainly had its ups and downs for me. I believe that I have excelled in some areas while definitely struggling in others. The last few weeks have been particularly rough for me, especially with my time management and getting things turned in on time. I know that I will be using my “No Questions Asked” tab in the very near future.

My biggest challenge so far has been reading Frakenstein as well as managing my time for writing my essays. I feel that my success was actually finishing Frakenstein because in the beginning of the book I was really worried I wouldn’t be able to keep focused on it, and became surprisingly more interested in it as I read further and further. I am also happy with my second essay because I have a really hard time writing essays, especially concerning analysis.

I enjoyed some of the poetry reading for the class and the poem I wrote my essay on definitely arose some emotions from me, but I am not a poetry kind of person. Reading Frankenstein was a big accomplishment for me just because I’ve read very little literature and the language was a little out of my league. I did enjoy parts of the story, though, and it’s interesting to read about how Frankenstein came about in our society.

For me, literary analysis is different from any other types of writing I’ve done because I’ve only done mostly research paper writing, which is so completely different. It is definitely a knew challenge for me to do this type of writing.

My goals for the second half of the semester are to spend more time doing my writing and including revising in that process. I also hope to improve on my time management skills because sometimes I underestimate how long it takes me to write.

Thank you for an interesting and challenging semester so far.

Sincerely,

 Nate Hibberd