As you can see, throughout our posts we were able to find even the slightest connections between the literary works we read and reality. Although some of the works we read includes supernatural elements, fantastical, and even unrealistic story-lines, we realized that these made our process of completing this project more fun and discovered interesting connections between fictional stories and our lives.
Besides the long, meaningful readings, even through short and vague works we were able to find the messages that the author is trying to convey to us by reading them again. Authors use novels, poems and writings to express their approaches and opinions on the world, and we could still feel their hidden thoughts and feelings in our own world today. We can never be certain about the definite meaning behind an author’s work because literary works can be interpreted in multiple ways, but rendering our own interpretations was what we wanted to accomplish. The beauty of literature is great in its way that, it can be interpreted in so many different ways and still give readers a sense of relation and familiarity. F. Scott Fitzgerald once said “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
– Amy Wang and Kary Huang
