Course Response #?

So, Ceremony is now done, and we're forging ahead to our final book. Finally!

Ceremony was decent. I liked it more before I had to annotate DURING MY SPRING BREAK, but whatever. The packet that Ms. Holmes gave us about the symbolism and stuff in Ceremony was actually really helpful. I didn't realize how important the different animals (like the bear and lion) that Tayo meets along his journey were.

And now, on to Fifth Business! The narrator is one interesting cookie so far. He doesn't really seem to care about much of anyone, except Mrs. Dempster. I guess you could argue that he cares about Mrs. Dempster's son, but I would say his actions are merely driven by guilt, not an actual love for the kid. The narrator actually really bothers me! He reminds me of the main character in l'Etranger (the foreigner) by Albert Camus, who doesn't even care about the woman he's about to be married to.

That aside, AP season is almost upon us, folks. Am I the only one who feels completely unprepared?