I chose to study English when I realize how much of a passion I had for the subject. In high school I had a ninth grade teacher that was so intriguing when she spoke of authors like Shakespeare and Homer. She brought life to a subject that most students dread because it was “boring”. After ninth grade, English was something I really liked and did well in, and that was when I decided I wanted to be an English teacher. I began to discover why English was so fascinating and I really think its because it opens doors for so much outside knowledge. Reading other writers work places you in their thoughts and this is exactly what I hoped to gain from studying English. Many writers in time were very brilliant individuals and that is extremely inspiring. If it wasn’t for a number of authors in history a majority of views people hold today may not exist. I dont think I have fully realised what I hope to gain from studying English, but I do believe I’m getting rather close. Since my freshmen year in college I’ve noticed that what I thought of as English has expanded greatly and it will probably always be expanding. For that reason its almost as though I’ll be achieving my hopes just as fast as they continue to increase.
The authors I studied in high school were mainly people like Shakespeare, Chaucer, Homer, Jonathan Swift, and George Orwell, to name a few. Many of my classes shifted in the types of Novels we read so because of this every year the similarity of books we read related for that year. One year was focused on famous poets and american authors where as the next was mostly fiction novels. My senior year, for example, mainly focused on Novels such as, Lord of the Flies, Gullivers Travels, and The Hobbit. The relation of these are very clear, but throught every year of high school the over all relation the literature we read has in common would have to be that it was all famous literature from past years.
English being an insight into an authors various thoughts and emotions has taught me many things about literature. One thing this has definitely taught me is how to develop my own thoughts and styles which has pushed me along in my study of English. As I said before English is a subject that is continually expanding and because of this there is always more to be taught. I feel as though my previous study has prepared me for what more there will be to learn.
