Favorites

Looking back on everything that we read this semester, my two favorites would have to be the Taming of the Shrew and the Beggar's Opera. They both shared a common theme of humor, which always makes things more fun to read, and they were both full of interesting characters. I have always been a fan of Shakespeare, and though I had never read anything by Gay, he had the same sort of grip on humorous, satirical writing. Both stories seemed much easier to understand than most of the other things we read, probably because by that point, I had at least somewhat of a grasp of the language. The stories seemed to flow more easily, and I found that by the end of them, I actually cared about what happened instead of just being happy I had finished. Unfortunately, the latter was definitely the case with some of the other things that we read.