Final Thoughts

It's been a long semester, but I can definitely say I've taken something of worth away from this course. I've learned about the damaging effect that having a foreign power impose its culture on a colonized nation can have on the people native to that region. I have a better understanding of the idea that a person's culture affects the building of their character and colors their values and beliefs. In reading the literature of other nations, I have learned that the things that are of literary importance in my native language are not necessarily the things that are of literary importance in other languages. I've also learned how universal some of the problems that arise from colonization are, regardless of location or culture. However, what I think I will take the most from this class comes from the talks in class we had about the novels we read. For me, one of the most fundamentally important facets of learning in the classroom comes from the differing views of a subject that discourse among peers in class discussion affords you. All in all, I've had a very interesting, enlightening, and entertaining semester, which would not have been possible without all of the other people in the classroom with me. Thanks, guys!