There were many aspects of the reading and reflecting process that I found harder or easier than I expected going into the assignment. Something that I found really difficult was making connections and having thoughts about the reading but then not being able to immediately discuss it with the class. I believe that class discussions were the aspect that I did not know I needed over the summer; however, once I got to see how helpful they are during the first semester, it made reading without them hard. It was also difficult for me to not get caught up in things that I did not understand. I definitely had to try and adjust the way I was reading because in the beginning I would close read and spend way too much time trying to figure out one idea. By the end of the week I adjusted to looking for broader concepts and connections to ideas from Greenblat and Scott.
Another interesting concept and connection I did not think of before reading was religion. I have not read biblical texts in such a long time but I grew up cathlioc and used to be incredibly familiar with many of the stories. I thought that the different perception to god and satan related back to how “one man's alien is another man’s authority.” It felt natural to just label the alien as satan but the more I thought about it the more I think that the negativity that is used to describe satan is how he was perceived to be alien. I also found it interesting to look at the text and how it connected to self fashioning through the creation. It also connects to the control that Greenblat points out that Christianity (Authority) had over many people. I thought of this control a lot while reading the stories in a general sense of religion, throughout the stories about creation, because it is interesting to think of the powers at hand and how power was being inserted into the story.
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