When I first heard the project was going to be a blog, I remember being confused on how it was going to work, or if it would work at all. We were reading two books, but we were looking at each one separately and doing most of the blog entries only talking about one of the books. While doing blog entries was much more interesting than I was expecting, I still don’t think it was executed as well as it could have. I believe it would have been better to have more comparisons between the books, otherwise I wish I could have gone more in depth with one novel, and have blog entries on things like analysis of a character or comparisons to media representation if there was a movie version of the book or something like that.
However, one thing that I really did enjoy was looking at the novels though a lens. I originally started with psychoanalytical and historical, but in the end it turned into mostly psychoanalytical. I wish I had been better about using both lenses together, but I struggled and ended up dropping the second one. I thought it was really good to use a lens because it was harder to get too overwhelmed by all the information. It’s easy to have so much information you are trying to take in, that you don’t end up taking in any and can’t comprehend everything. On the other hand, it makes your analysis a bit narrow-minded. I would talk to people who had a different lens about a certain passage, and we would have vastly different opinions on it, just because we didn’t analyze it from the other’s lens. It also was the reason some obvious happenings would be missed because I was focusing so much on my lens, that I didn’t notice anything else.
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