Field Trip

On Tuesday we had class in the cafeteria. I liked being able to do class outside the actual classroom for a change. I thought that the idea of being able to have lunch with our groups gave it more of a relaxed and comfortable setting. I did though, think it was pretty hard to talk about literature for at least an hour, it was hard (especially since we were in the loud restaurant) to get side tracked and talk about things that didn’t have to do with literature.


At first I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to bring to class because I really don’t have any non school-related books here. After reading Little Red Riding Hood in the textbook, I decided to bring in a fairy tale. I brought in Goldilocks and the Three Bears. There was no real reason behind that particular one, just that people sometimes call me goldilocks, and it’s one that everyone knows. I figured that we, like in the text, could find the moral to the story and relate it to society today like in the questions we were supposed to answer. Shockingly, this was much much harder than I thought it would be. I had to re-read the story a couple times and still may not know what the actual moral or theme is to it. The idea my group came down to was that it’s saying to not be so mean to people? Or on the other side, it’s like a story of forgiveness on the bear’s part that he still wanted to be friends with the girl even though she broke into their house and was mean to him before that day.

The piece of literature most talked about in our group was the Chronicles of Narnia. We discussed how this relates metaphorically to the bible, especially about creation. Overall, I enjoyed this “field trip” we had.