Now that I've finally read all of the books, I can definately say which ones I cared for and which ones I didnt. "The Great Gatsby" is still the champion out of all the novels. For the 2nd place winner, its a close tie between "A seperate Peace" and "The Crucible", unfortunately " A Seperate Peace" dominates and beats the other book. I thought "The Crucible'' was a good book but the time differences were so far apart that it was tricky to read sometimes. I also thought it seemed sort of silly, just because of the fact that I'am not religious .To read "The Crucible it helped alot more if you did have a religious background, unlike me. I had to look up alot of meanings in religion, just to comprehend the book. "A Seperate Peace" was more up to date so it was easy to understand for me. I thought it was very interesting.
My favorite character was Finny, Im sure he is everyone's favorite character though. He seemed perfect, he was extremely charming. Other qualitites he possesed was how honest, postive, outgoing, and the best athlete in the school. His only flaw was that he assumed everyone was like him- that everyone shares his enthusiastic, good-natured spirit. I could easily see how Gene Forrester was jealous of him. He was so jealous that Gene started to question their frienship, and began to not trust Finny anymore. It ended up causing their friendship to deteriorate. Even after Finny described how true his friendship was to Gene, Gene still second guessed Finny. After the converstation between the two pals, Gene still envied Finny's athletic abilities, Gene ended up ending Finny's dream to go to the Olympics because of all the jealousy he had built up in him.
At the beginning of the summer I really didnt enjoy reading classic books, or any types of books for that matter. I had so much hatred towards the book "Huckleberry Finn", I thought that was the most boring book I have ever read! But then each time I read another book, it improved I thought. Each book was really different, which I enjoyed alot. It kept me interested most of the time with the books. In the end though I didnt really mind them so much. To be honest though, I'am really glad the summer reading is over haha. See you in school!
