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 Welcome to my final blog for this course! Since we are done with the novels and it is almost the end of the semester, I completely expressed my true self in this post. No matter how much rewriting I’ve done to make myself sound a least a bit more serious, the joy of making through this year still overtook me in the end. This introduction should be enough to reach over 400 words… Ok enough chitchatting, here is my experience with this course! When I signed up for this course, I was kinda mentally gearing up for a hard time. I figured, hey, gotta tick that literature box for my major requirement, right? But, was I pleasantly surprised! RMST 202 turned out to be a real gem this semester, defying all my expectations! I never thought I'd end up loving it this much. From our class chats to diving into everyone's blog posts, and yeah, even reading those novels I'd probably never touch otherwise, I genuinely feel like I've gained so much more from this course than I bargained ...

Hello everyone, welcome to my blog's final book blog!   This week I read "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante. The novel which tales place in Naples, begins with Elena discovering her lifelong friend Lila has vanished, prompting her to recount their adolescence in 1950s Naples. The neighborhood they grow up in is rife with poverty, leading to issues like violence, alcoholism, and gambling. One aspect that stood out to me was the prevalence of violence in Elena's community. Violence is omnipresent, from familial abuse to neighborhood rivalries. Threats of violence, like Elena's father's warning about the Solara Brothers, shape behavior and maintain order. Poverty drives many characters to dream of climbing the social ladder, but these dreams often prove elusive. Lila and Elena aspire to write as a means of escaping poverty, but reality chips away at their aspirations. Lila's shift from writing to shoemaking, driven by her brother Rino's obsession wit...