Prologue

This journal serves as our guide through our learning process and at the same time it is our voice. In this journal, we can express our personal opinions on whatever we have learnt and at the same time provide some more research about the topics we most enjoyed.

In the beginning I didn’t know what to expect from this new subject, only that we were going to study North American literature. Although some names and topics rang a bell, I realized how little I knew about the historical context and that a “new world” was yet to be introduced to me. Studying about the Native Americans, for example, was something that got my attention because I feel that, in general, we know so little about them.

Moreover, learning about different religions is not always very present in our academic subjects, so I found it very interesting to learn about the Puritans on a deeper level. Also, I finally came across with names that were familiar to me but that I haven’t had the opportunity to really get to know better like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thoreau and Walt Whitman.  A strange coincidence was that just weeks before starting classes again I came across Walt Whitman in the wonderful series “Breaking Bad”.

For the time being, I hope to correspond to the expectations regarding the making of this journal and to enjoy my learning process throughout this semester.