During this course, I have learnt how to read and analyze different books, how to read between the
lines. All the essays written during the course are important to me as each of them was a challenge.
Writing my essays, I have learnt a lot of things, such as how to interpret literature, how to understand
the author’s message and hints, and, of course, how to express my thoughts and emotions on the paper.
I think that most of all I like my Kindred essay. I believe it happened not only because I deeply analyzed
it and fully understand the author’s ideas, but also due to the fact that I chose and developed the theme
of the essay by myself. That is why, most of all I am proud of my Kindred essay.
Nevertheless, considering all my essays, I believe that “The theme of slavery in Kindred” is one of the
strongest ones. While writing this essay I have learnt a lot of new things. Thus, I learnt how to define the
main theme of the story as well as the main message that the author wants to deliver. I am also proud
of this essay most of all, as I myself have chosen the theme I would like to discuss and the main points I
would like to mention. Thus, while reading I identified that the main theme of the novel is slavery. That
is why I decided to develop this exact theme in my essay. First of all, I read the background of this
problem. Then, while reading, I paid attention to the passages in which the theme was discussed and
made various notes. In this essay I tried to look at the theme of slavery from different angles. For
instance, the way the protagonist, Dana, perceived this notion at the beginning and at the end of the
story, the way other characters looked at the problem. While doing it, I believe that I have learnt how to
distinguish the most important parts of the story, how to evaluate them and to mention in the paper. In
my opinion, Kindred essay is the strongest one as I managed to reveal the protagonist’s development
throughout the story. I believe that I managed to answer one of the main questions of the story, which
is why Dana was constantly returning to the past. Furthermore, I would like to mention that the novel
Kindred helped me to pay attention not only to the facts that lay on the surface but also to details. I also
believe that the strong point of my essay is the fact that I used a lot of examples from the story and
analyzed each of them. I suppose that in this case even the people who haven’t read the story will
understand it and its main purpose. Moreover, all the arguments that I used in the story are supported
by evidences (examples from the story) which also makes this essay credible. While writing this essay I
tried not to make the same mistakes that I did in my previous ones and to use all the skills I have learnt