Estephanie's Literary Moments

• Antigone (Theatrical Expereience) - I went to an art school back home that was called Nashville School of the Arts. Because I went to school there for theatre, I had to read many plays and analyze them. One of the first plays that I read and performed with my class was called Antigone. This play was a greek tragedy that consisted of a lot of unfortunate events. Let's just say there were a lot of deaths. This play moved me in various ways. The way that Antigone (main character) performed one of her monologues about her love for her betrothed is moving. It showed me how literature can
• Eleanor and Park (Reading Literature Privately) - When I started to read this book, I did not know it would have such a big impact on the way I connect to literature now. There are a lot of personal reasons why I connect to this book. One of the biggest reasons I have such a connection with this book is because it made me realize things about myself that I had not known before. It made me see the way that I view others and myself, and how we view one another maybe completely different to other people. It just expanded my understanding of life.
• Monologue (Literary Coping) - In school, my freshman year, my teacher had the class write a monologue on an event that had deeply impacted me in my life. The year before that somebody in family had passed away. This was one of the hardest things that had happened to me, and I honestly tried to hold in all the emotion that I was feeling. I did this to help others around me who seemed to be having an even harder time. When the teacher told us to write a monologue and perform it, I chose to write about this event. I wrote about the way I was truly feeling inside, but how I hid my true emotions to help other people that I loved. I have never felt as big of an emotional release than when I wrote that monologue. It really helped me cope with what had happened and put me in a better place mentally and emotionally.
• Unhappiness (Musical Experience) - When I was younger, I would listen to Christian music on the way to and from seminary. There was this one song that really made me think about why we feel sadness, anger, jealousy, etc. on earth. It says, " When friends betray us, when darkness seems to win we know the pain reminds this heart, that this is not, this is not our home. Its not our home." This song made me reflect on why we have pain and afflictions. This is not our final destination. We go through hardships and tribulations because this is not where we are supposed to be. We go through these things to learn and to reach our final goal/ destination.