Dylan's Reflection on Literary Analysis 2

• Informal, online, or multimedia sources: I ended up using a picture in my final paper as a reference of sorts. As I talked about how the character Dilsey is viewed by the rest of the family, I wanted to incorporate how Dilsey was represented in film and media as a means of looking at how a large majority of the population interpreted her.
• Literary Theory: Using a specific literary theory helped me to look at a more specific interpretation of the novel. Not only this, but it almost forced me to look at everything under a different light than I would normally do. Blending it with formal analysis was also not difficult as the text blended quite well with the analysis I was trying to do.
• Writing Process: In my writing process I tried to create more of an outline for my essay before I began writing. It wasn't exactly a very formal one, but more of a diagram for the flow of ideas in my essay. I found this helped me greatly with the structure of the essay as it grew longer. In the end, though, just sitting down and writing is the most helpful part of my writing process and I have gotten better at just writing what comes to mind and then editing it later. I feel I still need to improve at incorporating more formal analysis in my writing.