#aplit16research

It’s so weird having so much time to do something, once I focused solely on this project I got so much accomplished in such a short period of time I am so proud of myself honestly. It taught me not to procrastinate and even when you do how to get something done in a short amount of time and still turn in quality work!! Overall, looking back at this I am so proud at what I accomplished and made. My research and writing skills both improved and those two fields are always available for improvement. I think this was a great way to develop myself as a writer.  This really wasn’t THAT BAD.... 

Kaitlyn and I had many adventures at the OU library and trying to get there. First I forgot my license so I could not get a guest pass and had a little bit of time before I had to be home so I used my neighbors login who goes there but I didn’t have enough time.... THEN the next time we tried going we got into a car accident... so yeah. But don’t worry, we made it eventually!! And when we got there the librarian was extremely helpful, so it was worth it! :)

Writing my general introduction was actually easy. Doing all the research on the book, such as the abstracts/criticisms, annotations, and background sources, really helped me figure out what I wanted to write about. Madame Bovary was a monumental novel at the time it was published, and this was something I knew I should include in my intro. I also knew there was a lot of controversy surrounding the book, so I added that in there too. Finally, I added the book's relevance to today, because a lot of the same themes that I found in the book are also found in today's society. The book also started the Realist movement so that was important to put in my intro as well. I think my introduction was interesting and contained a lot of good information. Overall...the research for this project was relativity easy. I think I picked a good book for the project because there was SO much information on it, and the themes were interesting/good to write about.

OMGGGG Feels goood to be done! Th eamount of stress lifted off my shoulders from finally finishing this project has made me so happy. Tbh it wasn’t as bad a people said it was and I can’t believe I’m officially done with AP Lit :( 

For my annotations, I picked three passages that characterized the main character, Emma Bovary. Since her character/development of her character was so vital to the book, I thought these would be good passages to annotate. I also thought that these passages would help me get a greater understanding of the book (and they did!) I was able to draw in my abstracts, as well as my own knowledge, when annotating and doing the introduction to my annotations. Once I started annotating, it wasn't too hard to write. After you checked them, I realized I had to focus more on how the author, Flaubert, and how he used his language in the passages to help the character develop. After I fixed this, the annotations came easy. It was kind of hard to get two pages for my intro to my annotations, but after really looking at it, I ended up getting it to two pages.

I read a lot of different criticisms on the book till I found the three that I wanted on this day. So it was productive

I started my research with getting my abstracts. When I first went to the OU library and got my abstracts, I was prepared to fail this project. I was so confused and just got three criticisms not knowing if they were good or not. But then, I showed my criticisms to Mr. Kreinbring and he said they were good. So then I began to attempt to read them. They were long and seemed confusing at first, but after I spent time annotating them and closely reading them, I realized they were not hard at all. They actually really helped me understand the book. Writing the abstracts was also easy. The criticisms were super helpful in understand Emma's character, and this also helped me write the other parts of this project. I could bring in parts from the criticisms to help support my other arguments.