This unit has been very beneficial to me, both in the learning process, and with work in other classes. We started out Unit 2 by taking a simple type of genre and changing a known aspect of that to an unfamiliar or unusual form. I thought that working with this type of experiment would be an awesome group project, and I was right. I had a lot of fun working with my group members to research such genres. There was humor with the confusion and reactions, and as a group, we ended up with a lot of good, useful, and helpful information. It brought a great opportunity of working with communication with group members and others.
Not only did learning about this juxtaposition concept help me with the group project, but also in another class. I actually had to write a paper on a certain aspect or theme in a class. I took what I knew about changing a specific part of a type of genre, in this case, a play, and found out how others would react to this change. Specifically, I found how much of a difference it would make if characters, language, or even a theme was changed in the play. How the play would not be complete without characters, sound, or background. This worked great for my paper and probably something not seen written a lot.
Clearly, this main juxtaposition concept that we worked with, could work in many different ways and help in other classes as well. The idea of taking something known and ordinary and changing a main part to something unbelievable can bring great reactions. I have enjoyed what we have learned in Unit 2, and know I will take this with me after english 101.
It's amazing how society is conditioned to believe or think one thing should be only one specific way and if changed, or different than that "known" way, then it is wrong or unbelievable.
