I think that I have learned a lot by writing this journal throughout the semester. I had never really noticed how significant and present myth is in our current culture, but it is huge. I see evidence of it everywhere: in people, in politics, media, and even in my sunday morning comics or word searches. It impacts the way we think and see the world. I never realized how much myth has affected me and how I see the world. Even my own family has a myth! Things that we go through as we get older (rites of passage) are essential parts of growing up. By creating this journal and reading the textbook, I have learned how to look at mythologies through a new lens. I can now do different analysis on myths to find the purpose of them and be able to better apply them to my life. Through doing these analysis, I have been able to learn about different cultures and lifetimes, but have also been able to see how humans have always been the same. I can relate to those that wrote or listened to the myths thousands of years ago, because my human psyche is the same as theirs were back then.
Though some of the prompts were difficult to do (the Jungian and Proppian analysis gave me major troubles!!!), I believe I did well on answering the prompts as best as I could. I definitely viewed it as a learning process, where I didn't have to worry about trying and failing. It was a place where I could experiment with different thought processes, which I liked. Overall, I think that the journals were overall very helpful in maximizing what I got out of the class.
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