Independent Reading Project Reflection

In this independent reading project, I have learned that a novel doesn't just include a story and the plot. It contains a lot of literary elements, such as the narrator's voice, tone, form, and also the style. This exercise or project is very worth doing. It let us to look for these elements in the book ourselves. The elements are not things that you could read off the book from. You would have to think a little about how the author write his or her book in order to find these elements. In the written book report, I had put in quite a lot of effort in doing that, it also took me quite some time just doing the plot of the novel. In the project part, I kind of moved out of the book and focus more about the author and information where I could look up from the internet. Such as, about the author - William Golding, some concept pictures of the island and the characters, and also the description of the main characters. With this project, I had learned quite a lot of things about the elements of the novel and how to find them in novels. Which to me is a very valuable experience to have.