Today we wrote a review of our favorite or least favorite book/movie/musical/story etc. We generated lists of topics about which we could write persuasively, and learned how to avoid making logical fallacies in our writing.
Camper Spotlight: Jessica Rocchino
John Green’s first novel, Looking for Alaska, tells the story of a boy named Miles, who leaves his home in Florida and goes to a boarding school in Alabama. The book consists of two parts: before and after. “Before” appears very shallow - riddled with classes, parties, swearing, and various illegalities. “After” is what gives the book meaning and makes it heartbreaking and beautiful. The countdown from before to after is only noticeable in the beginning, and the event that it counts down to is extremely unexpected. The question throughout is how to “escape the labyrinth of suffering,” and it calls for readers to look for meaning in things that they normally don’t. The main characters study world religions - not to believe, but to find common things across cultures and try to understand how the world views death and suffering.
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