Response to Course Material - oct 9

This week has definitely been the most educational for me thus far in the course. Having learned and practiced every aspect of DIDLS, I felt that I finally understood what they were for and how to use them accordingly.  The most important part of having learned every part is that I can now make a lot more sense of pieces that I read.  Being limited to only certain knowledge of DIDLS made it kind of confusing.  Reading the American Dream was a great way to finally start to apply these to a text that I've never been exposed to before.  It really was  a very odd play.  The theater of the absurd reading was very explanatory and I thought was a really good explanation of what The American Dream was like.  It is still weird for me to read a play that is filled with such absurd character interactions and such random immaturity.  I am still sort of confused by what Albee is trying to say with his piece.  I'm looking forward to reading again, this time for the obscure and hidden details that are hidden throughout this play, which will be very interesting to see his true ideas.  After review the form of essay writing again, I'm certain that I know understand this.  The fact that the thesis serves as the outline for your essay is something that I missed when first explained.  This cleared up a lot of questions I had about organization for the essay, and I can see that the essays produced in this manner are far more effective and cogent.