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Dearest Britt, I’m so glad we finally get to read another book together and send each other these letters. Writing down my ideas like this snail mail style really helps me form new ideas and opinions about the book we’re reading. The first thing I noticed and appreciated about A Midsummer Night’s Dream was its vastly different setting and time period from the other plays William Shakespeare wrote. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set in ancient Greece and mentions ancient Greek heroes like Hercules and the Amazons. Ready a Shakespeare play that doesn’t take place in Elizabethan England is refreshing and makes me instantly more interested in the story and the characters its about. One of the other first things I noticed about this play is how poorly the women are treated. Early on in Act 1 Scene 1 Egeus comes to Theseus seeking advice regarding his daughter’s love life. She has fallen in love with one man and despite his merit, benevolence, and high social standing, her father wants her ...

I've never really like New Years and the concept of New Years resolutions because the whole holiday seems so pointless to me. Tons of people partying and drinking and at the same time promising to completely turn their lives around the next day? It just seems weird to me. But with that being sad, my dad is a sucker for New Years resolutions. Every year he makes a list of his new goals and puts it on the fridge and pretty much forces us to come up with resolutions of our own. Usually I really really hate it but this year it was good because it gave me something to "reflect" about on my walk. Obviously I started the walk at my house. In the past I've hated where I lived. Its not because of my house or my neighborhood or anything like that, I love my house. It's because I live in Bonney Lake so my house always seems so far away from everything. However recently my Dad has been thinking about taking a job in Cincinnati, Ohio and even though I'm going college n...