Through the course of the class, I have learned so much! Learning about Melville was so interesting and has not left me once since the day of learning about it, especially about how the novel transformed after reading his large print copy of Shakespeare. Personally, however, I feel that last class we had was really the biggest moment of learning. Hearing others felt insufficient as students and writers really did comfort me as I have been feeling much of the same for as long as I can remember. It’s a beautiful reminder than we all are so harsh to ourselves, and yet can have such empathy for those around us. I feel so fortunate to have been able to take this class this semester, having the novel be one of the final classes seems poetic, especially since I’m not the biggest fan of American Literature around this time; definitely not the case any longer and am very excited to read more from this period. My peers are so brilliant and have such new and different ways of processing information and seeing the world so uniquely, I really can’t help but have hope in writers and artists to create something profound, something moving, something akin Moby-Dick of our time.