Reflection

The experience of this ISU has helped me to express my feelings and thoughts towards a certain subject. Since I'm a logical thinker, I found it very hard to be creative with this project, and this assignment has helped me bring out that neccesary skill, which is important in every day life situations. Academically it has helpled dig out underlying themes in Canadian Literature and in the novel Crabbe by William Bell.

The novel Crabbe has given me a further insight on human teenagers because it focussed on the aspect of real teenage problems and went about solving Crabbe's problems in a realistic manner. Eventhough Crabbe has a wealthy family he faces teenage problems that can be compared to a normal teenager. The moral of this novel is that status or money does not necessarily make a child happy. What actually makes the child happy is the way parents treat him/her. The child can get spoiled and bored which is when bad habits start to take place, like drinking and doing drugs or they get the idea of doing something else that is exciting in a good manner. Crabbe is one of these teens. In fact when he goes to school students think that he has a "drinking problem"(Bell 26) but he never gets drunk or hungover.

My understanding and appreciation of Canadian literature has increased after reading this novel. Before reading Crabbe the only Canadian novel I read was "Broken Ground" which I did not like at all because it was confusing and hard to understand what was going on. "Crabbe" earned back my interest in reading Canadian novels because Willaim Bell used reality to create an exiting adventure of an eighteen year old teenager.

I have become a stronger reader than before because I analyzed Crabbe by using outside sources that are not within the novel to reach my goal of this project and to also get a better understanding of what a novel needs in order to be classified into any type of literature.