For the past two years, I've been an undergrad in UCLA's English Department. Depending on the class, I often run into problems finding notes on the books I'm asked to read. This is generally true when I'm studying modern literature, which is the case for many of my classes. I find that the notes that are available to me online are often geared towards helping students cheat (by offering papers for pay, or synopsis for those who don't read the books) rather than helpful notes to enable better and more complete readings.
What I've wanted to find are notes on themes, characterizations, commonalities to other texts, and unique perspectives from thoughtful readers. I am not interested in cutting and pasting text from Wikipedia into my papers, and I hope you aren't either! For that reason, I'm not going to include page numbers or any specifics that you can use in your essays, I'll let you find your own support, but I'll help you find some interesting things to look for.
I'm in finals week right now of my second to last quarter at UCLA, so I don't think I'll be posting here forever, but hopefully my observations will be useful to future students. If there are other thoughtful students out there who would like to contribute, please feel free to email me at rachel.beezy88@gmail.com as I'd love to get a lot of information out there to students.
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