Winesburg and a note for future seniors

Today in Mrs. Clinch’s class, we discussed how to read literature with a deeper understanding. As practice, we read a few chapters in the novel, Winesburg, Ohio. While we discussed certain relations between characters, I continued to think of a repetition that occurred within the novel. “Up and down” was a quote that I saw frequently within the novel. Why was this? What did it represent or symbolize? I could not pull this out of my head and continued to ponder… I asked Mrs. Clinch what this could symbolize, but apparently, she had not noticed the repetition. “Strange,” I would think to myself. It is not strange that the Mrs. Clinch did not notice the repetition; It was eccentric in that I took note on something that she did not. It is almost as if this quote was meant for me.
As I came home and continued to think to myself, “What does this repetitive quote mean?,” I continued to adventure into the deeper meaning that I believe Mrs. Clinch wanted the class to dive into. The only result I could come up with is this. Up and down is redundant. By going up and coming back down, the item or person is not moving anywhere; thus the movement is superfluous. In this novel, I believe that it could represent that the characters are stuck in their own worlds and do not know what they should do. For example, George’s mother seems like a psychopath who cannot live herself. She prays that her son become nothing like her father; however, she also does not want him to turn out like her. What she desire of him? As you can see, she is stuck in her own fairy tale and cannot decide what to do.
On another note, AP Literature is not what I expected. Although AP classes are intended to be a challenge, I could never fathom what I so far experienced. It seemed as if the entire school semester was coming down on me, crushing my bones and suffocating from the workload I have to endure. Despite these struggles, I manage to continue and as my friends tell me, “Keep on truck’in.” It is actually very abnormal. Usually, the classes that were hardest for me were the classes of the teachers of whom I detested. Because I hated them so much, I refused to learn from them; coincidentally, difficulty was inescapable. On the other hand, Mrs. Clinch is, strangely enough, pleasing. Even though my grades have already plummeted, I cannot help myself but yearn to learn from her as much I possibly can. This year, Mrs. Clinch is one of two teachers who is an inspiration to me and gives me a motivation to learn for the sake of learning, not grades. Although, my personality makes it inarguably hard to learn at my maximum capacity, I will, with no doubt, try my best to learn as much as I can from her. So future SENIORS, take note that Mrs. Clinch’s class will be Hell. But it will be a hell that will make your future a paradise.